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Expecting a liberal education bureaucrat to understand business world concepts is like expecting a chimpanzee to know how to use a computer. Why do they keep giving this boob raise after raise and automatically extending his contract? It seems to me the money he has cost our taxpayers should be DEDUCTED from his pay and the sooner they can get him out of his contract the better.
Commented: Saturday, January 25th, 2025 @ 5:31 pm
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Presdent Milei of Argentina has also stated that his country is considering pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord and the UN climate organization, which he regards as scams.
Commented: Friday, January 24th, 2025 @ 10:03 pm
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Our legislature specifically voted that none of our taxpayer money was to be used for these political lawsuits by the Attorney General, and he is brazenly defying our law in taking part in this lawsuit. He needs to be removed from office. We cannot have an AG who brazenly defies the law. Throw the bum OUT!
Commented: Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 @ 8:49 am
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This whole thing stinks about those four acres. Why was the school superintendant so incompetent to not know they did not own that track? Where in the world was their out of town attorney in all of this? In a multi-million dollar project like this, the attorney should have been riding herd on all of this, but since he was half way across the state, it appears he was NOT. Why was a professional appraisal not done? That school superintendant seems to think he is all-knowing but he has no training or experience in appraising commercial real estate. His just pulling a number out of the air based on how much money they had available to pay was as unprofessional as hell.
Commented: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 @ 4:58 pm
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Commented on Who is this man...Donald J. Trump?Biden was a disciple of the pagan cult of Climate Scientology. It is good to have someone like Trump, who is a Christian, back at the helm. Trump is getting Climate Scientolgy out of our government. Good riddance!
Commented: Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 @ 8:18 am
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What the Biden Democrats have done to our economy will NOT be an easy fix for Trump. If anyone can do it, I believe he can, but it is still no certain thing. There needs to be a meat ax taken to federal spending but service on the debt is so high that alone might not be enough.
Commented: Monday, January 20th, 2025 @ 10:43 am
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Why it is not a conflict of interest for these husband-wife teams screwing the taxpayers? What is their agenda? What they have done makes no sense whatsoever.
Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 8:00 pm
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Commented on We Now Know What is Holding Beaufort County BackChasing windmills????? That would seem to be the climate alarmists.
Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 7:57 pm
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Bpbbie is just regurgitating what his cult puts in his head. He can't see the forest for the trees. The ones who are doing damage are the out of touch incompetent politicians who let this wildfire get out of control by not properly preparing for it or responding to it.
Commented: Thursday, January 16th, 2025 @ 6:36 am
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The Los Angeles fire chief a few months ago told the mayor that they had only half the resources they needed to respond to a serious wildfire. Instead of bolstering those resources Mayor Karen Bass wrote a memo calling for a further $49 Million cut in the fire department budget on top of the $17.6 million she had already cut. Anyone who tries to defend that is plain bonkers. That would be Bonkers Bob.
The fire chief may be a DEI hire, but she still has more sense than the dumb-as-a-brick mayor.
Commented: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 @ 10:26 am
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Great editorial and spot on! The WSJ points out that the Democrat politicians are trying to deflect from their own piss-poor management and governance when they try to blame "climate change".
These weather conditions have existed forever. The Santa Ana winds existed when the Spanish colonists arrived in California in the 1500s and local Indians knew of them long before that. They are NOT 'climate change". The Spanish colonists gave them that name centuries ago. Ditto the El Nino / La Nina cycle that also played a big part in the weather conditions that caused the wildfires. "Climate change" is nothing but a pile stinky pile of political BS.
Commented: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 @ 8:49 am
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Stan - Any federal funds channeled through any government unit in California must be very tightly restricted so it is not wasted by these morons. Once Trump gets some solid leadership at FEMA, maybe that is the way to route the money, but certainly not with the clowns running FEMA now. For example, they need more fire stations and trucks. Money can be specifically allocated to those purposes. There should be requirements that all wasteful and unnecessary local spending, like DEI, be eliminated. If there is local money thrown away on unnecessary crap, why should federal taxpayers pay for anything? Rebuilding money ought to be conditioned on removal of the burdensome regulations. If federal taxpayers are helping foot the bill, they should not be paying for unnecessary state or local government red tape and bureaucratic delays.
