NC Legislative Calender
3:00 PM in 415 LOB
Domestic Violence Subcommittee on Agency Review
I can find no information on the "newly revamped" General assembly website...which cleared the records of who is on what committee.
If anyone sees a write-up of this meeting, I would appreciate it if you left a link in the comments, lefty blogs included.
Christmas Past
From the 2007 Dillsboro Luminaries.
Bob Poe to Challenge Sarah Palin for Governor
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- If Gov. Sarah Palin decides to run for a second term, at least one person has come forward to say he's ready to battle it out.
Democrat Bob Poe said he plans to seek his party's nomination for the next gubernatorial election in 2010.
Poe is a former state commissioner, and he previously served as the CEO of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation.
He said he's ready to take on the state's top job, and he's doing it, in part, because Palin hasn't been paying enough attention to the needs of the state.
"It's a really big deal to most Alaskans how our economy moves forward and the role state government has in that," Poe said. "I'm concerned that right now there's not much attention to running state government, there's a lot of attention to running for something else."
Source: KTUU News
This should prove an interesting test for Governor Palin. If she intends to seek the Republican nomination for President in 2012, she will have to begin spending some serious time on that effort in 2010.
Democrat Bob Poe said he plans to seek his party's nomination for the next gubernatorial election in 2010.
Poe is a former state commissioner, and he previously served as the CEO of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation.
He said he's ready to take on the state's top job, and he's doing it, in part, because Palin hasn't been paying enough attention to the needs of the state.
"It's a really big deal to most Alaskans how our economy moves forward and the role state government has in that," Poe said. "I'm concerned that right now there's not much attention to running state government, there's a lot of attention to running for something else."
Source: KTUU News
This should prove an interesting test for Governor Palin. If she intends to seek the Republican nomination for President in 2012, she will have to begin spending some serious time on that effort in 2010.
How Hard Is This Puzzle?
A Guest Commentary by Fern Shubert
Guest Commentary
How Hard Is This Puzzle?
by Fern Shubert
How Hard Is This Puzzle?
A few months ago I stumbled on an interesting puzzle quite by accident. When writing “Ponzi schemes, bubbles and fraud” (The County Edge, August 22, 2008), I was looking at a Google Earth picture of River Dunes and noticed that trees near an area with serious erosion appeared to be dying for no obvious reason. In seeking to understand the erosion, I discovered the people of Eastern North Carolina may be just as endangered as those trees.
When the fresh water in our rivers, including the underground streams, flows to the coast it encounters the salt water of the ocean. The fresh water is what keeps the salt water out of the rivers and aquifers in the East. If the flow of fresh water diminishes, salt water can move farther inland.
Wells are an important source of water for many people throughout the state. While some wells draw from underground rivers and streams, a large number of wells in eastern NC draw from aquifers which are like underground lakes. Anyone familiar with aquifers is aware that drawing too much water from an aquifer can actually cause the land to sink (subside) and may cause wells to go dry and have to be dug deeper; an aquifer can be depleted.
When an aquifer containing dissolved substances is depleted, if you reduce the amount of water without removing those substances in the same proportion, you obviously increase the concentration of the substances in the remaining water. Think of the Dead Sea underground; ask yourself why it is called the Dead Sea.
So what is killing the trees? Here are some clues:
Mining – Clue #1
“Loss of water supplies because of mining often leads to severe hardships for the supply users, with a resultant need to haul in water from outside sources or to replace lost supplies with deeper wells where appropriate. . . companies will often replace such lost supplies with new wells, to keep good relationships with surface-land owners and to avoid lawsuits. . .lawsuits usually result when there is major disagreement about the cause or source for a water loss problem. . .” (From a study of aquifer dewatering in West Virginia)
The Artist Van Gogh – Clue #2
“Artists are familiar with paint colors named “cadmium blue” and “cadmium red” . . . They may not realize cadmium is a highly toxic heavy metal. The mental illness of Van Gogh and many other famous artists is believed to have been caused by cadmium poisoning.” (The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with ADD/ADHD, By Linda Sonna, pg 53)
“Cadmium has no constructive purpose in the human body. Cadmium and its compounds are extremely toxic even in low concentrations, and will bioaccumulate in organisms and ecosystems. . . . Environmental exposure to cadmium has been particularly problematic in Japan where many people have consumed rice that was grown in cadmium contaminated irrigation water. This phenomena is known under the name Itai-itai disease . . . . Some sources of phosphate in fertilizers contain Cadmium in amounts of up to 100 mg/kg, which can lead to an increase in the concentration of Cadmium in soil . . . .” (Wikipedia)
Bureaucratese – Clue #3
“DWR [Division of Water Resources] has invested well over one million dollars and many person hours since 1998 to improve the monitoring well network throughout the state, and especially in the central coastal plain area . . . Monitoring stations are drilled to allow us to see both the extent of the over-drafting situation and the recovery of water levels as investments in
alternative water supplies come to fruition. . .they are positioned so as to provide a more detailed picture of the cone of depression beneath the CCP in each of the major aquifers. . . Chloride concentrations are now measured on a subset of network wells . . .”
