David DeGerolamo has informed me of Seen.is (Iceland?!) a facebook style social media platform. I’m checking it out now, its not nearly as active as fakebook, but there are some folks on it.
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The Fraser Fir (Abies fraseri) is our State Christmas Tree. It is an indigenous tree with a very small natural range growing only in Southwestern Virginia, Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina above 3900 feet. Named for Scottish botanist John Fraser, it is cultivated for use as a Christmas tree locally as well as in […]
MSN also WRAL and probably others. Bladenboro, NC Lennon Lacy was found hanging from a swing set at 7:25 am August 29. Local police have ruled it a suicide, but the family has contacted the NAACP. NAACP state president ‘Rev’ William J barber II, of ‘Moral Monday‘ fame, has opined that the cops half-assed the […]
I thought it was odd that so many foreigners (and not just Yankees) lived in my area. We’ve got Hmong and Montagnards from SE Asia, Nigerians (some with tribal scaring- diversity bonus points!), Jamaicans, various South and Central Americans, Pakistanis and Indians (dots and feathers, but the feathers are indigenous). Turns out we have our […]
Rodanthe and Waves seem to have gotten the worst of the soundside flooding. Island Free Press HATTERAS ISLAND Much of the damage of Hatteras involved downed or uprooted trees and tree limbs and other debris on the ground, roads, and driveways. There was also scattered damage to roofs. Sound flooding was minimal on the southern […]
I may just be in a bad mood, but skimming these sites is actually making me angry. unitingnc With your support, we will continue to add programs that: Help recent immigrants better integrate into their new communities. Help longtime North Carolinians understand the challenges faced by more recent immigrants, and the dreams they hope to […]
JD News RALEIGH — In recognition of North Carolina’s 100 craft breweries and their positive impact on the state’s economy, Governor Pat McCrory has proclaimed April 2014 as “North Carolina Beer Month.” NC Beer Month, co-sponsored by the North Carolina Division of Tourism and the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild, encourages residents and travelers alike […]
The Social Contract Jose Guadalupe Ramirez-Ambriz, 38, is currently wanted on multiple counts of first-degree statutory sex offense with a child under the age of 13 and indecent liberties with a minor. He is currently on the run, and investigators with the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) and the U.S. Marshals’ Fugitive Task Force are […]
VIA Free NC The NC State Capitol House Chambers that is; for the 25th Annual Robert E. Lee Birthday Celebration to be held at the NC State Capitol in Raleigh on Saturday, January 18, 2014beginning at 2:00 PM. See the attached invitation and feel free to pass this onto your family and friends. Let’s show the General how much we honor his service to the […]
Squirrel’s Nest I don’t believe in luck. Do you? We are in the process, every day, of getting the government we don’t deserve. While I understand that many of you are living in big cities and are impotent to change the local scene. Get out now! Get to a small town and get involved. Do […]
The Soffitrat is apparently a member of his town’s government and is prepping his whole town! “Now I might be able to address, again, the possibility I have been working towards. That of a well, with a reverse osmosis purification system. We removed one of our surface tanks a few years ago, and made the […]
Via Free NC Sunday in the South Thanksgiving is not just an American holiday. It is a Christian holiday. Despite popular American nostalgia that the first Thanksgiving was held by the Pilgrims after the arrival of the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock, it actually had its English beginnings along the James River at present-day Berkley Plantation […]
CNN’s piece on the knock out game, part of what Colin Flaherty has documented in his book White Girl Bleed Alot, reminded me of John Derbyshire’s The Talk,the article at Taki’s mag which got him fired from National Review. A pertinent excerpt from The Talk: (10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you […]
Via Plott Hound Star News Online Leland’s policy, which went into effect June 1, states, “The Leland Police Department recognizes that members of the general public have a First Amendment right to video record, photograph, and/or audio record Leland Police Department officers while they are conducting official business or while acting in an official capacity […]
Island Free Press The National Park Service technically owns all the beaches, ocean and sound, between the villages on the Outer Banks. Due to the government shutdown, they have closed them all. I don’t understand how they don’t have the resources to patrol parking areas and beaches to keep them open, while still having the […]
via Carolina Plott Hound News and Record WENTWORTH − Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page identified the men who allegedly broke into Hall Well & Plumbing early Monday. Jesse Ray Walker, 28, of Reidsville, was shot and killed at the business. Business owner Steve Hall shot him with a shotgun after Walker charged him, Page said. […]
Dr. Michael Hill’s speech at the 2013 League of the South conference via Occidental Dissent.
