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Thursday July 2, 2009

20:37
Elsewhere in the blahgosphere, you'll read that 'liberal media bias is a myth'. »Noteworthy
It's coming from the Blue Bozo Brigade's Usual Suspects, near and far, including those on the local scene who always exclaim "Who, me?", when confronted with their thinly veiled propaganda .

Information like this exposes that particular babble-on "progressive" theme, and those who enable such a theme, as completely bogus:

Noteworthy:

"In the week since South Carolina’s Republican Governor announced he had flown to Argentina to carry on an extra-marital affair, the broadcast morning and evening news shows have gone full bore on the scandal, cranking out 49 stories even in the midst of other major stories like Michael Jackson’s death and the continuing repression in Iran.

The morning after Sanford announced his affair, on the June 25 Good Morning America, longtime correspondent Sam Donaldson used the scandal to broadly charge Republicans with being 'sanctimonious. They thump the Bible. They condemn everyone else, and when they [act] human, they don’t have much credit in the bank for forgiveness.'

Unlike when New York Democratic Governor Eliot Spitzer was caught consorting with a prostitute in March 2008, all three broadcast networks immediately identified Sanford’s Republican Party ID.

A number of top Democrats are enmeshed in embarrassment or facing allegations of wrongdoing, but the networks have far less interest in publicizing those cases."

ABC,CBS, NBC Morning and Evening
Show Coverage of Various Scandal Figures


January 1 to July 1, 2009

Rep. Charles Rangel (D) zero

Rep. John Murtha (D) 3 stories

Rep. Pete Visclosky (D) zero

Rep. James Moran (D) zero

Ex-Rep. William Jefferson (D) 2 stories

Gov. Mark Sanford (R) (6/24-7/1) 49 stories

More:

"Mark Sanford’s trouble is of his own making, of course. But the liberal networks seem a lot more excited about airing his dirty laundry than exposing the problems of top Democrats."

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20:19
No title »slowly she turned
Just woke up from an after-work nap. Now I’m sitting in the gazebo with an electric fan blowing on me, enjoying the fireflies that just began their show. My weekend started at 4 pm today - “worked” through lunch, if you can call most of what I did today work. I did get some [...]

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19:47
Another Example Of Why Greensboro Isn't Green »RecycleBlog
Or, RecycleBill Throws Mud

A few years ago a friend of RecycleBill bought an old, abandoned K-mart building in Greensboro, North Carolina with the intention of starting a 100% indoor automotive recycling center. By keeping 100% of his business indoors he would not only reduce his losses to theft and provide better working conditions than most auto salvage yards (working on cars out in the weather is always tougher) but would also be able to maintain the strictest environmental controls of any automotive recycler in the world.

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19:45
Pre-holiday roundup »Blog on the Run: Reloaded
Stuff I’ve been meaning to get to or forgot I had put aside to blog about, plus a couple of late-breaking items: The experiences of a Guantanamo guard. Lengthy, nuanced, and parts aren’t easy reading. For the local folks, David Wharton’s discussion of the proposed downtown development guidelines, complete with photo tour. He put a lot of [...]

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19:40
RIP: Judge Robert “Maximum Bob” Potter »Blog on the Run: Reloaded
Twenty years ago this summer and fall,  I spent six weeks in Charlotte covering the fraud trial of televangelist Jim Bakker. Bakker’s PTL ministry — which, before it moved to roomier digs just over the state line, had been located almost literally in my parents’ back yard — had collapsed 2 1/2 years earlier after [...]

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19:25
Who would be in your Top Five for the NASCAR Hall of Fame? »Greensboro Sports
They are due to come out with the Top 5 names, later today, that will form the first class for the new NASCAR Hall of Fame down in Charlotte. We have been seeing many of the first class nominees in recent days and if you were in charge of the selection committee, who would you put [...]

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19:14
Home Cooked Meals »RecycleBlog
Or, Second Helpings?

Tonight we dine on rice and chicken, broccoli with cheese

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19:11
Hoppers win today at 5pm vs. Lakewood »Greensboro Sports
Greensboro Grasshoppers 3 Lakewood Blueclaws 1 (Completion of suspended game from Wednesday) Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Greensboro 1 [...]

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19:11
First Amendment Farewell Tour »AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
First Amendment Farewell Tour Posted using ShareThis Posted in Uncategorized

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18:34
Tea Party Patriots July 4th. Rallies: Be there! »AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
Tea Party Patriots Home Page A call to all Americans:  we must take our country back from the scourge called Obama.   Change is what he promised and change indeed is what we are getting as he and his cohorts set about destroying America and giving up our sovereignty to the United Nations. Transparency is what Obama  [...]

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17:19
How About Some Facts? »The Spag Report
Salon's Gene Lyons writes that it is "different" when Republicans get caught in sex scandals because according to Lyons, Republican's pontificate to others against such things. Missing from Lyon's argument are any facts to support his thesis, especially as it relates to Mark Sanford. The best he can come up with is that Sanford is an Episcopalian who "talked like a biblical fundamentalist: piously condemning others' sexual sins and boasting about his own righteousness." He offers no evidence to support that claim. This appears to be nothing more than a rationalization by Lyons to hold Republicans to a different standard...

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17:15
Tea Party Saturday in Greensboro »Guarino
The Rhino reports that a Tea Party event is being held in Greensboro on the 4th of July. The Tea Party is being held at Country Park picnic shelter Number 7 at 1:30 PM. Attendees are being asked to attend...

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17:00
The driving force behind Obama? Ego »Noteworthy
And it's also the number one on the list of his character flaws.

Noteworthy:
"That's Obama's sore spot, his biggest character flaw. It's right out there for the world to see. It explains everything about this administration, and foreshadows its inevitable comeuppance.

Meanwhile all the shrewdies in the world, from Putin to A'jad, are getting it. They've seen it before. Been there, done that. All they have to do to seduce the President of the United States is to pump up that beautiful ego balloon a little more, and he will just sag over with abject gratitude. He needs his ego supplies, this guy. He'll do anything to get just a little bit more.

If you're China or Russia or a blood-stained mullah you've seen this flick before. The last Shah of Iran used to call himself 'King of Kings,' a Biblical phrase that goes back to the Persian Emperor Cyrus the Great. Grandiosity is familiar to all the ancient empires of the world. So is the art of flattering kings. They're pros at this.

It's just Americans who don't get it -- yet.

But they will, they will. The only question is how much the country will be damaged, by the time the voters catch on."
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16:49
Week of June 29th - July 5th »Triad Forum
I know there are lot of fireworks going on for the 4th! Post em up here. What else is everyone getting into?

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16:28
Top 10 Conservative Hypocrites »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com


By: Liv

10. Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, for falsely claiming that a hate-crime bill that adds gay and transgender Americans to the list of protected groups would also protect those who commit incest, pedophilia and bestiality.

9. Fox News' Sean Hannity, for hosting "Internet journalist" Andy Martin, who once called a judge a "crooked, slimy Jew, who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race."

8. Syndicated radio host Neal Boortz, for describing welfare recipients as "human parasitic garbage lining up to get their applications to loot."

7. Fox News' Glenn Beck, for describing Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court as, "Hey, Hispanic chick lady! You're empathetic . . . You're in!"

6. MSNBC's cranky uncle, Pat Buchanan, for saying before Sotomayor's selection that he wanted Obama to pick a Supreme Court justice "who has real stature, impresses people" but thinking instead that Obama would pick "a minority, a woman and/or a Hispanic."

5. Syndicated radio host Jim Quinn, for repeatedly calling NOW the "National Organization of Whores."

4. Cincinnati-based radio host Bill Cunningham, for alleging that "Obama wants to gas the Jews."

3. Michael Savage, third-highest-rated radio host in America, for saying "Obama hates" and "is raping America."

2. Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, for repeatedly quacking that legalizing gay marriage could lead to folks marrying ducks.



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16:28
Daytime drama »Sue's Place
The Governor is a schmuck (in the connotative, not denotative definition). A cheating husband who gives “cross-the-line” interviews self-defines. But why on earth is his wife making statements to the press? What office is she running for? This comes close to creating a new connotative defintion for schmuck-ette. Did no one ever talk to this [...]

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15:18
Legislative update from Phil Berger »A Priori Concepts
Week twenty-two of the North Carolina General Assembly’s 2009-2010 session marked the beginning of the state’s fiscal year on July 1. Although legislators have been meeting in Raleigh since January and the primary responsibility for the General Assembly is to complete a budget for the new fiscal year. Democrats, who control both the Senate and the [...]

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15:12
unintended beneficiaries or aspects of universal health care. »AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
Again I have copied the entire article so that I could comment and highlight some important information.  This article deals with the so-called unintended  beneficiaries or aspects of any countries universal health care. Interesting article.  BB July 2, 2009 Exclusive: Obamacare’s Unintended Beneficiaries Alex Alexiev With the de facto nationalization of America’s healthcare sector seemingly only a matter of [...]

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15:09
Judging the judges »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com


SouthernFriedInfidel, Featured Blogger:

In New Delhi, a court has agreed to The court ruled that this had to be so based on the Constitution.

Of course, the religious community is upset over the ruling. They say that this is an intrusion of "western culture" into Indian life. We've heard the refrain before from that quarter.

What gets me is that these people who judge that the courts are wrong apparently never bother to read the courts' reasoning. What this court in India said was "If we are to follow the basic rules of our government, we can't allow homosexuals to be persecuted." If you disagree with that, then you are effectively disagreeing with your constitution.

Which of course, everyone has a right to do -- but if you want to amend the constitution to follow your wishes, be prepared to just say so and get to work on it. In the US, I think you'd have a tough road. I have no idea what the chances would be for such a change to the Indian constitution.

It just irks me that people will just go ahead and say "The court is wrong" without even bothering to see if their reasoning might convince them.

Luckily in America, court decisions are becoming a LOT more accessible. When a decision comes along that I think is important, I make sure to download the actual document and read it. I am often very surprised to find that most of them a actually readable -- except for the occasional sprinkling of Latin jargon, of course.

Seriously -- have a look for these things and check them out. Particularly if you think a judge is dead wrong. You might be surprised and find yourself agreeing.



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14:50
The wheels keep turning in Raleigh: N.C. State says four football players won’t return this fall »Greensboro Sports
from www.gopack.com: Pack Announces Four Won’t be on Fall Roster RALEIGH, N.C. - Wolfpack head coach Tom O’Brien has announced that three players who signed with the Pack in February will not enroll at NC State at this time: Tyson Chandler (OL, N. Plainfield, N.J.), Raynard Randolph (DT, Brandywine, Md.) and Bryan Underwood (WR, University [...]

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14:18
Not feeling the brotherly love in Philly »Guilford School Watch by E.C. Huey
The image “http://media.philly.com/designimages/logo_inq_medium.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. I can only think that with the budget cuts we're continuing to experience in NC, combined with drastic cuts in summer school, were teachers under pressure to pass kids this year, such as being alleged in Philadelphia?

Read this, then shake your heads.

E.C. :)

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14:17
Street Art, Broad Ripple Village »Blogsboro Poetry Club
Street Art, Broad Ripple Village, originally uploaded by DRheins. I pause to admire / street art in the alley way / Broad Ripple is hip!


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14:16
Perdue reaches across party lines for judicial appointment »Off the Record

I'm a couple of days behind on this, but kudos to Gov. Bev Perdue for appointing Eric Levinson to the Superior Court bench in Mecklenburg County.

What's so notable?

First, Levinson is highly qualified. In fact, he has served on the N.C. Court of Appeals.

He resigned in 2007 to take a U.S. Department of Justice position in Iraq, advising that country's judicial system. Perdue gave him appropriate recognition for his service to country.

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13:27
Green ideas wanted »Springboard
Should Greensboro have green rooftops, like Chicago? Or install energy-efficient LED lighting in public places, like Raleigh? What’s your idea to make Greensboro greener? The city’s Community Sustainability Council wants to know.The council is holding two public meetings to solicit ideas for inclusion in its Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy report, which — if adopted — [...]

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13:15
Cutting back »EdCone.com
Some ways people are saving money. We need a bigger shift, a change in the culture to the point where people don't buy stuff they don't need even when they have credit, because they recognize thrift as a value and...

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13:15
Improving GTA »EdCone.com
I think Ryan Shell is onto something with his idea about increasing the number of bus shelters and benches. More data needed on the specifics, but the general notion that public transportation should offer a certain quality of experience is...

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13:15
Support for Sotomayor Falls »Guarino
Rasmussen reports. The number of people who think she should not be confirmed now exceeds the number who think she should be.

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13:15
The North Carolina Beach Plan and Amazon: Raleigh Follies »Guarino
I received a letter in the mail from my homeowners insurance company. It was a letter of warning regarding some things that are taking place in our state capital. North Carolina apparently has a Beach Plan that initially provided coverage...

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12:47
Berger LTE in WSJ »A Priori Concepts
Senate Republican Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) had a Letter to the Editor printed in today’s Wall Street Journal regarding the North Carolina affiliate tax. Your editorial notes that North Carolina legislators favored a new, and most likely illegal, tax on Internet sales. North Carolina Democratic legislators are in favor of this job-destroying new tax. Republicans, on the [...]

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12:30
Bob Doss Invitational Palomino action for today »Greensboro Sports
THURSDAY JULY 2ND: STONER 9:30 VA. ACES VS. NORTH CHATHAM TARHEELS 12:00 NORTH CHATHAM TARHEELS VS. CHESTER SOUTH CAROLINA 2:30 CHIEF PONTIAC VS. VA MARLINS BLACK 5:00 WESTERN BRANCH VS. CAROLINA ANGLERS 7:30 PROEHLIFIC POWER 19’S VS. CAROLINA HURRICANES NORTHERN GUILFORD: 9:30 LYNNHAVEN VS. VIRGINIA MARLINS BLUE 12:00 DUGOUT WORTH VS. PROEHLIFIC POWER 17’S 2:30 VIRGINIA ACES VS. MARYLAND LAKERS 5:00 R & B GREENSBORO AGGIES [...]

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12:24
Gripe or Complaint Box for July 2, 2009 »Greensboro Sports
Got any new Gripes or Complaints????? This is the box for Thursday July 2, 2009. We are taking those gripes and complaints and we have to remind you to keep it real on your subject matter. We will be cleaning out the box at the end of each day and we may have to do some cleaning [...]

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12:22
Cap and Tax »Vie de Malchance
I have fallen into the despicable habit of vegging in front of the TV after dinner. The Wife can watch re-runs to her heart’s content on the LCD and I am in the den on the other side of the kitchen, close enough to fetch things for her as she is held captive by [...]

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12:22
Let Me Get This Straight »CCW
Congressional oversight appears to be flawed beyond redemption. Help me here! Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the President, the CIA were all under the oversight of Congress. Nothing was ever found wrong except that the President was a Republican. No one reported that Congress wasn't minding the store. To offer the excuse that someone lied to you or gave you some money is like your child saying she got that nifty game from mom for not telling about the car repair! Why would a Democratic Congress ever say anything good, even true about a Republican? This is the basis of bipartisanship. Do you think the CIA would lie? Let me see, do spies lie? Do Presidents lie? I am not going to touch that one! Do members of Congress lie? Just like a rug I suspect.! Do the majority of elected Congressional members keep the political promises they made? Other than keep the political contributions --- no. Some one never figured out that people who are not credit worthy should not be given loans? $300,000 homes should not be financed by people whose income is $12,000 a year unless the term of the loan is eternity! Is there no way a two bedroom, one kitchen, living room, and formal room house can be built for less than $100,000. My first home was $20,000 paid over 20 years. Crazy bank had me increase my life insurance policy. Why do we insure homes within 100 yards of the ocean? Why won't home insurance protect against floods? If your house burns down you are protected. But if it floods and destroys your house you are not protected. Congress must not live in the real world. I think one solution is to give us their salaries and medical benefits. Appoint us to the oversight committees. Congress can't handle the math of balancing the national check book. We need a war against Congressional stupidity, overspending, and increasing taxes. The big companies that were too big to fail. Guess what, they did fail billions of dollars later. It sure would have been cheaper to let them fail without our money earlier. Is any politician really that stupid? To the eco terrorist who preach "BE GREEN OR DIE!" I prefer that my coffin be pine wood but I will happily paint yours green. You may use it before or after you die! You could try do it yourself.

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12:20
PTI E-fares for 7/2/09 »GreensboroMetro
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12:20
More belt-tightening at Gannett »Triad Media Watch
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E.C. :)

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12:20
Robb Ellis doing well in Wilmington »Triad Media Watch
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The image “http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:QO62kdB7bg1JCM:http://staging.digtriad.com/company/bios/newphotos/robb_ellis.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. The image “http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:AR--HkV4VCKvWM:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5e/Wect_2009.png/225px-Wect_2009.png” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. And while lounging around on Oak Island Beach, I was watching the NBC affiliate in Wilmington, WECT, and ran into former WFMY meterologist Robb Ellis. Seems as though he's fitting in quite nicely down there.

E.C. :)

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12:20
Failure to understand »Guilford School Watch by E.C. Huey
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The image “http://mm.news-record.com/drupal/files/imagecache/nrcom_article_image_landscape/Images/drawing.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. The thing I can't understand is this...why is GCS almost being pressured by outside entities to move from N. Eugene to S. Elm?

