- Chuck Fowler, Dm Carpenter and 2 others like this.
Verne Strickland Nor me, my good friend. Where is this man's mind? Where is his heart? Hell, where is his pancreas?
Tammy Jobin Covil So much I would LOVE to say about this man. But, being the lady that I am, I'll let you use your imagination as to what I'm thinking.
Benjamin P. Chatham The fact that a university would condone the actions of this man is an indictment of college level education in this Country.- Verne Strickland Tammy -- let it go, girl! We only live once. Whatever you thought about saying (but didn't) you'd be on the side of God -- who is not mocked. That's comforting to me.
- Scott Denison No student should be forced to do anything they find morally or intellectually wrong. The suspention is unconscionable.
- Benjamin P. Chatham Unfortunately this cretin is not alone in his profession. There are many more teaching the young who are just like him/
- Verne Strickland Ben, be reasonable. No one at Florida Atlantic "University" has a clue what "condone" means. My guess is they would think you were saying "condom". You know who's paying their bills? You and me, baby. We have lost control of the purse strings totally. It's damn criminal, isn't it?
Bob Florio they can apologize all they want! Just like entertainers...they only say I'm sorry because they got caught.- Benjamin P. Chatham My grandson is finishing his third year of college at one of the best engineering schools ihn the Country, RPI, courtesy of a US Navy scholarship. But, due to sequester, next year he will have no scholarship so he, his parents, and I will have to make...See More
- Tammy Jobin Covil @ Benjamin - you are correct. The teaching "profession" is crawling with vile, despicable people who are corrupting our innocent children with their propaganda. Would love to be a fly on the wall when this demon spawn tries to explain his actions on judgement day. Vengeance is mine, saith The Lord.
- Benjamin P. Chatham They are not sorry. Any grown man who is supposedly highly educated would have never forced a student to do anything like that. In training people in the military, we called upon
- Scott Denison When you consider that the percentage of people working in the area of their degree always fluxuates between 2 and 5 these collegiate ponces should not hold such sway in our society.
Jennifer Jackson It is everywhere. The single largest tactical mistake that conservatives made was abdicating education to the progressives and radicals. http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=lmDTbWkt9ks&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DlmDTbWkt9ks
- Benjamin P. Chatham Amen, schools ran much better before the systems started taking money from the Federal Government which, like all monetary gifts from Uncle Sam, come with mandates attradhed which always ruin what is being helped.
- Verne Strickland Ben: (on sequester and RPI). Man that's deplorable. So darned sorry. Yes, elements we don't like or trust are pushing deserving people like you and your family around. The didn't earn the right to do this, and don't deserve the power to do it. Stow this in your magazine, keep the powder dry, and fire it back at them when you can. I'll be a spotter for you. The sorry SOBs. I mean it.
- Verne Strickland Benjamin: Jesse warned us -- back in the 60s when LBJ was gearing up his destructive Great Society and War on Poverty. He said it in so many words -- once you let this genie out of the bottle you'll never get it back in. Of course, he was right. I learned so much from him, and he left me with his indelible conservative philosophy which has served me well ever since.
- Benjamin P. Chatham What is really disgusting is there are people right here in Wilmington who are emp;oyed and they getr student loans to obtain training so they can get a job, then they take the money and live on it like welfare and don't get any training. How;s that for stupid>
- Verne Strickland I'd say it pretty damn smart -- but despicable -- for a lazy lout with no morals or principles. But, no -- not to be admired or forgiven. They game the system. They ruin it. They mock its intent. I wish we could punish them suitably for the error of their ways.
- Benjamin P. Chatham I got my indelible conservative philosophy from living in a very conservative area of Upstate NY (unfortunately it is not anymore) and from my parents who worked long and hard to support and educate five sons to achieve much more than they ever could. I won't ever forget their lessons.
Dm Carpenter Had he ordered a student to stomp on 'Allah', 'Koran', or perhaps even 'Gaia', the professor would be the one on the outside.- Verne Strickland Of course not. I'm sure the two of us had the same sort of family setting, were taught honesty, hard work, Christian principles, and generosity. But Ben, we are not being "generous" when we support shiftless individuals who do nothing for their keep, and cause us to work even harder to pay for their obligations. The whole thing is rotten. It will stop when the system is broken. I don't think that is too far off.
- Verne Strickland Dm: I expect he'd be dead, don't you? Muslim radicals play hard ball. Cut off hands, and other ghoulish stuff. That's why their society is so sick. It's based on hatred, intolerance, cruelty and all out war on Christ and Christians. I should forgive, I know. But there's something in me that wants payback.
