Society decayed
What has happened to the United States of America? How did we get to the position that we are in as a nation today? I fear, deep down in our heart of hearts, we know the answer. When I was going to school, I never worried about being shot throughout the school day. The thought really never crossed my mind. How has society decayed so greatly in such a short span of time?
I firmly believe this all had its roots about 40 years ago. Remember when we, as a nation, asked God to get out of our schools? No more organized prayer. What about the decay of the institution of marriage where so many families have been separated and destroyed? These seeds were sown well off in the past. We are now reaping what has been sown - tenfold! Consider the violent and/or deviant sexual television shows that constantly lower the bar of morality as well as the explicit, murderous video games that a nation of impressionable children have been raised on. What else should we expect for being absentee parents?
We must remember; only what is done with the son of God, Jesus Christ, will yield lasting dividends. God is a “longsuffering” God, but I fear he is about done suffering with the United States - the nation he has blessed that doesn’t seem to give him reverence nor fear him anymore.
GARY CASTO
Rural Hall
‘Chaotic times’
The Jan. 21 letter “Prepare” begins: “Those of us who are students of the Bible recognize that chaotic times will prevail just before the coming of Christ.”
Those of us who are students of the Bible and history know that “chaotic times” is pretty much the status quo and has been since before Jesus was born. On that scale, not much has changed.
The letter writer cites financial breakdown, rampant food shortages – which, again, are typical – and, he says, “the majority of people will be enslaved by government dependence,” which I don’t remember reading in Matthew, Mark, Luke or John. I’ve got a feeling – maybe it’s just me - the letter writer might, just might, be stretching the text a teensy tiny bit in order to make a political point.
He wouldn’t be the first.
But in any event, I’ve been hearing that the end of the world and the return of Christ are eminent for about 60 years now. The claims have been made for more like 200 years. I hope the letter writer will forgive me if I don’t sell everything I own and rush to the nearest mountaintop to await The Rapture.
Just in case the end is not near, shouldn’t we try to leave a decent world behind for our children and grandchildren?
RON F. SLATER
Winston-Salem
Terrible message
Gov. Pat McCrory’s administration has gotten off on the wrong foot.
McCrory says state government is broken. He says we need reform. But then he goes and pays bigger salaries to wealthy campaign donors he appointed to cabinet positions.
If that’s what Gov. McCrory thinks needed fixing, it sends a terrible message to this taxpayer.
FAITH FITZGERALD PITTS
Winston-Salem
Sum It Up
Are you satisfied with Hillary Clinton’s testimony before Congress on Benghazi?
Am I satisfied with Clinton's testimony? "What difference does it make?!"
ReplyDeleteLTE #1 was appropriately posted on a Sunday.
ReplyDeleteLTE #2: I agree, Mr. Slater. I especially like and agree with your statement that 'the claims have been made for more like 200 years.'
LTE #3: Uncharacteristically, we're not hearing GOP'ers and Tea Partiers about 'bloated goverment spending' and 'personal responsibility'.
Correspondent of the week: NC Rep. Donny Lambeth's suggestion that our county's schools be turned into charter schools does not weaken public education, but it DOES weaken the already low moral of public education teachers who already do SO MUCH with SO LITTLE and now with EVEN LESS moral support from those at the school bored. Those on the school bored locally and at the state level have absolutely no shame in politicizing education, nor will they recognize that the leter is written about THEM.
RALEIGH Gov. Pat McCrory gave his cabinet secretaries pay hikes as large as $13,200, far more than anything afforded to typical state employees in recent years.
ReplyDeleteThe Republican’s cabinet makes a combined $1.1 million – an 8 percent increase from his Democratic predecessor.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/01/10/3778968/gov-pat-mccrory-gives-his-cabinet.html#storylink=cpy
Way to go, Pat. What a crook.
And all this time, Republicans have been crying "We are broke" 8% increase? Is that fiscally responsible?
DeleteIt's no wonder the Republican Party is falling apart.
DeleteBoehner claimed that President Obama and the Democrats were trying to annihilate the Republican Party. No need to. They are into self-annihilation.
DeleteThey really do eat their own dogfood.
DeleteAll political parties "fall apart" after a defeat and especially a back to back defeat. This is nothing new. Every time a party thinks it has the opposition on the ropes for good, something goes badly wrong and then they themselves are out and nearly on the ropes. We will have to play out this current scenario and then reality will set in.
