A real representative
It would be one thing if Rep. Virginia Foxx was capable of compromise and service to her entire district. But she is not. She never compromises and she is a big part of the reason that Americans hate Congress (current disapproval is around 85 percent). We in the N.C. Fifth District do not need to keep voting for her. She has been in Congress long enough. It is time for a change.
We have a wonderful alternative for congressional representation. Elisabeth Motsinger is a tireless worker for all the citizens in the Fifth District. She has demonstrated this via her service to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board. She will work for everyone and be a professional voice for our district. She is proud of all of us and we can be proud of her.
You do not need to keep voting for a contrarian member of Congress. You can vote for a real representative of all the people — Elisabeth Motsinger!
Don’t forget — early voting starts on Oct. 18.
RONALD SIGRIST
Kernersville
A complete failure
As we get closer to the November election, I hope the citizens of North Carolina will look strictly at the facts after almost four years of President Obama.
The N.C. jobless rate now stands at 9.7 percent — even after many of our people have just given up looking for work.
Our city’s poverty rate has risen to 24 percent (in 2007 before Obama it was 19.1 percent).
After Obamacare goes into effect and many, many billions of dollars are spent on it, there may be 6 million people who will be forced to pay a penalty tax because they do not have insurance. It was originally reported to be 4 million.
With most Middle Eastern countries and others all around the world rioting and protesting against the U.S., it is evident that Obama’s foreign policy is a complete failure.
Our national debt has increased over $1 trillion each year of his being in office and for what purpose? It now stands over $16 trillion and he does not seem to worry or care about it.
How can anyone say he is a success? He is not even a mediocre president, but a complete failure.
The answer is clear — if you truly want our country to once again be a world leader and once again be an economic engine, vote for Mitt Romney!
KAY ANDERSON
Winston-Salem
A disaster
It's time for a plea to N.C. voters. Please, please vote Democratic, especially for state offices. The Republican Party takeover in 2010 has been a disaster. They have already wounded education and are about to do the same for our environment.
Fracking is a done deal, whether proven unsafe or not. They have stacked the investigative “commission” with industry insiders and other fracking proponents. All for (this is their claim) jobs. The estimate is fracking at its peak will only create 372 jobs.
Meanwhile, they eliminated over 1,000 teacher positions.
Then there is the bogus voter ID bill they say will prevent fraud (even though there has been none). We all know what that was — a slimy move to eliminate Democratic voters and nothing more.
Like the direction our state is headed? Unless you hate gays and education, and love corporations, I honestly don't see how.
Normally I would say vote the man or woman — forget the party. But Republicans in recent years move in lockstep, committed mainly to tax breaks for the rich, serving Grover Norquist and, above all, trying to defeat President Obama. Please, let’s throw them out and get moving forward again.
The 1950s are gone. Trickle-down doesn't work. People like Medicare and clean air and water. Let’s send the message to the Republicans that they do not represent our interests. Maybe the remainder will wake up and start serving the country instead of their own narrow special interests.
GEORGE JONES
Rural Hall
Concerned with wealth
My father made $20 a week in the Great Depression as a fledgling attorney defending bootleggers. A Democrat, he was concerned when John F. Kennedy and his wealth attained the presidency. Father Joe Kennedy made money during Prohibition, yet today few question the wealth that propelled JFK into power.
I personally would prefer a president who knows how to make money. However, if wealth disqualifies one from this high office, we shouldn’t have elected George Washington, Thomas Jefferson or Bill Clinton — and certainly not Kennedy. President Obama was a millionaire before election, too, a fact minimized by the media.
My brother was recalled from law school to fly off a naval carrier during the JFK Cuban missile crisis. He didn’t complain that Kennedy was out of touch. He just risked his life. My dad fought Hitler under Franklin D. Roosevelt, another millionaire. Dad didn’t complain, either.
I will vote for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan despite my Democratic background. I have no bias against business acumen, and I dislike hypocrisy. I cannot vote my values in this election — my pocketbook is first.
Watch the debt clock, and be grateful that Romney and Ryan have a background in finance. Some presidents inherited wealth. Others know how to make it.
CAROLYN GARRETT BOULDIN
Winston-Salem
Sum It Up
Do you think fracking poses a serious danger to North Carolina?
"The Executive Branch has NO obligation to defend a law being challenged in court."
ReplyDeleteBob
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I was away one day, and the liberal mice were running wild.