- Well, friends, this has been one of the hottest threads I have ever launched. It shows how Americans, Christians, Jews, conservatives, patriots, and all who value family, the Lord, and America really feel -- and how pent-up emotions, beliefs, and deep-seated sentiments have gathered in each of us. It has to come out. Only in America can this happen, though. This gives me confidence and faith in who we are and what is right. This has been wonderful. Let's have another great freedom hootenanny real soon, okay -- one where we can let it all hang out like we did tonight. Are you for that? God bless you each and every one! Your pal and fan, Verne.
Monday, March 25, 2013
Verne Strickland Facebook and USA DOT COM launch the great American freedom Hootenanny. Wish you'd joined us.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Gosnell brutally 'snipped' babies' spinal cords, but Big Media don't care.
Verne Strickland Blogmaster
LifeNews.com March 24, 2013
This past week was the first week in the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia-based abortion practitioner who is behind some of the most gruesome acts that have ever been committed in the abortion industry.
In the City of Brotherly Love, this man practiced a kind of hatred towards women and unborn children that is both beyond the pale in terms of its shock and horror but also reflective of the attitude the abortion industry has about the value of human life.
Kermit
Gosnell was no ordinary abortion practitioner. He would jab scissors into the
necks of tiny unborn babies who had already passed the point of viability and
could live on their own.
Not only would he "snip" the spinal cords of these babies, an untrained staffer admitted this week that she would also use medical scissors intended to help bring forth new life to subject babies to a horrific death.
As is often the case, LifeNews.com is leading the way in reporting on and exposing what happened and how the trial is going in Pennsylvania. We've had stories with hard news about the trial itself and what prosecutors are doing to hold Kermit Gosnell and his employees accountable. LifeNews has also featured analysis and opinion from top writers about the implications of this important trial.
But outside of LifeNews, local news outlets, and sympathetic conservative and Christian media, you're not seeing much in the mainstream media about these horrors.
Earlier this week, LifeNews carried a piece from a media watchdog who noted that, as of that writing, ABC, CBS, and NBC’s morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, which began on Monday.
An abortion practitioner may go to jail for the rest of his life or even face the death penalty for dozens and dozens of cases of brutal infanticide and the big networks haven't covered it at all on their newscasts?
Maybe there's too much reality television to report on instead of covering the reality of abortion.
LifeNews will not be silent as the trial continues, but we need your help to continue covering it and to broadcast news about Kermit Gosnell to even more people.
Via Facebook and USA DOT COM, Verne Strickland is proud to assist with coverage of the trial of baby killer Kermit Gosnell of Philadelphia.
Via the Christian company CornerStone Payment Systems, you can make a donation using any credit card or an electronic check. You can also elect to become a monthly or quarterly donor. Click here or click on the donation button:
LifeNews.com March 24, 2013
This past week was the first week in the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia-based abortion practitioner who is behind some of the most gruesome acts that have ever been committed in the abortion industry.
In the City of Brotherly Love, this man practiced a kind of hatred towards women and unborn children that is both beyond the pale in terms of its shock and horror but also reflective of the attitude the abortion industry has about the value of human life.
Kermit
Gosnell was no ordinary abortion practitioner. He would jab scissors into the
necks of tiny unborn babies who had already passed the point of viability and
could live on their own. Not only would he "snip" the spinal cords of these babies, an untrained staffer admitted this week that she would also use medical scissors intended to help bring forth new life to subject babies to a horrific death.
As is often the case, LifeNews.com is leading the way in reporting on and exposing what happened and how the trial is going in Pennsylvania. We've had stories with hard news about the trial itself and what prosecutors are doing to hold Kermit Gosnell and his employees accountable. LifeNews has also featured analysis and opinion from top writers about the implications of this important trial.
But outside of LifeNews, local news outlets, and sympathetic conservative and Christian media, you're not seeing much in the mainstream media about these horrors.
Earlier this week, LifeNews carried a piece from a media watchdog who noted that, as of that writing, ABC, CBS, and NBC’s morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, which began on Monday.
An abortion practitioner may go to jail for the rest of his life or even face the death penalty for dozens and dozens of cases of brutal infanticide and the big networks haven't covered it at all on their newscasts?
Maybe there's too much reality television to report on instead of covering the reality of abortion.
LifeNews will not be silent as the trial continues, but we need your help to continue covering it and to broadcast news about Kermit Gosnell to even more people.
Via Facebook and USA DOT COM, Verne Strickland is proud to assist with coverage of the trial of baby killer Kermit Gosnell of Philadelphia.
Via the Christian company CornerStone Payment Systems, you can make a donation using any credit card or an electronic check. You can also elect to become a monthly or quarterly donor. Click here or click on the donation button:
Thursday, March 21, 2013
N&O columnist flails McCrory on budget -- "not the stuff of which legacies are made"
NC Governor Pat McCrory
By Verne Strickland / March 22, 2013
colored him an incrementalist with a modest vision of what government can or should accomplish."