“For the most part, conditions have worsened in the CCPCUA.” (Central Coastal Plain Capacity Use Area Assessment Report, August, 2008)
Translated into plain English, the problem DWR is monitoring in the CCPCUA has many parts including subsidence, salt water encroachment, and poisonous concentrations of naturally occurring elements. So what caused the problem and why have state officials and major papers failed to adequately warn the general public?
Global Warming?
While some see rising sea water levels due to climate change as a major threat to oceanfront property around the world, not just in NC, an August 2007 Conference Report prepared by The Nicholas Institute at Duke University notes that “North Carolina’s coast is among the most vulnerable . . .[because] Over 1.2 million acres in North Carolina are below one meter in elevation. Further, North Carolina’s coastal sea level rise is effectively double the global average because of land subsidence at the coast.”
I’m told that some land in eastern North Carolina that used to be farmed is now wetland unsuitable for farming. Residential property owners up and down the coast feel threatened, and taxpayers throughout the state are being called on to repair roads like Highway 12 which are under attack from the ocean. But how much of the problem is rising water and how much is falling land? The costs of subsidence in North Carolina are easily placed in the billions by the Nicholas Institute report.
And what is causing the subsidence? Could it be a major dewatering operation associated with mining?
Redneck Environmentalist Blames PCS Mine and Politicians
Dale Swiggett has been trying to alert the public to the danger posed by contaminated water in eastern North Carolina for months, and he has not minced words or hidden behind bureaucratese. The major papers have ignored a major story.
I first became aware of Swiggett in July 2008 when I received a copy of a notice he paid to have published in Pamlico County. It said “serious issues now exist regarding the quality of Pamlico County drinking water and public health. . . Please accept this letter as notice of this immediate crisis of health, life and death for the citizens of Pamlico County.”
In subsequent emails he explicitly linked the PCS mine and its large withdrawals of water from the Castle Hayne Aquifer to many problems. Swiggett strongly suggests the lack of state action is due to a number of prominent individuals, including political figures and government employees, whom he has been naming in his Environmental Corruption Deck of Cards. For example, he assigned the Queen of Spades to Leah Devlin, NC State Health Director.
The Coastal Federation knew in 2001 that “decades of mining have caused levels of cadmium in reclaimed soils and ponds to concentrate at more than 300 times background levels” (NC Coastal Federation Press Release, October 23, 2001) yet Swiggett alleges he was offered mine waste to use as fill in 2006 and says that was so common many driveways in the area glow in the dark.
On December 29th a retired Hyde County engineer, Glenn Hockney, filed a $500,000,000 civil suit against PCS Phosphate for damages caused to the people of Hyde County. “In the complaint, Hockney also blames “State of North Carolina Environmental Departments” for a failure “to protect Hyde County People.” He asks for an immediate court order to stop all PCS
pumping from the aquifer, an amount Hockney contends averages 78 million gallons per day.” (Pamlico News, January 6, 2008)
When contacted by a reporter for the Pamlico News, a spokesperson for the mine said “We cannot comment because we have not yet been served with the lawsuit,” an interesting response since the company had already scheduled a meeting January 5, 2009, with Hockney and a DENR employee, apparently to try to address Hockney’s concerns.
Oh yes, and on January 5, 2009, the Raleigh News and Observer announced “Leah Devlin, the longtime state health director, is retiring.”
How Hard Is This Puzzle?
by Fern Shubert
How Hard Is This Puzzle?
A few months ago I stumbled on an interesting puzzle quite by accident. When writing “Ponzi schemes, bubbles and fraud” (The County Edge, August 22, 2008), I was looking at a Google Earth picture of River Dunes and noticed that trees near an area with serious erosion appeared to be dying for no obvious reason. In seeking to understand the erosion, I discovered the people of Eastern North Carolina may be just as endangered as those trees.
When the fresh water in our rivers, including the underground streams, flows to the coast it encounters the salt water of the ocean. The fresh water is what keeps the salt water out of the rivers and aquifers in the East. If the flow of fresh water diminishes, salt water can move farther inland.
