newsobserver.com projects - MySpace - Comments

Re: Cooper: 2,116 sex offenders online

robdarich — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:58:51 -0400

What a flurry of stuff from the AG.
Seems there's a "pin the tail on the demon" daily - don't it?
Should we bate breath for the tomorrow's "demon dejure"?

Wonder if this is to deflect his self-approval backfire (he thinks he's done great things regulating the finance industry) onto something else... anything else...

Re: Cooper: 2,116 sex offenders online

PowderedToastMan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:33:36 -0400

So, once a criminal, always a criminal? Then where's the effort to keep track of murderes and other violent criminals that continue to break the law and make a mockery of the probation system?

I don't get it

James_Protzman — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:25:31 -0500

Did Cooper disagree with the findings or the process? The task force said there's not a big problem. What problem then is he trying to address?

This feels weirdly like he's looking for a problem to go along with some solutions he already has in mind.

Re: Cooper to speak on social networking

rubyji — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:39:47 -0500

Oh lawd.

Re: Smith and the 'Potsmokers Club'

Isaac136 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:13:26 -0400

It is my experience that people who have smoked pot are just as likely to be stupid as people who never smoked pot.

This would make me more likely to vote for him.

zoobatmania — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:14:41 -0400

I'm sick of tired of the puritanical wing of the Republican Party. What folks did when they were young shouldn't be of any concern.

Re: Smith and the 'Potsmokers Club'

alterac — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:38:18 -0400

Thats hilarious

Re: A progressive on the "do-nothing" session

JayBlair — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:31:19 -0400

One thing the Legislature did this session was to create a new means for increasing ways for big money to influence the process. By creating a structure for legal defense funds for themselves big money can get around the gift ban that was put into law last year. Under current law legislators can not receive gifts from people they regulate, which probably includes almost everyone. That would mean no money for legal fees. By allowing politicians to create a fund and permitting "contributions" they have allowed what couldn't be done previously.

Re: A progressive on the "do-nothing" session

WayneUber — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:21:32 -0400

Less than 10 percent of the bills filed were actually passed. This is a mixed blessing as many were "garbage bills" that have been recycled from previous sessions (i.e. death penalty moratorium). 20 percent of the bills that were passed were "junk" or "feel good" legisation as referenced in previous N&O articles... so "do-nothing" seems very appropriate.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/659593.html

68:

Joint resolutions, mostly acknowledgements and commemorations, passed this year. Among those honored:

* UPS on its 100th anniversary.

* The Mitchell County courthouse on its 100th anniversary.

* Tweetsie Railroad on its 50th anniversary.

* Mars Hill College on its 150th Anniversary.

* Songwriter Don Gibson, bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs and NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson.

Re: DomeSpace

RaleighRendezvous — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:09:22 -0400

Yahoo Groups and Meet Up are pretty good for networking with like minded folks in the area.