Is this the new tourism? I hope not. Over 150 radical leftists and professional protesters from California, New York and Florida were arrested at the North Carolina legislative building this week. Far left groups are holding weekly protests to encourage GOP lawmakers to spend more money and allow same-day registration and voting. Something N.C. NAACP […]
VIA Plott Hound Kinston.com Sureño 13 is in Kinston, and the California-based gang wants you to know it. Seemingly overnight, gang tags appeared at Emma Webb Park, on brick walls on Independence and North Queen Streets and on the walls of Grainger Stadium. Large, spray-painted tags included terms common to law enforcement, like “Sureño 13,” […]
A lot of time is spent contemplating what a collapse would look like here, how about this: The drivers of the trucks are threatened. If they chose to come anyways to bring the fuel, criminal groups set their trucks on fire or are executed. That is what they have been warned. Pemex stations are empty, […]
Tim Manning posted on Facebook that his house was raided on May 1. The story seems to have made it around the ‘net a bit. Apparently, the stated reason for the warrant was to pick up Mr. Manning’s son, Christopher, a Fugitive Recovery Agent on an assault charge. The Marble Hill Constitution picked up the […]
Michael C. Hardy On Wednesday, North Carolina governor Pat McCrory announced his budget proposal for 2013-2015. While there is much to be applauded in the budget, including a $139 million dollar surplus at the end of the year, the closing of five North Carolina historic sites, an estimated savings of a mere $498,712, is not […]
Via Free NC News and Record RALEIGH, N.C. — A Confederate battle flag hung inside the old North Carolina State Capitol last week to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War is being taken down after civil rights leaders raised concerns. The decision was announced Friday evening, hours after the Associated Press published a story […]
With a hat tip to Reclaiming Beauty Crisis magazine: Architecture is the setting for how we live and the expression of how we think. It reflects our shaping of the world in order to inhabit it, and the geometry of what we build is far from neutral. The built environment, like the biological and other […]
Update: Still haven’t found a plott puppy. Carolina Plott Hound New rules for gun shows Norma McCorvey never wanted an abortion — she was seeking a divorce from her husband — but young, pro-abortion feminist attorney Sarah Weddington used McCorvey’s case as a means of attempting to overturn Texas’ law making most abortions illegal. Weddington […]
WRAL Raleigh, N.C. — State transportation officials announced Thursday that they will begin issuing driver’s licenses and ID cards March 25 to some immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children but qualify under a federal program that blocks deportation and grants work permits. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program blocks […]
WCNC During a speech Wednesday afternoon at the Linamar Corp. plant in Asheville, he opened his speech by praising the city and region and even hinted it could be his retirement destination. “It is good to be back. I love coming to Asheville,” Obama said. “Michelle and I always talk about how if—after this whole […]
LOS Rebellion Blog Our theme: “Grassroots Political Activism” Expect serious discussion, dialogue, and practical political solutions.Members are expected, guests are most welcome. Time: Saturday, 9 February, 11AM-3PM, Allred Banquet Room, K&W Cafeteria, Burlington, NC Conference admission is $10 per person, $15 for husband & wife. NC LS Conference Schedule: 11AM: Conference Welcome – Bernhard Thuersam, […]
Here’s a few samples from my new Cafe press Store. Follow the link and scroll to see everything.http://www.cafepress.com/NCLinks
Via NC Gun Blog: “Why Do I Need A Gun? Because I might happen to live in a house where a gang member used to live. The (Victims) were the unintended victims of a shooting that targeted a member of the VDM gang, an acronym for Very Dangerous Mexicans, investigator E.A. Welch stated in the search […]
I keep hearing that diversity is our strength, but reading the FBIs 2011 national Gang Threat Assessment, I have my doubts. For instance, we’ve all heard about the Crips, Bloods and Latin Kings, but how about: Asian Gangs “Asian gangs, historically limited to regions with large Asian populations, are expanding throughout communities nationwide. Although often […]
Found on Plott Hound: NC man sentenced for punching Gabon Ambassador. Oldest dated house in NC. Newfound Gap Road (US 441) washed out by landslide. Pics Parking lot laws. Politicians making noise: Burr Ellmers Hudson Package deal! Fox, Burr, Ellmers, Watt, Hagan, Coble News and Record says its not that bad. House Pundit disagrees.