The U.S. Constitution in Article II Section 3
"shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed."
That doesn't mean the president gets to decide which laws are 'real' laws, and which are not.
Obama likes to make up his own Constitution as he goes along, however.
Bucky, you have very little understanding. I know the constitution and execution of a law is not the same as defending a law being challenged in court. Don't show your ignorance so blatantly. Suppose Romney is elected. Would it then be his sworn duty to defend the Affordable Health Care Act? It's the law.
ReplyDeleteDOMA is still being executed, but the Administration is not defending it in court.
DeleteSo are saying that my statement is incorrect?
DeleteYou're off you game Bob. Just like Obama was the other night.
Bucky, you're not even in the game.
DeleteMedical marijuana is illegal under federal law, the Obama Administration generally ignores it though.
DeleteCalifornia is still going broke.
And I missed you too Bob.
DeleteWas your statement a challenge to the veracity of my statement that you quoted? If so, then yes, I'm not only saying it, IT IS.
DeleteCalifornia is a good example of why not to let the country be led by a bunch of liberals.
DeleteSpeeding is illegal under law, but cops ignore it all the time.
DeleteI don't think it's ever been legally decided Bob. Generally, thoughout most of our history, the U.S. Attorney's office has defended laws passed by Congress.
DeleteSpeeding laws are not systematically ignored.
DeleteThe Supremes may rule in your favor on DOMA Bob. Did you ever think a black man would be elected president in your lifetime?
DeleteThe truth of the matter is that this is something that Presidents have done frequently in the past.
DeleteHere’s a list of some of the more prominent cases, borrowed from a 1995 letter to Orrin Hatch by the Clinton Justice Department:
United States v. Lovett 328 U.S. 303 (1946)
INS v. Chadha 462 U.S. 919 (1983)
Morrison v. Olson 487 U.S. 654 (1988)
Metro Broadcasting, Inc v. FCC (1990)
Simkins v. Moses H Cohen Memorial Hosp. 323 F.2d 929 (4th Cir, 1963)
Garrett v. Alexander 477 F. Supp 1035 (D., D.C, 1979)
League of Women Voters of Calif. v. FCC 489 F. Supp. 517 (C.D, Cal 1980)
Turner Broadcasting Svcs v. FCC Civ No 92-2247 (DDC)
ACLU et al., v. Norman Y. Mineta
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Dickerson v. United States, 530 U.S. 428 (2000)
Bob Jones University v. United States 461 U.S. 574 (1982)
So, as you can see, this is a rare, though not uncommon, occurrence, and it is worth noting that there is no suggestion in the record of any of these cases that the Executive Branch’s decision not to defend a Federal Law in court was in any way unconstitutional, or a breach of the President’s duties under the Constitution.
Here's the mission statement of U.S. Attorney General's Office:
DeleteTo enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
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'Defend the interests of the United States'
It's pretty clear that if the U.S. Attorney's Office is not defending a federal law, passed by Congress, it is abdicating its own mission statement.
Many U.S. Attorneys have defended laws they didn't agree with. However, they did it until it-they were
Deleteoverturned.
Obama's 'Justice' Department, headed by Holder, is a joke though.
DeleteWhich cases are you referring to Bucky? I gave 9 examples of cases in which the attorney general's office declined to defend a federal law in court.
DeleteMy bad. I gave 10 examples.
DeleteFeds Hit LA In Medical Marijuana Crackdown
ReplyDeleteBy GREG RISLING 09/26/12 03:18 AM ET EDT
LOS ANGELES -- Federal prosecutors looking to take out California's medical marijuana shops have now set their sights on Los Angeles, where city officials have struggled to stop a blooming of dispensaries.
The U.S. attorney's office sued three property owners that house pot collectives and sent warning letters to 68 others as they enforce a federal law that doesn't recognize a California initiative that legalized pot for medicinal use.
Do try and keep up, bucky.
I said 'generally' Bob. Get in the game.
DeleteIt's only recently that 'any' enforcement has taken place, and the same thing happened under Bush.
Deleteoh I see, so the game is you use qualifiers so you can generally say what you want, in general.
DeleteKinda.....you taught me that one Bob. I've tried to quit using absolutes.
DeleteWanna meet me over at Chick-fil-A for lunch?
