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Re: Full-page ads attack liquor tax

bnartist — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:21:07 -0400

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Liquor is absurdly cheap in NC. You can buy a bottle of spirits for the price of a cocktail. I leave airport duty-free liquor stores empty-handed because ABC prices are comparable.

Re: Full-page ads attack liquor tax

Gosh — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:43:45 -0400

RTB out. Bye everybody!

I'm so about to curse.

Booger.

Cheers!

James_Protzman — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:37:02 -0400

Be nice ... and do good ... and have fun. We'll miss you.

Re: Full-page ads attack liquor tax

ryanteaguebeckwith — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:29:29 -0400

RTB out. Bye everybody!

— RTB

Re: Quick Hits

jonoflocke — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:58:05 -0500

Polk vetoed a spending bill because it had too much pork in it: Polk contended that to interpret the Spending Clause to permit such appropriations would allow "combinations of individual and local interests [that would be] strong enough to control legislation, absorb the revenues of the country, and plunge the government into a hopeless indebtedness."

Such thinking is anathema these heady neo-Keynesian pre-double-digit-inflation days.

Re: Quick Hits

danmanley2299 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:14:33 -0500

Citizen,

If you would remove your head from other areas of your anatomy you would see that Sen. Hagan's website looks like most other freshman members of the Senate. Give them some time to get things going. I would imagine Burr's site looked similar until he had time to get it up and running.

50 mph on a moped or scooter

domewatcher — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:33:56 -0500

Increasing the speed limit to 50 mph on a moped or scooter would be a good first step to assisted suicide. Might as well let them take the helmets off too. And let them pull one of those extra large boats the legislature approved last year. A trifecta.

Re: Quick Hits

CitizenOpinionated — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:44:03 -0500

http://hagan.senate.gov/constituent_services.cfm

I guess Hagan is never going to let us know where she stands on issues...

That is change we can believe...

Every other Senator has their issues on the website but not her...great...

Re: Quick Hits

FFC1304 — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:45:57 -0500

US Constitutional scholar and former Presidential candidate Michael Badnarik is bringing his popular 8 hour course 'Introduction to the US Constitution' to Raleigh and other NC cities!

Nominate/register yourself and your preferred city to attend the class!

www.ConstitutionPreservation.org

www.CampaignforLiberty.com

Re: A few examples of 'chunked'

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:38:00 -0500

Good point. It also seems to pick up on the other meaning of "chunked" as tearing something larger (in this case, the sod) into chunks.

— RTB

Re: A few examples of 'chunked'

jjsmith2 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:27:06 -0500

true, but in this situation it is completely different. Chunk in golf has a negative denotation, where as the southern colloquialism does not.

Re: A few examples of 'chunked'

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:57:25 -0500

But it does seem to have a similar meaning of hitting something into the air.

— RTB

Re: A few examples of 'chunked'

jjsmith2 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:46:05 -0500

Chunk has a different meaning in relationship to golf than what you are thinking about. In golf it means you hit the ground before you hit the ball leaving a huge divot (chunk of dirt).

Re: A few examples of 'chunked'

domewatcher — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:40:48 -0500

Chunk is the Southern version of chuck. You see, the letter “c” and the letter “k” are pronounced somewhat alike down here in the South. So to make it easier on the children, we substitute “n” in cases where “c” is followed by a “k.” In economics it is known as the rule of “78’s.”

For example, “Walker, Texas Ranger” is Chunk Norris. Fried chicken is actually fried chinken. And Beckwith is really Benkwith. It is much easier to understand than that business about “eye before e except after c.”

I am no expert but I do have a Masters degree in English from North Carolina State University.

Re: Drescher disagrees with Easley's comments

domewatcher — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:39:10 -0500

I applaud the N & O and their efforts to report the news rather than just pass along the "approved" press releases.

I live in one of the smaller towns and our newspaper is one of the "Freedom ENC" chain. Their motto is that "everything is all good!" They toe-the-line and rarely ask any questions of government or the "city fathers." Read our newspaper and you would think that these were "the best of times." The editorial board is comprised of the paper's largest advertisers, the mayor's dog and some surfer in California.

So the efforts of the N & O seem mighty spectacular.