DeleteThe Republicans have lost the popular vote in 5 of the past 6 presidential elections and even if they have more members in the House, they combined had fewer votes than the combined democratic vote. And now, shamelessly in certain states, the R's put forth plans to change the electoral college, FL, VA, PA, OH, MI, WI, hmm? One need not be Fellini to figure that one out.
DeleteSEE BOTTOM OF PAGE
DeleteIf they try that, it'll backfire. Neheisi Coates wrote a good piece on this...will post when I get back to my desktop.
DeleteFunny how liberal Democrats are suddenly concerned about money being spent by the governor. Back when 'ol Bev. was burning through Obama stimulus money, they didn't seem too concerned about it.
DeleteHee Hee...these liberals are definitely a hoot.
Where is Dr. Sauza this morning? I wanted to ask if one drinks Sauza from a Sauzaphone?
ReplyDeleteAnd Good Morning to you Mr. Bob.
DeleteI hear the protology department over at Clinton University is going to give me an honorary degree in proctology. They said I'm going to receive the award because I've been so skillful at ramming Rush's ridiculous, made-up, and manipulated facts up his culo on a consistent basis.
I'm just waiting to receive the call to find out when they're coming. I'm going to celebrate by drinking some tequila, complete with worm. When I swallow the worm, I hope I get rid of Rush once and for all.
HE SWALLOWS!
Deletelol, WHO KNEW!!!
Deleteshhhhhh . . . don't tell anyone. It'll BLOW his cover.
DeleteNancy....don't you have some personal invesigation that you've got to go and botch?
DeleteHee Hee....but she's proud that she knows I'm Tim/George et al. Oh Lordy Lordy...
What color is the tent, whoops, I mean the dress you're working on now?
DeleteLaSombra---YUCK!
DeleteShe's a trashy Mexican. What do you expect?
Delete@ww: ditto
DeleteA trashy Mexican!! Then by all means,LaSombra, come sit by me. :)
DeleteTrashy comes in all sizes and colores!!! We're just better at it.
DeleteAs opposed to your high-class obsession with buttholes I guess. What a skeeze.
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ReplyDeleteTwo black males with hoodies
ReplyDeleteHow many times have we seen it? How many times have we heard about it? And how many times have we read about it? That's right. Two black males walking in a neighborhood late on a summer night with their hoods pulled up over their heads like it is cold. Or heard or read that two males robbed and/or killed such and such last night? Too many.
"Blacks are six times as likely as whites to be the victim of a homicide. Blacks are seven times as likely to commit a homicide." Source CNN
A lot of liberals try to say our fear of black males of with hoodies is allllllll just paranoia and racism. Yet the FBI statistics clearly point out that black males commit a disproportionate amount of the crime in the U.S. over and over and over.
Here's one such story reported by 48 hours. Although it's lengthy, and frightening, it's worth the watch because the fear is powerfully translated onto the screen. The story is about a female off-duty police officer, without her gun, being confronted by two murderous, black male thugs.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50139770n
Think this young woman regrets she left her gun
What about the 8% pay increase for your boy McCrory's cabinet members before they even get started working?
DeleteWhat about black males and their disproprotionate respresentation in crime stats.
DeleteCan we get a little, specific action on gun control on them? Or does that make too much sense for liberals?
Gun control applies to guns, not people. Exactly what would you recommend as a specific action?
DeleteCan we get an agreement that inner city black males are disproprotionately responsible for more gun crimes?
DeleteI just hope Zimmerman gets a fair trial and doesn't get railroaded by a bunch of bigoted liberals.
DeleteHoodies......
Deletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdsupBMRwFM
Bucky, black males or not, inner cities have always been the center of more crime. For instance, New York City gang activity is believed to have originated in the Five Points area of Manhattan in the 1840s, comprised mainly of young Irish men engaged in gambling, prostitution, extortion, thievery and murder. Immigrant Italians and Jews supplanted the Irish gangs and vied for control. Prohibition in the 1920s helped create criminal syndicates.
DeleteCome on Bob. Admit it. One of the reasons Obama wants to control guns is because a disproprotionate number of BLACK males are being murdered with them.
DeleteThe above 48 hours show is really interesting. I started out and said to self, self you're going to waste all this time watching this program are you? And self said back, yes you are too, this is interesting.