This boondoggle has been reported in the N&R over the last couple of days and I'm trying to wrap my arms around this thing...but I haven't yet. See, while we're laying TEACHERS off right and left, there's no supply money whatsoever for the teachers that still have jobs, no money to fix leaky roofs, school lunch prices going up, but we have people who have basically told GCS brass that...they're moving to S. Elm.

I don't get it.

Not to mention that downtown essentially lacks MAJOR EMPLOYERS! Recent cutbacks at Lincoln Financial and United Guaranty only add to the desolate feeling in the Center City, and yet it is still being touted as a prime destination. Shouldn't we be doing everything we can to find new jobs and bringing them into town?

And what would happen to GCS' current Central Offices?

Not passing the smell test.

E.C. :)

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12:18
Greensboro Grasshoppers road report »Greensboro Sports
July 1:Grasshoppers @ Lakewood, Suspended: Rain….Game was stopped with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning with the Hoppers up 3-0….. (Completion on 7/2/09 at 5:00 PM ET) Box score: Greensboro Player AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO AVG Galloway RF 3 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 .298 Mattison CF 3 0 1 [...]

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12:03
Limbaugh's tribute to Jacko - It's Obama's fault! »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com


A Person, Featured Blogger:

Limbaugh's tribute - :

Rush Limbaugh wrote:Michael Jackson's biggest successes, and as it turns out his final successes, real successes took place in the eighties. That was Billie Jean, Thriller and all this. I mean he was as weird as he could be but he was profoundly, because of his weirdness, an individual. He wasn't a group member. He reached a level of success that may never be equaled. He flourished under Reagan; he languished under Clinton-Bush; and died under Obama. Let's hope the parallel does not continue.

I did just say it. You want me to go back and say it again? Okay, Michael Jackson's a weirdo. As such he was a supreme individual. I mean, he defined individuality. Not a group member. He reached a level of success that may never be equaled. He flourished under Reagan, languished under Clinton and Bush, and died under Obama. I mean facts are facts, the timeline is the timeline, let's hope the parallel doesn't continue.




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11:49
LCSO PIO Resigns »Vie de Malchance
From the Lincoln Times-News: Larry Seagle has quit as public information officer for the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office… Seagle apparently quit shortly after learning that a second public information officer had been hired without him being informed. The new PIO is Jon Mayhew, who has worked as a journalist for several area news outlets, including the Times-News. Since [...]

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11:39
Iraq "WMD" bluff aimed at Iran »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com



A Person, Featured Blogger:



WASHINGTON, July 2 (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein believed Iran was a significant threat to Iraq and left open the possibility that he had weapons of mass destruction rather than appear vulnerable, according to declassified FBI documents on interrogations of the former Iraqi leader.

"Hussein believed that Iraq could not appear weak to its enemies, especially Iran," FBI special agent George Piro wrote on notes of a conversation with Saddam in June 2004 about weapons of mass destruction.

He believed Iraq was being threatened by others in the region and must appear able to defend itself, the report said.

The FBI reports, released on Wednesday, said Saddam asserted that he was more concerned about Iran discovering Iraq's weaknesses and vulnerabilities than the repercussions of the United States for blocking the return of UN weapons inspectors who were searching for WMD.

"In his opinion, the UN inspectors would have directly identified to the Iranians where to inflict maximum damage to Iraq," according to the documents obtained and released by the National Security Archive, a nongovernmental research institute.



That makes sense. Much more than the idea that Iraq was threatening the US.




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11:29
Bank Funeral Plan »Vie de Malchance
From Anil Kashyap at FT: Buried within the 88-page Obama administration proposal to overhaul financial regulation is an overlooked option called a “rapid resolution plan”. It mandates that systemically important financial companies be required regularly to file a “funeral plan”: a set of instructions for how the institution could be quickly dismantled should the need to [...]

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11:23
Baby Weevils growing in NC Sewers... »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com



By: Liv



And it's not a joke... (sorry to those with no-youtube) babies are growing in the sewers of NC.


YouTube at Work override

An unknown life form picked up by sewer snake-cam in North Carolina. Believed to be of ET origin.



RALEIGH -- Deep below Raleigh streets, a prehistoric animal caught on camera is thrilling the nation with its wet, pulsating body: the Sewer Monster.

Footage of the beast in its new habitat beneath Cameron Village has appeared on Web sites across the nation, prompting such comments as, "The Sewer Monster is going to eat us all!"

Actually, the sewer monster is made up of thousands of tiny organisms called bryozoans, or moss animacules, said N.C. State University biologist Thomas Kwak. Invertebrates, they bunch together in colonies and feed with tiny tentacles.

"They can get as big as the size of a watermelon," he said.

They've been known to clog pipes, but Raleigh officials aren't worried, even though bryozoans can move up to 10 centimeters a day.

"I don’t know if we’ve seen anything move on its own inside a sanitary sewer line," Public Utilities Director Dale Crisp said.

As for whether the colony of worms poses a danger, Crisp said if the city found such an infestation it would clear it quickly.

"Anything other than water, human waste and toilet paper and you run the risk of having a blockage created by any debris, whether it’s a sack of worms or anything else," he said.



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11:12
New scare from the GOP - The evil socialist metric system »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com


A Person, Featured Blogger:

raises this scare now that "Norm Coleman finally threw in the towel against the one-time joke writer" (i.e. lost an election):

The metric system is the kind of thing that you can expect from the 60-vote filibuster-proof majority Democrats now have in the United States Senate.


Never mind that no one has proposed this and it's probably #1865 on Obama's todo list, it's a good whipping boy ever since Gerald Ford, (that notorious Democrat) signed the Metric Conversion Act of 1975.

Heaven forbid that the US would ever move to that left wing metric system - only moonbat socialists would ever do that
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Why then we wouldn't be entertained by Lockheed-Martin



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11:08
City Seeks Advice on how to be more Green »voteshell
I just read an article on the News & Record’s Web site titled, “Greensboro wants advice on how to be more green.” I for one think my idea to create an ordinance that requires recycling to be offered at all apartment complexes is a great place to start. Hopefully lots of other ideas will be [...]

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10:59
What is Perdue Talking About? »A Priori Concepts
"Governor Perdue desperately wants to raise taxes. The people don’t agree. Her approach will harm the people." – Rep. Skip Stam Raleigh – According to news reports, Governor Beverly Perdue told reporters yesterday that she does not care which combination of tax increases the Democratic Legislative leaders agree on as Democrats continue closed door negotiations about [...]

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10:25
NC Gaters 8u Advance in Memphis, Tennessee »Greensboro Sports
The North Carolina Gaters 8u boys basketball team won two more games to win their pool and they have advanced to the AAU National Championship Bracket in Memphis, Tennessee. Tuesday, the Gaters beat a very good All Ohio Red team 34-28. They were led by Keyshaun Langley’s 14 points and 4 steals. The Gaters went [...]

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10:19
North Carolina's Judicial Public Financing Law A Success »TRIAD WATCH
HAT TIP UNDER THE DOME CLICKHEREPress Release from the Center for Governmental Studies CLICKHERE or click on the title above.North Carolina’s Judicial Public Campaign Financing Law A SuccessNorth Carolina Judiciary: Balancing the Scales, issued today by the Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) CLICKHERE, concludes that North Carolina’s judicial campaign finance program is a model of reform and

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10:18
Southeast over Northwood in Junior Legion Baseball »Greensboro Sports
Southeast Guilford 6 Northwood 3 WP:Austin Bain(11-1) 4K’s Colby Keene:3-3 with a triple and 3 runs scored Justin Reece:Triple, RBI Austin Snotherly:scored go-ahead run Blake Butler:2 hits Northwood finishes at (7-13) and SEG closes at two games under .500 in their first season of Junior Legion play, but they conclude with a BIG win over Northwood from Pittsboro.

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10:15
Tea parties and grass roots »EdCone.com
"To succeed, the Tea Party movement needs to remain true to the grassroots," says Glenn Reynolds. Agreed. I'd be interested to hear what he thinks of the top-down approach seen in Raleigh.

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10:03
Homelessness: A hard habit to break »Chosen Fast
From Jamie’s Big Voice (UK): “…I think I understand more than most the plight of homeless people after they have a home. getting A flat or some kind of accommodation is only part of the battle. The battle to break the habit of homelessness it’s self is the toughest. It doesn’t matter how good you are [...]

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09:34
Memphis consultant proposed 300 room luxury hotel in downtown Greensboro, NC »Triad Forum
The hotel/conference center project is part of a larger development in downtown Greensboro that will include a new school administration building,...

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09:13
An Assembly of Greatness July 1776 »AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
So little is known about what went on in those days when  delegates from the 13 Colonies gathered to decide what course they would follow in their dispute with King George and Parliament.  To insure that all delegates would  freely speak their thoughts it was agreed by all that no record of the proceedings would [...]

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08:46
Confuseus On Recycling »RecycleBlog
Today the green goofball guru tells us the #1 rule when it comes to recycling. I think...

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08:43
Less than 9% of GSO Bus Stops have Shelters »voteshell
On Tuesday I mentioned that I think Greensboro should strive to provide shelter for all bus stops. Of course, that is a “shooting for the stars” goal, but we could definitely improve on the numbers I just received. Greensboro has a total of 1,105 (corrected from 1,056 listed on the GTA site) bus stops. Of those [...]

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08:36
An American hero in Mauritania »Off the Record

Chris Leggett was a "modern-day hero who daily gave his life for the people of Mauritania."
 

Many tributes were spoken at the funeral of the Tennessee man murdered in the northwest African nation June 23, AP reports.

An al-Qaida branch claimed responsibility for the killing, saying Leggett was targeted for trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.

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08:15
BROTD »EdCone.com
Bad review of the day: "I hate the new Tully Hall. To me it is everything Lincoln Center and its enthusiasts insist it is not. I find it corporate, sterile, claustrophobic and as acoustically arid a hall as I’ve ever...

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08:15
Unipeds and douchebags »EdCone.com
Ian McDowell is auctioning off a real treasure to help his dad. Read the story here, bid on the book containing hand-written fiction by Neil Gaiman and others here.

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07:29
Social Fourth »Sue's Place
FunFourth is organized by Grassroots Productions Limited, a small and extremely hard-working nonprofit in downtown Greensboro (they also manage Festival of Lights as well as scheduling in Center City Park). [disclaimers: TechTriad built and host their Web sites and advise on Internet strategy. We also are the backup for the most annoying problem they're having [...]

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07:24
Free American flag coupon »BargainBlog

Today's hhgregg ad in the News & Record includes a free American flag coupon.



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07:18
Rising Obesity Rates »PiedmontParent.com

It couldn't be more obvious this time of year, when the shorts and bathing suits come out: North Carolina is not a skinny state. The most recent report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ranked our state as the 12th fattest in the nation, 14th for childhood obesity. With a rate of 28.3%, we've gotten bigger every year for the past three years.

The good news is obesity rates are slowing. Last year, 37 states showed a rise in obesity levels, but this year it was down to 23. Maybe that's due in part to the focus on kids and installing healthy eating habits and lifestyles. Locally, we've got the Farm to School program that provides locally-grown, fresh fruits and vegetables to area schools for kids' lunches. And recently Brenner's Children's Hospital received a sizeable grant to start grass roots programs in communities that will work with families on nutrition habits and exercise programs.

Don't wait for school to get your kids eating some local food! Take a trip to one of the largest farmer's markets in our area, the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market, and pick up some of the best of what summer has to offer. With a plate full of watermelon, cantaloupe, tomatoes, fresh beans and corn, it's hard not to love eating healthy.



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07:00
The Best Laid Plans Of Mice And RecycleBill »RecycleBlog
Or, Fine Tuning?

A few weeks ago RecycleBill realized what I should have known all along: We simply don't have capitol enough to launch our new green product on July 1 as planned. I told our Newsletter Subscribers it wasn't coming a couple of weeks ago and now you know it too.

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05:18
J's Indie/Rock Mayhem - 1st July 2009 »J's Indie/Rock Mayhem

[Welcome to another edition of J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. As usual for this summer, this week's show is filled to the brim with new music. I actually had to avoid some of it in order to work in some of my 4th of July themed songs, but that's how it goes. I can play more new music next week - it'll be a little dated to play more 4th stuff.

I want to share some awesome Greensboro related news - our good friends at Monkeywhale were recently named by Paste Magazine's website as one of the seven best out-of-context concert sites on the web. They were named along with other fantastic sites like Pitchfork.tv and The Black Cab Sessions - great series sites that operate on a much bigger budget. The fact that the Harvey's Kitchen series was named along with these shows just how great the work that Harvey and company are doing is compared to even some of the biggest names in music on the web. Congrats, guys!

Now, while the fuse is still lit, onward.]

J's Indie/Rock Podcast: 1st July 2009 Show

Theme Song - Peaches - "Rock Show"
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Sonic Youth - "Sacred Trickster" [from the eternal. short, punchy, kim gordon vocals. a combo that has yielded some awesome sonic youth songs over the years and this is no exception.]
the Decemberists - "July, July!" [from castaways and cutouts. since it was the first of july, it felt only fitting to dabble with some july themed songs during the show. same with the upcoming july 4th. so keep your eyes open.]
Meat Puppets - "Sewn Together" [the title track from their latest. a pretty enjoyable little record. is it bad that my expectations for late-period albums by bands is really a lot lower than for earlier work?]
Obits - "Widow of My Dreams" [from i blame you. man, i'm telling you, this record is hot. really, really hot.]
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Future of the Left - "I Am Civil Service" [from travels with myself and another. this record is quite good - i said it already, but this is future of the left hitting its stride. and as the tragically hip sang, "there's nothing uglier than a man hittin' his stride."]
the Tragically Hip - "Fireworks" [from phantom power. "you said you didn't give a fuck about hockey / and i never saw someone say that before." how quaintly canadian.]
Dinosaur Jr. - "Friends" [from farm. is this one of the best records of 2009? it's awfully, awfully good. that's for sure.]
Megafaun - "The Fade" [from gather, form and fly which is due out towards the end of july. i'm so excited to hear this whole album. these guys are phoenominal and this song will not leave my head.]
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Mos Def - "Auditorium" [from the new the ecstatic. slick rick does a guest verse on this and this may be one of my favorite single songs of this year. we'll be hearing more.]
X - "4th of July" [from see how we are. for cromer, who first got me to pull this out a few years ago on the 4th.]
the Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "The Tenure Itch" [from their self-titled debut LP. i'm so excited to finally get a chance to see them - this month at the pitchfork festival, at monolith in september and they're returning to chapel hill around that time as well.]
Sunset Rubdown - "Silver Moons" [from dragonslayer. i get what's really interesting about this music - and an obvious load of talent goes into it. but, and this is me being narrow minded, it sounds like a lot of other oddly structured indie rock and it just doesn't grab me emotionally at all. maybe it'll grow on me.]
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Wilco - "One Wing" [from wilco (the album). check out the really well written review over at aquarium drunkard. this is probably my favorite song on the album.]
Ryan Adams - "Firecracker" [from gold. it might be time that i give gold the second listen it's been begging for. it was always a bit slick for my taste - with songs like this and a handful of others being standouts.]
Son Volt - "When the Wheels Don't Move" [from american central dust which is due out next week. son volt is playing at the cat's cradle on sunday, september 13th. finally a chance to see them again and where will i be? yeah, out of town.]
Citified - "Pencil Me In" [from absence. check out the fantastic off the record post the band did over at aquarium drunkard talking about the fun and interesting spots here in greensboro.]
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the Handsome Family - "Junebugs" [one of the many love songs from honey moon. rennie sparks' lyrics are so sweetly macabre here that you can't help but marvel at the beauty of her lyrics.]
Slim Dunlap - "Hate This Town" [from times like this. both of slim's solo records are solid pieces of rock from a really awesome guitarist who, i think, never gets his due - hidden as he is in the long, towering shadow of bob stinson.]
the Minus 5 - "Smoke On, Jerry" [from killingsworth which is out later this month.]
Swirlies - "Who was in Scituate on the 4th of July?" [from strictly east coast sneaky flute music. this is later swirlies - 1998 to be exact. something awesome - and no longer any reason to avoid hearing this amazing band - pretty much their entire catalogue is available for download for free from the band's website. so while you can buy the records from emusic and other outlets, you can also get them for free, including probably the band's masterpiece, blonder tongue audio baton. amazing that they have the rights to all the music to be able to do that, honestly.]
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Cotton Jones - "Gotta Cheer Up" [by request. from paranoid cocoon.]
Stephen Malkmus - "Trojan Curfew" [from his self-titled debut solo album. there are some gorgeous, gorgeous moments on this record. this is one of them.]
Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers - "Devils in Boston" [an awesome rocker from songs in the night. if you didn't see her two live songs over at monkeywhale, go get 'em.]
Black Flag - "Rise Above" [from damaged. i knew this probably felt a bit incongruous, but i've been re-reading parts of our band could be your life and it just felt right.]
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Frankel - "Ticket Machine" [from anonymity is the new fame. gorgeous stuff, that frankel.]
Cursive - "From the Hips" [by request. from mama, i'm swollen. what an odd name. anyway, the lyrics to this song are like a thinking man's sexin'/dancin' song. or someone who thinks way too much, anyway.]
Sleeper - "Delicious" [from smart. so, while again perusing giant book sale over on wendover avenue, i discovered a couple of novels by louise wener, lead singer of sleeper. apparently she's on her third. i picked up a copy of goodbye, steve mcqueen, but haven't started yet. i'll let you know. i had a huge crush on her back in the day. her and justine frischmann of elastica. ye gads, those british women with songwriting chops.]
2 Live Crew - "Banned in the U.S.A." [the song the band recorded as a response to their double-platinum as nasty as they wanna be's ban in florida record stores. if you're not familiar with this whole debacle, it's one of the more interesting first amendment cases to erupt over music - dead kennedy's fight for the frankenchrist poster insert is another fascinating one - in recent time.]
Jay Bennett and Edward Burch - "Fireworks" [from the palace at 4 AM. a lovely song and going out with fireworks leading into the 4th.]

