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Vol. XXIII No. 8 © Copyright 2013 The Rhinoceros Times Greensboro, North Carolina www.rhinotimes.com Thursday, February 21, 2013

By Alex JAkuBsenstAff Writer

State Rep. John Blust, President Pro Tem of the Senate Phil Berger, State Rep. John Faircloth, Marlene Sanford of TREBIC and Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins (from left) in the plaza level conference room at city hall on Monday after the City Council met with the Guilford County legislative delegation and talked about the state legislation in the current session.

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Rumors Great news for the downtown. a motion made by Councilmember nancy Vaughan at the end of the City Council meeting on tuesday passed unanimously and is huge. the motion was to explore other avenues for downtown improvement other than downtown Greensboro inc. (dGi). Currently dGi gets over $700,000 from the city to improve the downtown. what dGi constantly brags about are hanging flower baskets and

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By scott D. yostcounty eDitor

PART Begs ForMoney, Again

Schools Could Spend Wisely

By pAul c. clArkstAff Writer

the Guilford County schools Facilities department is expected, on thursday, Feb. 28, to make its recommendation to the Guilford County Board of education on whether or not the school board should buy the old immaculate Heart of mary (iHm) Catholic school as a new home for the academy at Central.

Brother can you spare $24,894?

that’s the question the piedmont area regional transportation authority (part) had for the Guilford County Board of Commissioners at a tuesday, Feb. 19 work session in the Blue room of the old Guilford County Court House.

that amount might not seem like

a lot when it comes to government transportation dollars, but there’s a larger theme at play – namely, the commissioners and other county officials are getting tired of part hitting the county up for money.

three times in the past year and a half, part has come to the board asking for additional money to help make ends

the Greensboro City Council voted to commit $20 million to the construction of the Greensboro performing arts Center (GpaC), on the condition that the GpaC task force also commits $20 million in private money to the project.

the council did not address the $20.5 million gap in the funding for the $60.5 million GpaC.

the vote followed a staff presentation on the GpaC operating model and estimated $60.5 million construction budget at the tuesday, Feb. 19 City

Inside this issueHigh Point News ........... 8 Puzzles ........... 10, 33, 34Entertainment Guide ....11Uncle Orson Reviews .. 12Yost Column ............... 13 Scott’s Night Out ......... 14Rhino Real Estate ....... 15Letters to the Editor .... 31Editorial Cartoon ......... 42under the hammer ...... 43

By Alex JAkuBsenstAff Writer

the City of Greensboro has tried to shift all the blame for the recent controversy over clear cutting trees to duke energy; however the city shares the responsibility since the city was told about the cutting and approved it beforehand. in fact, Greensboro Urban Forester mike

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High point supporters of the sale are organizing and are expected to crowd the meeting.

several supporters of buying the iHm school spoke at the school board’s Feb. 12 meeting. it was no surprise that some were parents of High point Central High school students – the Central community has made it clear that it wants the





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The Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department was busy this week in Kirkwood Park replacing a perfectly good basketball goal with a new basketball goal.

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orson scott Card has come under a vicious and vitriolic attack from the radical left because of his stand in favor of traditional marriage.

Card has been chosen to write the first two issues of a new superman comic, to be released digitally first, and that has resulted in Card being attacked as a homophobe, which is a great word because it sounds so awful.

the traditional marriage amendment, also known as amendment one, passed in north Carolina last year with over 60 percent of the vote, which is a landslide by even the most stringent definition. it means the people of north Carolina are overwhelmingly in favor of defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman. since Card is speaking for the overwhelming majority of the people in his home state, it would seem that attacking him to the point of saying that he should not be allowed to make a living as a writer seems out of place.

