Comments on: HEDLEY LAMARR, R.I.P.

By: hunglikehussain

hunglikehussain — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:52:56 +0000

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,

By: hunglikehussain

hunglikehussain — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:13:01 +0000

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.

By: Chg

Chg — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:42:09 +0000

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.

By: Coop

Coop — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:07:23 +0000

35 – I mean to say that less and less people use tobacco, each year. Omit the word, “stop,” as that was an editing mistake.

By: Coop

Coop — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:05:15 +0000

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.

By: hunglikehussain

hunglikehussain — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:49:40 +0000

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,

By: hunglikehussain

hunglikehussain — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:17:27 +0000

@31 Coop

James Duke has about 3.5 Billion reasons why your argument has no merit.

By: Mr Pelican Pants

Mr Pelican Pants — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:26:13 +0000

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….

By: Coop

Coop — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:45:47 +0000

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.

By: Herb

Herb — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:38:16 +0000

#17,

Gov. Easley does bear a strong resemblance to Hedley/Coach Franchione.

By: yoyofutbawl

yoyofutbawl — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:29:17 +0000

The only problem is we now get to choose between The Bad & The Ugly for our next 8 years of mismanagement.

Living most of the time in Blowing Rock does soften it, though.

By: poguemahone

poguemahone — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:34:33 +0000

“I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull-dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.”

“Rosebud” and “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” ain’t got shit on that, friend-o.

By: JacketDan

JacketDan — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:31:38 +0000

Dude, this sucks!

Oh . . . Lilly, Lilly . . . Lilly-legs . . . Lilly

I might have to call the missus a Teutonic Twat in honor tonight.

Anybody have a spare couch?

By: Sundawg

Sundawg — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:28:11 +0000

Gum on line?

By: NativeSon

NativeSon — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:27:33 +0000

One of my personal favorites since I was a kid. Sad to see him go.