DeleteLTE1...to get a handle on where our national decline is headed and what its roots are in the time period you mention, investigate the concept of "misandry". Here is a current one for your time period: "Therefore, if the electorate is truly interested in shrinking the size of government, they first have to confront the artificially created absurdities in American society that are currently considered normal. There is a reason that all traditional societies, whether European or Asian, shamed unwed mothers and recognized them to be parasites. There is a reason the word 'homewrecker' was common until recently. There is a reason there were no jobs for 'court appointed visitation supervisors' to be employed by the state to oversee the actions of a man who has had his children taken from him on a 'no fault' basis. There is a reason that any successful society defended the institution of marriage fiercely by making marriage at attractive arrangement for the man, which in turn ensured that the woman was better off as well. No successful society has replaced the family unit with government, yet America is attempting to do this with taxpayer funds". We have a ways to go yet as the "A-bomb" riders have their head of steam for now.
ReplyDeleteAmericans have always been about "Bigger is Better." Who has the biggest SUV, the biggest House, the biggest gun, "he who has the most toys when he dies, wins," the biggest steak, the biggest building, the biggest stadium, The Biggest Gulp soft drink. etc. So WW, which societies do consider successful?
DeleteGood description of our BBD society-bigger and better deal. Societies that remember value as opposed to price and size will continue to thrive. Societies that value thrift over debt will thrive. An America that values Liberty first and Equality next will thrive. Not the other way around. Equality has always done well under Liberty, but the opposite way around- not so much. We have a Statue of Liberty, not a statue of Equality. Our current decline is being driven by State enforced "equality" instead of the proper role of government which is to ensure our Liberties first.
DeleteI sure wish I were at liberty to marry the person I love.
DeleteYes, I agree, value over price and size. America is full of cynics. “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Oscar Wilde
DeleteThat may come to pass.
DeleteIt may and I feel confident it will sooner than anyone expected.
DeleteChaotic times. Well aren't they always? They either are or will soon be. Yes we need to leave a decent world for those who follow, but on our present course, that is out of the question. Maybe our President can recall those kids he used for ideological "human shields" in the gun control show and call their parents to stand by them while he explains just how utterly broke this nation and their futures actually are. They have no clue.
ReplyDeleteIt won't be long before this country will be just a paragraph in a history book. After all the people that fought and lost their lives to make this country great, it's just being squandered away by a bunch of worthless, liberal jackasses.
DeleteIt's such a shame WW.
If we are so broke, why is Pat McCrory giving his well-to-do cabinet members an 8% pay increase before they even start working and show some merit, all of which comes out of the pocket of NC citizens?
DeleteThey're worth a whole lot more than 8% compared to the workers that Bev.(D) hired.
DeleteThey drove N.C. up to the physical cliff and then started using a pry bar to get the state over it.
What about the Racist Injustice Act that the Democrats passed, Bob?
DeleteWho's investigating whether or not these newly freed men are in fact guilty? Nobody...it's another O.J. Simpson situtation.
DeleteHow do you know they are worth more. One of the cabinet members was a democratic mayor for 14 years until she declared a gay pride day for her city. Now she is a cabinet member with an 8% pay raise before she starts.
DeleteLook I celebrate heterosexual pride day over at Chick-fil-A quite often. I don't give a hoot nor a hollar about some lady that declared a gay pride day in her city.
DeleteWho's re-investigating these freed men that a panel says they are innocent and a jury said they were guilty. Nobody, right? If the jury was wrong, can the panel also be wrong?
DeleteOh no. Because the panel is made up of liberals that's why.
Pathetic.
So how do you know these cabinet members are worth more when you don't even know who the cabinet members are.
DeleteI'm just glad we've got McCrory. A bad day with McCrory is like a hundred 'good' days with Bev.
DeleteI've always believed in the Blackstone formulation.
DeleteAt least McCrory won't be trying to pass a bunch of worthless gun laws like Bev would be trying to do.
DeleteThat's why I say a bad day with McCrory is like a hundred good ones with Bev.
Bev was an absolute nightmare.
Deletehave you had a bad day with McCrory or 100 good days with Perdue? If not, then your simile is not sound.
DeleteMcCrory is wonderful so far. He just looks more competent than Bev. That's a good start for me.
