Sum It Up
The Sum It Up question from Sunday was: Are you satisfied with the performance of the North Carolina legislature?
Horrible, reactionary, embarrassing, how to go on? Three times our lawmakers have been singled out for ridicule on "The Daily Show." Stephen Colbert and others have joined in. Their mistakes are too numerous to detail, so let's settle on a big one: cutting teachers and other educational funding while giving millions in tax breaks to rich professionals and corporations. Thanks for killing our future.
GEORGE JONES
With no concern for improving the faltering economy or creating jobs, the Republican-controlled General Assembly imposed a regressive ideological agenda on the people of North Carolina. Rather than improving the lives of ordinary citizens, it is as though they were determined to punish us for having voted for Democrats in the past.
This last session will go down in history as a "sad day" for our wonderful state.
CHARLES FRANCIS WILSON
No. The Republican majority is turning back environmental safeguards. Their corporate supporters are more important to them than the health of N.C. residents.
CHARLES E. WILSON
Absolutely not. They have ruined the education system, slashed funding for SmartStart, approved dangerous fracking, made a women's choice next to impossible regardless of circumstances, approved tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, allowed loaded guns in parks and playgrounds, and split precincts to unheard-of extremes. If they can do this much damage in just two years, God help us if we allow them two more years.
NAOMI J. DAVIS
No, the Republican control of the legislature, for the first time in over 100 years, seems to be trying to undo any positive steps the state has made over previous decades. Their budget and other legislation passed will move the state backward in education and environment and be a negative for long-term economic growth.
THOMAS W. MURRAY
Today, "they" are all one party: These handouts in exchange for votes are why we need a twin to the 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: "One term, in one's life, at any level of government; no subsequent benefits, only (perhaps) a thank-you from the citizens." This would end the in-your-face-for-bucks-in-exchange-for-more governmental giveaways, and the obvious and pathetic pandering to any of us.
LLOYD V. EVANS
The more conservative will praise the legislature for eliminating or reducing the costs of programs they deem nonessential, thereby reducing the burden on the taxpayer. The more liberal will be critical of the legislature for eliminating or reducing costs of programs they believe to be important, such as various educational, health care, welfare and other social programs.
HERBERT OSMON
Not bad, but could be better.
WILLIAM SAMS
Absolutely not. Only the Art Popes are satisfied. They are wrecking havoc to public education, higher education, the environment and women's health, etc., etc.
BOON T. LEE
No. The ultra-conservative, right-wing Republican legislature has waged war on our freedoms (marriage amendment, voter registration, immigration), our people (eugenics victims, poor, minorities disenfranchised), our schools (cut budgets, cut people, destroyed jobs) and our environment (fracking) and placed us at the bottom of the states in most categories while doing nothing to attack the real problems.
AL BAKER
- Further cuts to N.C. public schools (almost $200 million)
- Slashed funding to SmartStart and Pre-K programs
- Fracking approved (there goes our drinking water)
- Clean-air programs reduced
- Funds denied to Planned Parenthood to provide mammograms to low-income women
- Racial Justice Act gutted
- Eugenics survivors denied compensation
Mental-health funding cut, drug-treatment courts and N.C. Teaching Fellows abolished
- A $3,500 tax break for millionaires
A resounding no!
ERNEST V. LOGEMANN
I think the legislature did what it was elected to do. Follow in S.C.'s footsteps. Instead of being the shining north star of the south, we're headed into uneducated backwaters thanks to steep cuts the legislature made to public schools.
ReplyDeleteAt one time a popular device in the movies to mark the passage of time was to show pages flying off a calendar.
DeleteOur current legislators have the calendar running in reverse.
Progress has always been a difficult matter...three steps forward, two steps back, because there have always been ignorant people who are terrified of change.
In 1910, the town of Winston passed an ordinance making it illegal for white people and black people to live on the same city block. That same year leading citizens of the town formed the White Men's Club to aid in the oppression of blacks.
In the late 1940s, the W-S Journal campaigned vigorously for the sterilization program, featuring front page articles by Chester Davis which are reminiscent of the kind of garbage vomited up today by the likes of Rush Limbaugh.