But, of course, attacks like the ones against Card are all gay activists have left. north Carolina now has a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. the reason the amendment was needed was because radical leftist judges in other states had interpreted their state constitutions to mean that same-sex marriage was legal. it was a brand new interpretation of their constitutions and

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Guilford’s Got CloutFinally Greensboro has some clout.For years the Guilford delegation to the north Carolina General assembly lacked any

clout. the delegation was weak and – other than looking out for their own interests and there own pet projects – didn’t seem to do much for the area.

with the republican takeover of the state government, all that has changed and this year’s meeting between members of the Greensboro City Council and the Guilford delegation was a horse of a different color.

rep. John Faircloth of High point is the head of the delegation and, although Faircloth has served as both the High point police chief and a High point city councilmember, he grew up in Greensboro and started his career as a police officer walking a beat in downtown Greensboro, so there is definitely Greensboro in his blood.

also at the meeting were reps. John Blust and Jon Hardister, both Greensboro residents, and the lone democratic legislator in the room was state sen. Gladys robinson from pleasant Garden. reps. pricey Harrison, marcus Brandon and alma adams and sen. trudy wade all missed the meeting.

representing the city were mayor robbie perkins and Councilmembers marikay abuzuaiter, nancy Hoffmann, nancy Vaughan, Zack matheny, tony wilkins and Yvonne Johnson. Johnson came in a little late and sat on press row for a few minutes,


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Yost Has Seen The New County Managerthe Guilford County Board of

Commissioners began face-to-face interviews for county manager candidates on monday, Feb. 18 in a closed meeting on the third floor of the sheraton Greensboro Hotel at Four seasons.

the commissioners chose that site so the candidates could be brought in and out of the room without being seen. However, the entrance to the room was visible from down the hallway. during the meeting, springsted inc., the search firm hired by the county last summer to help the county find a new manager, brought in four middle-age male candidates, three white and one black.

according to sources close to the search, all four candidates are from north Carolina or a neighboring state. the county didn’t buy any plane tickets for the candidates, but it is paying car mileage expenses, which also indicates that all the applicants live in relatively close proximity to Guilford County.

the four finalists for the county manager position were selected for in-person interviews after the Board of Commissioners interviewed seven candidates on monday, Jan. 28 via a remote video conferencing system. the commissioners are searching for a replacement for Guilford County manager Brenda Jones Fox, who retired at the end of January.

on monday, Feb. 18, the interviews, held in the Bear Creek meeting room at the sheraton, lasted from 9 a.m. until just after 2 p.m. the commissioners interviewed the four candidates for an hour each. they took breaks in between and took about 30 minutes for a lunch of sandwiches and salads, which were brought in to the meeting room. after the interviews were over, the commissioners remained in closed session to discuss the candidates’ performances in the interviews in an effort to move toward some sort of consensus.

Commissioner Jeff phillips said the commissioners asked the same questions of each candidate. However, he added, the commissioners were able to drill down into those answers for more detail.

By scott D. yostcounty eDitor “there were follow-up questions as

well,” phillips said.during the interviews, the commissioners

went around the table taking turns asking predetermined questions.

Commissioner ray trapp, like many other commissioners, said he thought that two of the candidates did very well and stood out among the four. trapp said that, in his opinion, both of those applicants have the demeanor and experience necessary to run Guilford County, but one of them, especially, presented himself in a highly positive manner and was better-spoken than the other.

after the interviews, there was also a lot of consensus among the commissioners that one of the candidates didn’t do well at all. presumably they’re all talking about the same man, and if so he seems to clearly be out of the running.

when Commissioner Bruce davis was asked how an applicant could do well enough in the video interviews last month to get brought in, and then do so poorly in the in-person interviews, davis said, “i didn’t think he did well in the video interview either.”

davis said that, in his mind, one of the four finalists did better than the others, but three did well.

phillips said the commissioners still have a lot of thinking to do, and he said that, in some cases, the commissioners requested more information from the candidates. He said the board would like to find a new manager quickly; however, he added, it’s a very important decision so it shouldn’t be a hasty one.

phillips said the board was hoping to have a new manager by “march or april,” and Commissioner alan Branson also said he thought that was a reasonable time frame.

trapp, an expectant father, left the meeting early to get to his wife’s ultrasound, and Commissioner Carolyn Coleman had to leave early as well, so those two commissioners didn’t take part in all of the post-interview discussion.