DeleteBev.(D) was known as the worst governor in America, and with good reason too!
DeleteSuperficiality "He just looks more competent," always a good start.
DeleteI'll bet she had a worm farm in the governor's mansion backyard.
DeleteSo does drinking Sauza get one a drunk as drinking beer along the trail to Machu Pichu? I recall you saying that altitude and alcohol don't mix either.
DeleteBuckums says a lot of things. Brisk weather today! Perfect for a 5 mile jog!
DeleteThe greater danger to the young is long-term unemployment, and that won't be solved by abolishing the social safety net to pay for more tax cuts for rich folks. Just look at Europe. Austerity is not only cruel, it's just plain stupid.
DeleteYes, that austerity thing hasn't worked to well for Europe. In Spain , youth unemployment is now around 50% and the UK is headed for a triple dip recession which would be it's 3rd recession in 4 years under austerity, 4th quarter, 2012 GDP in UK was -.3%.
Deletetoo well
DeleteThe Spanish government is insolvent as are the banks. The regions of Spain are also insolvent save maybe Barcelona and they are near revolt over being milked to prop up Madrid. Spain only exists on current receipts and mostly loans of fiat Euros from the ECB. Their present course is being dictated from Brussells, which is to say Berlin. Same for Greece, Portugal, and to some degree Italy. They have no choice.
DeleteBritain has exercised no austerity. They use the phony budget gimmick of "current services baseline budgeting" just as we do. Their government sector spending continues upward just as ours with little or no results--just like ours. Taxation increases on the private sector to feed the government sector just like here. The City of London and immediate surroundings are booming just like the DC area. DC boomtown. This is a never ending spiral brought about by generations of entitlement, debt, mistaxation, and unsound money. We seem to want to catch up with the Euro Zone and join them in a massive implosion.
How many successive quarters of GDP growth has the U.S. sustained now? I read that in the 3rd quarter of 2012 we at GDP growth of 3.1%.
DeleteWe are struggling along in a dead slow "growth" which does not even allow for population growth. The 3rd quarter is typically when the government makes heavy expenditures in the economy as their fiscal year comes to an end--Sept 30. Monetary stimulus- printing- is behind this L shaped recovery and it can't continue. We don't even know if this "baby" can walk on its own.
DeleteWe live in a global market. The EU is the largest economy in the world, not the U.S. or China. It's about to collapse.
DeleteI wish you pigeon heads we learn to read.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/08/markets/europe_debt_crisis_/index.htm
"Their present course is being dictated from Brussells, which is to say Berlin. Same for Greece, Portugal, and to some degree Italy. They have no choice."
DeleteTrue, they're doing what Nurse Diesel -- oops, Chancellor Merkel -- is telling them to do, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea. I'd have to look up Portugal, but Spain's public finances were in sterling shape before their real estate bubble popped. And Italy was running an current account surplus if you didn't take their interest into consideration. The economy as morality play doesn't really work there. Plus, Iceland is starting to recover, and they're the most heterodox of the bunch.
Also, interest rates on treasuries are still rock-bottom. Also on Japanese bonds, and their public debt is greater than ours.
Public spending in 2011-12 in the UK was £694.89 billion -- compared to £689.63 billion in 2010-11. That may look like an increase, but once inflation is taken into account, it is a real-terms cut of 1.58%, or £10.8 billion.
It might be fun to crap on government workers, but London's recovery is also due to the fact that it's a center of world finance. Banking's back, and so's London.
"The EU is the largest economy in the world, not the U.S. or China."
DeleteTiny just "learned" that today, but will forget by tomorrow. Remember, dunces are incapable of learning. "USA, #1".
"It's about to collapse."
Says Tiny Chicken Little, the great economic expert, who failed to get a job with the WSPD because he could not compete with women and black men who were high school graduates on a test that included basic arithmetic and a sort of gibberish version of American English.
"I wish you pigeon heads we [sic] learn to read."
Pigeons are among the most intelligent birds and have demonstrated capabilities that no other species except the higher apes can attain. For many years, until replaced by computers, they outperformed humans at inspection work on production lines for electronic components.
They also have the capability to learn from their mistakes, as opposed to say, Tiny, who makes the same mistakes every minute of every hour of every day of his life. As the Misfit says in Flannery O'Connor's great short story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find", after shooting the grandmother, "She would have been a good woman if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." Ditto, in spades, for Tiny.