In the 1960s, our local state senator, Gordon Hanes, joined with the reptile Jesse Helms to pass the infamous "Speaker Ban" which barred certain people from speaking on the campuses of the state university.
Yet thanks to our Democrat led legislature and several remarkable governors, two of them Republicans, NC somehow emerged from those dark ages to become a progressive symbol of the new South.
It has taken the ignoramuses of the Tea Party less than two years to drag us back to somewhere around the 1960s. Reelect them, and they'll take us back to the 1940s in the next two years, thence to the 1910s.
Then the two Carolinas can stand proudly side by side beneath their new banner:
We're co-ignorant and proud of it!
Where's Terry Sanford when you need him?
DeleteWhen most black people go to the bathroom and/or showers they take care of 'business', and leave. That's not the case with some homosexuals, however.
DeleteLet's don't kid ourselves into believing otherwise.
If you've ever been to a gay bar accidently or on purpose. If they (patrons/owners) think that you're straight. They'll try to run you out right away.
DeleteThey are some the most bigoted people on earth.
So much for 'tolerance' and 'diversity'.....
DeleteThat's for everybody else....that's not for THEM!
Bucky, heterosexual behavior occurs in restrooms also. You'll need to legislate against that as well. I'm sure that legislation will fix the idling economy, reduce the deficit, enlighten the cynical governments in Damascus, Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, and elsewhere, and make teens pay heed to their parents, right?
DeleteI've been in quite a few public bathrooms in my day, and very seldom have I seen heterosexuals banging.
DeleteI have, however, seen quite a few bucks locked up.
Maybe not so much in little places like WS, but in bigger cities.
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Obama has had four years to deal with the other problems you've mentioned. If you don't like his performance as president, don't vote for him. Simple...........
Maybe you should buy some Depends.
DeleteWhy don't homosexuals build their own bathrooms instead?
DeleteThis could be a public works program. Maybe the legislature will support it with public funds. All businesses need 4 types of restrooms:
DeleteHis
Hers
Hers after his
His after hers
This would be BIG govenment intervention at its finest and such a cost effective use of public funds.
Okay...., just have one set of bathrooms then. Women should not be afforded more protection than men under the 'equal protection' clause.
DeleteJust like women, some men don't want to be leered at while they use the bathroom or shower.
Homosexuals group together like a bunch of cheetahs in some of these facilities. Something needs to be done.
Make that hyenas...that's a more appropriate description.....
DeleteLet's just return to outhouses with knot holes.
DeleteSounds like you know a lot about outhouses, Wordly. That's a little worrisome.
Deleteas opposed to Dunce who is not whole.
DeleteSad Wordly....I thought you were of a higher level of character.
DeleteKnot holes......knotheaded...it all makes sense, I suppose.
DeleteStab: Bucky's "one set of bathrooms" suggestion is reminiscent of the Jim Crow laws, which pointedly contradicts the government intrusion that the neo-Conservative ideology resists, but yet "changed" history. Pointing out his disparities isn't going to change his mind.
DeleteO.T.: The most subtlest of change is what has marked the passage of time. (I'll give Bucky enough time to contemplate that statement, but I doubt that it'll change his mind, or that he'll even contemplate it.) Change is the ONE thing we cannot change, but yet it happens.
This reminds me of the 4 bathrooms that were once at Sears downtown, or the 2 drinking fountains, one for whites, the other for blacks. It boggles me that dehumanization like that existed in my hometown in my lifetime.
DeleteHistory is happening as we breathe, ie A1.
DeleteWhy do women have separate bathrooms? Because they don't won't to stared at by men. Why should heterosexual men have to be leered at by homosexuals? We're entitled to the same privacy that woman are.
DeleteRemember the equal protection clause?
The Republican General Assembly is trying to correct 100 years of Democratic screw-ups. It can't be done in just a couple of years.
ReplyDeleteInstead of spending like a a bunch of drunks at a crap table, they have been trying to use reason and logic in the legislative process.
Just stopping Gov. Bev. Perdue's (D), our first and worst governor, radical liberal agenda is reason enough to applaud our Republican legislature.