Wells are an important source of water for many people throughout the state. While some wells draw from underground rivers and streams, a large number of wells in eastern NC draw from aquifers which are like underground lakes. Anyone familiar with aquifers is aware that drawing too much water from an aquifer can actually cause the land to sink (subside) and may cause wells to go dry and have to be dug deeper; an aquifer can be depleted.
When an aquifer containing dissolved substances is depleted, if you reduce the amount of water without removing those substances in the same proportion, you obviously increase the concentration of the substances in the remaining water. Think of the Dead Sea underground; ask yourself why it is called the Dead Sea.
So what is killing the trees? Here are some clues:
Mining – Clue #1
“Loss of water supplies because of mining often leads to severe hardships for the supply users, with a resultant need to haul in water from outside sources or to replace lost supplies with deeper wells where appropriate. . . companies will often replace such lost supplies with new wells, to keep good relationships with surface-land owners and to avoid lawsuits. . .lawsuits usually result when there is major disagreement about the cause or source for a water loss problem. . .” (From a study of aquifer dewatering in West Virginia)
The Artist Van Gogh – Clue #2
“Artists are familiar with paint colors named “cadmium blue” and “cadmium red” . . . They may not realize cadmium is a highly toxic heavy metal. The mental illness of Van Gogh and many other famous artists is believed to have been caused by cadmium poisoning.” (The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with ADD/ADHD, By Linda Sonna, pg 53)
“Cadmium has no constructive purpose in the human body. Cadmium and its compounds are extremely toxic even in low concentrations, and will bioaccumulate in organisms and ecosystems. . . . Environmental exposure to cadmium has been particularly problematic in Japan where many people have consumed rice that was grown in cadmium contaminated irrigation water. This phenomena is known under the name Itai-itai disease . . . . Some sources of phosphate in fertilizers contain Cadmium in amounts of up to 100 mg/kg, which can lead to an increase in the concentration of Cadmium in soil . . . .” (Wikipedia)
Bureaucratese – Clue #3
“DWR [Division of Water Resources] has invested well over one million dollars and many person hours since 1998 to improve the monitoring well network throughout the state, and especially in the central coastal plain area . . . Monitoring stations are drilled to allow us to see both the extent of the over-drafting situation and the recovery of water levels as investments in
alternative water supplies come to fruition. . .they are positioned so as to provide a more detailed picture of the cone of depression beneath the CCP in each of the major aquifers. . . Chloride concentrations are now measured on a subset of network wells . . .”
“For the most part, conditions have worsened in the CCPCUA.” (Central Coastal Plain Capacity Use Area Assessment Report, August, 2008)
Translated into plain English, the problem DWR is monitoring in the CCPCUA has many parts including subsidence, salt water encroachment, and poisonous concentrations of naturally occurring elements. So what caused the problem and why have state officials and major papers failed to adequately warn the general public?
Global Warming?
While some see rising sea water levels due to climate change as a major threat to oceanfront property around the world, not just in NC, an August 2007 Conference Report prepared by The Nicholas Institute at Duke University notes that “North Carolina’s coast is among the most vulnerable . . .[because] Over 1.2 million acres in North Carolina are below one meter in elevation. Further, North Carolina’s coastal sea level rise is effectively double the global average because of land subsidence at the coast.”
I’m told that some land in eastern North Carolina that used to be farmed is now wetland unsuitable for farming. Residential property owners up and down the coast feel threatened, and taxpayers throughout the state are being called on to repair roads like Highway 12 which are under attack from the ocean. But how much of the problem is rising water and how much is falling land? The costs of subsidence in North Carolina are easily placed in the billions by the Nicholas Institute report.
And what is causing the subsidence? Could it be a major dewatering operation associated with mining?
Redneck Environmentalist Blames PCS Mine and Politicians
Dale Swiggett has been trying to alert the public to the danger posed by contaminated water in eastern North Carolina for months, and he has not minced words or hidden behind bureaucratese. The major papers have ignored a major story.
I first became aware of Swiggett in July 2008 when I received a copy of a notice he paid to have published in Pamlico County. It said “serious issues now exist regarding the quality of Pamlico County drinking water and public health. . . Please accept this letter as notice of this immediate crisis of health, life and death for the citizens of Pamlico County.”
In subsequent emails he explicitly linked the PCS mine and its large withdrawals of water from the Castle Hayne Aquifer to many problems. Swiggett strongly suggests the lack of state action is due to a number of prominent individuals, including political figures and government employees, whom he has been naming in his Environmental Corruption Deck of Cards. For example, he assigned the Queen of Spades to Leah Devlin, NC State Health Director.