That'll do it for this week. I'll see you at 10 PM next Monday night for a slightly earlier edition of J's Extra Mayhem. Until then, take care.


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The cruelest cuts »YES! WEEKLY PUBLIC FORUM
My mom learned yesterday that she will remain employed with her mental health service agency in Illinois, but will be reassigned to a job working with homeless people. As a result of the state legislature's budget decision on Tuesday, seven of the 18 employees in my mom's division were laid off. My mom was next in line to lose her job due to her relative lack of seniority.

This scenario is playing out all over the country this week. I don't think we know the full implications yet of the vast numbers of people thrown onto the unemployment rolls, and for the clients who will be without services.

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03:00
Article about Bi-Rite was refreshing news »Letters to the Editor

Thank you, News & Record, for printing some positive news when so much negative surrounds us these days.
Recently, a short comment was made about my dad’s independently owned grocery store, Bi-Rite Supermarket, in Stokesdale in the “Good Stuff Column” of the N&R.

I’d like to thank the N&R for having good things, not bad things to say. My dad, David Wrenn, tries to create a friendly and welcoming environment at our family owned store.

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03:00
Atheism doesn’t affect whether God exists »Letters to the Editor

In response to Tom Arcaro’s column June 28 (“Nonbeliever: Is there a place for professed atheists in America?”):

I fail to understand why some folks are offended by my atheism. After all, neither God’s existence nor nonexistence is determined by my absence of belief.

Guy Sinclair
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03:00
Decision in Ricci case will affect local hiring »Letters to the Editor

It’s a good thing Charles Davenport admits in his June 28 column about Judge Sotomayor and the Ricci case that his childishly transparent story about reverse discrimination is fiction.

Indeed, the entire column is fictional in its complaint about a form of discrimination that every study indicates does not exist.

It is still far easier in the United States to get a job and get promoted if you are a white male rather than a minority.

Nor is it true that Sotomayor “curtly dismissed” Ricci’s complaint.

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03:00
Krugman misstates recession’s causes »Letters to the Editor

Counterpoint:

By Walter Sperko
 

Could it be that when you become a Nobel Prize winner, you get to make up your own facts? This appears to be the case in Paul Krugman’s “Current economic crisis had origins in Reagan administration” (N&R, June 2).

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03:00
Patients deserve access to medicinal marijuana »Letters to the Editor

State Reps. Earl Jones and Pricey Harrison deserve praise for sponsoring a bill to legalize medicinal use of marijuana.
All patients deserve access to their medication without fear of prosecution, and the Medicinal Marijuana Act supports this universal belief. The House Health Committee in Raleigh reviewed this bill recently.

Some opponents say smoking marijuana is dangerous, but science concludes differently. Many medicines are inhaled as a vapor, such as asthma medications.

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03:00
Plan gives Washington control of all energy »Letters to the Editor

Is anyone staying abreast of what is in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (HR 2454) passed June 26 by the U.S. House of Representatives? The bill passed by a 219-212 vote with 44 Democrats voting against it.

The bill is so massive, however, it says to me the federal government will control every aspect of energy used in the United States. Forget states’ rights. State laws will be superseded by federal law. It is another step toward socialism.

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01:50
Themes are GPL, too »joelgillespie.org
If WordPress were a country, our Bill of Rights would be the GPL because it protects our core freedoms. We’ve always done our best to keep WordPress.org clean and only promote things that are completely compatible and legal with WordPress’ license. There have been some questions in the community about whether the GPL applies to [...]

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01:19
Weaver Academy Art at S.H. Kress & Co. on Elm St. »Greensboro Daily Photo
(Celebrating 6 months of Greensboro Daily Photo with this post)!!!!!!!! The beauty of downtown Greensboro is that it is ever changing. Here we see the storefront window from the now-defunct S.H. Kress Store serving as a venue for art by students from one of our alternative public high schools, Weaver Academy for Performing/Visual Arts and Advanced Technology. Art students from Weaver designed the display from items secured from the Teachers' Supply Warehouse. To learn more about the project as well as how you can donate to the warehouse, visit this website. Watch a short video about the creative process with...

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Wednesday July 1, 2009

23:21
The Scripted Presidency »The Spag Report
George W. Bush would have probably sounded better if he was an actor like Obama instead of actually trying to be President. Clearly, if Bush acted like Obama, liberals would be talking about how stupid and uninformed he is as explanation for the teleprompter and all the pre-packaged appearances. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs takes some tough questions and criticisms from the press about the constant orchestration of White House events- including pre-planned questions- despite the White House claims of new openness and transparency. Even hardcore liberal Helen Thomas takes issue with the White House. Gibbs is out of...

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23:21
June Crisis Corner | You have options »SkillTV
Crisis Corner You have options Plant Services

Hope you enjoy this month's Crisis Corner Column at the above link. Also keep on sending suggested commandments for Today's Reliability Pro.

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21:41
No title »slowly she turned
You know, I didn’t want to know that Terrilynn died. I really, really just didn’t want to know.

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21:27
Medicare/Medicaid forshadow the oncoming disaster that is Obamacare's 'public option' »Noteworthy
There's no other way around it: Obamacare will mean rationing, and will make the quality and expense of our health care situation much worse than it currently is.

Noteworthy:
"This reduced compensation in turn is going to reduce the supply of health-care services. In this environment, investors are not going to pony up the funds for health clinics and hospitals; new ones will not be built, and existing ones will just deteriorate over time. Investors will not be interested in funding the development and adoption of high-tech medical equipment like MRIs and CAT scans, or the development of biotech or genetic therapies. Drug companies will sharply cut back on investment in the development of new, cutting-edge miracle drugs.

Along with financial capital, human capital will flee health care. Experienced doctors will retire early and seek more remunerative post-retirement employment. Young talent will seek other, more promising professions."
....and:
"Obama’s budget czar, Peter Orszag, spills the beans even more obviously in saying, 'Future increases in spending could be moderated if costly new medical services were adopted more selectively in the future than they have been in the past, and if the diffusion of existing costly services was slowed.'

In other words, the government is going to reduce costs by delaying implementation of technological innovations, discouraging investment in the development of new technology, and leaving patients suffering as they wait for the latest diagnostics and treatment. This will only further discourage investment in the development and adoption of new, advanced medical technologies and drugs, as discussed above.


Implementing all of these cost-control measures will involve the government’s controlling our health care in great detail. Remote government bureaucrats, rather than you and your doctor, will be deciding what health care you will get and when. They will be deciding what health-care advances will be adopted and when.

All of this involves pervasive and detailed central economic planning, which experience teaches us will not work. In other words, Obama’s cost controls involve government rationing of your health care, just as in all those foreign countries with socialized medicine that the CEA admires in its report."

Doing NOTHING about our current health care is clearly much better than doing something (Obamacare), if the "something" involves the black hole of the "progressive" public option.
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20:41
Paging Sigourney Weaver »Blog on the Run: Reloaded
Please report to the 6-inch sewer main under Cameron Village in Raleigh, NC. The sewer snake camera has found something that needs your immediate attention. And you’d better bring your flamethrower. (h/t: Apostropher)

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20:22
Obamanation Top Two Tunes »AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
Just a bit of sick humor here.If we can’t seem to stop the disaster we might as well sing about it.  BB    hat tip to Gateway Pundit Posted in Economy/Money, National News, National Politics, Obama admistration, Politics 2009, Progressives Movement to Destroy America Tagged: Obama, Politics, socialism, Supreme Court liberal justices [...]

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20:21
OTOH, this is what “unpatriotic” and “objectively pro-terrorist” look like »Blog on the Run: Reloaded
Shorter Michael F. Scheuer: A nuclear attack by Osama bin Laden is the only thing that will save the U.S. I am absolutely not making this up. See for yourself. And it ain’t coincidence that this guy’s views are being aired by Glenn Beck, who really, really needs to be whacked up with about 300 ccs of [...]

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19:45
Another Shiloh pastor bites the dust »Thinking Out Loud

Far be it from me to meddle in someone else’s church affairs, but when Shiloh Baptist in Greensboro booted yet another pastor last week, you had to wonder why.

The church has seen four pastors in 10 years.

The latest Shiloh pastor to be shown the door by a sharply split congregation was the Rev. F. Willis Johnson.

Johnson may have been in over his head from the start. He was young and relatively inexperienced. This was his first job as a head pastor.

And Shiloh is a tough room to play for even a veteran preacher.

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19:43
The Psychopathy of Mark Sanford »Vie de Malchance
From Wikipedia: Otto Kernberg believed psychopathy should fall under a spectrum of pathological narcissism, that ranged from narcissistic personality on the low end, malignant narcissism in the middle, and psychopathy at the high end.[19] Because of the psychopath’s inability to internalize superego precursors, they are typically unable to learn from past mistakes, and are completely devoid [...]

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19:37
The other me is trying to kill.... "me" »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com


By: Liv

Apparently, somewhere deep down inside my mind there's a part of me that's trying to kill itself. I sit here bruised, beaten, fallen, burnt, and swollen in multiple locations from the events of the last 24 hours... It all started yesterday when...

1) I went to my electrologist appointment. Normally I never swell, but these particular settings left my face looking like Pete Rose chewing on Tobacco. No biggie I thought, my lunch date is tomorrow... the swelling will surely go down. I left after being electrocuted and burnt- $150.00 poorer. Gosh I'm a sucker... but no-pain-no-gain as they say.

2) I'm making dessert for the kids last night when the 10lb serving platter I was placing muffins on slides off the counter and begins a vertical descent in a upright position and delivers a direct blow on it's edge to my bare-foot toes.... the same ones I stubbed in the theater last week during Transformers. Immediately the skin opens up and bleeds on to the floor, my appendages turn black and blue. Pain shoots through my lower extremities up the nerve paths and into my brain where my body then tumbles over onto the floor whacking my head against the other cupboard. At the same time, dessert as we were going to call it flew on to the floor.

3) I wake up today and find that lo and behold, my face still looks like a bobble head. I do the best not to cry as I get ready for my lunch date. Hoping to impress my dates as they're the "Board of Directors" which quietly spread greensboring into the slushy minds of North Carolina everywhere- I was somewhat dismayed by my appearance as Misses potato-head... It's right about then when I get my make-up on and Chance comes running by and steps on the my now black and blue toes. I start panting and doing the "cannot cry but it crackin hurts" dance because I'm too damn cheap to buy waterproof mascara and the water-works was about to be unleashed from the combination of pain and overall emotional discourse that's taking place. Some how I made it through it.

4) So we pull up to Maria's cafe in Burlington, all goes well and I explain my physical deformities are not normal. Everyone just grins and nods, but inside their heads they were all saying "Dammmmmmmnnnn girl what happened to your face?"....

So after dinner we get out to the car and find Liv, the award winning idiot of the week has left her keys in the car. The events of the next few minutes aren't important other than, our white knight managed an antenna in the door seal to unlock the car while I attempted to pry the door away from it's seam. The door which was coated in paint and baking in the Carolina sun was like a stove top and singed my fingers to the point at which I'd realize later would turn in to massive blisters. Yes.... I'm typing with blistered fingers.... ouch... ouch... ouch...

At one point I attempted to cover my hands in my shirt which meant showing my pasty Pillsbury dough girl physique off to the individuals I was so hoping would think kindly of me.... By the time I got done, I had made them late for work, my forehead was covered in black grease, and I looked like Alice Cooper from my makeup sweating off in the sun...

My hope is this would be the end....

5) So we come home and I'm outside setting up the pool for the kids so they can go swimming. I look up at the gutter and see a huge 3 foot tree growing up out of it... My first thought is... "I can reach that, if I just climb up on the railing of the porch" (betcha you know what's coming....) Sure enough, Shan is in the middle of saying "that railing is 20 years old" or something now non-important information when the 2x4 cracks in half with the plant in my hand, and I go flying on to my back slamming my knee cap on the upper railing on the way down.

I suppose I should count my blessings.... I did manage to get the pool up, and install security lights without electrocuting myself.... It's at this point Shan's breaking out the Mimosa, and I'm planting my butt on the couch.... Hopefully I can't endanger myself on the couch....

To my lunch dates.... Thank you, I hope I did not scare you.... and I promise I'll try though I can't guarantee if we meet again... I won't screw things up nearly as bad next time.


Copyright 2009 All Rights Reserved. Greensboring - Greensboro, NC


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19:26
The Buzzkillz: Hell’s Bells »the dotmatrix project
Traditionally, Greensboro has been a cover band town, so for the past 16 months, we at DMP have been trying to expose great original acts from our town and the surrounding area. But when you have a showman like Matt Hill fronting a band with the likes of Max Drake on guitar/mandolin, Chuck Cotton on the [...]

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The Buzzkillz: Hell’s Bells »the dotmatrix project
As far back as most people can remember, Greensboro has been a cover band town, so for the past 16 months, we at DMP have been trying to expose great original acts from our town and the surrounding area. But when you have a showman like Matt Hill fronting a band with the likes of Max [...]

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19:19
Hey, Grandpa, What's For Supper? »RecycleBlog
Or, He-Haw Reject?

Tonight RecycleBill is dining on fresh caught Broiled Filet of Summer Squash, Green Beans, Beats, New Taders, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Basil and fresh baked corn bread. Yum, yum!

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19:15
Listening tour »EdCone.com
Obama is bringing the fight for healthcare reform to the states, including ours. An event is scheduled for Greensboro on July 23.

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19:15
Memie reports … »Blog on the Run: Reloaded
… on how the week with the grandkids is going: We all had cake and ice cream last night for V’s bday. Except Hooper. Who asked for boiled peanuts instead. That boy’s not right.

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18:51
No title »slowly she turned
I don’t know if it was the steroid shot or just the fact that my inflammation was reduced for the first time in ten months but boy, was I energetic and happy last night and this morning. I still am, to a more normal degree, but I overdid it a bit so tonight I’m [...]

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18:46
Another Inspector General Ousted by Obamanation (a must read) »AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
There is no stopping this crowd of thugs!  They get caught up on their thuggery when IG Walpin decided not to be intimidated, but they just keep right on with the same methods because they are arrogant enough to think they have all the power of Gods to do what they want.  Are they correct?  [...]

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18:34
My GPD Pitch Made it on WXII Tonight at 6 pm »voteshell
You may or may not know, but I work in public relations and marketing. Part of my job, and one thing I love to do, is to work with the media. Early yesterday morning I called WXII to share a story idea I had that pertained to the Greensboro Police Department (GPD). I’m part of a [...]

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17:59
Don’t Leave Home Without It »Sue's Place
What is it with Gary, Indiana, and birthing celebrities? Karl Malden died at age 97. Aside from his film, stage and TV credits, Malden was famous for his commercial, “Don’t leave home without it,” for American Express. But those were the days when you had to watch commercials.

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17:47
Wednesday dog blogging »Sue's Place
Shayna got a new toy - about as big as she is - and Simcha played with her favorite toy (scratching on the carpet). If dogs take on their owner’s personality, I guess we’re all just strange.

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17:44
Sam I Am »Sue's Place
Sam came to visit. He brought black socks with monkey heads from his latest Asian adventure (I love black socks!) and we had a great visit. Sam fixes computers, manages online projects and is an old bud.

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17:20
Getting Schooled »The Spag Report
David Wharton takes Ed Cone to school on listening for comprehension and nuance versus engaging in a dumbed down exploitation of a comment for political gain in this thread.

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The River Is Burning »The Spag Report
Cleveland magazine revisits the infamous 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga River forty years later. In reality, it wasn't the first time the river caught on fire, nor was it the worst fire on the river. But it did make the news (arguably because Newsweek sold a lot of magazines that week thanks to Ted Kennedy according to the author) and soured Cleveland's image for a long time. "By the time the Cuyahoga burned in 1969, we simply muttered what had become our dismal mantra: If a thing like this happens, it just figures it’d happen to Cleveland." There is still...

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17:16
Evolution Revolution Devolution »Joel Gillespie
OK, I admit, the title of this post is dumb. Was just playin'

Anyway, a high school student who currently attends a public school, and who used to attend a private Christian school, asked the following (edited) question about evolution, and I answered as best as I could.

Here is the question...

"Well, I am in Biology this year...my exam in on Friday...and we have been studying the theory of evolution. While we were taking notes in class on evolution the verse from Ecclesiastes came into my head, where it says, "there is nothing new under the sun". Based on the verses before and after that verse I don't really think that it had anything to do with that, evolution I mean, but I was just wondering if it did. It was alot easier at (my fomer school) in science class because we were able to talk about these things from a biblical perspective, but being in a public school that is not how it is taught, or how the discussions go (though, really there are no discussions...it is just accepted as fact). So, I don't know. I get confused because some of it makes since...and then all of a sudden the teacher writes something that I am to copy down and I cannot see how anyone could believe it. So, there you go..."

