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Comment on Commencement Speech: Francine Delaney New School for Children by Ann

Ann — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:30:10 +0000

…learning how to learn…. That’s the nut, isn’t it? And yet it seems more and more that kids are really only being taught to memorize enough to pass tests.

Comment on Water, water everywhere? Thoughts for Earthday by Tom Traywick

Tom Traywick — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:15:59 +0000

Good job Cecil. Thank you for all that you do.

Comment on Water, water everywhere? Thoughts for Earthday by Ann

Ann — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:40:58 +0000

Good article. Funny how so many of our problems, if we follow them back to their headwaters (so to speak), are caused by religious zealotry.

Comment on I just issued a challenge to the City of Asheville by unc78

unc78 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:54:46 +0000

I see you deleted my post where I cite the N.C. statute that prohibits they city from doing this. N.C.G.S. 14-409.40 (d). Interesting you would do this when the facts/law don’t support you . Just to repeat myself in case you “accidentally” missed it, it reads: ” No county or municipality, by zoning or other ordinance, shall regulate in any manner firearms shows with regulations more stringent than those applying to shows of
other types of items.”

See ya at the gun show! By the way,that would be a great way to meet constituents of yours who may have other views than yourself. But then again, you never have been fair to all the constituents have you…just those that echo your thoughts.

Comment on I just issued a challenge to the City of Asheville by unc78

unc78 — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:44:37 +0000

N.C.G.S. 14-409.40(d) “No county or municipality, by zoning or other ordinance, shall regulate in any manner firearms show with regulations more stringent than those applying to shows of other types of items.”

Comment on The American Gulag by Ann

Ann — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:34:43 +0000

Uncle! That’s a lot to pack into only twenty minutes!

I enjoy your posts quite a bit. You often remind me that, at its heart, government must be a social construct which benefits the people being governed and shouldn’t be used to further the aims of specific factions as it often is.

Comment on I just issued a challenge to the City of Asheville by John Richardson (@jpr9954)

John Richardson (@jpr9954) — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:19:46 +0000

The ordinance states “any park or other city-owned facility.” Land is not a “facility”. The buildings owned by the state are the “facility” in legal terms.

If you want the City of Asheville tied up in court for years with high legal bill, go ahead and push it. However, I’d refer you to a California case Nordyke v. Alameda where the County of Alameda banned gun shows on county property. After a 13 year battle, gun shows are now held on county property.

Comment on I just issued a challenge to the City of Asheville by bothwellsblog

bothwellsblog — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:20:55 +0000

You might want to look beyond their Web page at the facts. The Buncombe County portion of the Ag center sits on land titled to the City of Asheville. The state owns the buildings.

Comment on The American Gulag by bothwellsblog

bothwellsblog — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:15:11 +0000

Twenty minute talk didn’t allow for a lot of elaboration – and so you pick and choose and edit … but you are quite right.

Comment on The American Gulag by Ann

Ann — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:56:16 +0000

Fixing drug laws is a good start and I think that other states will fall like dominoes now that Washington and Colorado have shown some sense.

But you only skated past a point that has bothered me for a long time: a felony conviction is a life sentence. We are causing recidivism by keeping convicted felons from getting jobs – for the rest of their lives. This makes any effort to “go straight” a losing proposition.