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Before I share the ultimate point of this post, I want you to take a good hard look at this photograph.

This is Kenneth Rogers, MD.

From 2020 until late 2022 Kenneth Rogers was the director of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health.  He was my ultimate “boss” during much of the time when I was a peer support specialist with this area’s mental health office.  Rogers was ostensibly charged with guiding the agency with wisdom and integrity.
That is the furthest thing from what Kenneth Rogers really was.  In truth he turned out to be a far-left activist who had no compunctions about enforcing his own agenda upon the thousands of hard-working and dedicated mental health workers working for the state.
Rogers saw South Carolina Department of Mental Health as his personal play toy.  He turned his position into a bully pulpit for his ideological beliefs.  He
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I feel kind of foolish now.  In preparation for what was being declared a disaster of massive proportions, I stocked up on a dozen cans of deviled ham and jugs of water and got ready for the worst.  The storm was supposed to hit mid-day on Saturday (two days ago) with snow and sleet, then become freezing rain with 1-3 inches of ice on all the exposed surfaces.  We were told to get ready to be trapped inside for the next three or four days.

Instead, there was a nice bit of snowfall yesterday morning about 1 a.m.  With below freezing temperatures it did make travel a bit hazardous.  But the much-ballyhooed thick sheets of ice never came about.  There was some rain yesterday evening but the system moved out of the area sooner than expected.   It also began warming a bit.  About 2 this morning the temperature was
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Because of a number of factors I wasn’t able to have Thanksgiving yesterday with dear friends as is the usual custom.  But they resolved that we were going to come together today and celebrate all the things that we have to be thankful for.  So a little before noon they arrived at my front door and we headed off to the nearby town of Landrum, South Carolina for a meal at Stax’s Drake House.

Folks, I’m not lying.  I hadn’t had real food in over three months.  My selections at the grocery store have been pathetic.  I had been so focused on finishing the manuscript of my book that proper eating simply hasn’t registered at all.  So all this time I’ve more or less been making do with French bread pizzas purchased at the nearby Aldi.  My dog Tammy, with the food in those little foil cans that I’ve ...

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Disclaimer: I have yet to see Disney’s Frozen, so I have no idea about how extensive Elsa’s criminal activities go.  I’m assuming they are pretty pervasive, given how much I’ve heard it talked about by numerous children I’ve found myself around.

Just days after police in Harlan, Kentucky issued a warrant for her arrest, Queen Elsa was located this morning all the way in Hanahan: a small town near Charleston, South Carolina.  Hanahan police spotted Elsa freezing a fountain in broad daylight.  Police swooped in and arrested the Snow Queen before she could bring down the fury of a cold front threatening the area.

ABC News 4 is reporting that…

With more bitter cold heading to the Lowcountry this week, Hanahan
police officers tried to do their part to stop the encroaching weather
by arresting the Snow Queen.

Police Chief Mike Cochran and Officer Flor Reyes made

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I have heard many dissenting opinions during my lifetime as to who fired the first shot: the Union army that was holding Fort Sumter, or the newly-minted Confederate army (which is said to have initiated hostilities with a 10-inch mortar round from nearby Fort Johnston).

But there is no dispute about the fact that the bombardment of Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina – an act which had no combat casualties – would lead to the greatest conflict in American history and the loss of more than six hundred thousand lives on both sides.

It was one hundred and fifty years ago today, on April 12th, 1861, that the North and South first clashed at Fort Sumter.

The American Civil War had begun.

This blogger pauses to remember those on both sides of th ewar, who fought only for what they sincerely believed to the best of ...

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What. The. Hell. ?!?

If you are a “subversive” person – i.e. if you are honked-off enough with the government that you think it should be overthrown or even coerced in any way whatsoever (which could mean anything) – and you happen to live in South Carolina, you must now register with that state’s government or else get slapped with a $25,000 fine and up to ten years in prison.

Hit here for the full text of the “Subversive Activities Registration Act”, which is now codified in the South Carolina law books.

Right off the top of my head, this law violates the First Amendment (right of peaceable assembly), the Fifth Amendment (protection against self-incrimination) and damn near everything that the Founders had in mind when they wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Who the hell in the South Carolina legislature voted for this abomination? Whoever they are, they should...

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If the United States keeps “spending a bunch of money we don’t have”, it faces a collapse of its economy much like what has happened in Zimbabwe, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford predicts.

In case you haven’t heard, the financial hyper-inflation which has rocked Zimbabwe has led that country to issue a one trillion dollar bill as part of its currency. For one of those legal tender notes, you can currently buy a hamburger or two.

Sanford gets what’s really going on. Too bad there doesn’t seem to be many other elected officials who are likewise calling for fiscal sobriety right now....

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Regarding Jonesville Church of God in upstate South Carolina that a few days ago caused a furor with it’s vile church sign attempting to link presidential candidate Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden: today it’s being reported that Pastor Roger Byrd chickened out and removed the message.

And why did Byrd do this in the first place? In his own words…

“His name is so close to Osama I feeling might be Islamic therefore he doesn’t recognize Christ.”

Ummmm… saywhu…?

So simply because “Obama” sounded “Islamic” (whatever the hell that means) that this meant he automatically had to be assigned a religion? Isn’t that fully counter to everything that Jesus, and then Paul and the other apostles, preached?

Roger Byrd can’t get out of this no matter what he tries. It’s obvious to everyone that this was a petty blow, motivated by worldly politics, that did nothing but inflict damage ...

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Could somebody please tell me where there is a scriptural mandate for what the Jonesville Church of God in upstate South Carolina is doing with their sign?

From the story at WYFF in Greenville’s website…

Small Church’s Obama Sign Causes Big Controversy

POSTED: 4:20 pm EDT April 21, 2008
UPDATED: 10:18 pm EDT April 21, 2008

JONESVILLE, S.C. — The sign in front of a small church in a small town is causing a big controversy in Jonesville, S.C.

Pastor Roger Byrd said that he just wanted to get people thinking. So last Thursday, he put a new message on the sign at the Jonesville Church of God.

It reads: “Obama, Osama, hmm, are they brothers?”

Byrd said that the message wasn’t meant to be racial or political.

“It’s simply to cause people to realize and to see what possibly could happen if we were to get someone in

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