Guilford County security director Jeff Fowler was there the entire time to see

that the media didn’t get too close to the interview room, but Fowler had an easy job of it all morning and afternoon because only one member of the media – a reporter from The Rhinoceros Times – was at the interviews.

the nine-member Board of Commissioners has five republicans and four democrats, and the commissioners don’t know the party affiliations of the applicants. However, some commissioners are almost certainly making their guesses in an attempt to hire a manager whose political inclinations mirror their own.

trapp, a democrat, said he thought that “politics” might come into play in the manager selection. He said he could envision the possibility of a new manager being hired on a closely divided vote, perhaps along straight party lines.

“it may mean we elect a new manager on a 5-to-4 vote,” trapp said.

whenever the board hires a new manager or other key employee, there’s always a hope for a highly unified vote – ideally a unanimous one – in order to demonstrate a show of support for the new manager. several commissioners said they hope further discussions help the board arrive at a point were there is a great deal of

agreement.one commissioner, who asked not to be

identified, said race could be an issue. that source said the most impressive candidate was the black applicant but added that some republican commissioners might take some heat from their constituents if they selected a black manager. while the commissioners don’t know the political affiliations of any of the candidates – some commissioners, they said, might make the assumption that the black applicant is a democrat.

according to Guilford County interim manager/assistant manager/Human resources director sharisse Fuller, at no time did the commissioners ask any questions about the political affiliations of the candidates.

Fuller said Guilford County uses the “structured interview process” for hiring people. she said that process is based on a systematic analysis of job performance. the applicants, Fuller said, are asked predetermined questions that focus on their accomplishments and other relevant criteria and avoid any unlawful and non-job-related topics. that assures that there are no questions about race, religion or

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something that in most cases the writers of those constitutions would have found unheard of. But activist judges believe they have the right to make the law. according to our Constitution, that right to make laws belongs to the elected bodies and to the people, but that doesn’t stop activist judges from writing new laws from the bench.

with north Carolina’s constitutional amendment it will be extremely difficult for a judge to interpret the Constitution to mean that marriage can be between any two consenting adults regardless of gender.

Card is being called a homophobe because he supports traditional marriage, as do the vast majority of north Carolinians. the huge differences between Card and that vast majority is that Card writes forcefully and eloquently about whatever he chooses to write about, and he has joined a national organization to support traditional marriage. His columns and essays in favor of traditional marriage are compelling. and he knew full well that when he joined the national organization for marriage he would be attacked for it.

imagine the world we live in – being attacked for being in favor of marriage.

it is sad that even the News & Record has chosen to take part in this smearing by printing lies about Card and about this newspaper. it is not surprising, but still you would hope that the N&R would at the very least print what they know to be the truth and not print the lies that are being promulgated by the radical left. sometimes even today

we expect more from our hometown daily, but unfortunately for Greensboro there is very little support for the truth to be found at the N&R.

Card not only came out strongly in favor of traditional marriage, he wrote vehemently about the wrongs of activist judges creating laws contrary to the will of the people. without the constitutional amendment, which inarguably represented the will of the people of the state, it would have been an easy task for an activist judge to interpret the Constitution to allow same-sex marriage. that action by judges to thwart the democratic process and the will of the people is something that Card finds highly objectionable, and what he has written about that situation has been twisted until the original message against activist judges has been lost.

much of what Card has written has been taken out of context. But he certainly predicted that anyone who opposed the legalization of gay marriage would be branded a homophobe, and he has been.

the hypocrisy of those attacking Card is disturbing. they believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their lifestyle choices or advocacy for gay rights, but those who have contrary political beliefs should be ostracized and not be allowed to work in their chosen profession. that is a strange kind of freedom of speech that only works for people who have the “correct kind of speech.” it is the same kind of freedom of speech that is promoted by dictators all over the world.


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BJ Says Take Your Fleet And ...By scott D. yostcounty eDitor

Guilford County sheriff BJ Barnes said this week that he’s all for helping out the rest of Guilford County government whenever he can, however, when it comes to managing the county’s large fleet of vehicles – a job Barnes took over almost three years ago – he said he’s had enough.

He’s now giving that responsibility back to the county manager’s office, which, in turn, is handing fleet management over to the department of social services (dss).