Wednesday January 16 the Moccasin Creek Minutemen held a meeting with Sheriffs Donnie Harrison of Wake County, Jerry Jones of Franklin County and Carey Winders of Wayne County. NC Renegade has posted a lot of videos. In short, they are law enforcers, period. I did not attend. Following are my thoughts from watching the videos. […]
VIA Rebellion blog: Please plan to attend the annual Robert E. Lee Birthday Observance at the Old State Capitol House Chambers, downtown Raleigh this coming Saturday, 19 January at 2PM. The birth date of Lee has been observed as a legal holiday in North Carolina since the early 1890s, and it is one of three […]
14 year old Henderson, NC teen shoots burglar coincidentally named Henderson. “I just shot the man. He came around the corner. I shot him. He broke the whole glass out (of the back door),” the teen told the 911 dispatcher. Authorities said Anthony Henderson Jr. 19, broke into the home at 586 S. Lynnbank Road […]
Good weather for the annual Oyster Roast to benefit the Ocracoke Working Watermen’s Association. With slide show. Shoaling is still troubling the Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry. Suspensions during low water. Ongoing going fight over beach use with Park Service.
Our State has published a check list of 100 NC icons to see. Click here for the pdf. I can check off 59 of them without taking any liberties. Numbers: 1 2 3 5 6 8 11 13 16 18 19 22 26 29 30 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 45 […]
Even Jesus retired to the wilderness periodically to “recharge”. Ths article from equities.com via Carolina Plott Hound. The Rev. Steve Shoemaker, a high-profile Charlotte preacher who has led the 2,200-member church for 13 years, recently entered a 30-day treatment center in Maryland. In a Dec. 28 letter to his flock, Shoemaker mentioned years of struggling […]
Some tidbits from Plott Hound: Check out these winners from Sanford who failed at kidnapping and murder. The number of NC two parent families has declined 6% since the last census. The proportion has dropped in all states. Triangle hard hit. Martha Brown rummages through here basement in Winston-Salem and finds letters from the WBTS. […]
Via Orthosphere Daniel Greenfield has an interesting piece on separating yourself and your family from the liberal culture and why its a winning political strategy. “The progressives have few children of their own. Your children are their children. If they can corrupt your children, then they have a future. If they cannot, then they will […]
Even hippies aren’t exempt from the need to control every aspect of people’s personal lives. Via Plott Hound: High Country Press: Eustace Conway is perplexed, astounded and outraged at recent events leading to the closure of Turtle Island Preserve, a 1,000-acre primitive refuge offering educational camps and internships, which he founded 26 years ago in […]
I didn’t think I’d hear anything like this coming out of Amsterdam. “Eberhard van der Laan, Amsterdam’s Labour mayor, has tabled the £810,000 plan to tackle 13,000 complaints of anti-social behaviour every year. He complained that long-term harassment often leads to law abiding tenants, rather than their nuisance neighbours, being driven out. “This is the […]
A few items from a quick perusal of today’s new. UC Berkeley student gov passes resolution to ban Salvation Army from campus. Rhode Island Governor clarifies that its traditionally called a “Holiday tree”. An ancient tradition that dates back at least to his predecessor. Hawaii Citizens for Separation of State and Church stop charity concert […]
Carolina Plott Hound Former Rep. Shumer goes to work for Duke Energy proving, once again, that Congress is just try outs for lobbying. Mary Lee swims up Cape Fear River. Laurie Foreman arrested, again. Illegal Mexican re-imported to get custody of his kids. I think, if he’s going to get custody, then the kids should […]
From Winston Salem Journal via Carolina Plott Hound: “More than 11,000 immigrants in North Carolina have applied for a two-year reprieve from deportation made available in the summer by President Barack Obama, according to the latest statistics provided by U.S. immigration authorities.” SNIP “Since the Obama administration opened the application process Aug. 15, about 309,000 […]
Reading and following links and reading some more, that’s what I do. Well, I came across this piece from The Economic Collapse Blog about the coming hike in the estate tax and lowered threshold to get screwed by it. This got me thinking about local farms and ranches. I’m creating a new link category for […]
Liberals, or progressives, like to say they’re working towards a more equitable society where everybody’s choices are equally valid, except, of course, the choices progressives don’t like. You can tell a lot about a person by what they’re against. For instance, progressive are against what they call patriarchal society and religious discrimination. What they’re really […]
I missed this, but SFMedic has put up an enormous list of PDFs here. Good stuff.
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