Verne: Excuse me? Are we now complaining that Pat has no imagination or flair for accomplishment and growth because he is holding the line on spending? I know that in North Carolina the balanced budget is sacrosanct. Pat McCrory should not be mistaken for an empire builder. But he will distinguish himself for his innate sense of responsibility and (gasp) fiscal restraint.
Rob continues: "McCrory’s budget offered no sweeping vision of what he wants his governorship to be about. If anything it seems to be a green-eyeshades budget that puts an emphasis on fixing things or making things run more smoothly – it put more than $1 billion in funds designed to repair buildings or update computers and telecommunications equipment, or build up reserves for future emergencies."
Verne: What the hell? Now you're really making me mad! Of course the "green-eyeshades" dig is insulting enough, but to belittle the "emphasis on fixing things or making things run more smoothly" cuts to the quick. It's childish.
One of the main problems in America and in the states and communities is building exciting monuments to politicians -- gargantuan buildings, soaring bridges, sports palaces -- anything you can put a plaque on saying who spent your money to put up this thing and why they were wonderful.
That ain't all bad. But all over the State, and across the nation, we have neglected infrastructure -- disintegrating streets, highways, bridges, electrical systems, and other necessities that keep us safe, secure and functioning. As a result, these things don't get fixed. No one wants to spend money to keep up something that has lost its luster. How you gonna create excitement by overhauling a municipal sewer system?
"This may be sound management," the N&O blogger ventures, "but it is not the stuff of which legacies are made."
Verne: Legacy? Is that what all this is about? I know that politicians are egotists, but if "building a legacy" breaks the bank, or comes close, then it's clear that this is not why we elect leaders. It's always needlessly expensive, in many cases barely functional.
I don't think I have heard any presidents talk of "my legacy" more than Obama and Clinton. JFK and LBJ, further back in time, had the same affliction.They happen to be showboats with inflated opinions of themselves. They reside in a rarefied atmosphere where they feel they deserve lavish praise and recognition, and, by dang, they are going to buy it. Or we are. Republicans are generally more reserved. George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Dwight D. Eisenhower. And Ronald Reagan? In a class all by himself.
But I seem to be taking a ramp off the Interstate. My point in all of this is to support Pat McCrory, who does have imagination, drive, energy, vision, and great leadership qualities. And to shine the spotlight on his character and capabilities.
He is a businessman. This is what attracted many of us to his candidacy. And I say it's about time that we have a businessman as our Governor. Of late, we've had a succession of skilled politicians, self-promoters, with an occasional embarrassing side trip into malfeasance and total incompetency. This has cost us and tarnished our reputation.
Governor Pat McCrory will do us right. He won't blow his budget on frills. He won't abuse his privileges. He won't misbehave. He will tend to business. He won't fail.
I know you like your Democrats, Rob Christensen. But after the "administrations" of Easley and Purdue, you're going to find Pat McCrory an exceptional governor, a breath of fresh air, and a leader who will accomplish great things -- always within his means. Yep, Rob -- you're gonna love this guy.
By the way, here's just a little bullet point that showed up in an editorial in the N&O on Thursday:
"This budget may be dull, but it’s politically shrewd."
That's what I'm talking about, Rob!
— rchristensen@newsobserver.com
Gov. Pat McCrory proposed a hold-the-line budget on
Wednesday that offered key clues about his still-fledgling governorship.
Budgets by and large are political documents, reflecting the goals and priorities of the governor.
A governor’s first budget is particularly important because the governor is at the height of his or her power to push an agenda through the legislature. McCrory will never has as much leverage as he has today. So what did he do with his leverage?
Andrew Taylor, a political science professor at N.C. State University, said the McCrory budget contrasts with the more ideological proposals coming out of the Republican legislature.
“We have the governor taking a more moderate, pragmatic approach, more interested in issues of management and administration,” Taylor said. “The legislature is taking the bolder, more pre-emptive and ideological position on issues.”
Budgets by and large are political documents, reflecting the goals and priorities of the governor.
A governor’s first budget is particularly important because the governor is at the height of his or her power to push an agenda through the legislature. McCrory will never has as much leverage as he has today. So what did he do with his leverage?
Andrew Taylor, a political science professor at N.C. State University, said the McCrory budget contrasts with the more ideological proposals coming out of the Republican legislature.
“We have the governor taking a more moderate, pragmatic approach, more interested in issues of management and administration,” Taylor said. “The legislature is taking the bolder, more pre-emptive and ideological position on issues.”
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Claude Pope announces run for Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party
MESSAGE FROM CLAUDE E. POPE, JR.
March 21, 2013
I’m running for Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party because I want to build on the successes
we’ve had in the past two election cycles and establish the Republican Party as the dominant political organization in our state for the foreseeable future.
Staying on top is even tougher than getting to the top, in my opinion, but I believe my combination of business and political experience has prepared me to lead the Republican Party to a successful future in North Carolina – and that will be good news for the state and its people.