Guilford County has about 175 vehicles in its fleet that are available for use by county employees – such as planning inspectors who spend much of their day in the field and social services workers who are checking on children’s living conditions.

that county-owned fleet used to be handled by the security department, and about 14 years ago it was given to the risk management department. about three years ago, former Guilford County manager Brenda Jones Fox convinced Barnes to have the sheriff’s department take over the fleet.

the transfer of the fleet to the sheriff’s department took place in may 2010. However, starting Friday, march 1, Guilford County’s fleet will be managed by dss, which currently oversees most of the county’s transportation-related services.

Guilford County transportation director myra thompson is a division director for dss, and she also handles many other tasks, including putting together the dss budget each year. thompson will now be responsible for overseeing the county’s fleet as well.

thompson already manages the county’s contract with the piedmont area regional transportation (part) authority to provide indigent and low-income county residents free and low-cost trips funded largely by medicaid. that service provides transportation to and from medical appointments as well as trips to and from work for some low-income county residents.

in may 2010, Barnes and other county officials said the reason the county chose his department to manage and maintain the county’s fleet of vehicles was because his department had a history of running things efficiently.

Years ago, when the Guilford County animal shelter was experiencing a great deal of trouble, the sheriff’s department was asked to take over the animal shelter and help fix the problems. the sheriff’s department ran the shelter for about six months before it was turned over to the United animal Coalition, which still runs the shelter today.

Barnes said this week that, when he took over the county’s fleet of vehicles, Guilford County didn’t give him any additional staff or increase his department’s budget accordingly. He added that it looks like he’s not going to get additional staff positions he requested in the upcoming 2013-2014 budget. in light of that, Barnes informed the county manager’s office that his department would no longer be able to handle the fleet.

“You’re talking about 175 vehicles and 1,800 drivers,” Barnes said.

the sheriff’s department itself has 375 vehicles, including squad cars, motorcycles, flashy undercover sports cars and mobile command centers. the sheriff’s department also has a plane, together with some other counties and, if Barnes had is way, the department would also have some segways. However, Barnes said that managing the vehicles used by his sheriff’s department staff is a lot easier than handling the vehicles for the rest of the county.

“the difference is the atmosphere,” Barnes said. “if there’s a flat tire [on a sheriff’s department vehicle], my guys will change it. But if it’s another county employee, they expect you to come out and fix it.”

the sheriff said there were other ways as well in which his officers were self-reliant when it came to vehicles, though the rest of county staff were not.

Barnes said he has two full-time employees assigned to handling the county’s fleet – one who manages the accounting and another who is on the road, dealing with issues like breakdowns and

flat tires. Barnes said that, since the commissioners

and county administration apparently aren’t willing to offer his department any additional staff for fiscal 2013-2014, he felt compelled to stop providing the service.

the sheriff said that some of his staff, including those who oversee his fleet and the county’s, are already overworked. Barnes said that, in addition to new staff he’s been seeking for fleet management, he also needs new staff in vice, narcotics and forensics and, after conversations with county officials, he said, he’s pessimistic about his chances of getting those new positions.

according to Guilford County interim County manager/assistant County manager/Human resources director sharisse Fuller, the reason dss was selected as the next home for the county’s fleet services was because dss is currently the largest user of the county’s fleet and the department already oversees some transportation service.

when The Rhinoceros Times pointed out to thompson that she was already juggling a lot of responsibilities for Guilford County, thompson joked, “not as many as sharisse.”

thompson also said there’s new software that will help automate many of the services. she said there are reservation kiosks at fleet hubs at which county employees can pick up keys and turn in vehicles using a largely automated process. Guilford County has three main drop-off and pickup points for vehicles. thompson said one positive is that the county’s new fleet management software will automatically keep track of when a county vehicle needs an oil change, an inspection, new tires or maintenance of some other sort.

she said that other local governments operate their fleets under a wide range of departments – everything from the finance department to general services and, in some places, transportation services is its own department.

according to Fuller, after the committee looked into the best way to handle the fleet, it made sense to move the operations to transportation in dss. the department of public Health, which also uses a good number of vehicles also operates out of the same maple street building as dss.

though the sheriff’s department is giving up the fleet management duties, sheriff’s department officials say they are turning it back over to the county in much better condition than when they got it.

in addition to the county’s fleet of 175 vehicles, and the sheriff’s department’s 375, emergency services (es) has a fleet of its own of about 110 vehicles. management of the es vehicles, which is handled by the es department, won’t be effected by the march 1 move.

according to Fuller, the transfer of the fleet from the sheriff’s department to dss is not expected to cost the county any money.