Thankfully, Speaker Johnson has already stated that restrictions need to be put on any federal assistance to prevent local waste, which the California dingbats are notorious for.
Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 3:32 pm
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Well, NO, it is climate alarmism that has already increased our insurance rates by use of their scam computer models for setting rates instead of actual facts. For years, property insurance rates were based on solid fact, the record of past losses. Some years ago, the insurance companies conned North Carolina to let them use computer models instead. Computer models are digital alchemy where whoever sets them up can get whatever result they want by the way they design their model. This is a very crooked system that vastly overcharges eastern North Carolina. Since this scam was launched, losses have continued to follow the historical pattern, but the insurance cokmpanies are still allowed to overcharge us based on that fake computer model scheme. Climate alarmism is their excuse for using the crooked computer models.
Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 8:31 am
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All of this Democrat bungling on the Los Angeles wildfires is going to hit all of us.
Take insurance. All insurance companies buy "reinsurance" to back them up on major losses from companies like Swiss Re. These reinsurance companies are going to get soaked in Los Angeles, and will raise their rates to the insurance companies we buy from in North Carolina. That will raise our premiums. The companies with heavy direct exposure to Los Angeles will also probably try to increase their rates in other states to cover their Los Angeles losses. THen consider all of the mortgages on houses that have gone up in smoke. THey are not likely to be paid and the collateral is now greatly reduced, being now only the land. Some already shaky financial insitutions with a lot of Los Angeles mortgage expsoure may go under from this and that may set up a chain reaction with other financial institutions.
Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 8:22 pm
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Commented on LA fire chief blasts LA Mayor Bass for failing the citizens of city on fire prep. UPDATENow, a new memo has been leaked that in addition to the $17.6 million that Mayor Bass cut from the LA fire department budget, just days before the fire broke out, she had demanded another $49 million in budget cuts from the fire department. Meanwhile, she was giving huge raises to high level city bureaucrats
It has also come out that total reductions by Governor Newsom to the state fire prevention budget amounted to $150 million. www.dailymail.co.uk
Commented: Sunday, January 12th, 2025 @ 4:51 pm
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Little Bobbie sure is brainwashed into that Climate Scientology cult. Santa Ana winds have been around as long as we have records. They happen at this time of year. So has the El Nino / La Nina cycle. Neither are "change". Also, the longtime pattern is that when you have La Nina, as has just started last year, you have stronger Santa Ana winds. For California, an El Nino pattern gives more rain, but a La Nina pattern gives little rain. A lot of growth of plants followed by drying out is simply what always happens when a La Nina pattern takes over from an El Nino pattern. It is not "climate change". It is a natural climate cycle that has gone on as long as we have records.
Bobbie's brainwashing seems to be as thorough as Greta Thunberg's. Haybe he needs professional help in getting out of that cult.
Commented: Sunday, January 12th, 2025 @ 8:14 am
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Only Democrats could do something so outrageous. With the Los Angeles wildfires still out of control, the California legislature pays no attention to them, provides no resources for victims, but instead spends their time and the taxpayers money oh a partisan political fight with President Trump. They should hang their heads in shame. This is a party that cannot govern.
Commented: Friday, January 10th, 2025 @ 7:52 pm
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Commented on New Washington Elementary School planning delayOur School Board has a history of poor planning in school construction and renovation, and this isn't their first rodeo of screwing up. We saw a lot of that in the last bond referendum and the poor planning that went into that. The real problem is that we have had a hands-off rubber stamp school board that has been just window dressing for a power-bully superintendant who really runs the show. The superintendant is playing this construction in the way that most benefits his resume for a job in a higher paying larger school system, not what is best for Beaufort County. We need a School Board that will take charge and remind the superintendant that he is the employee, not the boss.
Too much of this process has been done in the backroom controlled by the superintendant and now the cracks are showing. Putting T.W. Allen to go to meetings with the superintendant is a joke because T.W. Allen is a pathetic lap puppy for the superintendant and just does what he is told by the superintendant. Why in the heck did the school board not figure out that the city owned 4 acres of that school site early on and deal with it before getting this deep in the process. That was absolute incompetence by the superintendant who has been running the show. We need a new superintendant and we need one badly, but we also need a school board that will step up and represent the citizens like they are supposed to and not be sock puppets for an out of control power-bully superintendant.
