HEDLEY LAMARR, R.I.P.
Harvey Korman was the voice of the Great Gazoo on the Flintstones and a superb straight man on The Caroll Burnett Show, but to us he’ll forever be Hedley Lamarr from Blazing Saddles. Deep down, Hedley represents the id in us all: a scheming, power-mad pervert prone to spouting purple prose bent on manipulating the world around him in unnecessarily elaborate ways. Or, as we call him, a role model for us all in a swanky suit and mustache.
R.I.P. Harvey. Go do that voodoo you do so well.
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60 minutes political synopsis…..
Vinroot… conservative Republican. Contrary to your views, the rural Tecumseh Sherman/Lincoln syndrome of voting exclusively for Democrats departed around the Reagan era. Hmmmmm….
Support from African-Americans….+/-10%. Admirable from a state that gave Jesse Helms a 30 year career. Jessie, a Senator (due to the largess of RJR, American and Phillip Morris) was never known for his stance on civil rights.
Non-support from the group 5’s. Maybe an Edwards thing. Tort reform. Fuck that. Probably insignificant.
What is the reason???
Then I come upon the of “Educator Competence” issue.
Dumbass…see: Roy Barnes.
School teachers have a solidarity that Teamsters/Longshoreman envy. Bingo!
Sincerely,
Comment by hunglikehussain — June 2, 2008 @ 6:52 pm
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Coop, tobacco may be dying a slow agonizing death, but the dividends are nice. Equity from RJR has about run its course. Speaking of corporate death, Charlotte based Wachovia has put their head in the oven.
Comment by hunglikehussain — June 2, 2008 @ 5:13 pm
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Coop, you have a way with people. You should tell all those po ign’rant folk that dare to disagree with you to eat arugula. You may find this hard to believe, but there are a good many people that don’t care for every transformation wrought by enlightened transplants.
Comment by Chg — June 2, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
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35 - I mean to say that less and less people use tobacco, each year. Omit the word, “stop,” as that was an editing mistake.
Comment by Coop — June 2, 2008 @ 10:07 am
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Um, HlH…
is this 1927?
Oh, gotcha…
Show me the private tobacco concern that wields any power, today.
Actually, show me the public tobacco concern that wields any real power.
Each year the number of tobacco farmers in the US drops, as more and more take that government subsidy check to plant a different crop/s.
Each year, state after state increase taxes on tobacco.
South Carolina recently publicly rejected an increased tax on tobacco because as less and less people stop using the substance, the revenue generated will not be sufficient to pay for the programs that SC would be allowed to use the funds for.
Granted, that was a public explanation, and SC lawmakers are deep in the pockets of big tobacco, not to mention that supplementing Medicaid with a 25% increase is better than a 0% increase, but I digress.
The bottom line is that tobacco is dying a very slow, a very painful death in this country.
Simple supply and demand that the blue collar folks understand better than you, apparently.
Comment by Coop — June 2, 2008 @ 10:05 am
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Coop by the way, if there has ever been a group of people more stereotyped, maligned, made fun of in the popular media and throughout popular culture……it is the HICK….or redneck, sooner, hillbilly,bumpkin, yokel, cracker, bubba, coonass or white trash. Common folks that had an acre dedicated to tobacco or “Christmas Money” should have been enlightened by your obvious elitist insight. Pig farmers…..the lot of them should cease to exist. Let them eat veal!
Seriously, I have no knowledge of the gubernatorial workings of North Carolina. I offer no opinions. Just refrain from the offensive hyperbole.
Your friend,
Comment by hunglikehussain — May 31, 2008 @ 9:49 pm
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@31 Coop
James Duke has about 3.5 Billion reasons why your argument has no merit.
Comment by hunglikehussain — May 31, 2008 @ 9:17 pm
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Well at least he used his tongue prettier than a 20 dollar whore, and 20 dollars was a shitload back in them frontier days, that would be like 20,000 now, which is saying something, just ask that guy in New York….
Comment by Mr Pelican Pants — May 30, 2008 @ 6:26 pm
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If North Carolinians had any sense, Vinroot would be governor at the moment.
Hopefully the hicks to the east and the west and the north of us will not make the same mistake and reject another former Charlotte mayor, merely because they resent us transplants who have made Charlotte, and to a lesser extent, North Carolina, what it is today.
Yeah, tobacco and pork bellies don’t make the world go round, Farmer Joe.
Comment by Coop — May 30, 2008 @ 3:45 pm