Next time I am in Winston-Salem, I sure will meet you at Chick-fil-A for lunch. I'll let you know next time I'm up that way. thanks for asking.
DeleteLove to Bucky, name the location and time. I'll buy. I might even persuade Bob to come too.
DeleteOne of the primary reasons this administration has so energetically enforced Federal marijuana was is that the Supreme Court has ruled that that Federal Drug laws were constitutional and therefore enforceable. It would be a to boom to State's Rights advocates if the courts ruled that Federal laws did not supersede state law.
DeleteIf that happened Wordly, that would mean Obama would not be able to 'ram' his liberal agenda down the throats of Americans. For example, N.C.'s ban on gay marriage would stand no matter what Obama wants, or what the Supremes rule, or what law Congress passes.
DeleteI don't Bob would like that too much.
Never thought I'd create so much interest in going to lunch at CfilA. It was more a rhetorical question.
I would like to meet you Bucky and I think Bob would too.
DeleteHey, count me in, though I'd rather meet at some other eatery.
DeleteSupremes will decide if the federal government can continue to discriminate against whites on Wednesday. That oughta be interesting.
ReplyDeletefederal government and others.....
DeleteSpeeding on American streets and highways is routinely ignored. Except in unusual circumstances, any driver can get away with running 5-10 MPH over the limit, sometimes more on interstate highways if you are running at the same speed as the majority of the traffic.
ReplyDeleteStudies by the National Motorists Association have shown that at any given moment, 50-70% of all drivers are exceeding the speed limit wherever they are. Obviously, 50-70% of drivers are not getting speeding tickets, not even 1%.
Other studies show that only one in eleven motorists comes to a legal stop at intersections controlled by stop signs. Getting a ticket for running a stop sign is a rarity indeed.
Many other routinely violated laws are ignored as well, among them, texting while driving, jaywalking, ant-noise law (particularly involving motorcycles), gambling, under age drinking and smoking, marijuana use, etc.
If all of the laws were rigidly enforced, almost every American would be charged with something on a daily basis. Enforcement is based on logic, rather than some narrow minded fool's "ideas". That most certainly includes immigration laws.
The latest estimate of the cost to arrest and deport all illegal aliens living in the US is about $329 billion. That includes only the direct cost of apprehension, detention, legal proceedings and transportation. It does not include many indirect costs having to do with the cost of labor, taxes paid, etc.
"Speeding on American streets and highways is routinely ignored."
DeleteRush
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Tell that to WS Councilman James Taylor.
Seems like the gun carrying councilman pled guilty to speeding in Walnut Cove.
http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2012/aug/29/1/winston-salem-council-member-james-taylor-pleads-g-ar-2559480/
You had to get one incredibly stupid and foolish statement in today, didn't you Rush?
IGNORANT
DeleteAlso not enforced are laws requiring turn signal use, one of my pet peeves in this state of benighted drivers.
DeleteOh, how could I have left that out.
DeleteBelieve it or not, that law is more important to pedestrians than to other drivers.
Among the worst offenders, as with speeding: law enforcement officers.
Maybe Mr. Taylor should have hired you to defend him, Rush, instead of Mike Grace. Although you'd have probably gotten him thrown in jail, with some your California voodoo lawyering. Hee Hee.....Wooooo wieeeee!
DeleteJust guessing, but I would interject that Mr. Taylor probably had just a little bit of an attitude that night, and that's why he got a couple of tickets.
Of course all this crap has nothing to do with Dunce's initial assertion that speeding is generally ignored.
DeleteWhen you're dead wrong, just change the subject.
I meant to mention that cops are flagrant non-signallers, and yes, speed limits are for unsworn drivers also.
Delete"Of course all this crap has nothing to do with Dunce's initial assertion that speeding is generally ignored."
DeleteRush
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You need to pop a reading comprehension pill Rush. YOU said that, I said that regarding federal marijuana laws.
When you start flipping your lips with your extended index finger, just leave me out of the conversation. Okay?
True, I misstated the position.
DeleteActually, it was Phargo who first mentioned lack of enforcement of speeding laws. I merely backed that up with some facts.
It was Dunce who said that traffic laws are not ignored.
So Dunce is still wrong, no matter how he tries to spin it...poor thing.
Student wears Romney shirt to school
ReplyDeleteThe sixteen year old said the teacher compared the shirt to a KKK shirt and informed the girl Carroll was a "democratic" school. Students joined in the fray and sided with the teacher. Pawlucy told the Philadelphia Inquirer students are threatening to attack her when she returns to school.