I wish you dxckhead would learn how to write.
If you had a Homing Pigeon, and let it go, I bet it wouldn't come back. It'd know better.
DeleteTerrible message. By itself it is awkward. But we are sold on the idea from Washington that it takes the best pay to get the best people. We shall see. If Pat brings in people that are good with budgets, systems, cost benefit analysis, and other areas, then these people may earn their keep. Stay tuned.
ReplyDeleteBut he is giving them their keep before they earn it.
DeleteCarrott/stick
DeleteSo then, do you believe if we raise the salaries of congress we will get better people running for office?
DeleteI do.
DeleteWhat's the big deal. Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize before he earned it?
DeleteLiberals...you gotta love 'em.
But the Swedes and Nobel are not broke perhaps like America is "broke." The nobel peace prize money does not come from the pockets of American Citizens.
DeleteHey Stab. Congress is elected and they control the purse strings. People that our Governor appoints are just that. I am not too interested in over paying a(Congress) that has had a hand in bankrupting our government. I take it we are jumping back and forth from DC to Raleigh here?
DeleteHey, WW, I don't want to reward the current people in Congress, but I would like for more people to afford to run and HDTV office. As for the current office holders, I have 2 words:
DeleteTerm limits.
I have no idea how "hold" turned into "HDTV. I guess my iPhone wants one.
DeleteTerm limits indeed! You have a spooky iPhone. I understand about future Congress critters. A limited gene pool there has proved near fatal. Much new blood needed...especially some folks who aren't so concerned with "getting along". I could get interested under that framework as when it comes right down to our future as a unique Republic....I can be a master at not getting along.
Delete;) oh, that's not what what MS WW said. She said you obey well and get along fine.
Delete@stab: It's autocorrect.
DeletePhargo..shhh. Around here I'm the King....
DeleteMrs WW is the Ace. Don't tell anyone.
The clever wife allows the bumbling husband to imagine that he is, indeed, King of His Castle, while working quietly behind the scenes to ensure that the castle is properly maintained and does not slip into foreclosure.
DeleteThis leads to years of domestic peace and tranquility, which the husband is allowed to believe is the result of his brilliant capabilities.
In a perfect world, he will die happy, never knowing the truth.
Are you satisfied with Hillary Clinton’s testimony before Congress on Benghazi? She did the most professional job of channeling Bill Clinton I have ever seen. You would almost think the two were related. Mostly a farse and a near guarantee to be called back--under oath.
ReplyDeleteBlack Sheriff does the right thing!
ReplyDeleteA sheriff who released a radio ad urging Milwaukee-area residents to learn to handle firearms so they can defend themselves while waiting for police said Friday that law enforcement cutbacks have changed the way police can respond to crime.
In the 30-second commercial, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. says personal safety is no longer a spectator sport.
"I need you in the game," he says.
"With officers laid off and furloughed, simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option," he adds. "You can beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under the bed, or you can fight back. ... Consider taking a certified safety course in handling a firearm so you can defend yourself until we get there."
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Think 911 will save you? This sheriff says probably not.
Of course, these liberal mopes, like Rush, will continue to say otherwise.
Thanks Sheriff Clarke! Just tell the truth, and people will respect you......unlike these sleazy liberal worms we have floating around in tequila bottles.
DeleteWe all start out young and foolish. Some of us never grow-up. Hence the word liberal.
ReplyDeletehttp://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AmazingAnimals/slideshow/baby-animals-3351912
Bucky, you are not very conservative, you waste a lot of time and bytes with your links no one visits.
DeleteI don't give a gay buck in a bathroom. I just put 'em there for you knot heads in case you don't believe me.
DeleteWanna get warmed up? Warning: Not for gay bucks. Miami Dophin Cheerleaders. Call me maybe.
Deletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIfbghHdG1s
"We all start out young and foolish. Some of us never grow-up."
DeleteOnce again, Tiny provides us with an excellent self description.
"Miami Dophin [sic] Cheerleaders."
DeleteTiny is as shallow as the Sea of Azov, which varies between 2 feet, 11 inches and 46 feet at its deepest point.
The amazing thing is that at the same time, he is lower than whale shxt…as they say in the Navy, you know where that winds up.
