The Republicans have lost their legitimacy. They are proving to be incompetent at every turn.
Published: April 4, 2013
RALEIGH — Two Rowan County lawmakers (click here) drew nationwide attention Wednesday for pushing a resolution that says North Carolina and its counties and towns have the right to establish an official religion.
Rep. Carl Ford, a Republican from China Grove, and Salisbury Republican Rep. Harry Warrenfiled the measure this week as Rowan commissioners gear up to fight a lawsuit that seeks to end their habit of opening meetings with specifically Christian prayers.
But the resolution delved deeper.
It acknowledges that the U.S. Constitution prevents Congress from creating an official religion.
But the First Amendment prohibition, the resolution argues, doesn’t apply to states, counties or towns – despite federal court rulings to the contrary. It asks the legislature to adopt a resolution supporting their right to set up their own religious laws....
If Democrats every become interested in making government work again in North Carolina the people might actually have a chance at building an economy again.
Democrats can be elected when the people voting actually know they have a reason to vote for people who care rather than those that don't. The North Carolina Republicans only know one thing, power to corrupt. Think about it. Why not throw out the US Constitution at the state level to make oneself wealthy? Why not?
They don't care about the people, they care about lining their own pockets and run social rebellions as a distraction.
The Bible Belt? Care about themselves and legitimate government? When? Maybe when hell freezes over.
By Rose Ellen O'Connor, on February 14th, 2013
Two of 15 members of a panel (click here) set up to write the regulations for hydraulic fracturing in North Carolina have potential conflicts of interest, according to disclosure forms and land records. Both members were assigned to seats that were supposed to go to environmentalists. And the chairman of the state Mining and Energy Commission says he intends to move swiftly to draft regulations and likens the risks of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, to the chances of getting hit in the head with a meteorite....
This is small potatoes stuff. There is no significant amounts of shale gas in North Carolina. To coin a phrase they understand, "The juice ain't worth the squeeze." That is why new homeowners are deprived their mineral rights because by the time the gas is extracted the company would never make money if they had to pay royalties.
...According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Deep River Basin, a 150-mile stretch of shale rock extending from central North Carolina to the state’s southern border, has 1.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. That’s enough to fuel the state for five and a half years, according to the federal Energy Information Administration. It’s worth about $6 billion, based on today’s prices, however natural gas prices fluctuate widely. By contrast, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the Marcellus Shale formation, running from Tennessee through Pennsylvania and on to New York, has 84.2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, worth about $292 billion by today’s prices....
There is no economy here, there are million-billionaires selling their own profits as an economy when the money will leave the state. Even the workers of these wells are from out of state. So, this is nonsense. There is no reason to do it, but, politically it paid off at the ballot box. Now. What kind of leaders are in Raleigh, North Carolina today? Those seeking to improve the economy or play with themselves and their ideologies to cover up the fact they haven't got a clue?
If Democrats every become interested in making government work again in North Carolina the people might actually have a chance at building an economy again.
Democrats can be elected when the people voting actually know they have a reason to vote for people who care rather than those that don't. The North Carolina Republicans only know one thing, power to corrupt. Think about it. Why not throw out the US Constitution at the state level to make oneself wealthy? Why not?
They don't care about the people, they care about lining their own pockets and run social rebellions as a distraction.
The Bible Belt? Care about themselves and legitimate government? When? Maybe when hell freezes over.
By Rose Ellen O'Connor, on February 14th, 2013
Two of 15 members of a panel (click here) set up to write the regulations for hydraulic fracturing in North Carolina have potential conflicts of interest, according to disclosure forms and land records. Both members were assigned to seats that were supposed to go to environmentalists. And the chairman of the state Mining and Energy Commission says he intends to move swiftly to draft regulations and likens the risks of hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, to the chances of getting hit in the head with a meteorite....
This is small potatoes stuff. There is no significant amounts of shale gas in North Carolina. To coin a phrase they understand, "The juice ain't worth the squeeze." That is why new homeowners are deprived their mineral rights because by the time the gas is extracted the company would never make money if they had to pay royalties.
...According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Deep River Basin, a 150-mile stretch of shale rock extending from central North Carolina to the state’s southern border, has 1.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. That’s enough to fuel the state for five and a half years, according to the federal Energy Information Administration. It’s worth about $6 billion, based on today’s prices, however natural gas prices fluctuate widely. By contrast, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the Marcellus Shale formation, running from Tennessee through Pennsylvania and on to New York, has 84.2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, worth about $292 billion by today’s prices....
There is no economy here, there are million-billionaires selling their own profits as an economy when the money will leave the state. Even the workers of these wells are from out of state. So, this is nonsense. There is no reason to do it, but, politically it paid off at the ballot box. Now. What kind of leaders are in Raleigh, North Carolina today? Those seeking to improve the economy or play with themselves and their ideologies to cover up the fact they haven't got a clue?