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City to Take Control of Downtown Saloonthe Greensboro City Council decided

to begin the process of taking the Cascade saloon from ross strange by eminent domain. strange has allowed the building to deteriorate to the point that it is considered unsafe to enter.

the council discussed options for repairing or demolishing the property at the thursday, Feb. 14 work session in the plaza level conference room at city hall.

according to assistant City manager david parrish, the mortar in the joints of the building at 408 south elm st. is soft and the roof has holes. He also said the stairwell has collapsed and the second floor has partially collapsed and that the building has water and termite damage.

staff presented several courses the city could take to resolve problems with the building.

stabilizing the building, which would involve masonry repairs, interior demolition and work on the foundation of the building, is estimated to cost between $1.45 million and $1.6 million.

“minimal effort/minimal budget” stabilization, which would involve bracing the walls, repairing the roof to prevent further water damage and replacing bricks would cost $750,000 to $800,000. demolishing the property is estimated to

By Alex JAkuBsenstAff Writer cost $75,000 to $100,000.

the costs are rough estimates and the full extent of the interior deterioration is unknown according to staff.

mayor robbie perkins said, “i wouldn’t bet a nickel on what it would cost to renovate that building.”

City attorney mujeeb shah-Khan said the nC railroad Company can always request that a building in their right of way, which extends 100 feet on either side of the track, be removed at the owner’s expense. he said that if the structure is demolished, nothing can be built in its place.

Councilmember Jim Kee suggested reaching an agreement with the railroad before spending money on the building.

perkins said that by the time the city got a response, Cascade saloon would be dust. the attorneys present agreed that the railroad was notoriously difficult to deal with. “i don’t think you’d ever get an answer,” perkins said.

Councilmember Zack matheny suggested using eminent domain to take over the property, which could then be resold to a private developer for renovation.

“working with this property owner hasn’t worked for the last, ever,” said matheny. “i think the important thing is we quit messing around with this property owner and take ownership of the property.”

strange has offered to sell the building to the city, but according to shah-Khan he would not name a price and so the city did not negotiate. in an eminent domain process the city would take the property and either negotiate a price with the owner or have the court set a price.

the City Council directed staff to start the process to take the land by eminent domain while simultaneously starting a request for proposals (rFp) process to find a company to renovate the building.

Councilmember Yvonne Johnson suggested awarding a low-interest loan to the winner of the rFp.

also at the work session the council supported dropping the ban on window bars and chipped paint from the proposed Good repair ordinance for the Central Business district.

the ordinance would require property owners in the Central Business district to maintain the facade of their buildings to special downtown-only standards or face fines of up to $500 per day.

matheny questioned the provision that no building can have an awning that is more than 20 percent torn, tattered or missing. “what if it’s 18 percent or 22 percent?” he asked.

City manager denise roth said the percentage could be adjusted or taken

out. “the idea is we don’t want torn off awnings,” she said. matheny also objected to the paint requirements in the ordinance.

matheny suggested using incentives to encourage repairs, including putting $100,000 in a downtown fund that would be used as an incentive for property owners to repair their buildings.

Councilmember tony wilkins pointed out that only 10 percent of the buildings in the Central Business district would be in violation of the ordinance in their current condition.

wilkins asked the staff to determine what the total cost of fixing up those buildings would be. “if you’ve got 10 percent as a problem, let’s address the problem,” he said. He mentioned the possibility of the city partnering with those property owners.

perkins said he was interested in looking at incentives as well as penalties. matheny agreed.

the council also heard suggestions for improving the way the city addresses minimum housing violations.

sue schwartz, director of planning and Community development, recommended charging re-inspection fees to property owners with violations each time property is inspected without the violations being remedied.