Tell us how you used to play 'buck' boy with all of your fellow sailors Rush.
DeleteSorry....'bunk' boy?
DeleteIs that the best you can do? Poor thing!
DeleteBoth parties take their turn at hating the EC. Fiscal events will do more to change the map color than some gimmick with the EC. Under some of the proposed change scenarios, the popular vote spread could widen but the EC count may award the win to the opposite candidate. That is a recipe for national uprising at its ugliest. While all eyes are on DC, look at the numbers of states that now have R governors and or legislatures- if not both. Notice the trend in municipal bankruptcies and insolvencies and the places nearly so. While the "A-bomb" riders are whooping it up in DC, changes are happening in the states. Somebody mentioned actor Slim Pickins the other day and I can't get THAT image out of my mind. It is fitting.
ReplyDeletePhargo..I answered your 10:45 and how it got down here I can't explain. Maybe Stab's iPhone has too much power?
ReplyDeleteI think it's time the EC should be relegated to the dust bin of history now that we no longer have send people by horseback to Washington to deliver the election results.
DeleteMaybe. Wasn't the EC established to balance the power between small states and the large ones? Either way, keep an able horse close by.
DeleteBecause of Gerrymandering, if the EC changes to Congressional districts in the aforementioned states had been in effect prior to election, we would be talking about President Romney now, even though he lost the popular vote by 4 percentage points. It's no coincidence that these changes have been initiated in these specific states.
DeleteWe have an able horse and 6 very able ponies. And you are correct about the electoral college, but it has long surpassed it's utility in that respect when the population was only 4 million people, mostly living in two populace states, NY and Virginia. Now it comes down to about 10 swing states and who can win them
DeleteTa Nehisi Coates' take on the GOP trying to gerrymander the electoral college:
DeleteThe Party of John Calhoun
OT...if you stop by, I enjoyed your 3 part summation from last night.
ReplyDeleteThanks, WW. I enjoyed doing it...the range of matters discussed here is amazing.
DeleteWow! Tiny is full of shxt 24/365, but today is something special...almost certain to set a record for ignorance that will make the Guinness Book of World records.
ReplyDeleteIs it possible to be fuller than full of shxt?
As to Stab's problem with autocorrect, autocorrect insists that shxt is not a word. In fact, it doesn't much care for the letter "x" at all, nor its next door neighbor "z".
ReplyDeleteTry typing "mezcal"; it will do its best to change it to "mescal", which is also a correct spelling, just not my preferred one.
I just type in a-hole, and your name comes up in auto-correct.
DeleteActually, that won't work. If you type "a-hole", Dick Cheney's name comes up.
DeleteTo get me, you have to type "xss-hole".
One of our local Republican politicians, Dale Folwell, has a page on Wikipedia.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia provides warnings at the top of some pages to alert readers that the information contained on that page may be inaccurate or biased or both. Here is what it says on the Folwell page:
"A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. (September 2011)"
Note that the warning was added over a year ago, yet the page remains the same, essentially an unpaid advertisement for Folwell.
One of the things that I noticed was about his 2006 motorcycle tour of the US to raise awareness of organ and blood donation. It states that Folwell set the record for miles ridden in a month on a motorcycle, 32,978 miles. It does not say whether the month was 30 or 31 days.
Lets give him credit for a 31 day month, so he would only have to have averaged 1,064 miles per day, or 44.33 miles per hour for each 24 hour period.
Of course, he had to refuel, sleep, eat, go potty, bathe, shave and change clothes (we hope on those last three), plus, spend some amount of time to promote organ and blood donation, which was the stated purpose of the trip.
Let's say he only slept 5 hours a night (dangerous for something that is already as dangerous as riding a motorcycle), and spent three hours per day on all the other stuff. So he's on the road 16 hours a day. Anyone who has ever done an extensive amount of motorcycling knows that that is unlikely, but what the heck.
So now he has to average 66.49 MPH. Maximum speed limits in the US range from lows of 55 in Alaska and Delaware to over 80 in Texas. The average is between 65 and 70. But Folwell would have had to spend a good bit of time in urban areas on roads with speed limits as low as 25, significantly cutting into his average speed.
So what we have is two possibilities: Folwell is either a liar or a scofflaw, like his former NC Senate colleague, the late Don East.
Well, there is a third possibility - Tiny wrote the Wikipedia entry.