Friends of the family said that students yelled at the couple, “‘to tell the ‘bitch’ [their daughter Samantha] this school is for democrats.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/07/Union-Student-Bullied
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I'm sure the teacher was kin to Rush somehow.
If you've ever been to Philadelphia, you'd know that it's probably one of the most racist cities in America. It's population is approximately 44 % black, the largest of any other ethnic group.
Hee Hee....so much for liberals being a tolerant group. Sounds to me like many of them are just a bunch of bigoted bullies.
The teacher said, “She said that’s like her wearing a KKK shirt.”
DeleteCan't seem to find the race of the teacher listed. Political correctness has apparently entered the story. However, you can make your own assumptions based on the above statement.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/teacher-likens-student-romney-shirt-kkk-article-1.1175042#ixzz28e3ufDQK
Correction: The teacher, who is African American, reportedly told her that the facility was a "Democratic school."
DeleteThe student is white.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/334275#ixzz28e6yvoa0
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How many African American students that are wearing Obama shirts to school get told to take them off?
Think that teacher would have a job if the race of the individuals would have been reversed, and the student had on an Obama shirt? Wooooooooooooowieeeeeeeeeee!
DeleteNow, we're learning that the teacher is a member of a union too, that's why she, apparently, hasn't been fired. She's got a whole deck of cards to play.
DeleteWooooooooooooooooowieeeeeeeeeeeee!
You're fired! Nope, I'm playing this one. Nope. It don't matter, you're fired. Nope I'm playing this one.
Hee Hee, I love how liberals have created such a 'fair' system.
"Tell the bitch this school is for democrats." Sounds inclusive to me, if you're speaking liberal.
DeleteRasmussen poll: Romney 51% to 47% for Obama in N.C.
ReplyDeleteI missed yesterday's conversation, so I'll butt in here to say that I knew Agnes and Andy David, no finer people than they.
ReplyDeleteThe Davids and many others came here because of Western Electric, which raised the educational and cultural level of the community geometrically.
DeleteThe local public schools began at grade 1. Agnes founded the Kiddy Kollege Kindergarten in their home near Miller Park. My sister was one of the first students.
In addition to her work establishing the Arts Council, Agnes and Andy were instrumental in converting the W-S Symphony from a strictly amateur outfit into a professional organization.
They brought in John Iuele as the first director. John began a series of Saturday morning music workshops for elementary school children, thus expanding the strong Moravian interest in music to the entire community. The brass workshops were held at the David's home. On and on.
I knew the Iuele's. Daughter Kathy was a classmate of mine in elementary and junior high school.
DeleteAmazingly small world, huh?
DeleteBob Mayer was already teaching music at Reynolds HS in the late 1940s. Riding the new wave of arts and music, he transformed the RJR band into one of the best HS bands in the country. In the mid-1950s, they performed at half-time of a Washington Redskins game and became the first HS band to perform on national TV during an NFL game.
You get people like Mayer, Iuele and the Davids together and something good is bound to happen.
Delightfully small, yes.
DeleteAnother leftover:
ReplyDeleteRe the discussion re stimulus, success or failure: depends on whom you'd ask. If you ask the people rebuilding the area's freeway bridges and interchanges, or the people who drive on those roadways or the replaced Silas Creek Pkwy, you will hear that it was a success.
Fact was, people weren't spending, things needed doing, money had to be borrowed and spent to replace the absent consumer purchases. There's nothing new about this. I believe Republicans of a generation or so ago called it pump priming.
Yes, we borrowed from our descendants, as detractors say. But, just as parents borrow to put their children in a better house for a better future, this borrowing, however imperfect in application (PLA's), was necessary for the future of all concerned. IMO.
Talk about borrowing money, nobody runs a tighter financial ship than a good old time Moravian.
DeleteIn 1753 the Moravians paid about 35 cents/acre for the 100,000 acre Wachovia tract, which makes up most of what is now Forsyth County. The total sale price was about $35,000, which the Moravians borrowed from a London investment company. At times on the 1700s, things were touch and go in the Wachovia settlement and it took far longer than anticipated to pay off the loan, so that might have looked like a bad investment.
