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Earlier this morning I first read about this and ever since I’ve been trying to find a measure of absurd purpose or mad brilliance in this legislation… but if it’s there I can’t find it.

Two members of this state’s House of Representatives have filed House Bill 494, which if passed would allow for an official religion to be imposed upon North Carolina.

It’s not a late April Fools joke.  Representatives Harry Warren and Carl Ford (each of Rowan County) want an official state religion which would circumvent judicial rulings on prayer at government functions within North Carolina.  Presumably this would be in response to courts which have struck down prayers at county commissioner meetings, school board hearings and the like.  Eleven other representatives so far have backed the proposal.

“The Constitution of the United States does not grant the federal government and does not grant the federal

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Some legislative representatives of neighboring Forsyth County are seeking to re-introduce partisan elections for that county’s school board. Two years ago the General Assembly passed a bill that made elections to the board a matter of no regard to party affiliation.

The measure is being spearheaded by Dale Folwell, one of Forsyth’s representatives in the North Carolina House. And his rationale for partisan school board elections?

…lawmaker Dale Folwell said party affiliations noted on the ballot helps voters make their decisions.

Folwell said nonpartisan races attracted fewer votes in the last election in part because those races are at the bottom of the ballot and because candidates had no party affiliation to help voters choose.

“People, when they go to the ballot box, need as much info as they can get,” Folwell said Friday.

Knowing what party a candidate belongs to is supposed to be vital information?

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Bev Perdue – also known on this blog as “WORST GOVERNOR EVER!” – has done it again. ‘Course to be fair she had help from North Carolina’s lawmakers. Amazon.com has stopped doing business with all of its affiliates in this state: a consequence of, as Amazon.com puts it, “the unconstitutional tax collection scheme expected to be passed any day now by the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) and signed by the governor.”

This is already the most taxed state in the southeast. Piling on more taxes is not a smart move by any measure. But sadly folks, this state’s head honchos have long been drunk on wild spending and are desperate for any way they can find to keep their mad orgy going.

North Carolina, ladies and gentlemen: “The California of the Eastern Seaboard”....

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It’s a scene I’ve watched on television damn too many times: a chief executive like a president or governor sitting behind a desk and smugly signing away another right or liberty, with a backdrop made up of the sorry-a$$ed legislative bastitches, also grinning like they’ve just made some legitimate contribution to the betterment of mankind, who passed the effin’ law to begin with.

In today’s case it was Bev Perdue – who I have already declared to be the worst Governor that North Carolina has ever had with just four months into her term – signing the state-wide smoking ban into law.

That dumb blond and the twits who stood next to her today are now patting themselves on the back for their show of force over the common people of this state. Because, let us be candid folks: the legislators in the General Assembly who passed this, by ...

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For the record: I don’t smoke. I don’t recommend anyone taking up smoking. It’s a nasty habit and I’ve seen what it can do to one’s health. It’s not something I’d wish on anybody.

But I’m also of the mind that it’s left to the individual whether or not he or she chooses to smoke. And that means that it should be up to business owners to decide whether or not they allow smoking in places they own like restaurants and bars.

And I also have come to believe that in the few short months since she was sworn in, that Bev Perdue has already become the worst Governor that I have ever seen North Carolina have in my lifetime. She’s already “effed”-up our educational budget bigtime. Now this…

“An important and historic day for North Carolina.” That’s what Perdue declared today as she announced she would immediately sign ...

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