President Hillary Clinton? If she wants it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2013/01/26/opinion/rothkopf-hillary-clinton/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
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CNN starts its campaign early to elect Hillary for president.
...to elect Hillary President.
Delete"for" is redundant, as is the "author" of the post.
When I type in 'a-hole' into my computer, my auto correct program defaults to 'Rush'.
DeleteI wish it was the other way around.
Repeat of 3:15 post, which see.
DeleteSlight modification, and slightly funnier.
DeleteYou don't read too good, do you Rush?
Hi most,
ReplyDeleteFun conversation to read, I was still snoozing while you all had a great conversation this morning!
OT, I liked last night's 3-point summation also, but I will not brag that my one contribution was "South Park." By the way, with friends like you, who needs an encyclopedia.
With the exception of one, I really enjoy learning from you all.
I hope Wordly is home safely by now.
Bonne soiree,
GG
Hey, no shame for "South Park"...occasionally misses the mark as all comedians do...but sustained comedy is much more difficult than straight drama...just ask Mel Brooks.
DeleteWhat I love about "South Park" is that they will take on anyone, which puts them in the same league with Shakespeare, Voltaire, Ambrose Bierce, Twain, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Brooks and Woody Allen.
I expect that Wordly could use a stiff drink, a good massage and about three days of sleep by now.
Yea, with South Park anything is fair game.
DeleteAnd with regards to topics, I'm glad the LTE issues are largely relegated to benign topics like guns, gerrymandering, and embassy attacks. When I first started writing on the Journal forum, our country was trying to justify military intervention in other countries (life and death en masse) .... heavy stuff.
"Wag The Dog" may be only a movie, but there is much truth in it.
DeleteW's approval rating was plunging in 2001 when 9/11 saved the day, and his presidency. Since no one had any idea how poorly planned and executed his attack on Afghanistan was, his approval rating skyrocketed to over 90%.
As the truth began to filter down, so did the approval rating. What to do?
Aha! Invade Iraq. Approval rating leaps up 33%. But as the truth about Iraq filters down, so does the approval rating. And this time, despite all the scare tactics (Orange Alerts??? Give me a break), the rating continues to fall. What to do?
Aha! Iran, a part of the "true" axis of evil. Unfortunately for W., this time the CIA and the Pentagon refused to be bullied. They knew that Iran was a different critter entirely, so no go and good-bye W.
Unfortunately, the nattering nabobs of fascism continued their rant even after W's departure, so we might have gotten the impression that Iran was next. But fortunately, O is also a different critter, with a far more sophisticated view on foreign affairs.
So Iran, despite the best efforts of the warmongers and Benny Netanyahu, has transitioned from a "hot" issue to a "cool" one.
So the natterers have shifted from Iran to Benghazi, a mere blip on the screen of international politics. These are the same fools who never said a word when 241 Marines, 58 French troops and 6 civilians were killed and 75 people were wounded at the Marine barracks in Beirut.
Imagine the Congressional hearing:
Congressman: "President Reagan, what did you do about the massacre of Marines in Beirut?"
Reagan: "Nothing."
Congressman: "Nothing?"
Reagan: "Well, we retreated, that was something wasn't it?"
Congressman: "It certainly was."
Good point.
DeleteThe electoral college was established in 1804, primarily because in the third presidential election, no one won a majority of the vote, so Thomas Jefferson was elected by the House of Representatives. Almost everyone thought that that was a bad idea, ergo, the electoral college.
ReplyDeleteDon't be too quick to throw it out with the bathwater. Every four years, we have pundits and LTE writers screaming "This is the most important election ever." Of course, that is bxll shxt. But there is one election that in retrospect, probably was the most important.
1860. Upon the death of the short lived Whig party, a new party, the Republican party arose, and nominated an unknown lawyer from Kentucky, via Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, as its candidate. Since slavery and threats of secession had become a prime issue in the election, the Democrat party, which traced its lineage to the old Democrat-Republican party of Jefferson and Madison, split into three segments, each offering its own candidate for President.
The slave states voted almost 100% for the two new Democrat fragments, while more moderate folks voted for the old national Democrat party. The result was that the three democrat candidates received 60.2% of the popular vote, while the Republican Lincoln received only 39.8%.