Great question, don't you think?

And here is my answer...

"Dear ****,

You're right, the verse in Ecclesiastes has nothing to do with evolution, though it does speak to any and all ideas that come to man. Philosophically speaking, in terms of how people so quickly and easily jump from evolution to evolutionism, that is, from a scientific/historic theory of development to a purely materialist view of reality, then it's not new under the sun.

You're also right, in public school for the most part one cannot look at this or most other topics from a biblical perspective, or from a Buddhist perspective, or a Hindu perspective, or Scientology perspective, etc. It's a good thing and a bad thing.

I would venture to say that at most Christian schools they don't really look at the topic from all perspectives either (even if the discussion is more open) because they don't take evolution seriously enough to evaluate it and examine and respect it as the powerful model that it is. In my opinion one cannot speak with credibility to a matter if one does not understand it. I have found evolution too easily reduced to silly cliches by those who like it and those who don't.

Yes indeed, some of it makes sense. In fact, a lot of it makes sense. Not all of it makes sense to me or anyone else, but it is a powerful model or framework for understanding change - especially biological - over time.

We have to remember though that the processes that add up to evolutionary theory are strictly impersonal and with no purpose whatsoever. Evolutionary change is not progress; it is just change. There is no "point" to it. But, since we have a hard time swallowing that, we slip personal language into the process. We give the process "purpose."

On the other hand, and this is important, all scientific study has to have a kind of atheistic methodology. If you want to cure cancer, you find the mechanisms that cause it and you don't assume that the gaps of knowledge are to be filled in by God. We don't just say "God made cancer" and let it go at that.

In a similar way if we are curious about how so many of the plants and animals on an isolated island (like Madagascar) are so different, we don't just say "God made them that way," we try to understand how it is that they are or became different. There is nothing wrong with the impulse to want to understand that. That impulse is a significant part of what makes us human beings.

If you take both the Bible and science seriously, which you should, you will grapple with this issue most of your life one way or another. Just try to learn and understand as much as you can.

More later,

Mr. G."

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17:16
Turning Stones into Bread »Joel Gillespie
My favorite book on the pastoral ministry was and is "The Art of Pastoring" by David Hansen. I have read it four or five times over the years and given a copy to many people along the way.

In his book Hansen talks about how a person called to be a pastor puts aside the prerogative of what he calls “turning stones into bread” or what I might call “working for a living.” Thus I derive the title of this post from Hansen’s book, though I do not wish to fault him for any bad or erroneous ideas I have come up with on my own!

Technically speaking as a pastor I was not “paid” to do a job as much as “supported” to do that job, in a similar manner as a missionary. OK, that support gets turned into a salary and a paycheck, but the official “call” from the congregation goes like this…”In order that you might devote yourself exclusively to the ministry of the word and pray, we the congregation…”

Once calledin this way, many business instincts are out the window. In my 20 years of pastoral ministry this was one of the most frustrating and also rewarding aspects of the calling.

Although there may have been an indirect correlation between how hard or well I worked on the one hand, and how much money was in the coffers (or in my paycheck) on the other, the pastoral ministry requires that such correlations be far from mind and heart.

If I run a business I can choose to work more hours, spend more money on advertising, or develop new proficiencies with the motive or goal of having more business and as a result more money. I may fail in those efforts, but there is nothing wrong with those efforts or their motivation.

Granted, one would hope that I see some greater good being served through my work, but seeking to provide better for myself and family is a perfectly decent motivation. It isn’t in the church. The moment I am connecting anything I do as a pastor with an increase in “business” (more money coming in) and the normally concomitant increase in “salary,” well, I have profaned the calling and am worthy only to be cast out of it.

Just think of the mischief to which such a motivational correlation would lead . First, it would cause me to spend more energy “courting” wealthier visitors than poorer visitors. Such favoritism is an obscenity. Second, it would lead me to focus pastoral attention and care more on those who offer possibility of financial return rather than on those who really need the care. Usually in such scenarios the mentally ill, the elderly, and the needy get shorted. Third, it would lead me to focus a church outreach on an affluent neighborhood rather than a poorer neighborhood. There is nothing inherently wrong with outreach in a more affluent neighborhood of course;, well, depending…(This reminds me of the almost universal tendency for church plants to be located in what are, on average, more affluent areas. Something seems wrong with that picture.) Fourth, the motive of “building the business” might be the driving force for all sorts of interesting and hip advertising campaigns. That would be bad.

Had he not been called to fast, and were he not being tempted to distrust his Father, there may have been nothing wrong with Jesus turning a stone into bread. Likewise as a pastor I gave up the right to work for my personal well being and benefit, especially financially. I gave up, as it were, the right to turn stones into bread.

On the positive side giving up that right forced me to trust and to pray more. God’s faithful provision over the years for my family’s needs also trained me to attend to the essentials of the calling while being able to rest in the knowledge that He had taken care of us all along the way and would continue to do so.

I was raised in a family of small businesses – my dad, his parents, my mother’s parents, my siblings, and so forth. I sought out work as soon as I was old enough to push a mower, and always had money. If I ran low I went out and made more money. If I needed to I advertised. If I needed to I sought work in the rich neighborhoods rather than the poor ones. If I needed to I worked dawn to dusk day after day.

And so, on the negative side, giving up the “right” to turn stones into bread went against almost every instinct I had and have. This reminds of my first rugby game at Clemson. I played left wing, and I remember on about our first offensive move down the field, after the ball came to me, my football instinct kicked in. I saw a crease and I cut and I ran for it. Had it been football I would have made a twenty yard gain, gotten a first down, and lots of pats on the head. But it was rugby. All I did was cause our team to lose possession once I was down. I got a few knocks on the head for being stupid, that’s about it.

After being well trained in the ministry mindset I am now back in that other world. All in all, I think I like it. It’s scary in a whole different way, but I am enjoying the opportunity to think creatively about how to survive.

As you think of your pastor or rabbi or priest, remember the unique challenge it may be to him or to her to give up the right to turn stones into bread. Be generous and do what you can to allay the anxieties that may eat away and tempt him or her to take that stone, that calling to trust and wait while being devoted to word and prayer, and turn it into bread. The temptation is always there. It can be insidious.

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SAL founder John Henry Moss passes away »Greensboro Sports
John Henry Moss, the founder and leader of the South Atlantic League until 2007, died this morning at the Kings Mountain Hospital in his home town of Kings Mountain, NC, where he had been hospitalized after suffering a stroke on June 7th. He was 90 years old. “The South Atlantic League is deeply saddened to report [...]

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16:57
Five o'clock shadows »Off the Record

Where was this judge when Marion Jones needed him? Or any other athlete banned for drug use?

From AP: "The court finds the harm to Mr. Mayfield significantly outweighs any harm to NASCAR," U.S. District Court Judge Graham Mullen said.

 Jeremy Mayfield is free to get back on the track, although the judge generously will allow NASCAR to conduct further tests to determine whether Mayfield has been "a meth-head or not."

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16:46
2Night…Let’s Go On A…. »Ride The Lifetrain w/Chuckie
DATE!!! Turn Your speakers Up!!! & Click the Picture

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15:52
Greensboro College recruits almost an entire soccer team(15 Newbies) »Greensboro Sports
Greensboro College women’s soccer coach Ian Spooner is pleased to announce the commitments of 15 recruits for the upcoming season. “I’m very excited about our incoming players as it’s a large recruiting class which will serve as a foundation for the future,” Spooner said. “There are several players who I fully expect to make [...]

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15:42
Southeast Junior Legion Baseball: Last game of regular season today »Greensboro Sports
It will be the last game of the inaugural season for the Southeast Guilford Junior Legion Falcons tonight at 7pm at the SEG baseball complex. The game will feature SEG vs. Northwood and the game can be heard on AM950 radio with a pre-game of 6:45pm……. The team is right at the .500 mark in their first [...]

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15:34
Supreme Court Roundup (washingtonpost.com) »AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
Supreme Court Roundup (washingtonpost.com) INTERACTIVE    Supreme Court Roundup An end-of-session analysis of the High Court’s 2008-2009 session: It’s a good idea to keep up with what the Supreme Court is doing since their rulings  so much  affect our lives.  However unless the case is controversial as in the last case they ruled on this session (   Ricci vs [...]

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15:16
What is "Sex"? »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com


A Person, Featured Blogger:



Americans just aren't explicit when they talk about having "had sex."

"Sex is a word and nobody is really in charge of that term," said Kinsey Institute scientist Erick Janssen. "In a way, our thinking of sex and definitions of sex is more complex than they were in the past."

In 1998, just as Clinton was defining what "is" is, two other Kinsey researchers were publishing a paper in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association on how people see sex. The answer: We can't really agree.

The study, based on 1991 survey of 599 college students, found something odd considering the parsing of male politicians. Women in general were less likely than men to consider oral sex or mutual masturbation as having "had sex."

Of the women, 37 percent considered oral sex as, well, sex. Forty-four percent of men did.

A second survey in 1996, asked "Is oral sex 'real' sex?"

About 52 percent of the men said yes, but only 46 percent of women did.



And Jesus thinks that lusting is a sin on par with intercourse, I wonder if He ever had a blow job?

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15:15
Crap detection »EdCone.com
Unless a great many people learn the basics of online crap detection and begin applying their critical faculties en masse and very soon, I fear for the future of the Internet as a useful source of credible news, medical advice,...

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15:15
Honduras »Guarino
President Obama's reaction to the situation in Honduras is indicative of the overall problems with his foreign policy. That he would express leanings toward leftist governments in our own hemisphere is a major source of concern. Ordinarily, I am trying...

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15:12
Grocery deals roundup »BargainBlog

Highlights regarding deals at some grocery stores in the Triad this week. Deals end Tuesday, except for Aldi, which end Monday.

* 8-piece fresh fried chicken is $4.99 at Lowes Foods, which is doubling manufacturers' coupons up to 99 cents.

* Pints of blueberries, strawberries and 4-packs of corn are 99 cents at Aldi.

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15:08
Inner City Baseball Classic announces opening game to follow opening ceremonies at NBBP »Greensboro Sports
The Opening Ceremonies for the Inner City Baseball Classic will be held at 6pm on Wednesday August 5 at NewBridge Bank Park in downtown Greensboro. The debut game for the Inner City Baseball Classic will follow at 7pm at NBBP and it will feature the defending champions coached by JB Baynes versus Puerto Rico coached by [...]

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15:07
California Stares at Default »Vie de Malchance
From Reuters: While California lawmakers struggle with budget deadlines practically every year, this year’s budget fight is taking place amid the state’s worst drop in revenues from personal income taxes since the Great Depression as recession and rising unemployment aggravate the damage done to the state’s economy from its long housing slump. Democrats, who control the legislature, [...]

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15:01
Argentinian Ants take over the world »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com



A Person, Featured Blogger:



You thought that man was the object of creation? Think again, we exist only to serve the ants:



A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.

Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same interrelated colony, and will refuse to fight one another.

The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.

What's more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together.

Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) were once native to South America. But people have unintentionally introduced the ants to all continents except Antarctica.

These introduced Argentine ants are renowned for forming large colonies, and for becoming a significant pest, attacking native animals and crops.

In Europe, one vast colony of Argentine ants is thought to stretch for 6,000km (3,700 miles) along the Mediterranean coast, while another in the US, known as the 'Californian large', extends over 900km (560 miles) along the coast of California. A third huge colony exists on the west coast of Japan.

While ants are usually highly territorial, those living within each super-colony are tolerant of one another, even if they live tens or hundreds of kilometres apart. Each super-colony, however, was thought to be quite distinct.

But it now appears that billions of Argentine ants around the world all actually belong to one single global mega-colony.
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However, the irony is that it is us who likely created the ant mega-colony by initially transporting the insects around the world, and by continually introducing ants from the three continents to each other, ensuring the mega-colony continues to mingle.

"Humans created this great non-aggressive ant population," the researchers write




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14:59
Long ago it must be, I have a photograph »Debris
While rummaging through my box of memories, I found my “Certificate of Registration” from when I lived in England as a graduate student. Under the Immigration Act of 1971, I was required to carry this certificate (really a passport-sized booklet) with me at all times, and produce it on demand by any police or immigration [...]

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14:55
Judd Apatow, revenge artist »Culture Shock

There's a great Playboy Interview with Judd Apatow this month (link is work-safe) in which he talks a little about the cancellation of his TV shows Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, which featured comedy superstars Seth Rogan and Jason Segal before they were famous.

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14:43
Legal kudos »Sue's Place
The arrest of Wright at 82 Melha St. in Springfield came based on a tip from North Carolina law enforcement, The Republican reported Tuesday. Kudos to NC law enforcement for doing it right.

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13:22
Michael Jackson poster inside! »The Editor's Log

 

A woman called on Monday to say we had too much Michael Jackson in the paper.

I protested: "But he was only on the front page once."

She said: "See what I'm saying?"

I fear we disappointed her again this morning. Even though the first news article on the aftermath of Jackson's death appears on page A9, we have included an outstanding standalone poster of the pop star in the morning paper.

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13:09
Taibbi’s Response to Goldman Sachs »Vie de Malchance
From Matt Taibbi at True/Slant on his recent Rolling Stone article: Actually I did contact Goldman and gave the bank every opportunity to respond to the factual issues in the article. I’m bringing this up because their decision not to comment on any of those questions was actually pretty interesting… Instead, here is the response that we [...]

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12:42
Does anybody remember Amos Otis? »Greensboro Sports
I was watching the ESPN Sunday night baseball game a few weeks back over at CiCi’s Pizza on Battleground and I’m thinking it was one of the inter-league affairs with the Dodgers and the Angels and it got me to wondering who are all of these guys that I’m watching as Jon Miller, Joe Morgan [...]

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12:35
Blind Pools »Vie de Malchance
From the NYT on yesterday’s annual meeting: Edward M. Liddy, listened sympathetically as shareholders expressed dismay about their losses and complained that they had never been able to vote on the terms of the bailout, which wiped out the value of their holdings. He said he was sorry, and agreed that A.I.G. might be worth more [...]

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11:18
"The Punishment For Perjury In North Carolina" »Dr.J's HouseCalls
As I review StatCounter results, something interesting has caught my eye. At least a few times a day, someone is delivered to Housecalls by a Google search with this "tag":

-punishment for perjury in North Carolina-

I guess more and more people are finding out that there isn't any . . . despite what the law actually says.

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11:15
What we need »EdCone.com
"The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama Bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States." The country for which this would be such a good thing is...the United States.

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11:04
When it comes to drafting, Florida Marlins like them young »Greensboro Sports
from Bill Hass at gsohoppers.com: GREENSBORO – When it comes to the baseball draft, there’s nothing like high school players for the Florida Marlins. Earlier this month, the Marlins took high school players with their first three picks – pitchers Chad James and Bryan Bergland and outfielder Marquise Cooper. Neither pitcher has signed yet, which is not [...]

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10:47
Gripe or Complaint Box for July 1, 2009 »Greensboro Sports
Got any new Gripes or Complaints????? This is the box for Wednesday July 1, 2009. We are taking those gripes and complaints and we have to remind you to keep it real on your subject matter. We will be cleaning out the box at the end of each day and we may have to do some cleaning [...]

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10:43
Hoppers fall to Blueclaws 7-4 at Lakewood »Greensboro Sports
Lakewood, New Jersey Blueclaws 7 Greensboro Grasshoppers 4 Box score: Greensboro Player AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO AVG Mattison RF 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 .250 Galloway CF 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 .288 Synan DH 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 .257 Lasater 1B 4 1 1 [...]

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10:40
Called Again »CCW
Do you have to serve on jury duty if you are dead? Every two years the summons arrive in my mailbox! I hear the blare of the orchestra in the background of my mind. "You have been summoned by the black lord of death. Wail, wail yea of ignoble birth!" It is time to envy those who have served before us. We are destined to live hoping for the pass that advances us in the inspection security line because we are Jurors. " Grovel you peasants of Greensboro" There is a sense of power in being one of the voice of 12 plus alternate who speaks "We the jury find the defendant to be ..." Tired and butts dragging we leave for home. We will face another day of finding a parking spot. Doomed to never being called by a lawyer to serve. Who gave these lawyers the power to cast a perfectly good citizen aside, as some one of no account, not worthy of an explanation. On the other hand , "Over here, pick me, pick me I know the defendant!" Some how the Judge's charge to the jury didn't ramp me up. I'm sitting there admiring the suits on the lawyers . They are behaving like actors trying to snare an "Oscar." Every now and then the judge's robes will lift and fall. The lawyers stop and stare for a moment then continue. I am told that this is called fluffing the robes and is done to remind those in court how important the judge is. Actually based on my reading the judge has more rights than anyone else in the land. He or she may take your life, liberty, and joy away. We have a judge to listen and decide, if the guilty one doesn't want a jury trial. Sorry about that! If the innocent one doesn't want a jury trial. One lawyer will attempt to prove the defendant's guilt. Another will attempt to prove his innocence or that the other lawyer didn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt guilt. For some reason what the lawyers say and produce never coincides with reality. Time never advances in a courtroom. Clocks are frozen never to advance to lunch time or evening. No matter how often one gazes --- the time remains the same! Several days later, it is over and we are dismissed to go our separate ways. As we slink into our roles as has beens we lift a tearful eye towards historic Greensboro and an afternoon game of SALLY baseball. We who suffered the fruit of the poisoned tree. We who debated the precedence of a confession versus evidence of innocence. We who understood the wisdom of rendering a baby in half sans "Solomon." Are left to ponder why we couldn't find a way out!