Our great new Governor, Pat McCrory, and our Republican majority in the
legislature are going to make the reforms and changes North Carolina
needs to get its economy moving again, put an end to the constant tax
increases and pervasive corruption that marked the recent Democrat
years, and give all North Carolinians a government that works
efficiently and treats them like they were valued customers.But the Democrats aren’t going to roll over and play dead. You’ve probably read that they have a plan to “cripple” and “eviscerate” Republican leaders and “weaken their ability to govern.” They promise to use private investigators and other shady tactics to dig up dirt on Republicans.
To fight that kind of disgusting negativism, our party is going to have to be strong, and I’m ready for the challenge.
I’ll work to strengthen local party organizations, to help each of them to “own their sandbox” and win local elections that will add depth to our Republican governing team. I’ll provide mechanisms to support our statewide leaders against the underhanded tactics the Democrats have already announced as their battle plan. I’ll ramp up our fundraising and volunteer efforts – as Wake County Chairman, I set records in both areas.
I’ll reach out to the various constituencies and conservative-minded organizations so we can all work together to build the North Carolina you and I want. And I’ll use my business experience to make sure the whole thing is managed in an effective, efficient way.
That’s my pledge to you, and the basis on which I’m asking for your support at the Republican State Convention in Charlotte June 7 – 9.
I look forward to seeing you there, and to working together in the coming months and years on behalf of the North Carolina Republican Party.
Thank you.
Claude E. Pope, Jr.
P.S. Please visit my website at ElectClaudePope.com for regular updates.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
The five minute NRA speech that would change the gun control debate forever
Verne Strickland Blogmaster / March 18, 2013
Published March 14, 2013
FoxNews.com
Editor's note: Author Scott Pinsker is a marketing and publicity expert who writes occasionally for Fox News Opinion. This is his vision of a speech he would like to see delivered by leaders at the National Rifle Association. It has not been delivered by the NRA.
Greetings. My name is Wayne LaPierre, and I’m the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association. After the national tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, it was my hope that Red America and Blue America would finally come together and try to solve a serious problem, because protecting our children from violent madmen isn’t a conservative position or a liberal position; it’s a common-sense position.
Sadly, instead of offering new solutions, the same anti-gun zealots who’ve always hated the Second Amendment have politicized the deaths of kindergartners, adopting the Rahm Emanuel tactic of “Never letting a good crisis go to waste.” Anti-gun newspapers have even published the names and private addresses of law-abiding gun-owners – something they would NEVER do to sex offenders, drug addicts, wife-beaters, AIDS victims, welfare recipients or women who’ve had an abortion – and rightly so.
The Sandy Hook tragedy, the Virginia Tech shooting, the Aurora “Batman” shooting, the Tucson shooting – all of the killers were mentally unstable young men who were prescribed mind-altering psychiatric drugs.
But this still doesn’t do enough to protect our children. The time for partisanship is over; now is the time for action. And that’s why the NRA is requesting the assistance of the ACLU.
The Sandy Hook tragedy, the Virginia Tech shooting, the Aurora “Batman” shooting, the Tucson shooting – all of the killers had something in common: They were all mentally unstable young men who were prescribed mind-altering psychiatric drugs.
These killers didn’t purchase their guns illegally, or watch Fox News, or circumvent background checks by attending gun shows. They didn’t have prior convictions or troubling police records. That’s not the common denominator. The common denominator is that these young men were sick – and everyone knew it.
The ACLU has done more than any other organization to protect the legal rights of mentally sick people.
This is a fact.
Because of the ACLU, mentally sick people can refuse medical treatment or psychiatric care, even when their mental condition has left them homeless and penniless. Even in situations like Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old Sandy Hook killer, whose own mother, according to reports, was unable to mandate medical treatment for her son.
The NRA doesn’t hate the mentally ill. They deserve our compassion and our help. But sick young men have spilled far too much innocent blood. This simply cannot continue.
The NRA is hereby inviting the ACLU to join us on a study to find common-sense solutions that will prevent violent madmen from harming our children. And then together, it’s our hope that the NRA and the ACLU will offer these solutions directly to President Obama.
This won’t be easy. It’s anathema to the NRA to deny any law-abiding American the right to bear arms, just as it’s anathema to the ACLU to deny any American the same civil liberties of his neighbors. But despite our personal biases, there must be a solution that’s better than the status quo!
An inspirational politician once declared that there isn’t a Red America and a Blue America, or a black America and a white America – there’s the United States of America. As Americans, let’s come together, rise above the rhetoric, and actually do something that protects our children.
Thank you.
Scott Pinsker is a marketing and publicity expert who specializes in brand-development for celebrities, entertainment properties and corporate conglomerates. He lives in Tampa Bay, Florida.
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