I hope they pass a group of laws that protects heterosexuals from the leering, and intrusive homosexual eyes in public bathrooms and showers. Then, I'll call their session a success!
We don't need any more Jerry Sanduskys.
'Female Governor'
DeleteIf only we had a female, if only we had a African American? So much for that garbage...now let's get somebody in there that knows what the hell they are doing and get this country and state back on track to success and prosperity!
Liberals always want to pass laws even if they don't have a clue about the problem. We know that these homosexual pedophiles are out there, let's pass some laws about bathrooms and showers.
DeleteWe keep them away from schools. Let's keep them out of heterosexuals' bathrooms.
Here's a sneak preview of the public toilets of the future. At the entry, you get your sex test and a hand stamp for the correct area. Dunce will conduct the tests, because he can tell just by looking. He might have some trouble recognizing women, so we'll have to pay a real man to help him in that area.
ReplyDeleteOnce you are stamped, just go to the appropriately marked door and have at it.
RESTROOMS
Sex Test Here == ______________________________________
Gents | Ladies | RiffRaff | Gay | Lesb | TG | Chilluns |
Colored | Eunuch | Other | Dunce
Some homosexuals are not particularly hard to spot, in case you haven't noticed.
DeleteWell.....anybody want to place any bets?
DeleteHow many stupid and factually incorrect things Rush is going to make today?
The stupid count will be high, we all know that. Let's hope he can at least keep his facts straight, for a change.
Other than diluting the Affirmative Action for Murderers Act and eliminating automatic dues withholding for the NCAE, the legislature has been a major disappointment.
ReplyDeleteThey stopped a lot of reckless spending, kept our budget from balloning further, and they kept our taxes from increasing, permanently.
DeletePlus, they overrode Bev's veto several times. I'd say overall it was a good two years. I'm ready for another four or five years.
We need the Republicans to keep Democrats from overspending and doing knuckleheaded things. That's the bottom line.
They enacted insane legislation meddling in various aspects of people's lives that would have added around $250 million/year to the state budget. Fortunately, Governor Perdue vetoed most of it and was not overidden on most.
DeleteThe best thing the Republicans did is get rid of the 'Racial Injustice Act'.
DeleteThat's why we need Republicans. Otherwise, these nut-case Democrats would be passing all kinds of absurd laws.
Condi rises to the top of Romeny's VP list. Boy, that's going to drive liberals nuts. Well, check that, they're already nuts.
ReplyDeleteHa, ha! This blew out of the Hot Air...I mean, Drudge ...Report...sorta like Trayvon Martin "appeared out of nowhere"...so is almost certainly bullshit.
DeleteTwo tiny problems:
1. Rice is pro-choice, even if in a wishy-washy way. In the Republican Party, everyone must be pro-life, 1st Amendment be damned.
2. She's not interested.
Yeah Trayvon, the 14 year old, was on his way to Bible class with a hand full of skittles when mean 'ol Zimmerman appeared.
DeleteReality was Travyvon was a pot smoking, football playing, billy-bad-a.. that wanted to grow-up to be a gang banger. He saw a chance to jump a 'white' guy and he took it.
Things just didn't turn out quite like he'd planned it, however.
They should be investigating Trayvon's racist tendencies. But they won't do that. That's not the politically correct thing to do.
DeleteZimmerman wants a new judge.
Deletehttp://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/07/zimmerman-claims-judge-is-biased-wants-him-replaced/1
Noooooooooooo! Not with AG Holder and Obama running the show. They wouldn't 'dare' investigate whether or not Trayvon was a racist.
DeleteWho would want to find that Trayvon was a racist, and that's why he jumped Zimmerman? Not me....no, no, no, no!
Good afternoon folks!
ReplyDeleteSum it up: The consensus from this poll is they got no satisfaction (happy 50th anniversary to the Stones btw). They came in on a promise to promote a healthy environment for jobs, then proceeded to do everything to make sure companies think twice before moving or expanding here. Sure there have been some private jobs added, but they have been offset by losses in the public sector (specifically in education) which is why we're still sitting at such a high UR. Worst state legislature I can ever remember.
