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From Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis…

The person who submitted the photo writes…

“Got the photo from a friend. The white sign that has been blacked out used to be the Toy Center. The biggest & best toy store in New Orleans in the late 50’s early 60’s. The Coca Cola bottling plant & Tulane Shirt Company were just to the left on S. Jefferson Davis Parkway. Times have changed.”

I remember back in the early Nineties when Haiti was being torn apart following the military coup that overthrew Aristide. People there became so hard-up for money, that they had resorted to looting cemeteries: digging up graves to steal jewelry, gold teeth and even silk casket linings to sell. That’s the kind of desperation that whenever I see a picture like this or hear somesuch else so similar, I have to wonder how far we really are from the ...

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Ron Price (full name Ronald Filer Price), disgraced at-large member of the Rockingham County Board of Education and confessed campaign sign thief, couldn’t go the distance with his lawsuit against Richard and Debbie Moore, so he’s thrown in the towel.

Price and his attorney Douglas Hux dropped the lawsuit yesterday. You can click on the graphic on the right to see the dismissal. It was done “with prejudice” and voluntarily… meaning that Price can’t bring this same lawsuit up again.

There was no settlement. Price simply gave up.


(much bigger version of “Sir Ronald” graphic here)

Ron Price was suing the Moores for trying to hold Price accountable for his stealing campaign signs on the night before the 2006 general election. Among other things Price describes in his lawsuit how Richard Moore wore a t-shirt that said “If this shirt is missing look in Ron Price’s trunk” ...

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I wouldn’t mind saying out loud, even though I’ve now given on-the-record testimony during deposition, that Ron Price’s lawsuit against Richard and Debbie Moore is a steaming pile of horse manure. Except that doing so would be a dire insult to horses everywhere.

(Here is my own report about being deposed and here is Richard’s account, which includes not only my own time on the “witness stand” but his own and that of Debbie and Ron Price… who I especially heard did not do so well.)

In my admittedly non-legally trained estimation, this case is going to be laughed out of court. But that won’t be before Price and his attorney Doug Hux will have (a) wasted a lot of our valuable time and money, (b) wasted a lot of the public’s valuable time and money, and (c) continued to set a horrible example to this county’s young ...

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Look! Lawsuit!

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That’s the full text of the lawsuit that admitted sign-stealer and disgraceful Rockingham County Board of Education member Ron Price has filed against Richard and Debbie Moore. And as was revealed here a few weeks ago, I was expecting to be called in for deposition in the suit by Price.

Indeed, a short while ago a Rockingham County Sheriff’s Department deputy came to my door and served me with this summons…

So I’m supposed to show up at the Eden law office of attorney Douglas R. Hux (note: I have no idea of what Douglas Hux looks like so for right now I’m using this depiction of attorney Lionel Hutz from The Simpsons) next Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m. And testify, or something, in Ron Price’s lawsuit against the Moores.

I don’t mind saying this out loud and for everyone to hear, that this ...

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Incidentally, it was one year ago tonight that Ronald Filer Price, “conservative candidate” for Rockingham County Board of Education, stole the campaign signs belonging to U.S. House member Brad Miller. And then a number of citizens – including a doctor – spotted Ron’s pilfering. Price admitted to the Reidsville cops that he had taken them, and claimed the following night on live television that he feared for his life because he was being chased by “goons”.

Price, now too morally-tainted to serve on the Board, wound up elected and he had the gall to get sworn in anyway (but come the swearing-in ceremony, he meekly had to admit that there was nobody to hold his Bible for him). Ron “The Con” has since gained a reputation as being the most arrogant, sneering member of the Rockingham County school board, looking down on those he brands as “bad for the community” ...

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Opponents of a school bond referendum in Davie County have vandalized thousands of dollars worth of signs supporting to measure and it’s being treated as an actual crime there. I’m going to do some more looking into this come early next week. Funny how a few counties over it’s treated as a serious criminal matter (as it should be) but here in Rockingham County it’s almost as if it’s no big deal when other people’s political signs are messed with.

Speaking of Ron Price, there’s one more thing – at least – that is in the works. You’ll know it when you see it.

Thanks to Penny Owens for forwarding along this news video from WGHP Fox 8....

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This is why some things are worth fighting…

According to a story from Media General, Rockingham County schools exceed the state average when it comes to school violence. For the school year 2005-06 there were “64 reports of possession of a controlled substance, 43 reports of possession of a weapon, 20 reports of possession of alcoholic beverages, 13 reports of assault on personnel, three reports of assault resulting in serious injury, three reports of bomb threats, and one report each of possession of a firearm, sexual offense and assault involving use of a weapon.”

Meanwhile, the News & Record is reporting that given a typical group of 10 students from Rockingham County, “half have had sex, three have smoked pot and, within the previous two weeks, two have gotten drunk. At least three have beaten another person, two have carried a weapon for protection, two smoked cigarettes, one has ...

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The latest news from the ongoing scandal of elected school board candidate/admitted misdemeanor larceny offender Ron Price.

At 9 a.m. this morning Price showed up for his first court appearance in district court in Wentworth, stemming from his stealing the seven campaign signs from incumbent U.S. House candidate Brad Milller on the night before the election a few weeks ago. Based on reports I’ve received, not a whole lot happened. Price just had his attorney recognized by the court. He’s next due to appear in court on January 25th: presumably then he’ll have to answer to the charges.

So this doesn’t change the fact that Price is probably going to be sworn in on December 11th… but without this thing having a quick resolution, it’s going to be hanging around his neck like the proverbial dead albatross. And everyone is going to know it. He may legally have a seat, ...

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In all honesty, I’d thought that this election would be something I would have already put behind me. It was a great three months from the time I filed to run until the night the votes came in. I still haven’t felt a moment’s regret in not winning a seat: 4,648 are just too many votes to be anything but ecstatic about.

But yet here I am: still compelled to be writing, this time about things that never should have happened because of this election. Or at least in a sane world would have met with some accountability already.

Maybe that’s one of the reasons why God led me to run: to chronicle not just what happens in the life of a political candidate, but to observe some of the things that are wrong in our system… like when an elected official is caught breaking the law and when a ...

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There is now a petition being circulated throughout Rockingham County (note: file is in Acrobat format) calling for the removal of Ron Price from the school board.

And Penny Owens, one of the unsuccessful candidates for school board, has found what is apparently the North Carolina statute calling for removal of a school board member on grounds of immoral conduct:

§ 115C‑39. Removal of board members; suspension of duties by State Board. (a) In case the State Board of Education has sufficient evidence that any member of a local board of education is not capable of discharging, or is not discharging, the duties of his office as required by law, or is guilty of immoral or disreputable conduct, the State Board of Education shall notify the chairman of such board of education, unless such chairman is the offending member, in which case all other members of such board shall be

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