The Coastal Federation knew in 2001 that “decades of mining have caused levels of cadmium in reclaimed soils and ponds to concentrate at more than 300 times background levels” (NC Coastal Federation Press Release, October 23, 2001) yet Swiggett alleges he was offered mine waste to use as fill in 2006 and says that was so common many driveways in the area glow in the dark.
On December 29th a retired Hyde County engineer, Glenn Hockney, filed a $500,000,000 civil suit against PCS Phosphate for damages caused to the people of Hyde County. “In the complaint, Hockney also blames “State of North Carolina Environmental Departments” for a failure “to protect Hyde County People.” He asks for an immediate court order to stop all PCS
pumping from the aquifer, an amount Hockney contends averages 78 million gallons per day.” (Pamlico News, January 6, 2008)
When contacted by a reporter for the Pamlico News, a spokesperson for the mine said “We cannot comment because we have not yet been served with the lawsuit,” an interesting response since the company had already scheduled a meeting January 5, 2009, with Hockney and a DENR employee, apparently to try to address Hockney’s concerns.
Oh yes, and on January 5, 2009, the Raleigh News and Observer announced “Leah Devlin, the longtime state health director, is retiring.”
Snow For Me?
more animals
YAY!!!
And we are under a Winter Storm Warning. Bonus!!!
From the National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg Office:
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
309 PM EST WED JAN 7 2009
...SNOW DEVELOPING TONIGHT AND CONTINUING THURSDAY OVER THE NORTH
CAROLINA MOUNTAINS...
NCZ059-062-063-080400-
/O.NEW.KGSP.WS.W.0001.090108T0000Z-090109T0000Z/
/O.EXA.KGSP.WW.Y.0002.090108T0000Z-090109T0000Z/
NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SYLVA...FRANKLIN
309 PM EST WED JAN 7 2009
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 PM
EST THURSDAY FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 3500 FEET...
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO
7 PM EST THURSDAY FOR ELEVATIONS BELOW 3500 FEET...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED
A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7
PM THIS EVENING TO 7 PM EST THURSDAY...FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 3500
FEET. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7
PM EST THURSDAY FOR LOWER ELEVATIONS.
MOIST WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW...AND COLD TEMPERATURES MOVING IN
BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE SNOW OVER THE
NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. BY THE TIME SNOW
TAPERS OFF LATE THURSDAY...2 TO 5 INCH SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE
EXPECTED. HIGHER ELEVATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO SEE 3 TO 5 INCHES OF
SNOW...WHILE VALLEY LOCATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO SEE 1 TO 2 INCHES.
A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER
CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW
ARE FORECAST THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS.
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW
WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW
COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE
DRIVING.
Winter Storm Warning for WNC
And we are under a Winter Storm Warning. Bonus!!!
From the National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg Office:
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
309 PM EST WED JAN 7 2009
...SNOW DEVELOPING TONIGHT AND CONTINUING THURSDAY OVER THE NORTH
CAROLINA MOUNTAINS...
NCZ059-062-063-080400-
/O.NEW.KGSP.WS.W.0001.090108T0000Z-090109T0000Z/
/O.EXA.KGSP.WW.Y.0002.090108T0000Z-090109T0000Z/
NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SYLVA...FRANKLIN
309 PM EST WED JAN 7 2009
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 PM
EST THURSDAY FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 3500 FEET...
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO
7 PM EST THURSDAY FOR ELEVATIONS BELOW 3500 FEET...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED
A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7
PM THIS EVENING TO 7 PM EST THURSDAY...FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 3500
FEET. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7
PM EST THURSDAY FOR LOWER ELEVATIONS.
MOIST WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW...AND COLD TEMPERATURES MOVING IN
BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE SNOW OVER THE
NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. BY THE TIME SNOW
TAPERS OFF LATE THURSDAY...2 TO 5 INCH SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE
EXPECTED. HIGHER ELEVATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO SEE 3 TO 5 INCHES OF
SNOW...WHILE VALLEY LOCATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO SEE 1 TO 2 INCHES.
A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER
CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW
ARE FORECAST THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS.
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW
WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW
COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE
DRIVING.
From the National Weather Service Greenville-Spartanburg Office:
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
309 PM EST WED JAN 7 2009
...SNOW DEVELOPING TONIGHT AND CONTINUING THURSDAY OVER THE NORTH
CAROLINA MOUNTAINS...