Finally, we've got some people in there with some sense.
DeleteThese nutty liberal Democrats go down to Raleigh year after year, with one thing on their mind-spend mo' money.
Democrats are working as hard as they can to keep people on the dole.
DeleteWe've got to keep Democrats out of office if we want to grow and move forward.
CONDI! CONDI! CONDI!
ReplyDeleteIf we get her, and then Rep. Allen West in the cabinet. We'll be rocking rolling soon!
NOBAMA! NOBAMA! NOBAMA!
DeleteAre children under 13 allowed to post on this forum? It would seem so.
ReplyDelete24 out of 39 posts and not a single coherent idea in the lot.
Obama the FOOD STAMP PRESIDENT. From 2008 to present the amount of federal money spent on food stamps has nearly doubled to 80 billion dollars.
ReplyDeleteCarry that card with pride, says Obama!
'Shame on you Barack Obama'!
DeleteFact check: food stamps (vouchers) were initiated at LEAST SEVEN DECADES prior to the Obama Administration.
DeleteThey've doubled under Obama though.
DeleteFact check: I cannot say with certainty that the use of food stamps (vouchers) have "doubled", but they have certainly increased SINCE the inception of the program about 7 decades ago, not just under the Obama administration but most notably under the Reagan and the G-Dub-Bush administrations. Did I forget to say that both of those were Republican administrations? There, I said it.
DeleteMake that 25 of 41...all sewage.
ReplyDeleteBucky, most of those those 25 posts are trollery, just graffiti. Let's tone it down.
ReplyDeleteSorry Stab....these left wingers get me off the beaten path sometimes.
DeleteSince I'm the only conservative in here. I think I should be given a little more latitude to express myself if that's possible, Stab. What do you think?
DeleteStab and Whitewall can express themselves without making donkeys of themselves.
DeleteWordly, I didn't bring up 'knots' in outhouses, you did.
DeleteAre you implying that homosexuals were peeping through knots in outhouses years ago?
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DeleteBucky, she was not implying that. She was being sarcastic. You are being silly. I said tone it down earlier. Also, please elevate the commentary past the elementary school playground level. We understand your take on gays and Zimmerman/Martin. We understand you will not vote for President Obama. I will not, either, but I can by without chants of "Nobama."
DeleteAlso, you have been given amazingly indulgent leeway, and have been stretching it. So, to answer your question, No.
DeleteAnd I thank you.
DeleteDunce's idea of the beaten path is is a sewer…his keywords for the day:
ReplyDeleteBathroom…showers…'business'…homosexuals…gay…bigoted…public bathrooms…banging…bucks locked up…homosexuals…bathrooms…bathrooms…leered at…bathroom…shower…homosexuals…outhouses…knot holes…leering…intrusive homosexual eyes…public bathrooms…showers…homosexual pedophiles…bathrooms…showers…bathrooms…homosexuals…
Mind and soul permanently in the sewer.
Add to that a vomitus of mindless, unsupported rants about politics, including the childish cheerleading re Condoleezza Rice, who has firmly said that she has no interest in joining the comedy that the Republican campaign has become, and the endless stream of nonsense about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin and the sum for the day is:
27 posts = zero content
The FBI says there is NO evidence that there was racial bias in the Trayvon Martin shooting incident.
DeleteDr. Drew says there is an epidemic of child abuse in America. Where are those incidents occurring? In men's bathrooms and showers, and the perps are homosexual pedophiles.
Both are national news stories.
I'm right on target, if you ask me.
Everybody wants to sweep these things under the rug. Hey...., these problems are out there, and they are occurring everyday.
DeleteThat's the problem with liberals, they don't want to face the truth. They want to make up their own truth.
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DeleteBucky, the vast majority of child abuse occurs in and around private residences.
DeleteNot in homosexual cases. They're being attacked at churches, schools, and in public bathrooms and showers.
Delete______________
"The incident took place at around 2pm on 6 July in the shopping centre's public toilets.