According to the inflation calculator that begins in 1800, that $35,000 would be about $456,000 today. The real number would be more, because there were several inflationary flareups between 1753 and 1800, the worst caused by the cost of fighting the Revolutionary War and the subsequent loss of British market power in the new nation. So let's say that the amount might be $6-700,000.
The total property value, land only, in Forsyth County today is about $7 billion. If we subtract for the areas outside the original Wachovia tract, that comes to around $6.3 billion
I guess in this particular case, borrowing $35,000 paid off, huh?
I'd say it did, but how much do the Moravians retain?
DeleteYou'd be surprised. The property manager of the Moravian Church, Southern Province, one of the most important jobs in the church, was a good friend of mine for many years...I was repeatedly astonished to learn what properties they control, and not just here in W-S.
DeleteIn addition, some of the wealthiest families in this area, most of whom no one has ever heard of, got rich by buying land from the church in the 19th century and selling it in the 20th. The church made huge profits off of those 19th century sales.
I'm beginning to think Caniac is retarded.
ReplyDeleteBeginning?
DeleteFair enough.
DeleteCainiac's prose is both tortured and tortuous.
DeleteHello Arthur, leftover from the debate: you mentioned that Romney blinked a lot. Someone with nothing better to do actually arranged to have the blinks counted. In this instance the President bested his opponent, blinking more than did Romney. The counts indicated that both were blinking rapidly. I suspect that the bright TV lights, mutual nervousness, and fatigue were culprits.
ReplyDeleteThe reason that Romney's blinks were more obvious was his upright posture. The Prez had his head down way too much...sending out bad vibes all night.
DeleteI suspect that fatigue was the major contributor for him. Romney has one job...running for President. Obama has that same job, plus the most onerous job in the country, being POTUS.
I agree with your analysis.
DeleteAs I said, informal observation.
DeleteBut, apparently accurate, as explained by OT.
DeleteMy neighbor took down his E. Motsinger sign, and put up an Obama one.
ReplyDeleteI guess he's already written Motsinger off. Time to help Obama in his world, but I think he's beyond hope in N.C.
Exit polls indicate Hugo is losing. We'll see how Chavez lets the votes be counted. I fear the only way that cracked pot leaves office will be feet first.
ReplyDeleteFinal Dixie Classic fireworks in progress...best in years.
DeleteI haven't seen any exit poll reported by any legitimate media.
Venezuelan outfits were forbidden to conduct exit polls. The reports are coming via Spain by a Spanish company that was allowed to do limited exit polling.
Either way, I expect that it will be difficult to get Senor Chavez to remove himself from the capitol.
Must've have been quite a barrage. I heard out here in Sherwood Plaza area.
ReplyDeleteWell, I jumped the gun on that. The finale each night has been terrific, including a number of MIRVed warheads.
DeleteBut they must have run out of ammo...could barely see the finale tonight.
Ah well...people who live here have no idea how lucky they are...the Dixie Classic is light years ahead of Greensboro and most other regional cities.
Right about the DC Fair.
ReplyDeleteThe cannonade reminded me of a prank (misdemeanor, actually) we pulled late in my HS career. We drove thru Reynolda Gardens, noted a Boy Scout meeting in progress in the building behind what was then the Nature-Science Center. We also noted that the windows were open and unscreened.
One of my passengers got of the car, aimed carefully, and arced a single reentry vehicle through one of the windows. Being the wheel man, I only heard the M80 explosion, but my accomplices reported that in addition to smoke, Boy Scouts also emerged from the windows.
For us it turned out to be a close call: as we approached the main entrance, a police car raced past, lights flashing, and turned into the lower entrance. We went one of the accomplices homes in Buena Vista, parked behind his house, and laid low for a while.
Bad boy, bad boy, whatcha gonna do,
DeleteWhatcha gonna do when they come for you...bad boy...
We once hit upon a brilliant idea...driving around in a big Caddy convertible and using powerful slingshots to launch lit cherry bombs at targets of opportunity a couple of blocks away in Buena Vista...no way anyone could connect us, right?
I guess the Caddy was a bad idea, because the Fire Johns started closing in on us. Of course, we jettisoned our slingshots and ammo before they got close enough to see, but they knew who the culprits were, so planted a few cherry bombs in the convertible boot, then "discovered" them.
Since no one else would admit ownership, the driver was cited. The fine was a whopping, for those days, $300, which we split equally.
Hardly any creature on earth dumber than a 16 year old boy.