More like this please: This is from 15-year-old, Carter Smith, interviewing people in his (her – Sorry, Dad) church. We need to get on the air with commercials featuring the voices of people who oppose Amendment One. They are needed to educate voters about the harms and impact of the amendment — and the latest PPP poll suggests many voters do not … Read More
Texas Tornados
Really ugly stuff. This video is hard to see, but stick with it until the end. It picks up 18-wheelers and tosses them high into the air.
Conservatives Against Amendment One
Lots of them….
Conspiracy Theorists Are Going To Love This
Two stories: First, this one about one of the Obama girls going on spring break with her class to Oaxaca Mexico. Initial press reports about it on the Internet were "scrubbed". An AFP report that President Barack Obama’s 13-year-old daughter, Malia, is spending spring break in Oaxaca, Mexico appears to have been completely scrubbed from the Internet news sites that … Read More
Will Amendment One Lose?
It might: Elon, N.C. – A new Elon University Poll released today shows that a majority of North Carolinians oppose Amendment One, a constitutional amendment on the May 8, 2012, North Carolina primary ballot that bans relationship recognitions and threatens protections for the state’s unmarried couples. The nonpartisan poll revealed that 54.2% of North Carolinians surveyed either oppose or strongly … Read More
End of The World Starts Tomorrow
Here's why: A strong geomagnetic storm is racing from the Sun toward Earth, and its expected arrival on Thursday could affect power grids, airplane routes and space-based satellite navigation systems, U.S. space weather experts said. The storm, a big cloud of charged particles flung from the Sun at about 4.5 million miles per hour (7.2 million km per hour), was spawned by a pair of solar flares, scientists … Read More
Tornados
Not a good time to be in the midwest. Here's one of many tornados that hit today (this one in Indiana) Note: There are reports that Henryville, Indiana is "gone". This tornado is near Henryville, and may be one of the culprits.
RIP Andrew Breitbart: Death Of A Douchebag, Indeed
So yesterday we learn of the sudden passing of Andrew Breitbart at the age of 43, from "natural causes". There is a convention in polite society that you do not speak ill of the dead. Or at the very least, that you allow some time for the body to cool before you reflect — politely — on one's past. And … Read More
The Obligatory Whitney Houston Post
I wasn't a fan. I didn't have anything against her unquestionable talent or personality; I just wasn't a big fan. But her passing is sad, especially given the struggles she had throughout life. One would have hoped for a better ending. One would have hoped for her to age gracefully and become the Grande Dame of Something. Sadly, it was … Read More
Greensboro Joins List of NC Communities Opposed To Amendment 1
In an 8-1 vote, the City Council of Greensboro, North Carolina approved a resolution opposing a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban any legal recognition of same-sex couples. Greensboro joins Raleigh and Chapel Hill all in opposition to Amendment 1, which comes to a vote on May 8. Watch a report on the resolution from WFMY News.
Not. Buying. It.
Captain Francesco Schettino's reason for leaving the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia while most of its passengers were still struggling to get off? "I tripped". Whew! Good thing there was a lifeboat underneath him to catch his fall!
Perry’s Out & Other Tidbits
According to sources…. … oh, and rather than losing to Romney by 8 votes in Iowa, Rick Santorum actually won there by 34 votes … oh, and Marianne Gingritch, who once boasted that she could end her ex-husband's campaign with a single interview, has sat down for a two-hour interview with ABC… to be aired Monday (after South Carolina). I … Read More
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Forsyth County Prayer Case
Good local First Amendment news: WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a North Carolina county commission over the mostly Christian prayers offered at the beginning of its public meetings. The justices on Tuesday left in place a federal appeals court ruling that held that the predominantly Christian prayers at the start of Forsyth County commission meetings violated … Read More
Russian Satellite To Kill Us All
There's a lot of space debris in space, orbitting the Earth. When those orbits decay, as they do over time, the debris burns up upon re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. No biggie. Unless the debris is really big to begin with — like an out-of-use satellite. Some of the debris survives re-entry and crashes to Earth. We've seen a few of … Read More
NC Official Resigns In Protest of Marriage Amendment
Harnett County Director of Elections Sherre Toler has forcefully resigned so as to avoid having to facilitate North Carolina’s discriminatory marriage inequality amendment in May. In a letter of protest, Toler compared voting on same-sex marriage to voting on interracial marriage and announced she would be forming a political consulting business to “defeat the effort to write discrimination into the North Carolina … Read More