It is thought the man was already in the toilet when the victim - another man - walked in."
http://menmedia.co.uk/accringtonobserver/news/s/517824_gay_sex_attack_in_town_toilets
Ha, ha...perfect example. Dunce cannot distinguish between a legitimate source of information and bullshit.
ReplyDeleteDr. Drew??? A TV talking head??? Give me a break!!!
Pinsky is a doctor of internal medicine specializing in addictive substances. He knows nothing about child abuse or any of the other BS stuff that he yammers on about.
Even if he were an expert on child abuse, you couldn't believe anything he says because he is on the take from anyone who has the bucks to throw at him, from the makers of Wellbutrin ($275,000 payoff), to some half-baked belly shrinking surgery plan ($175,000 payoff).
Sources: US Department of Justice, Atlantic Monthly magazine, Salon and dozens of other legitimate daily news organizations.
As always, stupid is as stupid does.
http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/07/12/dr-drew-sex-abuse-epidemic
DeleteI listened to Loveline when I lived in CA. Adam Carolla was the other host, funnier than Drew. I think they finally had a falling out.
DeleteI'm laughing, but I shouldn't be, because it isn't funny that "people" like Bucky exist. Unfortunately, there are millions of them…ignorant, angry, and just flat out stupid to boot, all of them mentally swimming in the sewers of the underworld.
DeleteI just said that Dr. Drew is a fraud who will say whatever he is paid to say, yet Bucky wants me to waste my time watching the same stupid video that he watched. I'm not disputing Bucky's claim of what Dr. Drew said. I don't really care what Dr. Drew said, because Dr. Drew is a TV doctor, therefore, prima facie a fraud, just like Judge Judy and Rush Limbaugh and all of Bucky's other favorite entertainers.
Child abuse is nothing new. It began long before homo sapiens appeared on earth, in thousands of other species and continues today in many other species.
Today, with homo sapiens, very little of such abuse occurs in public venues like YMCAs and schools and other locker rooms and showers…less than 1/10 of 1%. Almost all occurs at home, which is the case in the Jerry Sandusky affair…he did almost all of his buggering in his specially equipped basement "playroom" while his loving wife went about her business upstairs and his head coach over on the campus pretended not to notice.
That is the norm. That is where Dad is buggering his sons and daughters, and Mom is buggering her sons and daughters, and the sons and daughters are buggering each other. Some demented Republicans call it "family values".
If it isn't Mom or Dad or a sibling, it is "Uncle Jerry" or "Aunt Jessica" or some other perverted member or "friend" of the family. I know a couple of dozen of my contemporaries who were buggered by their coaches, teachers, ministers, parents, uncles, aunts and "other" family members, almost always in somebody's basement.
But I have come to understand one thing…that perverts like Bucky prefer the extremely rare public scenario, for the simple reason that it gets them off. So let's try this one, at risk of causing Bucky to have an "accident":
Hundreds of millions of viewers have seen the James Bond movies. Many, but far fewer, have actually read the novels and short stories upon which they are based. They were written by a British civil servant, Ian Fleming, during his annual month long holidays at a house called "Golden Eye" in Jamaica.
The first James Bond movie was "Dr. No" (1962), based on the 6th book in the series, published in 1958. But the first novel, Casino Royale was written in 1952 and published in 1953.
In it, Bond is pitted against the villain Le Chiffre and his "assistant" Vesper Lynd, who becomes Bond's "love interest". She and Bond are brought together by a gruesome scene in which Le Chiffre kidnaps them both. While Vesper watches, Le Chiffre removes the cane bottom from a chair, ties Bond, naked, to it, suspends the chair and beats Bond thoroughly on his you-know-whats with a carpet beater. Ouch, ouch, ouch!
Need I say that Ian Fleming was a sadomasochist? And need I say that that sort of thing was repeated in each novel, contributing in a major way to the popularity of the series? And need I say that Bucky is even now racing to Amazon to purchase the whole series?
What upsets you is that people like me don't buy into your liberal propaganda. Not all people are like your obvious moronic, lemming, liberal friends. If you even have any, which I doubt. People like me read, we do research, and we objectively look at facts. We don't let our emotions control our thinking. We engage in honest dialogs with others who disagree, and then we call it like we see it.