John Breckenridge, of the new Southern Democrat party, came in third in the popular vote, but won eleven states, pretty much the future confederacy plus Maryland, so got 72 electoral votes.
John Bell of the Constitutional Union party, southern based but opposed to secession, finished last in the popular vote, but won three states, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, and finished with 39 electoral votes.
Stephen Douglas of the real Democrat party got almost as many votes as Breckenridge and Bell combined, yet won only one state, Missouri, and 12 electoral votes.
Lincoln won every state north of the Mason-Dixon line, plus California and Oregon, a total of 17, and 180 electoral votes, outpacing all three Democrats combined, 180 - 123, 59.4% of the electoral vote.
Had the electoral college not been around, since no one got anywhere near 50% of the popular vote, the election would have been thrown into the House, where it is likely that blood would have been shed before a resolution was reached.
According to the rules, each state's House delegation would have been allowed one vote. No doubt, there would have been some wheeling and dealing among the three Democrat fragments, but in the end, Lincoln would have gotten 17 of the available 32 votes.
Republicans should be the last to want to dismantle the electoral college. They have lost the popular vote in every election but one since 1992, which translates into 20 out of 24 years of Democrat Presidents.
Instead of engaging in underhanded dealing, they ought to be trying to reshape their party into something that can actually win a national election. If they don't, they will join the Whigs on the scrap heap of history.
Mr. Slater,
ReplyDeleteGreat note.
There are 1.375 million deer in N.C. alone. Those deer cause millions of dollars worth of damage to N.C. agricultural crops.
ReplyDeleteBut that doesn't stop these yayhoo liberals from being idiots about guns and hunting.
It just never stops. If it makes sense, liberals will be against it.
The NC Wildlife Commission estimates that about 55% of deer live in the coastal plain, about 40% live in the Piedmont, and about 5% live in the mountains. In the 2011-2012 season, NC hunters killed a little over 173,000 deer. That is not enough. We need more manly (and womanly) deer hunters. The director of the NC Wildlife Commission says that the problem is that there are too many wimps who sit a home munching Chick-faux-A sandwiches while watching FoxLies® and surfing gay pornsites. They need to get off their sorry bxtts and defend us against this dire threat to capitalism and the American way of life.
DeleteThe Wildlife Commission has been adjusting deer hunting laws for over half a century to allow increased harvesting of deer. As deer harvesting has increased, the deer, being considerably smarter than Tiny, have begun moving into city areas, where discharging firearms is illegal, for good reasons that Tiny and his ilk would never understand. As it is, about 1,000 people are shot in deer hunting "accidents" every year, a testament to the competence and intelligence of deer hunters.
Use and maintenance of proper fences and repellents reduces deer damage to nearly zero for real agriculture. Tiny is claiming damage for the dandelions and other weeds that grow profusely in his mum's back yard. Get a cat…deer are terrified of cats.
The most important threat from deer is collisions with motor vehicles. While he was supposedly in college, Osama Obama was busy indoctrinating deer in the radical Muslim faith. So now they are suicide bombers for Allah, leaping into the path of motor vehicles for the cause.
About 247,000 vehicle crashes per year in the US are caused by deer. That leads to about 200 deaths and $1.1 billion in property damage. About $3 billion more is spent at the state and federal level in an effort to reduce the number of deer-vehicle crashes.
Find another cause, Tiny. Might I suggest cockroaches, which would be more in tune with your mindset?
Obama on the two sides of the gun debacle:
Delete“It’s trying to bridge those gaps that I think is going to be part of the biggest task over the next several months,” he said. “And that means that advocates of gun control have to do a little more listening than they do sometimes.”
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Are you crazy? A liberal listen? They're too busy running their mouths or writing (see the a-hole's dissertation above) to listen.
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DeleteSheriff of Milwaukee wants citizens to defend themselves.
Delete"I need you in the game," he says.
"With officers laid off and furloughed, simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option," he adds. "You can beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under the bed, or you can fight back. ... Consider taking a certified safety course in handling a firearm so you can defend yourself until we get there."
The ad has generated sharp criticism from other area officials and anti-violence advocates. The president of the Milwaukee Deputy Sheriffs' Association, Roy Felber, said it sounds like a call to vigilantism.
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But you know how these nutty liberals are-like GG. They want you to offer these criminals a brownie when they break into your house.
The stupidity of some of these liberals is literally unbelievable.