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10:18
Resource fair scheduled for July 11 »GREENING GUILFORD

 A "Take Charge of Your Future" resource fair taking place this month in Greensboro aims to "help you figure out where you want to go with your life, and how you can be part of creating a greener, healthier, safer planet and community for all of us." Details here




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10:08
An economy on the rocks means cheaper liquor »BargainBlog

High-end liquor in North Carolina is getting cheaper, thanks to an economy that's on the rocks.

"Distillers of the good stuff are chopping their prices to hang on to recession-weary customers," the News & Observer reports.

Discounts begin Aug. 1. Examples include a half gallon of Grey Goose vodka dropping from $71.95 to $59.95 and a fifth of Absolut vodka costing $19.95 instead of $21.95.



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09:29
Democrats’ Tax Proposals: “The Dirty Dozen” »A Priori Concepts
Raleigh – House Republican Leader Paul Stam (R-Wake) and Senate Republican leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) discussed some of the most egregious tax and fee increases in the proposed Democratic budget. House and Senate members discussed the negative effects of these “Dirty Dozen” taxes and fees on our state’s fragile economy and their impact on families. The [...]

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09:20
Truth Be Damned »The Spag Report
The global warming debate is not over despite closed mind efforts to the contrary, writes Jeff Jacoby: "Fortune magazine recently profiled veteran climatologist John Christy, a lead author of the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. With his green credentials, Fortune observed, Christy is the warm-mongers’ “worst nightmare - an accomplished climate scientist with no ties to Big Oil who has produced reams and reams of data that undermine arguments that the earth’s atmosphere is warming at an unusual rate and question whether the remedies being talked about in Congress will actually do any good.’’ Ever get the feeling...

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09:18
In The Midst Of Scandal, Perhaps NCSU Fundraisers Should Take Pointers From Duke »Dr.J's HouseCalls
There's an article in the Raleigh N&O this morning about donors to N.C. State University being "spooked" by the Mary Easley fiasco. The article's premise was that the anger over such scandals usually turns out to be a "short-lived" blip on the financial radar compared to school pride.

Inspiration struck, and I commented:

I wonder if world-renowned heart surgeons putting the wrong hearts in little (Hispanic) girls, or an entire campus of progressive do-gooders prematurely convicting white LaCrosse players of raping a black stripper, or gay university administrators selling their adopted black children for sex (on and off DRUDGE yesterday . . . a shortlived "blip") has affected Duke University's donations?

Hummmmmmm . . .

The leaders of the (wolf)pack should be ashamed. But NCSU has NOTHING on those Blue Devils (there's a reason they're called devils;).

Anybody wanna take bets that the comment will be deemed "offensive" and taken down?

I might object this time. I was careful not to use bad words . . . or abreviations for bad words ("SOL" got one taken down yesterday - I knew better, but was feeling fiesty).

I even decided not to incorporate "perv dad for fun" in the comment (it was mighty tempting).

Time will tell.

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09:18
Congratulations Winners! »PiedmontParent.com

We love to give away things at Piedmont Parent, and during the month of June we held one of our most popular contests ever, free tickets to Carowinds! With two different ways to win, through the Web site and Facebook, it gave our readers more of a chance at winning a family pack to the area's exciting theme park.

Facebook Winners:
Sarah Beth Shoultz, Greensboro
Cindy McDonald Odum, Greensboro
Erin Miller DeRoo, Winston-Salem
Kim Chisholm Buccino, Winston-Salem

Web site Winners:
LaChaya Jones, Greensboro
Paulette Rucker, Walkertown
Nicole Belgarde, Randleman
Sheri Hall, McLeansville

For those of you who didn't win this particular contest, don't stop trying. We have more exciting things in store, including a chance to win a free family-pack of passes to a Winston-Salem pool of your choice during the month of July! Make sure you visit PiedmontParent.com every day to take advantage of our great contests, catch up on the latest parenting news and find out what's going on in Winston-Salem, Greensboro, High Point and beyond.

 



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09:15
How we media now »EdCone.com
N&R takes a tidbit about a trip to DC and cracks a big story about downtown development. Roy Carroll's connection to the junket is explained - he's a boardmember of CFGG, which is helping to lead the charge - although...

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Improving IT »EdCone.com
Federal IT projects are notorious for cost overruns and outright failures. US CIO Vivek Kundra has a plan - and some technology - to address that festering problem.

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09:15
Death By Cell Phone »Guarino
The National Safety Council is spearheading a new campaign. That such a campaign might be necessary is a sign of the times, and a reflection of our culture.

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08:59
Video: Phillips Avenue Trash Can Progress »voteshell
Phillips Avenue is one of the three streets I’ve adopted in Greensboro and I’ve been working with the Field Operations Department to get some trash cans put out on this stretch of road. Yes, there are currently none. I met with someone from the City this morning to discuss where the cans would be placed [...]

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08:50
Twittering pizza »The Editor's Log

You know I am a fan of Twitter. It allows us to extend and improve the journalism we do and is another good way to talk with people.

I have one more reason: My daughter is making a living at it.  From KDAF in Dallas.

 

 

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08:35
Sickening allegations in Durham »Off the Record

One of the most sickening alleged crimes in North Carolina recently raises one haunting question:

Who let Frank Lombard adopt children?

Lombard is the Duke University official charged with sexually molesting his 5-year-old adopted "son" and offering the child for sexual abuse by others over the Internet.

Here's CNN's report from yesterday. There hasn't been a lot of coverage in the North Carolina media considering the very distrressing aspects of this case.

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Sickening allegations in Durham »Off the Record

One of the most sickening alleged crimes in North Carolina recently raises one haunting question:

Who let Frank Lombard adopt children?

Lombard is the Duke University official charged with sexually molesting his 5-year-old adopted "son" and offering the child for sexual abuse by others over the Internet.

Here's CNN's report from yesterday. There hasn't been a lot of coverage in the North Carolina media considering the very distrressing aspects of this case.

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07:32
Free hunting, fishing for military »BargainBlog

At ease, soldier.

Those serving our country can cast their lines or bag a deer for free in North Carolina under a new law that takes effect today.

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06:15
It's Firecracker Time in North Carolina »Greensboro Daily Photo
Happy July, a month of pure summer fun in North Carolina! In Greensboro, we're about equal distance from the mountains and the beaches, and many of us ride up and down I-40 all month long enjoying nature, festivals, and getting away in our state. Also, it is that time of year when the ubiquitous FIREWORKS tents appear in just about every parking lot in town! Here we see the back side of one at Wal-Mart. The tent, parking lot, and stores are located under a Carolina blue sky on the property of the former Carolina Circle Mall. How nice to...

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03:20
Family Troubles and eBay Auction »Not Bloody Likely
Last Winter, my father underwent an operation to amputate his left leg. He'd undergone a femoral graft back in the 90s to shore up that artery and the doctors at the V.A. hospital told him it would only last for 10-15 years and that, when it failed, he'd probably lose the leg. Sure enough, 12 years later, that's what happened. Fortunately, there have been no major complications from the amputation, and Physical Therapists at the V.A. in Johnson City, TN, have been working with him to get him ready for a prosthetic, although that progress has been slowed by a more recent operation to remove his left kidney.

Unfortunately, once he became a uniped, his landlord became a douchebag, refusing to make a wheelchair ramp for the unit, or more outrageously, to put up a handicapped parking sign in front of it! His reasoning? "I don't want to encourage other handicapped retirees to move in to this complex." Or at least that's what he allegedly said to my stepmother.

The bastard is apparently within his rights, as the Fair Housing Act only applies to multi-user dwellings that had their first use after 1991, and dad's apartment complex has operated continually since the 50s. I wanted to at least publicize his landlord's behavior, with the hopes of shaming him into relenting, but Dad and my stepmother want to move out. They've lived there for 18 years, but don't want to stay on with such a bastard as their landlord. Can't say I blame them.

But moving out takes money, and they're on fixed incomes and I can only send them so much a time. So I'm holding an eBay auction of what may be the rarest and most collectible item I own.

Back in the 80s, I wrote CRAZY CREATIVE WRITING: STORY STARTERS AND WORD BANKS for Carson-Dellosa, a local publisher of educational workbook. "Story starters" are the beginnings of simple short stories, accompanied by a "Word Bank" of possible words to use in completing the story on the blank lines under the beginning paragraph. My book contained 30 of these, and was aimed at teachers of grades 1-4.

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In the 90s, when I was going to a lot of science fiction and fantasy conventions and working on my first novel, I asked various professional writers I'd met to complete stories in the book, just like they were kids in an elementary school classroom. Neil Gaiman (SANDMAN, AMERICAN GODS, CORALINE), Poppy Z. Brite, Kelly Link, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Mehitobel Wilson and others complied.

Here's Neil's contribution (with some of it blocked off for the eBay auction, so that I'm not giving away the entire story).

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At the time, a couple of contributors teased me about how I was pestering them into creating a unique and potentially very valuable collectible. I knew that was true, but I was mainly doing it for a lark, and over the years since then, I've felt guilty about trying to sell it, not so much because it has huge sentimental value but because it seemed like a mercenary response to their friendly generosity.

However, in lieu of my parents' circumstances, I've changed my mind. When I asked Neil if he thought this was mercenary of me, he replied no, not at all, "it's not like you're going to use the money to buy edible kittens or something." I've been giggling at that phrase ever since.

So I just listed it on eBay. Neil, Poppy and Caitlin have agreed to publicize it on their blogs. The item # is 280364723261

Here's the auction.

And yes, I know I misspelled my own damn name, leaving out an "l" in McDowell! Poppy kindly pointed this out to me, no doubt snickering to herself as she did so. It will have to stand, as I don't seem to be able to edit an item's description while the auction is active.

Wish me luck. I'm not posting here because I think this blog is widely read that it will get me any more bids, but so I'll have a link that I can point other people in the fantasy and horror communities at, so they'll learn the story behind the auction and perhaps pass on information about it.

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Thoughtfully yours ... »Letters to the Editor

Allow me to express some random thoughts:

 • Will Rogers certainly described the present when he commented on FDR’s first 100 days. His simple statement was, “Congress doesn’t pass legislation anymore. They just wave at the bills as they go by.”

• Henry David Thoreau described Congress and U.S. citizens when he said, “Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”

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It’s time for us to focus on 2009 issues, not 1979 »Letters to the Editor

It was disappointing to see that the City Council finally knuckled under to pressure and voted to “regret” an incident that occurred more than 30 years ago. Pressure exerted from a small (but loud) group of crusaders otherwise known as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission finally made its mark.

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03:00
Tax entertainment buys, not tobacco and alcohol »Letters to the Editor

This is a letter in protest of raising, yet again, taxes imposed on tobacco and alcohol. I personally do not consume tobacco or alcohol, but both have been taxed to death and it is time to look for alternatives.

It’s time that we look to create an “entertainment sales tax” that would be no more than a dollar but no less than 50 cents on purchases such as movie tickets, CDs, DVDs, iPods, X-Boxes, etc., that have larger buyer bases and that would raise more money to help solve more of our economic needs.

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03:00
Facts versus fiction on teacher salaries »Letters to the Editor

The following is a Counterpoint:

By Ryan Monson

Regarding Charles Davenport’s May 31 column: I can’t recall ever reading an article with so many skewed “facts.” I would like to focus on four of them.

“Fact”: Teachers are whining because they are getting a .5 percent pay cut.

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03:00
Truth and reconciliation across age, racial divides »Letters to the Editor

I have seen truth and reconciliation in action. Two men, polar opposites, sat in front of me as we all shared a meal. A 40-year old black man raised in Morningside Homes with vivid memories of bodies in his yard back in 1979. Beside him, a retired corporate executive, white and from the Deep South.

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03:00
Bed bugs could be your worst nightmare »Off the Record

Pam Spence says she’s the “bed bug lady” at the Guilford County Department of Public Health.


It’s not good that Guilford County needs a “bed bug lady,” but calls about the blood-sucking pests have been increasing. Spence, a community health educator, answers them.

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00:59
2day @ Noon; Dance W/God »Ride The Lifetrain w/Chuckie
Dancing With God (2day @ noon)… Now of course I can take no credit for the following story.  However, I thought it might encourage all of you, my fellow passengers here on the LiFeTrain to pray with me at noon…and dance with the Father! Read on… When I meditated on the word  Guidance, I kept seeing ‘dance’ at [...]

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Tuesday June 30, 2009

23:50
forbidden Italian kiss temptation advert »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com



By: Liv



"The ad played on the theme of giving into temptation but stopped short of showing the nun and priest kissing," the ASA said. "The ad stated 'kiss temptation' and the two were portrayed in a seductive pose, as if they were about to kiss passionately.

"We considered that the portrayal of the priest and nun in a sexualised manner - and the implication that they were considering whether or not to give in to temptation - was likely to cause serious offence to some readers."


Why is it offensive? I mean... why is kissing wrong... does it say it in the bible?


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23:45
Canadian Mint loses half a ton of gold »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com


A Person, Featured Blogger:



Canadian officials have not been able to explain the disappearance of more than $16 million in gold from the Royal Canadian Mint, leaving open the possibility that the gold was stolen.

The missing gold was first noticed several months ago.

Speculation for the unaccounted gold ranged from refining processing errors to accounting errors to theft.

A review by auditors has now concluded that the gold was not simply forgotten during inventory and could have been stolen from what Canadian officials say is one of the most secure facilities in Canada, if not the world.

Government ministers are furious, calling the loss of the gold inexcusable, while opposition politicians are having a field day criticising the government for the startling admission.

The opposition says instead of chasing down possible leads, the government allowed those responsible to get away.

New security and accounting measures are being put in place and all executive bonuses at the mint are being withheld.



$16 million at $35,000/kg = 457kg i.e. half a ton. Good grief - you'd think they'd notice that walking out of the door.



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23:19
The Shameful Edwards Saga Continues »The Spag Report
John Edwards has already been exposed for the self-serving fraud that he is (and that I warned by liberal friends he was over and over again) but the saga is not over. It seems that Mr. Edwards, a man of great wealth (and hypocrisy), actually paid to have another man claim that the man was the father of Rielle Hunter's child instead of Edwards. In Mr. Edwards' world, money can buy anything- or so he thought. This is just another example of the disconnect between the man and his message- the two America's where a rich man can essentially purchase...

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23:18
Review: Pisgah Inn »Roch101
Kathy and I spent the first night of our mountain trip at the Pisgah Inn, one of the few lodging facilities directly on the Blue Ridge Parkway, about 3 1/2 hours from Greensboro, NC; 50 minutes south of Asheville.

The room ($120/night) was comfortably appointed, clean and tidy with a refrigerator, TV, and coffee maker, but the greatest attribute was the view.
Each room has a balcony opening onto the southeast side of Mount Pisgah, overlooking the Pisgah National Forest with Hendersonville far in the distance -- too far to even notice during the day, but a twinkle in the valley at night. There is very little ambient light when the moon is new, making the night sky sparkle with stars from horizon to horizon.

There are three buildings, each two stories. We had an upstairs room, but the downstairs rooms are elevated enough on the balcony side that I would imagine the view to be just as nice. Apparently, only Tree Tops has been renovated, and I read some less than flattering comments from people who stayed in the other building, so ask for Tree Tops, seen here:
Although the guy behind the counter in the little store on the property told us that the closest place to get wine was Asheville or Brevard (we chose Brevard), we discovered that the gift shop actually sells a small selection of Biltmore wines and the restaurant serves beer and a larger selection of wine.

The restaurant is nice. I had a perfectly suitable pork chop with apple kraut and Kathy had Salmon that she said was tasty, but not as good as mine. I enjoyed a very delicious, Asheville-brewed Black Mocha Stout. Service was pleasant and efficient. The complimentary breakfast (I had French Toast, Kathy had eggs and bacon) was tasty, but the floor-to-vaulted ceiling windows are really the best thing going for the place.

Check the Pisgah Inn web site for more information, including area activities and online reservations. Book as far in advance as you can if you want one of the few rooms with a queen bed, or you'll end up with two doubles.




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23:15
As Good As It Got »Viewfinder BLUES
Petty Signing B/W
Sure ... I'm standing on a chair in a gymnatorium, pretending to listen to some City Manager while my knees scream in protest, but I'm tellin' ya dude, I'm IN THE ZONE! It may look painful (it was) but my temporary perch above C-Block fodder was the first time I've been comfortable since I got back from vacation. Some people live their whole lives in search of their special purpose. For better or worse, I found mine early. See, I had a vision while still in my twenties; a mysterious being in flowing robes appeared in the corner of my very first viewfinder and with a glazed look in its eye whispered just how I would spend the rest of my weekdays. I ... would make local TV news!

Yeah, I was bummed too at first, but after a few dozen fat lady dress shops spots and one hell of a hostage stand-off I embraced my destiny as only a 23 year old with zero career options can. Cops, Robbers, Crackheads and New Jack Stabbers; for the longest time every story I worked on ended with someone walking off in handcuffs. But a funny thing happened on the way to America's Most Wanted: I showed a penchant for the trenchant. At least that's how I described the epics of unimportance I so enjoyed working on. Let's face it, there are only so many ways you can frame crime-scene bystanders. Give me the underwater wedding, the inmate rodeo, the trash collector appreciation luncheon...