DeleteSince you seem to be obsessed with intelligence, I think you've found out along the way that you're not actually as smart as you think you are. You know I've got your number. And your number is about the same as jackass' I.Q.
So whine all you want to Stab, like the little girl you are. I'll still keep making a fool out you and your foolish and inaccurate statements. Because that's the way it should be.
Facebooking: Sarah aka Miss Stepstab works parttime at Chic-fil-A. She and a friend took advantage of a promotion today to do some good. The promotion was to give Chic-fil-A food away to people who came in dressed as cows. She and Amanda were off today, so they dressed as passable cows and went around to the stores and collected full meals. Then, they drove around and gave the food to the mendicants standing at intersections. The young lady continues to make us proud.
ReplyDeleteMore Facebooking: When it comes to her dad, Sarah is definitely not a chip off the ol' block. He is domineering and controlling, demanding adoring attention at his family occasions. He and his girlfriend and her kids are going to be beach next week, and attendance by his own kids is compulsory. He is pitching a fit because his elder son cannot come, calling him, texting him, and having his (the dad's) girlfriend text him even.
ReplyDeleteJosh is in a wheelchair, thanks to an automobile accident 9 years ago. He suffers from pressure sores, and told his dad he cannot drive that far. His dad disbelieved him. Josh was compelled to obtain a written doctor's excuse explaining that it is medically unsafe, aside from cruelly painful, for Josh to ride for that long. Susan and I shook our heads at that one: a 26-yo having to give his dad an Rx to get out of a beach trip. What a world, what a world, as my heroine the Wicked Witch said as Dorothy murdered her.
I guess it was more involuntary witchslaughter than murder, but a bitter pill nonetheless, especially for the witch.
Gross! But not surprising.
DeleteMy best friend and his wife once took in a 14 year old girl, a friend of their younger son, because her divorced parents were using her as a weapon against each other, batting her around like a ping pong ball, poor thing.
As a defensive mechanism, she had become drug dependent and sexually promiscuous. She lived under their protection for almost two years until she was able to manage her life on her own.
Today, I am happy to report, she is a very successful public school teacher in another southern state.
It is very difficult for a child to overcome the idiocy of their parents in such cases. I know of others who never have.
I'm a very successful blogger in a southern state that causes quite a bit of consternation to liberals that want to lie and spread nonsensical propaganda. Does that count?
DeleteWhat a joke!
DeleteAs to earlier comments anent the Racial Justice Act, I'm afraid that some people are making emotional statements based on ignorance of what is really going on.
ReplyDeleteThat is surprising, because anyone who lives around here knows about the Daryl Hunt case, in which an innocent man spent 18 years in prison for a crime that he did not commit. Only a fool would doubt that statement, since we now have the actual perp in prison for life, with a full confession.
And anyone who followed the case at all knows that a combination of police incompetence and prosecutorial overzealousness led to the original mistake, and that long after the mistake had become obvious, local prosecutors fought tooth and nail to keep Hunt in prison.
If the prosecution in that case had had their way, Hunt might have been executed. If you are happy with executing innocent people, then there is nothing more that I can say…certainly, plenty of so-called Americans are.
I really don't want to know any of them.
My argument against the RJA is that it makes a current case compare itself to unrelated matters. There are all sorts of defenses that delay executions for years, which to me reveals the RJA to be pandering.
ReplyDeleteActually, I oppose the DP, and would be quite content with LWOP. My anger at the RJA is based on the studied avoidance of the racial disparity between perps and victims of violent crimes by the pandered who push initiatives like the RJA, and complain that too many of their constituents are in jail. Damn right too many of them are in jail. That is the result of too many of them committing crimes. Same for our pandering Commissioner who says too many of his constituents are suspended from school. You bet. But is the problem that they misbehave? Oh no, it's different cultural norms.
When I hear these panderers suggest that their constituents behave themselves, and acknowledge there is a problem that isn't someone else's fault, I'll listen more closely to arguments in favor of the RJA.