Yesterday was a good day for Democrats in Pamlico County and pretty much all over the state.
The turnout in Pamlico County was nearly three times that of 2010. GOP efforts to suppress the vote haven't worked well so far.
The GOP effort to eliminate Supreme Court Justice Robin Hudson on the first ballot also didn't work. In Pamlico County, Justice Hudson won every precinct.
We have a good lineup for the November election. Democrats, Keep up the good work!
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Reelect Robin Hudson To NC Supreme Court
Billionaires from Kansas and Texas are pouring money into North Carolina elections to defeat Justice Hudson.
What do they want?
What business do they have meddling in our election?
What do they want?
What business do they have meddling in our election?
Get Out And Vote: Your Vote Counts
Don't imagine your vote doesn't matter. NC Republicans and the wealthy people they support and defend have expended a lot of effort to discourage you from voting. The US Supreme Court has unleashed vast amounts of money just so it can counter your vote. Billionaires want to keep you from voting.
Never surrender!
Never surrender!
Monday, May 5, 2014
Pamlico County Early Vote 2014
This morning's News and Observer published statewide early voting turnout for North Carolina. Turnout percentage was higher this year than in the mid-term election four years ago. The news was especially good for Democrats.
Pamlico County's turnout was even better. Here's the comparison:
Party Percentage of One-Stop Votes Cast
Statewide Pamlico County
Democratic 47.8% 54.32%
Republican 33.3% 26.54%
Unaffiliated 18.8% 18.89%
As far as numbers go, in 2010 in this county 297 voters cast early ballots. This year, 810 Pamlico County citizens cast early votes, 2.78 times as many as voted in 2010.
That's a good start. Let's keep up the enthusiasm on election day tomorrow.
Pamlico County's turnout was even better. Here's the comparison:
Party Percentage of One-Stop Votes Cast
Statewide Pamlico County
Democratic 47.8% 54.32%
Republican 33.3% 26.54%
Unaffiliated 18.8% 18.89%
As far as numbers go, in 2010 in this county 297 voters cast early ballots. This year, 810 Pamlico County citizens cast early votes, 2.78 times as many as voted in 2010.
That's a good start. Let's keep up the enthusiasm on election day tomorrow.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Benjamin Franklin v Bundy
I've been thinking about cattleman Cliven Bundy's recent anti American rant and what it reveals about the warped views of American history it reflects.
Bundy and his Tea Party and Libertarian supporters envision America as some kind of historical anarchy. Laws are apparently tyranny in his view. And everything he has he did entirely on his own.
Benjamin Franklin, without whom we may not have ever achieved independence, had an entirely different view of property and taxes. Here is what he wrote in 1783:
CHAPTER 16
|Document 12
Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris
25 Dec. 1783Writings 9:138
The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly
blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so.
I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance
against giving Congress a Power to take, as they
call it, the People's Money out of their Pockets, tho' only
to pay the Interest and Principal of Debts duly contracted.
They seem to mistake the Point. Money, justly due from
the People, is their Creditors' Money, and no longer the
Money of the People, who, if they withold it, should be
compell'd to pay by some Law.
All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
The Founders' Constitution
Volume 1, Chapter 16, Document 12
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12.html
The University of Chicago Press
The Writings of Benjamin Franklin. Edited by Albert Henry Smyth. 10 vols. New York: Macmillan Co., 1905--7.
Easy to print version.
© 1987 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 2000
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
Bundy and his Tea Party and Libertarian supporters envision America as some kind of historical anarchy. Laws are apparently tyranny in his view. And everything he has he did entirely on his own.
Benjamin Franklin, without whom we may not have ever achieved independence, had an entirely different view of property and taxes. Here is what he wrote in 1783:
16
Property
CHAPTER 16
|Document 12Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris
25 Dec. 1783
Writings 9:138
The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly
blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so.
I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance
against giving Congress a Power to take, as they
call it, the People's Money out of their Pockets, tho' only
to pay the Interest and Principal of Debts duly contracted.
They seem to mistake the Point. Money, justly due from
the People, is their Creditors' Money, and no longer the
Money of the People, who, if they withold it, should be
compell'd to pay by some Law.All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
The Founders' Constitution
Volume 1, Chapter 16, Document 12
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s12.html
The University of Chicago Press
The Writings of Benjamin Franklin. Edited by Albert Henry Smyth. 10 vols. New York: Macmillan Co., 1905--7.
Easy to print version.
© 1987 by The University of ChicagoAll rights reserved. Published 2000
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/
Friday, April 25, 2014
Seventy Years Ago: Building Planes And Training At Corpus Christi
Here are some of the best photos I have seen of maintenance and repair of WWII Naval Aircraft and the people who did the work: Click on the link.
http://www.businessinsider.com/vintage-world-war-ii-photos-from-the-base-where-george-bush-senior-earned-his-wings-2012-2?op=1
http://www.businessinsider.com/vintage-world-war-ii-photos-from-the-base-where-george-bush-senior-earned-his-wings-2012-2?op=1
April 25, 1898 - 116 Years Ago - US Declares War On Spain
Here are photos of what the US Navy looked like during the Spanish American War:
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-it-was-like-in-the-navy-116-years-ago-2014-4
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