Yeah, I said 'the trash collector appreciation luncheon' - but before you give me the same look my assistant news director shot me this morning when I first pitched it, hear me out... We're talking seventy sanitation engineers parking their trucks long enough to break bread with a grateful citizenry. Still unimpressed? Did I mention Richard "one of them deals" Petty would be there? Yeah, I know he lives all of twelve miles away, but when the King of NASCAR hobnobs with a room full of garbage men shouldn't at least one fancycam be in attendance? I think so, which is why I chased High Point's Smelliest on their morning run before rendezvousing with them again in a church rec room....

The resulting moist chunk of television won't bring home any gold-plated eunuchs, but I'm guessing it will stick in the region's throat long after all that crime and grime has washed away. Now help me down, would ya? Dude's on auto-yammer and I can't feel my feet...

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23:15
Junket for Guilford Schools HQ Raises Questions »Guarino
We learn over at Ed's that a local developer is funding an expedition for Yvonne Johnson and Skip Alston to go to D.C. The purpose? To fish for stimulus money to fund construction of the recently conceptualized consolidated Guilford County...

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22:27
Capsule movie review: “Dogs of Chinatown” »Blog on the Run: Reloaded
“Dogs of Chinatown”: At least two thumbs up (both of mine), and that’s even before you factor in the local connections. Here in Greensboro, you’ve got two more chances to see it — 7:30 p.m. Wed. and Thu. at the Carousel Grande on Battleground Avenue. You should go. (Leave the kids home — this is [...]

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21:55
Self-Circumcision by nail clippers? »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com



By: Liv


A man who gave himself a DIY circumcision using nail clippers was taken to hospital for emergency treatment.

Using a pair of nail clippers must have caused excruciating pain, even if he had had a few drinks beforehand."

"This is something we would advise men never to attempt," a medic said, "The results can be quite horrific and long-lasting and have quite an affect on a man's sexual performance.


Where there's a will there's a way... wonder if his name was Will?


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21:20
There Goes The Left Wing Revolution »The Spag Report
Gallup: "A Gallup Poll finds a statistically significant increase since last year in the percentage of Americans who describe the Democratic Party's views as being "too liberal," from 39% to 46%. This is the largest percentage saying so since November 1994, after the party's losses in that year's midterm elections." Also of note- despite all the noise about the GOP being too conservative, the poll shows that more Americans believe the Democrats are too liberal than believe that the GOP is too conservative. Granted, the difference isn't much but it is there and exposes the myth that the GOP needs...

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21:20
The Burger King Gets Nasty »The Spag Report
So, too risque? Why don't they just call it the BK Blow ?

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20:51
Shag, Marry, Kill Bible Edition »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com


By: Liv

After reading this, I immediately broke into a game of FMK otherwise known as Shag-Marry-Kill...

FROM EVE TO JEZEBEL . . . SEXIEST WOMEN IN THE BIBLE!

By AIDEN LOUIS

Here's a secret reason so many men read The Holy Bible from cover to cover -- its pages are packed with sexy babes!

"If the Bible came with pictures, every guy would run out and pick up a copy today," says Dr. Jonah Watkins, Professor of Divinity at St. Aloysius School of Scriptures in Darwin, Australia.

"Women who lived before and during Jesus' time on earth were full and curvaceous with huge bosoms and even bigger sexual appetites. More often than not they were lusty, wild and wicked."

Here are Watkins' top four Biblical Pinup Girls:

1. EVE -- The first woman on earth, set down by God into the Garden of Eden with hubby Adam. "In Genesis 2:25, it says, 'And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed,' " says Watkins. "So Eve strutted her bodacious bod around paradise in her birthday suit. Of course Adam was happy as hell. Wouldn't you be?"
2. DELILAH -- "This lady was a hot mama who liked to slather on the makeup like a hooker," says Watkins. "She was also a first-class b@#%& who betrayed the man who loved her without blinking an eye." The story goes like this: Bible strongman Samson falls head over heels for Delilah. The Philistines make a deal with her. "Entice him and find out where his great strength lies and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver." No problem. She nags him until he tells her. She reports back, gets her cut, and Samson is captured. The Philistines put out his eyes and make him perform stupid tricks like a monkey. "All in a day's work for a Bible babe," says the professor.
3. THE QUEEN OF SHEBA -- "Another Bible babe who thought she was really hot stuff," says Watkins. "She was Arabian royalty. She heard that King Solomon was wise, but didn't believe it so she made up a sheet of test questions to make him look stupid. She was the one who ended up looking like an idiot because of course because Solomon really did know everything. He made himself a nice temple with lots of gold and riches. After that, he just sat on his throne and everyone who wanted an answer came to him and brought him gifts. The Queen fled the country with egg on her face."
4. JEZEBEL -- "This nasty piece of baggage married Ahab, King of Israel," says Watkins. "Ahab wanted a vineyard and when the guy wouldn't give it to him Jezebel wrote off a couple letters and signed her husband's name. The notes urged her friends to trick the people into thinking the vineyard owner was a blasphemer of God and stone him to death. They did. Later, God got her back. He told eunuchs to throw her body out the second floor window. Dogs ate her flesh, leaving only her skull and feet and the palms of her hands. She got hers."
5. SALOME -- "This scheming babe knew her stepfather had the hots for her, and she took full advantage," Watkins says. "When he offered her whatever she wanted to do a dirty little dance for him, she demanded the head of her enemy -- John the Baptist -- on a silver platter! Ouch."


I guess the real question is Jesus... pin him up against any of the other characters.... and ask, Shag Jesus, Marry Jesus, or Kill Jesus....

Marrying wouldn't mean crap, the guy is going to die.
Killing him would be interesting in the whole "Donnie Darko" sense just to see how things turn out....
So I guess that leaves one romp with the guy that's willing to die for your sins....


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20:37
Palomino Baseball at Stoner-White Stadium »Greensboro Sports
The Elks 12 Villains 2 HR:Ray Crawford

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20:35
Greensboro Colts at WMS »Greensboro Sports
Greensboro Colt Baseball tonight at War Memorial Stadium: Grimsley 13 Northeast Guilford 4 WP:Ryan Stoneman Relief from DJ Reader Linescore: Grimsley 13-7-2 Northeast 4-2-0 Game two will feature Dudley vs. High Point Central….

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20:26
More AIG Woes »Vie de Malchance
From the AP: As of March 31, AIG had about $192.6 billion outstanding of the swaps, which were primarily written for European financial institutions. Continued declines in the value of the contracts could have a “material adverse effect” on the insurer’s financial results, according to the filing submitted late Monday to the Securities and Exchange Commission. From [...]

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20:19
Stuart Smiley Steals Election »The Spag Report
It's official. Al Franken has been declared the winner of the Minnesota Senate race despite being the loser on election day and despite more votes being counted in the recount than were actually cast on election day. Another election stolen by voter fraud. In any case, Franken is an arrogant individual and will probably prove to be an embarrassment to Minnesota and the Democrat Party.

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20:17
Downtown ballpark land deals »YES! WEEKLY PUBLIC FORUM

In this week's edition of YES! Weekly, I reported on the land transactions that paved the way for a new downtown ballpark in Winston-Salem. Here's some additional information I uncovered in my research:

• Nick Doumas sold his property located at 912 W. 1st St. to Brookstown Development Partners LLC for $270,000 on April 13, 2007.
• JH Johnson Construction sold a number of lots in the 900 block of W. 1st St. to Brookstown Development Partners LLC for $600,000 on March 23, 2007.
• Samuel Roy Hursh sold his property at 915 Watkins St. to Brookstown Development Partners LLC for $70,000 on Jan. 12, 2007.
• CA Bailey & Son, Inc. sold their property at 1018 Watkins St. to Brookstown Development Partners LLC for $135,000 on Jan. 12, 2007.
• James Burleson and Yvonne Shore sold multiple parcels on Watkins St. to Brookstown Development Partners LLC for $247,000 on Feb. 27, 2007.
• Glenn Hart sold multiple parcels located on Watkins St. to Brookstown Development Partners LLC for $483,000 on June 1, 2007.
• Reuben Raymond Godsey, Jr. sold three lots in the 1000 block of W. 1st St. to Brookstown Development Partners LLC for $450,000 on May 27, 2008.
Source: Chicago Title.com
Karen Kovacs contributing reporting for this post.


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20:15
The sex line »EdCone.com
"Didn't cross the sex line." That's how Mark Sanford describes his physical relationships with women other than his wife and his mistress. Reminds me of sorority girls who were said to be doing "everything but."

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19:31
Coach K a bad fit for the NBA »Thinking Out Loud

Mike Krzyzewski  has ruled out a jump to the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers.

That's probably for the best.

Coach K managed pros on the Olympic team with aplomb, getting them to play hard and subjugate their egos for the good of the team.

I'm not sure he'd be up to doing that for 100-plus games a year.

He is a quintessential college coach, a master teacher and motivator And he is where he belongs.

 

 



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19:12
Odd case of confidentiality encountered during job search »Blog on the Run: Reloaded
I don’t know the first thing about disposing of explosive ordnance (unless the first thing is “Get the hell away!”), so there may be a perfectly logical answer to this question, but: Why would someone advertising for an explosive ordnance disposal technician want to remain confidential? OK, two questions. The second: If you’re not the military [...]

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18:24
Citizens Against Government Waste Newsletter »AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
Newsletter has been active this month  bombarding Congress with letters and e,mails against the Cap and Trade bill and against the  Health Care bill Congress seems bent upon inflicting on us (see items 2 and 3).   Also we again see Rep. Maxine Waters is porker of the Month.  I believe she must hold the title [...]

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18:23
Mosul Dam »Vie de Malchance
As US leaves Iraq, a humanitarian disaster awaits. I posted about the Mosul dam in December 2007. From a 2003 engineering article I posted then: Mahmoud explains that the dam leaks, but is structurally sound. This is confirmed, he says, by data from a full array of piezometers–mostly downstream, but some above the dam. [...]

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18:21
No title »slowly she turned
Thanks for your well wishes - they seem to have helped because I am much, much better today. In fact, I feel better than I have been in months, so I must be careful not to go crazy and overdo it in the garden! During my down time, I created a new Etsy shop. [...]

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18:17
Coach Mike Krzyzewski: “I’m not going anywhere, I’ll be at Duke the rest of my coaching life” »Greensboro Sports
Coach K: I’m ‘not going to the Lakers’ DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski made it clear: He’s not going to ever be the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Krzyzewski held his annual summer meeting with reporters Tuesday, and one of the first topics he covered was talk that had him taking over the [...]

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18:15
N&R attribution »EdCone.com
"Walker Sanders, president of the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro, confirmed Tuesday his group is organizing a trip to Washington to meet with every local delegate’s office about the foundation’s plans to redevelop the South Elm Street area of downtown."...

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18:08
Beef ‘O’ Brady’s News‏ »Greensboro Sports
Beefs Happenings BuzzTime Trivia is taking off. Come and join in the fun. Summer is here with baseball, golf, tennis and NASCAR dominating the sports scene. Come watch your favorite event with us and enjoy a cold drink. Future Ideas Customer Appreciation Party has a tentative date of Aug. 23!!!!! Join us Monday July 13th for the MLB [...]

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18:00
Inevitable headline: He’s good enough, he’s smart enough … »Blog on the Run: Reloaded
… and, doggoneit, 312 more people liked him than liked Norm Coleman: Republican Norm Coleman ended his bruising eight-month court fight over Minnesota’s U.S. Senate seat this afternoon, conceding to Democrat Al Franken after the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in Franken’s favor. The justices ruled today that Franken won the U.S. Senate election and said he is [...]

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17:32
About Those Illegals… »Vie de Malchance
From Breitbart: FAIRVIEW, N.J. (AP) - For five years, immigrant day laborer Leo Chamale wired money twice a month from New Jersey to his family in Guatemala. Recently, he stepped up to the money transfer window for a different purpose—to ask that his family send some of his savings back to him. “I hadn’t worked for five [...]

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17:27
Ham on the Lam »Vie de Malchance
From Breitbart: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An 800-pound hog that survived on its own for a week after a truck flipped while on its way to a slaughterhouse has surfaced in a swimming pool at a home near the crash site. LeAnn Baldy, whose house is only yards from Interstate 430, said Monday she noticed [...]

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16:36
A Love Song for Greensboro. »monkeywhale.com
1.  It was a rainy day in Greensboro, and I was thinking about my life.  In smudged green ink on my arm read the words: sailors, whores and moonshine.  I remembered when I wrote it, been drinking whiskey all day long.  At the bar I poured it into my soda by myself in the alley.  [...]

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16:19
Maintenance Workers carry the world on their shoulders »SkillTV
Above SkillTV's Joel Leonard illustrates the point that without maintenance the world's equipment, infrastructures, economies will crumble! We all need to recognize outstanding efforts, develop current workers with modern approaches and recruit new workers with appropiate attitudes necessary to advance our society.

With all of pitching in together, it is amazing how far we can elevate our performance!
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16:19
Local Developer Roy Carroll Transports Mayor of Greensboro and County Commissioner to D.C., Any Ethical ? »TRIAD WATCH
Ed Cone writes today that local elected officials are flying to Washington D.C. to meet with our elected federal officials on securing federal money for a redevelopment project which the News & Record talked about CLICKHERE.Here is the part of the post that needs to get a closer look and scrutiny, Ed Cone writes this,"The group will be flown to DC at no tax-payer expense by developer Roy Carroll,

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Answer to Ryan Shell on Bus Service »greensboropeerpressure
IN ANSWER TO RYAN SHELL'S POST: Greensboro Should Strive to Provide Shelter for all Bus Stops...It might be difficult to put a shelter at every bus stop. But every one should have a solid place for one's feet when they get off the bus and a bench on which to wait for a ride. At some stops riders are forced to step off the bus onto muddy spots or wet grass and then either cross a wide street at

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16:15
Good enough, smart enough »EdCone.com
The Al Franken Decade may be upon us at last.

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15:48
Krugman accuses those who oppse Cap 'n Trade nonsense of 'treason' »Noteworthy
Of all the God forsaken stupidity to come from the hand of Paul Krugman this incredibly vapid and childish column ranks as the very worst example of agenda-driven nonsense, from a "Nobel winner", and supposed authority according to the Blue Bozo Brigade.

Read the Klown himself:
"Yet the deniers are choosing, willfully, to ignore that threat, placing future generations of Americans in grave danger, simply because it’s in their political interest to pretend that there’s nothing to worry about. If that’s not betrayal, I don’t know what is."
Treason?

Because we oppose a huge tax to solve a non-problem? That we refuse to kow too to the political correctness of an already discredited corruption pf science? That we refuse to further poison our economy and our way of life to support a lie?

This jerk is an academic and intellectual fraud who needs to grow up to realize that his looney toon worldview agenda items are based on propaganda and dishonesty do NOT equate to scientific proof.
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15:31
Legion Baseball Area III Final Standings »Greensboro Sports
NORTHERN DIVISION Overall Division % Western Forsyth 16-7/13-5 .722 Randolph County 13-13/12-6 .667 Eastern Randolph 12-7/11-7 .611 High Point 16-9/11-7 .611 Winston-Salem 15-10/11-7 .611 Burlington-Graham 13-9/10-8 .555 Surry County 8-13/8-10 .444 Kernersville 10-12/8-10 .444 Thomasville-Davidson 3-16/3-15 .167 Troy-Montgomery 3-17/3-15 .167 *****Playoffs start Friday July 3*****

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15:29
Dick Morris on Obama’s Agenda is loud, clear and RIGHT (videos) »AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
Dick Morris speaks out on Obama and the Congress in no uncertain terms.  He is not strident or loud; he merely states the facts.  He covers a wide variety of topics from the G-20 Conference where Obama sold out our sovereignty  to health care to the recovery of the economy.  I have blogged on most [...]

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15:16
Recession - it's because there's not enough Bible »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com


A Person, Featured Blogger:

Sally Kern, the Okie loony Republican has blaming debauchery, not enough bible and gay pride month for the recession.