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High Point Electric Rates to Drop in 2021By pAul c. clArk

stAff Writer

High point, as it has for the last two years, will receive a wholesale electric rate increase of about 5 percent this year from north Carolina municipal power agency number 1 (nCmpa1), to which High point, Lexington and 17 other piedmont municipalities belong.

all or most of that increase will be passed on to customers of High point electric, High point’s city-owned electric company. the High point City Council can reduce the rate increase by tapping the city’s electric fund, which is set aside for capital improvements to the electric system.

in 2011, Graham edwards, the Ceo of electriCities, the association of north Carolina, south Carolina and Virginia municipally owned power companies, predicted rate increases of approximately 5 percent for the next three years – through 2013. at a briefing on the agency at city hall on thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, edwards gave worse news – that 5 percent a year rate increases will continue through 2016.

the wholesale rate applies to the output of the 2,258-megawatt Catawba nuclear station in York County, south Carolina. nCmpa1 owns 37.5 percent of the Catawba station, and the same percentage of the output of that plant.

Complaints about electric rates are commonly heard in High point, although studies and anecdotal evidence indicate that High point electric customers are happier with the service of their electric company than customers of commercial companies such as duke energy.

edwards told councilmembers that response times to outages among the power agency’s member cities were a third of duke energy’s, largely because customers hold city councils and city staff responsible.

“nothing will make you councilmembers’ phones ring faster than no power,” High point City manager strib Boynton said. “that’s why this is important.”

one of the major mysteries to the layman is why the power agency, which owns a major part of a nuclear plant, has such high electric rates – at this point, much higher than duke energy’s.

according to nCmpa1, in 2012, the agency’s wholesale electric cost is 20 percent above duke energy’s. the agency projects that, over the five years from 2012 to 2016, the agency’s wholesale cost will average 23 percent higher than duke energy’s. over the same period, nCmpa1 estimates that its average rate increase will be 5 percent, and that duke energy’s will be 4.8 percent. the agency predicts that its power generation costs will continue to exceed those of duke energy until about 2021, when the decreasing debt service on the Catawba plant will cause nCmpa1’s cost to plummet.

Cost-of-generation predictions from the agency in past years were substantially

lower than those it calculated in 2012 – the data edwards presented thursday.

edwards attributed the increased cost projections primarily to increases in the costs of operating and managing the Catawba plant. nCmpa1’s previous cost projects were based on a 2007 rate plan.

“i wish i could tell you that we weren’t going to see cost increases at Catawba,” edwards said. “and the main reason we’re going to see it is the incident at Fukushima in Japan.”

an earthquake and tsunami on march 11, 2011, caused a major nuclear incident at

the Fukushima 1 nuclear plant in okuma, Japan, including a nuclear meltdown and a release of radiation.

edwards said the higher rate projections in the 2012 rate plan come from a large power generation cost increase. of that increase, he said about half will come from an increased cost of running the plant, including fuel cost increases and stricter regulations. the other half will come from a mix of increased electric transmission costs, south Carolina taxes, reduced wholesale demand, lower market prices and lower investment income.

the new costs may explain the projected rate increases, but don’t explain why nCmpa1, and High point, already have much higher rates than duke energy. You’d think a city that owns a large chunk of a licensed, operating nuclear plant would be sitting pretty.

edwards said the main reason for the agency’s higher power cost is its dependence on the Catawba plant, and another nuclear accident – the 1979 partial meltdown at the three mile island in pennsylvania. it was a minor accident as nuclear power accidents

High point mayor Bernita sims quietly abolished the High point City Council’s longstanding committee system at the City Council’s reorganization meeting on dec. 6, 2012. she barely eked out a vote, keeping the committees dead at the City Council retreat on Feb. 9. then, under pressure from other councilmembers, she abruptly reversed course and reinstated committees on tuesday, Feb. 19.

