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No Truer Words Have Ever Been Spoken: Quran Burning Story and the Media
On a side note, we sort of have a “microscopic cult of idiots” around here, we just call ‘em the tea baggers. Sorry, tea party. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/10/this-is-how-the-media-wor_n_712229.html?igoogle=1 Quran Burning Story: This Is How The Media Embarrass Themselves
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Earl Update: Morehead City Radar
Earl packing 115 mph winds tracking N-NW. Should be off the coast of NC close to Elizabeth City (100 or so miles east as the crow flies) around 2am.
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Is This A MasterCard Commercial? NBC-17 Cam Crew Sets Up For Earl.
Utility grade pop-up tents to keep the sun off…$485 dollars. Sony HiDef HD Cams with multi-pacs…$8,500. Watchin’ it all blow away as a news producer drops the F Bomb….PRICELESS !
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Wilson Co Tea Party Debate-SCAM SCAM SCAM
Quote: Putting the Wilson County Tea Party in charge of this debate is like putting Bernie Madoff in charge of the SEC. I was sent this a couple of days ago after the Wilson Tea Baggers decided to make it a “free” event by giving away 130 tickets. Let me be clear, by saying I…
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Fireworks on the “Dave Perkins” 99.3 Morning Show Over Calvin Woodard – John Farmer Debate– (and the backstory)
For the past two days, I’ve called into the 99.3 Morning Show and aired my concerns over the way Dave Perkins has (in my humble opinion) somewhat misled listeners regarding the Woodard-Farmer debate—specifically the lack of a debate. In a nutshell, DP is trying to discredit Woodard for not agreeing to debate Farmer in a…
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Wall Street Journal Pins GK Butterfield to House Travel Stipends Probe—But Is It "Much Ado About Nothing”?
I’m putting this out there in “blog land” because (in my humble opinion) this as it relates to Butterfield is not going anywhere and is ‘much ado about nothing”. If you add all the $10 dollars here and $50 dollars there, Butterfield would be hard pressed to gather enough cash to buy a deceit meal…
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Fitch Upgrades North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency (NCEMPA) to ‘A-‘; Outlook Stable
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fitch Ratings assigns an ‘A-‘ rating to the $185 million North Carolina Eastern Municipal Power Agency (NCEMPA) power system revenue refunding bonds, series 2010 A & B. The 2010 bonds are expected to price on Sept. 8, 2010. Proceeds will be used to current refund certain maturities of the series 1993B bonds. In…
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Poll: Majority Of GOP Believes Obama Sympathizes With Islamic Fundamentalism, Wants Worldwide Islamic Law
If you tell a lie long enough people will begin to believe it. Rush Limbaugh knows this to be true as does the likes of Glen Beck, Bernie Madoff, Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling (ENRON), Bernard Ebbers of WorldCom and Dennis Kozlowski & Mark Swartz of Tyco. All of the former either told extraordinary lies and…
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North Carolina In The Running for $3.4 Billion of Fed Education Money
Race to the Top School Reform Grant: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2010/0824/Race-to-the-Top-losers-Why-did-Louisiana-and-Colorado-fail