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Re: Kissell's vote irks his base

AgentPierce — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:38:26 -0500

...."Democrats in his district are seething." ......

NO NO NO not a bunch of "seething Democrats". NOT THAT! :>)

Re: Etheridge takes up for pigs

j1c2kp — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:41 -0500

U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge, "The police were wrong, he wrote, in their reason for denying permission for PETA to blow hog-waste infused air toward Congress." So Bob can they now come back and blow that poop air toward you guys and gals???

Re: Etheridge takes up for pigs

domewatcher — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:00:15 -0500

"The police were wrong, he wrote, in their reason for denying permission for PETA to blow hog-waste infused air toward Congress."

I would be more worried about the infused air blowing from Congress. Would the smell of hog-waste infused air even be noticed?

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet to a hog farmer.

Leave Gigglebox alone ! ! ! !

captainjack — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:37:31 -0400

I must take up for my friend Gigglebox. I enjoy reading his posts as they make me feel smarter than I really am.

Re: A ride with Jesse and Ted

AgentPierce — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:24:59 -0400

I thought bkrueger story was very appropriate. If "changing the world" was a criteria for every article or every inane comment board babble there would be none of either.

Re: A ride with Jesse and Ted

GiggleBox — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:22:57 -0400

"Absolutely," and welcome to the club of people with nothing better to do SouthSideJohnny.

Re: A ride with Jesse and Ted

SouthsideJohnny — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:16:40 -0400

Gigglebox,

Your post proves you have nothing better to do. And there was "absolutely" nothing revealing about it other than you had nothing better to do.

Re: A ride with Jesse and Ted

GiggleBox — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:44:31 -0400

I once ate a cheeseburger. It was really good.

No, I get it. Someone in a dying industry relishing the good ol' days upon the passing of the last man that cared. Nice story.

In 20 years I'll be telling my grand kids about the time I shared pixels with bkrueger.

Nothing particularly revealing about it - just a couple of guys with nothing better to do.

Re: Helms most, Edwards least popular Sens

PACK_MIKE77 — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:13:29 -0400

Honesty and hard work wins everytime! That is something the News and Observer has never learned!

Re: Helms most, Edwards least popular Sens

deacs — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:24:05 -0400

I love Mr. Jensen's quote; he just had to get one last dig in. I am shocked PPP released such results. It defies the Senator's comment he never "won a poll nor lost an election."

Re: Quick Hits

bummer — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:34:52 -0400

I guess no one reported that this was posted at 4:45pm, and that they more than likley partook later!? Gotta love slanted news AND when people blog about things they technically know nothing about...just sayin'!

Re: House, Senate honor Helms

XLTredwolf — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:57:42 -0400

So you're suggesting we feed all Republicans to hogs? Yikes!! are there enough left to do the hogs any good? and would they, the hogs, even want to eat the Republicans?
My question on this topic is simple: if Sen. Helms is being honored for "standing up for his principles" isn't that just what Sen. Boseman is doing as well?

Re: House, Senate honor Helms

Kingixolib — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:10:15 -0400

Julia postures a lot.

She got into some really hot water with the black population in New Hanover County during the last run for the roses because of her use of a certain "verboten" word that would have had a Republican drawn, quartered, and fed to the hogs.

I suspect she still has some pretty good sized political debts to pay before she makes full restitution and gets final absolution from The Wilmington Journal.

Re: Galifianakis and Helms, on screen

kttechwriter — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:59:25 -0400

Let's face it, the Helms' team was smart. People like to vote for people with short names. It's very hard to get elected with any time of long name.

The perfect political name is "Bob Dole". No wonder he was elected so many times to the U.S. Senate, tho it shows that voters are more discriminating for President.

Another of my heroes has a great name: "Jack Kemp". Short and sweet.

Zach can waste his own time with all the hate. It only hurts him, not anyone else. (Don't give into hate, it only leads to the dark side.) Sometimes hate can eat you up. Many people may call Helms a hater. He was probably a racist, as he was from an older generation, but he did not hate.

Thanks.

Re: Galifianakis and Helms, on screen

GrayJ — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:05:00 -0400

I knew Zach was originally from Wilkesboro but had no clue he was related the former congressman.