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Re: Audit: State parking spaces unused

wdk05 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:36:54 -0400

Good to see the State Auditor hard at work. Must have been tough to find 18 parking spaces not assigned to anyone. I bet those 400 state employees who can't find a spot to park each morning are very happy now, their troubles are over. Wonder if we will ever see an auditors report showing that they wasted 18 sheets of paper and no telling how many hours preparing this report?

Re: Whither the State Energy Office?

barbie50 — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:29:52 -0400

I can find a way to save money in the state energy office -- cut Seth Effron, former Easley Flack, who was hidden in that office a few weeks ago. They don't need a pio in this budget crisis -- cut his position and use the money for something more worthy. The list of more worthy positions would be great, because just about anything or anyone is more worthy of this Easley pawn.

Re: Bill: State prefers more efficient cars

j1c2kp — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:02:29 -0400

It is probably wise of the NCADA to remain neutral right now given the car scandal involving Easley. Still waiting to hear if Tony Rand should be driving a loaner.

Thank you Pricey for sponsoring the bill.

Re: Jones: Adams will join Perdue team

htkirbys — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:58:58 -0500

When Perdue claimed the Democratic nomination in her Raleigh victory party, she singled out Adams for special thanks. Richard Moore's campaign had put out both TV and radio ads (the latter aimed specifically at African-American radio stations) making very farfetched suggestions that Perdue was a racist. The silliest was to try to make her seem responsible for baseball caps adorned with the Confederate flag that were for sale at the truck stop in Georgia, which a stepson of hers owned. The purpose of the ads by the Moore campaign was to split off the black vote from Perdue. The ads backfired, since they portrayed African-Americans as stupid enough to believe any such thing; Moore's ads were themselves racist.

Alma Adams vigorously defended her friend, Bev Perdue. And after the primary was over, she suggested that Moore should "hide under a rock for all the dirt he did."

For her integrity, courage, loyalty, and effectiveness as a legislator, Adams certainly deserves a place in Perdue's cabinet.

Re: Jones: Adams will join Perdue team

domewatcher — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:51:50 -0500

Rep. Adams looks so nice in her hat!

It’s a shame that hats are not as fashionable as they once were. I can remember back in the 1940’s and 1950’s when women wore hats most of the time, and especially to church on Sunday. Easter Sunday was the height of hat fashion as every woman pulled out her favorite “Easter Bonnet.”

It gave you something to do during the sermon. While the preacher was wailing away us men could study the women’s hats. Most hats had a fish net with all sorts of stuff stuck into it. And many hats had several big bird feathers. And they were real bird feathers as fake bird feathers had not been invented by Al Gore yet. I sat in the rear, in the sinner’s row, and loved to gaze across the congregation of hats. It was like visiting a turkey farm. All those feathers bobbling up and down. The gobbling came later, on the ride home for not paying attention to the preacher.

I cleaned out my mother’s attic many years ago and found all her old hats. They brought back many memories. She did have one I kept, a big felt hat with a wide brim and lots of feathers…..really weird. I wear it when I visit Chapel Hill. It makes me fit right in.