Commented: Friday, January 10th, 2025 @ 10:56 am
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It stood to reason that LIttle Bobbie would eventually get a far left talking point like that, and regurgitate it here. Look at my first comment on their thread two days ago. Now he has.
Let me explain some REAL climate science to Bobbie. Climate and weather involve a number of alternating climate cycles, some lasting months, some a year or two, and some for centuries. For California one set of cycles that is particularly important are the El Nino / La Nina cycles which rotate and tend to last a year or two, maybe three, and then reverse. An El Nino cycle which includes heavy rainfall just ended and a La Nina cycle with low rainfall and a propensity for higher winds just started earlier this year. California had a lot of rain from El Nino causing lots of brush to grow, followed by the drynees of La Nina that caused it to dry out, setting up a bigger fire danger. Add to that the La Nina propensity for higher winds when the annual and predictable Santa Anna Winds arrived, as they always do this time of year. This had NOTHING to do with CO2 and everything to do with the El Nino / La Nina cycle. The climate alarmist mafia are very predictable. The analogy to the medieval church for their pagan cult is a solid one. Anything bad that happens they want to jump up and blame on the fantasy "manmade climate change". These grifters are making billions off of this scam and they want to keep the gravy train rolling. They rely on low level know-nothing lemmings like Little Bobbie and Greta Thunberg to keep parroting their propaganda.
Commented: Friday, January 10th, 2025 @ 9:30 am
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Trump spoke at length in his Joe Rogan interview in the campaign about how California's policies created a fire danger and how they were stuck on those policies. He also pointed out that in his first term, he had arranged for a program to get California more water but that Democrat California Governor Newsome had refused to sign it. The interview can be watched at this link:
www.thegatewaypundit.com
Commented: Thursday, January 9th, 2025 @ 8:45 am
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How long will it be before the pagan religious cult of Climate Scientology claims this is a result of "global warming"? They are like the medieval church which claimed that anything bad that happened was a punishment from God. Now the Climate Scientologists have turned this around to claim that anythng bad that happens is a punishment from manmade global warming.
Commented: Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 @ 8:44 pm
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Those who want high gas prices are a very small minority, and that is who Biden is playing to.
Commented: Monday, January 6th, 2025 @ 11:52 am
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Who is that "we", Bobbie? Have you ever crewed on a whaling ship? Of course not. Nobody on these boards has because whaling ended many generations ago. Maybe you still fantacize about Moby Dick, but for most modern Americans, whaling is ancient history. But real environmentalists care about biodiversity and maintaining diminished species, something the climate alarmists like yourself clearly care nothing about.
While whales are increasingly washing up on beaches as a result of offshore wind turbine development, the climate alarmists are proposing new forests of these things directly on the migration path of the most endangered whale species, the Atlantic Right Whale. It is not just whales. Wind turbines on land and sea slaughter birds by the millions, including endangered eagle species. Wind turbines are a threat to the environment and should be banned.
Commented: Monday, January 6th, 2025 @ 9:49 am
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Well, there we have it. Even our own climate alarmist troll admits he does not care about whales, birds, or trees. He is an anti-environmentalist like the rest of his ilk.
Commented: Sunday, January 5th, 2025 @ 8:47 pm
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Offshore wind turbines are also an attack on the environment, slaughtering whales and seabirds as they industrialize our oceans and also adversely impacted lots of other marine species. They are also one of the very most expersive ways to make electricity, gouging electric consumers with very high bills.
Trump should use the law Biden is trying to use against offshore oil and gas drilling to permanently shut down offshore wind. Climate alarmists are ANTI-environmentalists in their lunacy.
Commented: Sunday, January 5th, 2025 @ 2:19 pm
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Going to another country to live off of their government and taxpayers would seem to be the main example of acting like an ass. It is time for all western countries to send them home. We have our own people we have responsibilities to.
Commented: Saturday, January 4th, 2025 @ 5:00 pm
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Commented on Wall Street Journal: Green Energy costs a bundleThe global warming theory is science fiction and little more than a conspiracy theory by the globalists. As former two term president of the Czech Republic Dr. Vaclav Klaus wrote, climate alarmism is "a budding totalitarian ideology that is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, and prosperity in the world today."