We the People of Oklahoma, Invoking the guidance of Almighty God, in order to
secure and perpetuate the blessing of Liberty; to secure just and rightful Government; to promote
our mutual Welfare and Happiness, do establish this proclamation and call upon the people of the
great State of Oklahoma, and our fellow Patriots in these United States of America who look to
the Lord for guidance, to acknowledge the need for a national awakening of righteousness in our
land.
WHEREAS, “It is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon
which Freedom can securely stand” (John Adams); and
WHEREAS, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with
human passions unbridled by Religion and Morality” (John Adams); and
WHEREAS, “Our Constitution was made only for a Moral and Religious people” (John
Adams); and
WHEREAS, “We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the
power of government…but upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity
of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to
the Ten Commandments of God” (James Madison); and
WHEREAS, “Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that
belongs to us by the laws of God (Benjamin Franklin); and
WHEREAS, “God who gave us life gave us liberty and can the liberties of a nation be
thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the
people that these liberties are of the Gift of God” (Thomas Jefferson); and
WHEREAS, “Whether any free government can be permanent, where the public
worship of God, and the support of Religion, constitute no part of the policy or duty of the state”
(Joseph Story); and
WHEREAS, “We hold sacred the rights of conscience, and promise to the people…the
free and undisturbed exercise of their religion” (Roger Sherman); and
WHEREAS, “This great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians”
(Patrick Henry); and
WHEREAS, “When you…exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be
impressed upon your mind that God commands you to choose just men who will rule in the fear of
God” (Noah Webster); and
WHEREAS, “The principles of genuine Liberty and of wise laws and administrations
are to be drawn from the Bible” (Noah Webster); and
WHEREAS, the people of Oklahoma have a strong tradition of reliance upon the
Creator of the Universe; and
WHEREAS, we believe our economic woes are consequences of our greater national
moral crisis; and
WHEREAS, this nation has become a world leader in promoting abortion,
pornography, same sex marriage, sex trafficking, divorce, illegitimate births, child abuse, and
many other forms of debauchery; and
WHEREAS, alarmed that the Government of the United States of America is forsaking
the rich Christian heritage upon which this nation was built; and
WHEREAS, grieved that the Office of the president of these United States has refused
to uphold the long held tradition of past presidents in giving recognition to our National Day of
Prayer; and
WHEREAS, deeply disturbed that the Office of the president of these United States
disregards the biblical admonitions to live clean and pure lives by proclaiming an entire month to
an immoral behavior;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that we the undersigned elected officials
of the people of Oklahoma, religious leaders and citizens of the State of Oklahoma, appealing to
the Supreme Judge of the world, solemnly declare that the HOPE of the great State of Oklahoma
and of these United States, rests upon the Principles of Religion and Morality as put forth in the
HOLY BIBLE; and
BE IT RESOLVED that we, the undersigned, believers in the One True God and His
only Son, call upon all to join with us in recognizing that “Blessed is the Nation whose God is the
Lord,” and humbly implore all who love Truth and Virtue to live above reproach in the sight of God
and man with a firm reliance on the leadership and protection of Almighty God; and
BE IT RESOLVED that we, the undersigned, humbly call upon Holy God, our
Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer, to have mercy on this nation, to stay His hand of judgment,
and grant a national awakening of righteousness and Christian renewal as we repent of our great
sin.
Signed on the second day of July in the year of our Lord Christ Two Thousand and Nine


So that's a state prayer to God to apologize for not persecuting gays enough and to ask him not to miss when he targets South Carolina.

Another right wingnut who doesn't understand the constitution.



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15:07
Free e-newsletter for best deals in town »BargainBlog

If you're hoping to keep better tabs on bargains out there, a reminder to sign up for my free weekly e-newsletter, Bargain Bytes, here.

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14:58
Just can’t find the time to write my mind the way I want it to read »Debris
While looking for something else in the garage, my attention was diverted by a box of old letters and postcards gathering dust on the shelves. Fortunately, for both my productivity and my mental health, I didn’t spend too much time on that diversion. But I did read one letter that brought back bittersweet memories prompting [...]

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14:52
Former Greensboro City Gater fired as Detroit Pistons coach »Greensboro Sports
One of our former Greensboro City Gaters(Michael Curry) from the old Global Basketball Association(GBA), that used to play with the white basketballs and they would bring in the LA Laker girls and the Luv-A-Bulls from Chicago for entertainment, well our former City Gater got the ax or the pink-slip today from the Detroit Pistons. City Gater [...]

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14:51
Harold Martin's great expectations »Off the Record

Harold Martin took the chancellor's job at A&T with super high expectations.

And he's raising them.

Our edit board (Allen Johnson, Ken Irons and I) just finished an hour-long conversation with Martin. Allen is now taping a NewsMaker video interview with the new chancellor.

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14:30
Bourbon + Natual Cherry Flavor = Crazy Delicious »Culture Shock

Finally, a way to get wary friends and family to understand my love of Bourbon.

Jim Beam has created Red Stag - a bourbon aged four years and infused with natrual Black Cherry flavor.

This, my friends, is what we call a gateway dram.

Will have to get my hands on some of this soon and report back on whether it can be recommended.

 



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14:29
N.C. State’s Irving recovering and if he misses all or parts of season Pack will survive »Greensboro Sports
from www.rivals.com and Yahoo Sports: RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)—North Carolina State linebacker Nate Irving is recovering from surgery after being hurt in a car crash. A WakeMed Trauma Center spokeswoman said Irving was in good condition Monday after surgery Sunday night. Irving was hospitalized with a broken leg and a collapsed lung after running his vehicle off the [...]

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14:18
Mary Easley And John Edwards: Perfect Demonstrations Of Being Two-Faced in America »Dr.J's HouseCalls
The Raleigh N&O reports that, in the wake of a Federal investigation of her sleaze-ball husband and the dead resumes of various "suits" littering the lawn in front of administrative buildings, ex-N.C. First Lady, Mary Easley, is contesting her termination by N.C. State University.

You-all know what I think. Karma says Ms. Sleazely needs to take her turn in the same corrupt/pay-to-play North Carolina courts I did . . . the ones her husband and his administration didn't give a rat's tail about when I begged for help.

I must admit, I've had some fun in the comments section of the N&O's story today.

Meanwhile, two days late to an ugly story in the New York Daily News (apparently there's a John Edwards-Reille Hunter sex tape floating around somewhere), the N&O presents a watered-down (i.e. more Elizabeth-friendly) version to the more backwoods & gullible plebes in North Carolina.

I had some fun there too. And at the N&R's "Off the Record".

Here's what I want to top-level/up-link/top-load (whatever the hell Sue calls it):

You know, back during the last Edwardian Presidential campaign . . . when John-Boy was using the tragedy of New Orleans as a stepping stone . . . when Saint Elizabeth was "converging south" in Greensboro . . . and when I was trying to related my experience as a constituent-in-public-service-BURNED - AND COMPLETELY BLOWN OFF BY SENATOR EDWARDS - to the fawning "progressive" GSO blogging elite (ala Polinsky, ala Cone) . . . I never in a million-zillion years imagined that Edwards' slime-ball-lawyerly-hypocrisy would ever be on such perfect display as it is now.

Ed and Sue will not get to jump on the mattress in the Lincoln. Too bad. So Sad.

And OBTW, I knew EXACTLY what John Edwards was . . . based on the way he treated me when I asked for my then-Senator for his help (as a lowly constituent).

It actually kind of mirrors the way I feel about a certain local blogger-journalist dangling the carrots now.

Time and a whole lot of effort has shown that Dr. Mary Johnson isn't so ("batshit") crazy after all. Maybe it's time karma came full circle.

As the local doctor lanquished in a sea of corruption and the local big-gun bloggers yawned & taunted, the Sleazelys perfected their "let 'em eat cake" act. The state's newspapers, sucking up to the Democratic machine, could not be bothered to look past the carefully-crafted sound bite.

Moreover, I could see through all the Edwardian schemes & machinations (including using Converge South as a PR tool) long ago, and I told you what John & Liz really were.

Two faced in America.

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14:15
“Love Is Dead”: Photos and More Photos »monkeywhale.com
Making a movie in 48 hours is a wonderful and terrifying thing. We are so very thankful for everyone that came out to help us complete this insane endeavour, from the early sessions with our wonderful musicians who laid down beautiful tracks for every possible genre to those still hanging out during the wee hours [...]

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14:15
Helping Geoff »EdCone.com
Greensboro Mayor Yvonne Johnson called to express her concern for Geoff Marshall, who had his gear stolen during a stopover in our town. She asked if she and others could make a small financial contribution to his cause, and I...

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14:15
Mayor Johnson goes to Washington »EdCone.com
Mayor Yvonne Johnson, along with Guilford County Commission chair Skip Alston, Community Foundation president Walker Sanders, and a representative from the school board, will fly to Washington this week to lobby elected officials for federal money for an education-based redevelopment...

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14:15
The Kay Hagan Health Care Shuffle »Guarino
There has been much discussion over the last week on the topic of Kay Hagan's position regarding health care reform. First, we saw Mark Binker pen a prominently-placed piece in the News and Record asserting that Kay Hagan's handling of...

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14:11
Lane Kiffin passes on a fifth-grader and locks down the 13 year-old »Greensboro Sports
The Vols got their man, ‘er boy and here’s the story from yahoo sports and you can follow the entire details when you Click Here. Here’s the way it the Tennessee Volunteers and Coach Lane Kiffin see it taking shape: The player is Evan Berry of Fairburn, Ga. Berry is the younger brother of Tennessee super safety [...]

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13:41
What might have been: Pushing Daisies edition »Culture Shock

Many, many of my favorite shows have been shot out from under me after a season or two in the last decade.

A number of those shows have come from the mind of one man: Bryan Fuller, the writer/producer behind Wonder Falls, Dead Like Me and, most recently, the late lamented Pushing Daisies.

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13:05
Greensboro Should Strive to Provide Shelter for all Bus Stops »voteshell
Every once in a while I’ll highlight items that I’ve put on my, “things Greensboro should strive to do list.” The item I’d like to highlight today has to do with the 1,056 bus stops in Greensboro, some of which are sheltered and others are not. While speaking with a group of residents a while back a [...]

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12:57
Baseball recruiting heats up: Greensboro College adds two more for 2009/2010 »Greensboro Sports
Lawson Thomas and Zach Pickard have committed to attend Greensboro College and will be part of the baseball program, announced Pride Head Coach Ken Carlyle. Both student-athletes attended Pinecrest High School in Southern Pines and played for coach Jeff Hewitt. Thomas, who stands 6′4 ,245, is a first baseman. He was an all conference performer [...]

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12:20
"Get me down from here" »SkillTV

Joel Leonard quickly discovered it was easier to climb up this 15 foot vehicle than to get down.
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12:20
Power Shopping »SkillTV
Check out Joel Leonard's new ride. The NC Sec of Agriculture let him take a quick spin of his special vehicle that promotes NC produce. Now that is craftmanship at it's finest!
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12:19
The Obama Doctrine, A Tragic Silence,Obama and The Pulse, Editorial Cartoons by William Warren »TRIAD WATCH
ALG Editor's Note: William Warren's award-winning cartoons published at GetLiberty.org are a free service of ALG News Bureau. They may be reused and redistributed free of charge.http://click.bsftransmit2.com/ClickThru.aspx?pubids=EksTga9G5wE1LY4f3l3eGB489Kz8NFeWZP%2fe7dML8%2frEPR5NyH8Cn9LP74VfN8%2bG&digest=WQ8l%2fYRFHDd2LL%2fyZRrupg

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12:19
Gooberlina »Roch101
Goobers infest our state legislature and Sue is calling them out, here and here.

"I have my own way of dealing with it, which is I just won’t deal with Amazon." -- North Carolina House Speaker Joe Hackney

I'm proud of you Joe for your firm understanding of the issue -- not.

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12:15
Marikay »EdCone.com
Marikay Abuzuaiter will kick off her campaign for an at-large seat on the Greensboro City Council with an event at Studio B, 520 South Elm Street, from 2-4 PM on Sunday July 12. From the announcement: "Come get to know...

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12:15
Summer of the shark »EdCone.com
One of the things that 9/11 Changed ForeverTM was the news media, which once favored stories about shark attacks and missing interns over news of deeper importance.

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11:31
The Greensboro College Pride’s Boys of Summer »Greensboro Sports
Greensboro College baseball players Bobby Amato (Cooper City, FL/Pembroke Pines ), Mike Parker, Michael Manfro (Faquier, VA/Notre Dame Academy), Clint DeHaven (Stephens City, Va/Sherando), Matt Nettesheim (Greensboro, NC/Grimsley) and Tyler O’Neill (Columbia, Md/Oakland Mills) are keeping sharp playing summer ball. Amato is on the Florida Angels of the South Florida Collegiate League; Parker plays for [...]

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11:06
Kernersville Bulldogs having a great season at 23-1 »Greensboro Sports
The Wooden bats are blasting as the Bulldogs take two from Fuquay Varina and now sit at (23-1) overall and (19-1) CVCL……from www.kernersvillecollegiate.com: The Kernersville Bulldogs defeated the Fuquay Varina Twins on Sunday afternoon to remain unbeaten in the CVCL. In game one, the Bulldogs would use the strong pitching from starter Mark Adzick to hold [...]

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10:39
Greenpeace ranks major grocers on sustainable seafood practices »GREENING GUILFORD

It turns out the best places in North Carolina to shop for sustainably-sourced seafood are Whole Foods and Target, according to a scorecard released today by Greenpeace that compares the seafood sourcing practices of 20 major grocers.

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10:39
Guilford football picks up five more players »Greensboro Sports
GUILFORD ADDS FIVE MORE TO 2009 FOOTBALL RECRUITING CLASS Greensboro, N.C. — Guilford College head football coach Kevin Kiesel announced the intention of five more incoming students to play football for the Quakers Monday. All seven students have made their deposit to the college and will enroll for classes beginning in August. They join 48 [...]

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10:33
So you think you can still play some basketball??? »Greensboro Sports
Professional ABA Fayetteville Flight Basketball Team is hosting tryouts for its 2010 season. August 8th and 9th. For more information go to www.fayettevilleflight.com. $75.00 before deadline and $100 after deadline!! Call 704-512-9395 today!!

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10:27
Greensboro Gaters News: Gaters 8u Wins First Two at Nationals‏ »Greensboro Sports
Gaters 8u Boys Basketball Wins First Two at Nationals‏ The North Carolina Gaters 8 and under boys team won the first two games Monday at the AAU Nationals in Memphis, Tennessee. The Gaters strong team defense helped to win the first game against Team Arkansas 30-13. The Gaters were led by A’mag Tate with 14 [...]

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10:19
Peaceful Danger »Roch101
This is Bust Your Butt falls as it looked this past Thursday, our first day camping on the Cullasaja River. (See the people in the lower left for a sense of scale).


As we were loading up the car on Sunday, we heard sirens. As we drove back by these falls on the way home, we saw a rescue under way.

A Florida man had waded into the upper portion of the falls to rescue his son whose foot had become stuck under a boulder. The father became trapped too. He managed to hold his son out of the water for thirty minutes. The son was rescued and survived. His father drowned.

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09:45
Clothes, shoes for a buck at Goodwill »BargainBlog
09:26
VFW Washington Weekly - June 29, 2009 »VFW NC Post 2087
In This Issue: 1. GI Bill Hearing 2. GI Bill Transferability Rules 3. House Passes Defense Bill 4. Congress on Recess   1. GI Bill Hearing: The House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity held another hearing on VA's implementation plans for the Post 9/11 GI Bill. The GI bill benefit is scheduled to be fully implemented on Aug. 1, 2009. The application process to determine eligibility opened on May 1. VA has reported over 100,000 applications filed for the education benefit.  Keith Wilson, Director of VA's Education Services, testified that VA has a two-part IT strategy that relies on short- and long-term goals for processing the claims. He updated committee members on VA's partnership with the Navy's SPAWAR Systems Center, which is contracted to design, develop, and deploy an end-to-end solution that utilizes rules-based, industry-standard technologies. VA is currently working with SPAWAR on the long-term IT solution, and expects the program to be completed no later than December 2010. For more on the hearing, visit the House VA website at: http://veterans.house.gov/. Read more Washington Weekly

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08:52
Meanwhile, on the John Edwards story ... »Off the Record

Enough about Mark Sanford. Let's get back to John Edwards.

The New York Times reports today that Edwards' former aide Andrew Young claims in a book proposal that Edwards pressured him to claim paternity of THAT baby.

Who would have guessed?

The Times reports:

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08:18
Good News from Teachers »PiedmontParent.com

It seems we've had a lot of bad news from schools lately. Budget cuts forced by the state government meant cuts in extracurricular activities, shorter sports schedules for some teams and now one of the hardest to deal with, teachers losing jobs and larger class sizes. There have already been cuts in Guilford and Forsyth county, and Guilford reports there are more to come, including language teachers in elementary school and the strings teacher at Weaver Academy.

The good news is that even among all this turmoil, teachers still love their jobs. And it's not just the threat of layoffs and budget cuts that make their job hard, they also have to deal with backtalking kids, tardiness and maybe the hardest part of all--the parents. When rating job satisfaction, 27 percent gave it an "excellent" and 43 percent gave it "good" in Forsyth County for the past year.

I've always felt that being a teacher is a calling. Considering the mediocre pay and all the stuff you have to put up with, it's almost a given that people who stay in this profession do it because they love it. They love the kids and they love seeing the light bulb come on when a student gets it.

So hopefully, even with all the bad news this summer for schools, when our kids go back to school in the fall they'll still be loved, nurtured and inspired by teachers who love them and love the art of teaching.



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08:02
Churches on the skids »The Daily Greensboring - Greensboring.com


SouthernFriedInfidel, Featured Blogger:

A church that stood near my home as I was growing up -- one that my best friend attended during those years -- has . The church that my wife joined a few years ago is nearing bankruptcy.

I wonder how many churches are in this situation? Not only are many churches suffering from a lowering of the need for faith by younger people (a trend that has been sneaking up on them for decades), but now the income from those who DO attend is getting stripped away by the economy.

It seems to me that some churches will be able to ride out the down economy by competing for the dwindling number of folks who need organized religion -- and competing pretty fiercely at times -- which will lead to a smaller number of churches, with a much larger average size. But that might be only a stopgap situation. If the trend keeps up, even these larger concentrations of religious zeal could start to decay and grow older.

What will take their place in the future? Mason lodges and Shrine halls? :mrgreen: :twisted:



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08:01
Arby's Wednesday freebies reminder »BargainBlog

Get a free regular "Beef 'N Cheddar" sandwich at Arby's on Wednesday when you buy a soda.