NCZ059-062-063-080400-
/O.NEW.KGSP.WS.W.0001.090108T0000Z-090109T0000Z/
/O.EXA.KGSP.WW.Y.0002.090108T0000Z-090109T0000Z/
NORTHERN JACKSON-MACON-SOUTHERN JACKSON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SYLVA...FRANKLIN
309 PM EST WED JAN 7 2009
...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7 PM
EST THURSDAY FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 3500 FEET...
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO
7 PM EST THURSDAY FOR ELEVATIONS BELOW 3500 FEET...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED
A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7
PM THIS EVENING TO 7 PM EST THURSDAY...FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE 3500
FEET. A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 7
PM EST THURSDAY FOR LOWER ELEVATIONS.
MOIST WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW...AND COLD TEMPERATURES MOVING IN
BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE SNOW OVER THE
NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. BY THE TIME SNOW
TAPERS OFF LATE THURSDAY...2 TO 5 INCH SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE
EXPECTED. HIGHER ELEVATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO SEE 3 TO 5 INCHES OF
SNOW...WHILE VALLEY LOCATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO SEE 1 TO 2 INCHES.
A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW MEANS SEVERE WINTER WEATHER
CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW
ARE FORECAST THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL DANGEROUS.
A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW MEANS THAT PERIODS OF SNOW
WILL CAUSE PRIMARILY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES. BE PREPARED FOR SNOW
COVERED ROADS AND LIMITED VISIBILITIES...AND USE CAUTION WHILE
DRIVING.
New Design
I am testing out this new design before using it elsewhere, so I will have to ramble on a bit in order that I might have some usable text in multiple posts.
You'd think it would be harder to come up with stuff to write, but it is not...primarily because I can't type faster than I can think.
You'd think it would be harder to come up with stuff to write, but it is not...primarily because I can't type faster than I can think.
Testing New Template
I might have killed the blog.
Another test
I hope I didn't kill the template now that I have invested this much time into it.
Test for Expandable posts
Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it.
Shutting Down Blog
I have neve really blogged here on a consistent basis, and I have finally realized it is time to stop.
I have several other projects that demand my time, and I will let this blog shut down, and I will get around to deleting it in the next few days, after I have archived everything at home.
My other projects are:
Thunder Pig.....This is my Primary Blog. If I'm not blogging here, something serious is keeping me from an internet connection!!!
West Carolina Report, and associated blog....This is my newest project. I have created a Drudge-clone for reporting headlines of local and sate news. I have the main page up and running, and will have four other pages up within the next 90 days, if all goes according to schedule.
WNC Citizens Blog....This is perhaps an earlier incarnation of what I am attempting at WCR, but I plan on keeping it around, an use it for community blogging, and to train future bloggers as it is a Group Blog.
I also have a Photo Blog, which I occaisionally neglect.
I am a member of The 910 Group, and if you want to pitch in, and try to stop the bleeding of Western Civilization, you are welcome to check it out, and consider joining, sending your curiculum vitae as directed at the website.
I guess you could say I went from wanting to blog about World War IV, to being depressed about our lack of progress (or even acknowledgement), and not blogging about it. Then one day this past fall, a movement was born out of synchronicity.
So, instead of blogging about World War IV, (I've been drafted by my desire to do something) I have decided to join the fight.
These years are the St. Crispins Day years. Won't you join us, and make a difference?
I have several other projects that demand my time, and I will let this blog shut down, and I will get around to deleting it in the next few days, after I have archived everything at home.
My other projects are:
Thunder Pig.....This is my Primary Blog. If I'm not blogging here, something serious is keeping me from an internet connection!!!
West Carolina Report, and associated blog....This is my newest project. I have created a Drudge-clone for reporting headlines of local and sate news. I have the main page up and running, and will have four other pages up within the next 90 days, if all goes according to schedule.
WNC Citizens Blog....This is perhaps an earlier incarnation of what I am attempting at WCR, but I plan on keeping it around, an use it for community blogging, and to train future bloggers as it is a Group Blog.
I also have a Photo Blog, which I occaisionally neglect.
I am a member of The 910 Group, and if you want to pitch in, and try to stop the bleeding of Western Civilization, you are welcome to check it out, and consider joining, sending your curiculum vitae as directed at the website.
I guess you could say I went from wanting to blog about World War IV, to being depressed about our lack of progress (or even acknowledgement), and not blogging about it. Then one day this past fall, a movement was born out of synchronicity.
So, instead of blogging about World War IV, (I've been drafted by my desire to do something) I have decided to join the fight.
These years are the St. Crispins Day years. Won't you join us, and make a difference?