For the real scoop on climate alarmism, the British TV documentary, "The Great Global Warming Swindle" broadcast nationally in the UK by Channel 4 sets out the real science on the issue: www.youtube.com
Commented: Friday, January 3rd, 2025 @ 11:27 am
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Democrat Governor Roy Cooper has also been horrible at hurricane relief, with lots still not done for hurricanes from earlier years, and a recent audit showing lots of money that could not be accounted for in the hurricane programs from earlier storms. Unlike the governors of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, Cooper failed to pre-stage supplies and personnel ahead of Hurricane Helene.
Commented: Thursday, January 2nd, 2025 @ 1:04 pm
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Illegal aliens are a net drain on the economy, as they are subsidized in many ways by taxpayers at all levels. While there are no available statistics on the subject nationally in the US, in Germany, 63% of the entire welfare budget in the country is being paid out to illegal aliens. Sending these parasites home will be a boon to the American economy. Look what happened after Florida did a crackdown that caused many of the illegals to leave the state a year ago. Their economy has boomed, and yes that includes agriculture and tourism.
Commented: Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 @ 12:51 pm
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One of Farage's three main points is bringing the climate alarmist agenda to a screeching halt, noting it only makes the average citizen have to pay more out of their family budget while it destroys the country's industry. It was one of Reform UK's other Members of Parliament, Richard Tice who aptly dubbed Net Zero (CO2) as "Net Stupid".
Of course, Farage's other two main oints, stopping illegal immigration and teaching children to love their country, also resonate here in America.
Commented: Wednesday, January 1st, 2025 @ 8:34 am
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Commented on Former President Jimmy Carter died today. He was 100I don't think I have seen Bobbie take a position on the right side of any issue. While he rarely comments on economic issues at all, the one he does most often is his support for the hard left / globalist position on the "green energy" madness. The term "green" would seemingly refer to all the "green" that the grifters running it stuff in their own pockets and all the "green" they are gobbling up from the pockets of taxpayers and ratepayers.
Commented: Tuesday, December 31st, 2024 @ 1:42 pm
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Time HAS told. It has clearly shown ALL of the dire predictions of the climate alarmists to be nonsense. EVERY ONE that has passed the time it was supposed to happen according to the climate alarmist "experts" has NOT happened. Not a one of them and there are already dozens in that category.
The other way time has told is to look backwards at climate. The Earth has ALWAYS gone through alternating warming and cooling cycles and levels of CO2 have never had anything to do with either. This Canada / Greenland thing is just another one of those silly far left talking points you like to parrot. Trump is playing with Trudeau, who is a globalist idiot and likely on his way out as prime minister, and his main goal is border security on our northern border. Greenland is more of a geostrategetic play. Greenland got its name because during the Medieval Warm Period, when it was warmer than today, farmers were growing crops there.
Commented: Tuesday, December 31st, 2024 @ 9:05 am
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Time DOES tell, Little Bobbie on your globalist scare stories on global warming. Dozens of those dire warnings have already passed the time that your "experts" said they would happen, but GUESS WHAT? They DIDN"T happen or even come remotely close. Climate alarmism is batting ZERO percent on its predictions. What sound thinking person would believe a word they say?
Commented: Monday, December 30th, 2024 @ 1:17 pm
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Being for types of energy that are expensive and unreliable like wind and solar is the same thing as being anti-energy. Merkel's idiot "energy transition" in Germany has given them the highest residential electric rates in the world, three times what we pay in North Carolina, and it has put their whole economy in the toilet with companies closing and moving abroad. The UK's "Net Zero" (or "Net Stupid" as the Reform Party calls it) is in the process of doing the same there.
Here is a good article on how bad the German economy has gotten due to the "green energy" madness: rmx.news The globalists get their panties in a twist over CO2 but that is NOT a pollutant. It is necessary for plant life. Without it, all plants on Earth would die, followed qucikly by all animals. Modern scrubbers remove virtually all of the real pollutants from coal emissions.
Commented: Monday, December 30th, 2024 @ 8:43 am
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