It's part of the fast-food restaurant's Wednesday freebies special that ends Aug. 26.

Here's the list of what's being offered.

The offer is limited to one per person.

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06:36
Creatures Of The Night »RecycleBlog
Or, I Ain't Playing, Possum

This morning I walked out only to discover a monster next to my chicken coop. And I'm not talking about the black cat that killed my prized Bantam hen, BB.

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06:30
Resident Provides Feedback to Yesterdays Board & Commission Post »voteshell
I received the following email in response to yesterdays post about Greensboro’s boards and commissions, “When I served on a commission one of the frustrations was that we would work hard to come to what we thought was an appropriate solution only to have the City Council members overturn what we’d done. It is the attitude [...]

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06:19
SWIM Greensboro »Greensboro Daily Photo
In Greensboro, summer is a time for swim meets, swim meets, and more swim meets. What a great way to stay fit while enjoying the warm summer days. The beauty of swimming is that everyone gets to compete, not just the best athletes. Here we see swimmers at the Eastern Invitational Swim Meet, held this past weekend at Lindley Pool. Greensboro Swimming Association has been sponsoring the meet for 54 years. Swimmers in the far lanes were in the process of swimming the individual medley after just finishing their mile event. Many of the Greensboro swimmers who participated in the...

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05:57
NCLEG Embarrassing NC again »Sue's Place
How do we elect these business-unfriendly legislators? From the mouth of an NC Legislator, House Speaker Joe Hackney no less (and no more): “I have my own way of dealing with it, which is I just won’t deal with Amazon.” Background here and here.

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04:18
Extra Mayhem - 30th June 2009 »J's Indie/Rock Mayhem
[Tonight's Extra Mayhem was a fun, but honestly underwhelming theme set, but a great Wholesale album. Who knew? I wanted to do something Michael Jackson related for the theme, so I went with "The King of Pop" as the theme - unfortunately, I don't think it worked as well as I'd hoped. The songs are great, I just don't think they tie in as well. I think "Green" has been the best theme week so far. I need to get back to that level.

Extra Mayhem next week will be on at 10 PM instead of 12 AM. Eric, the DJ in front of me, is going to be out of town, so I'm bumping up so I can get home a bit earlier. Any thoughts on whether the Wholesale album should be during the 10 PM or 11 PM hour?

Now, while I'm still awake, onward.]

J's Extra Podcast: 30th June 2009 Show

the Jackson 5 - "I Want You Back" [the theme is bookended by jackson songs - this is my all time favorite jackson 5 song, so it seemed fitting.]
the Heads with Michael Hutchence - "The King is Gone" [from no talking, just head. if you've never heard this record..well..i don't know that i'd recommend it. this was in the immediate aftermath of the talking heads breaking up and there was an ongoing fight about use of the name. so the band (minus david byrne) released an album as 'the heads' with various singers filling in for byrne. this isn't a bad song by any means - in fact, i quite like it - but the record on the whole is meh.]
Pavement - "No More Kings" [available on the wowee zowee: sordid sentinels edition, but also originally from the schoolhouse rock! rocks tribute album. pavement's take on an educational tune.]
Josh Ritter - "Leaves and Kings" [from his self-titled debut. that album has never won me over terribly, but there are some solid songs on it - this one included.]
Golden Smog - "Radio King" [from down by the old mainstream - the title phrase is included in this song. this is one of tweedy's sung songs.]
Luna - "Rhythm King" [from penthouse. a really amazing record if you haven't let it grace your ears. you'll thank me later.]
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Blur - "Pop Scene" [from modern life is rubbish, an album i've seriously considered playing for the wholesale feature some week. i love the guitar work in this song.]
Okkervil River - "Pop Lie" [from the stand ins. a gem of a catchy song from a gem of a great band.]
the Smithereens - "Top of the Pops" [from blow up. not the best smithereens song ever - i agree with the all music review that says it's about a minute too long - but it certainly gets at the point.]
Greg Dulli - "King Only" (live) [from live at triple door. a take on a song from the twilight singers' first album. it sounds much better here - i love the twilight singers, but have always been lukewarm on that first album.]
Randy Newman - "Lonely at the Top" [from sail away. i know there's a snarky nature to any randy newman song, but there's something genuine to the narrator's despair - something i have to imagine jackson felt as well.]
Michael Jackson - "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" [from off the wall. this is, quite possibly, my favorite jackson solo song. it's just ridiculously well put together and catchy.]

[Tonight's Wholesale album is one of those 'genre' defining albums you hear about from time to time. The 80s were an interesting time in country music that began to see the slow commercial dissolution of traditionalist country and the rise of the more pop-oriented sound that now dominates commercial country radio. But there were a handful of songwriters who refused to go down that road and they all began to emerge from places as expected as Texas (Nanci Griffith, Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams) and as unexpected as California. Although that's a touch misleading - Bakersfield, California had long been a hotbed for artists like Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. So it makes sense that this place would draw a hotheaded songwriter originally from Kentucky, by way of Ohio, named Dwight Yoakam.

But it wasn't just the country lineage that drew Yoakam in after a disheartening stay in Nashville. It was the fact that the local scene was packed with not just bands drawing on the 50s traditions of country, but also the classic traditions of rock and roll as well. X, the Blasters and Los Lobos (as well as other bands like the Dead Kennedys) played in the same clubs that Yoakam would frequent and this cross-breeding of traditionalist country and the snotty, outlaw attitude of punk and post-punk would end up growing a fearsome songwriter and musician in Yoakam.

Although the initial demos for his debut were recorded in 1981, it wouldn't be until 1986 that his debut album would drop on Reprise Records and help kickstart the "new traditionalist" movement that still has devoted followers today and segued perfectly with the budding "alt-country" movement that was about to see its most well known and influential band, Uncle Tupelo, get its start in just a few years. Tonight's Wholesale album is...]



Track Listing

1. Honky Tonk Man
2. It Won't Hurt [click here to listen]
3. I'll Be Gone
4. South of Cincinnati
5. Bury Me
6. Guitars, Cadillacs [click here to listen]
7. Twenty Years
8. Ring of Fire
9. Miner's Prayer
10. Heartaches by the Number

That'll do it for this week. Make sure to tune in two hours early next Monday night for Extra Mayhem and I'll be back this Wednesday with J's Indie/Rock Mayhem. Until then, take care.




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@#! 25 Years of Something »CCW
Oh, by the way, we are celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary at the Village Tavern today. My wife refers to them as the years of oppression while I regard them as the years of suppression. I am sure I would have died years ago if it wasn't for my wife. I am not going to let her have the last word. She often reminds me of the noble sacrifices she made, Her toil surpassed Hercule's labor in the stables. I remind her that since I am king, she must be queen. King never marry ugly. So if you spot a young couple hopelessly in love take our advice. Stay away, we are perfectly able to drive our own lives to trouble.

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03:00
Don’t buy all the myths; government does work »Letters to the Editor

Mary Bonaccorsi’s letter (June 24), which praises Medicare coverage, is about as contrary to popular myth as one can get. “Government can’t run anything properly,” the myth goes, “Just name one thing they can!”

Yet my 89-year-old father-in-law, like Ms. Bonaccorsi, says Medicare has been a blessing to him and has never let him down.

Every day my mail comes without fail and when I go to the post office I am helped by friendly and efficient workers.

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Let consumers decide »Letters to the Editor

The rules put into effect by Parks and Recreation concerning the Farmers’ Curb Market are hurting the farmers and, ultimately, consumers. Let consumers decide what is local to them, whether produce is only from Guilford County or North Carolina.

The decisions made by a few will drive loyal customers away to the grocery store, where they can find a lot of variety grown outside of North Carolina. The board needs to reconsider policies that benefit everyone, not just their own agenda and opinions.

Ben Turner
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Smoking ban a treat to asthmatic’s senses »Letters to the Editor

I just want to say I am thankful for the smoking ban that recently passed in North Carolina. While I understand that many are upset at this loss of “personal freedom,” I am thrilled that I will now be able to enjoy my own “personal freedom” to attend a club for music or comedy, to sit at a bar while waiting on my table at a local restaurant and, in general, to breathe smoke-free air.

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We are capable of much better in our health care »Letters to the Editor

We’ve debated universal health coverage for decades. While the rest of the industrialized world has adopted it, we continue to watch people get sick and die under the system we’ve got.

We like to think of our nation as the greatest on earth, and in some ways we are. But not in health care. We may be the richest, but several other nations are much better than we are on life expectancy because their health care systems are better.

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Tribute Our Black Confederate Heroes »CCW
Tribute Our Black Confederate Heroes Enjoy the link above

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Help Geoff »EdCone.com
If you want to help Geoff Marshall, the guy who had his equipment stolen while visiting Greensboro, you can go here to make a donation.

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00:23
Oak Ridge ETJ/Annexation bill has one more vote »Capital Beat

The Oak Ridge ETJ/Annexation bill (S 495) passed third reading in the House Monday night. The vote was 87-29. The measure is heading back to the Senate for a concurrence vote on Tuesday.

Assuming the Senate agrees to the measure, it would become law. (The governor does not need to sign local bills.)

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Tuesday’s Tech Tip: They’re getting pretty Slick! »Ride The Lifetrain w/Chuckie
New Credit Card Scam! This one is pretty slick since they provide YOU with all the information, except the one piece they want. Note, the callers do not ask for your card number; they already have it…This information is worth reading. By understanding how the VISA & Master Card Telephone Credit Card Scam works, you’ll be better prepared to [...]

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Monday June 29, 2009

23:27
Hackney on budget and Amazon (audio) »Capital Beat

House Speaker Joe Hackney spoke with reporters after the House session on Monday night. He talked about the budget negotiations between the House and Senate, which are mainly stuck on the issue of taxes.

(Click here to listen to some of that give and take.)

Background here and here.

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23:15
Spaghetti for Breakfast »Viewfinder BLUES
News at Sunrise
Early morning live shots, they're the forgotten front of local TV news. While most day-siders rarely give them a second thought, the day's first newscast wouldn't be the yak-fest it is today without the reliable remote. Band Camps! Crash Sites! Bake Sales! Body Finds! There's pretty much no place we won't send our perky morning reporters - provided we can reach it with our cables. Cable: it's not something you give a lot of thought to, until you've changed location six times within the same damn day-part. Then and only then do you know the joys of man-humping endless spools of cord up three flights of darkened stairwell - all so the toothpaste model you brought along can glimmer and flirt before a suitably cute backdrop...

Aww, who am I kidding? Morning reporters are decent peeps; hardworking Joes and Janets who can navigate their way through crime tape or silly string - depending on the News Gods' many whims. When I filled in the A.M. shift two weeks ago I was paired with my old Idol ally Shannon Smith, who tolerated my grogginess long enough to get us through five days of morning show grind. Blood Drives! A cooking segment! Ringside at the UniverSOUL circus and some dance studio where a lady danced with candles on her head! You can't score those deep kicks workin' bankers hours! Naah, you gotta wake up confused, dress in the dark, grab the reins of a modern day stagecoach and go to some place pointless. Why just the other dawn I was wrestling heavy spaghetti through a downtown doorway when some guy who slept in his clothes thrust a dollar my way...

I'd have taken it too, had I not been draped head to toe in enough greasy tether to tie down a satellite. Add to that a tropical shirt drenched in flopsweat with a penchant for pejoratives and you have a pretty good idea why no one's asking me to make an on-screen cameo when there are meals being consumed in the Greater Piedmont Googolplex. I'm already the flustered brother Shannon never wanted. Allow me to wander into her screen space and it's a good bet grown men will abandon their breakfast to help rescue the TV sweetheart from the glistening madman who's suddenly invading her space. You know, the one who looks like he just had relations with the Meineke Man's soot-covered loose around the lugnuts cousin. Or worse yet, I could simply track my reporter's every move as she/he totally manhandled a passing drunk.

Don't laugh, it's happened.

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23:08
The continuing resolution and things that make you say hmmmm? »Capital Beat

The House passed its version of S 311, the continuing resolution bill, Monday night. It now returns to the Senate for concurrence. A CR is needed because the new fiscal year begins on July 1 and budget writers in the House and Senate haven’t reached agreement on a new plan.

Background here.

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The continuing resolution and things that make you say hmmmm? »Capital Beat

The House passed its version of S 311, the continuing resolution bill, Monday night. It now returns to the Senate for concurrence. A CR is needed because the new fiscal year begins on July 1 and budget writers in the House and Senate haven’t reached agreement on a new plan.

Background here.

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22:54
Harvey’s Kitchen — Frontier Ruckus, Part 2 »monkeywhale.com
Natives of Michigan, and recently signed to the influential Concord, NC Ramseur Records, Frontier Ruckus plays another song in our kitchen. This posting comes on the same day that National Music and Entertainment Magazine, Paste, gave the Harvey’s Kitchen series a big nod. We’ve worked tirelessly with no pay and some really supportive followers. Thank [...]

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22:32
Eden coal ash ponds among the nation's most dangerous »Capital Beat

Back in April I wrote about coal ash ponds in North Carolina and a nascent effort to regulate them. (Click here for that.)

These are ponds of toxic goo that, in most cases, sit by water ways. There are two of them up in Eden.

They started getting national attention in December when a 5.4 million gallon coal ash pond/pile run by the TVA in Tennessee broke lose and spread waste over hundreds of acres.

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22:15
Market failure »EdCone.com
Public option options. "94 percent of the country's insurance markets are defined as 'highly concentrated,' according to Justice Department guidelines. Predictably, that's led to skyrocketing costs for patients, and monster profits for the big health insurers. Premiums have gone up...

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21:36
It ain’t rocket science, but it ain’t always intuitive, either »Blog on the Run: Reloaded
So you want to be a reporter? Well, then, God help you, but if you’re serious, YouTube’s Reporters’ Center has tutorials.

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21:18
The United Nation now wants American Children! Obama and Congress eager to comply. »AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
Just about the time I ask what can happen next I find out!  Now the Obama Administration and Congress are trying to decide how they can slide the United States joining  the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)   past the American public.  Read the following carefully and know what the United Nations Rights [...]

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20:52
The last word on Sanford … »Blog on the Run: Reloaded
… from The Charlotte Observer’s editorial writers, for the win: Sanford is a two-term conservative Republican governor with a state legislature dominated by conservative Republicans. You’d think S.C. government would now be conservative Republican nirvana. Instead, Sanford had pretty much alienated his legislature, which earlier this month overturned 10 of his vetoes in one day. … In [...]

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20:51
Meet the new boss jailer »Blog on the Run: Reloaded
President Obama may issue an executive order authorizing the indefinite detention of possible terrorists who, for whatever reason, can’t be tried but are deemed too dangerous to release: Obama administration officials, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, are crafting language for an executive order that [...]

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20:46
Policy, not patriotism »Blog on the Run: Reloaded
After 9/11, it was quite common for people who didn’t necessarily agree with everything the Bush administration wanted to do to be criticized as “unpatriotic” (or even “objectively pro-terrorist”). That was untrue, poisonous rhetoric. Which hasn’t prevented some Democrats from adopting it now that their guy is in the White House: … the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee [...]

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20:42
Welcome to Hell, Tony Wilkins »Vie de Malchance
From Busy Being Dumb on D2 candidate and outed GOP fool, Ryan Shell: People in District 2 should take note of Shell’s hard work and not his pigmentation. Currently that district provides us with a council member who is living in the 60’s (racially speaking). Let’s hope the district doesn’t elect Greensboro’s version of Louis Farrakhan, [...]

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20:38
N.C. A&T’s Smith races her way to U.S. Final »Greensboro Sports
  SMITH RACES HER WAY TO U.S. FINAL Smith breaks her own school record GREENSBORO – Loreal Smith put together one last outstanding performance before putting away her North Carolina A&T uniform for good. Smith made the finals in the women’s 100 meter hurdles at the 2009 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Smith’s entry into the finals [...]

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20:33
Greensboro Colts at WMS »Greensboro Sports
Rockingham County 13 Eastern Guilford 3 I believe this one went 5 innings and RC was playing like a well-oiled machine and they will be hosting the Fourth of July Tournament coming up later on this week……. Game two tonight will feature Northwest Guilford vs. Page.

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20:30
School Text Book Rentals »RecycleBlog
Or, Green Goes Online

RecycleBill doesn't know much about CampusBookRentals.com but the idea that you can rent new or used textbooks you'll need when you go to college in a couple of months or so seems very green to me.

Also, in the interest of helping green online businesses we are compiling a list of Green Online Business List. The future might bring a green ratings system.

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20:24
Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn. R) on Gangster Government »AND SO I GO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW
This lady is fantastic!  She is the only one in Congress that I am aware of who is calling the Obama Administration and the Dem Congress by their rightful names.  BB Posted in National News, National Politics, National Stories, Obama admistration, patriotism, Politics 2009, Progressives Movement to Destroy America Tagged: Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Obama, Politics, Rep. [...]

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20:20
Join The Cause »The Spag Report
Andrew Breitbart thinks he may have a cause big enough to unite us all: "If you feel dirty reading this, imagine how I feel writing it. But the deed of pushing "Perez Hilton" off the public stage is a necessary one. And we must do it as a united rainbow: Black, white, gay, Hispanic, transgendered, Republican, Democrat, celebrity, Eskimo and Aleut alike."

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