Because of the City Council backlash, it seemed unlikely that sims could keep the committee system dead for long, but the speed of her reversal was breathtaking.

at the retreat, sims already faced grumbling from some councilmembers about the elimination of the committee system, which gave councilmembers who chaired committees outsized influence through their ability to debate issues and make recommendations to the City Council – recommendations that were usually followed under the long tenure of former mayor and current at-large Councilmember Becky smothers.

in the case of Councilmember Jim davis, the grumbling at the retreat escalated to out-and-out rebellion, with davis accusing sims of denying new councilmembers the chance to build up expertise and carve out areas of interest. even Councilmember Foster douglas, who was no great fan of the committee system before the november 2012 elections, piled on sims for doing away with it.

nonetheless, sims at the retreat pushed through a 5-to-4 vote to schedule Committee of the whole meetings – meetings of the City Council acting as a committee to study issues – on tuesdays, theoretically to give the City Council more time for debate. the retreat broke up shortly afterward.

the objections to the abolishment of committees must have broken into full-scale revolt after the retreat, because the issue was reconsidered on tuesday – not months or a

Sims succumbs to council coupBy pAul c. clArk

stAff Writeryear later, as proposed by sims.

most of tuesday’s Committee of the whole meeting was on issues other than the committee system. But at the end of the meeting, sims casually pulled out a stack of papers and passed them around, saying there had been concern or complaints expressed about discarding the committee system.

the paper sims distributed was a proposal for recreating a committee system that sims said would be on the City Council’s monday, march 4 agenda. sims said she didn’t expect a vote on tuesday. she said, “i just kind of wanted to put it out there.”

Under the proposed plan, the City Council would create three committees and would hold one City Council meeting, one Committee of the whole meeting and three committee meetings in every City Council work cycle.

Under sims’ short-lived system, as modified at the retreat, the only committee that survived from smothers’ tenure was the Finance Committee, but it was a “Finance Committee of the whole” meeting – a meeting on finance issues, but run, like the City Council’s other meetings, by sims.

Under the new proposal, sims would recreate the Finance Committee with at-large Councilmember Britt moore as chairman and with Councilmembers Jay wagner, davis and sims as voting members.

the proposed plan would also create a Community Housing and neighborhood development Committee, chaired by douglas – who would finally get his first chairmanship. the other voting members of the committee would be Councilmembers Judy mendenhall, Jason ewing and Jeff Golden.

the committee would deal with issues including substandard housing, the redevelopment proposals of the High point City project, cultural and recreational events and safe-neighborhood initiatives.

the third committee would be the

Comprehensive planning Committee, which would handle all issues related to zoning, “including but not limited to revision of the Unified development ordinance, major land developments and planning and zoning issues.” it would be chaired by smothers, although as a Committee of the whole, theoretically all members would attend.

Under sims’ new plan, there would still be meetings for briefings from High point City manager strib Boynton, which the entire City Council would attend as a Committee of the whole.

at the retreat, sims said the no-committee system could be reconsidered, but scheduled no meetings to do so and set up no process for the City Council to consider reinstating committee meetings. By the time she walked into tuesday’s meeting, the new committees were a done deal. other councilmembers must have leaned on sims heavily to get action that fast.

the restored and modified committee system seemed not to surprise the other councilmembers, making it likely that they had heard the proposal before they walked into the conference room on tuesday.

Beyond the possible reinstatement of the committee system, tuesday’s meeting was used for Boynton, city legal consultant Fred Baggett and city staff members to brief the councilmembers on three issues.

the three issues were the possibility of increasing the vehicle tax on High point residents by $15 a year; the possibility of getting the north Carolina General assembly to approve a receivership program under which High point and Greensboro could, instead of tearing down a dilapidated building, get a Guilford County superior Court judge to appoint a developer as a receiver to repair and sell it; and a request by the High point City project to ban video sweepstakes parlors from the Uptowne section of north main street and the washington street business district.




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Hey, you should do a story on the panhandlers that are spread out through the city, the ones on i-40 and wendover, looks like they have organized shifts and they have like certain times. and, then, they rotate through so you don’t see the same one in the same place. then you see them a couple of intersections further on down. then when they go out they get into nice pickup trucks. so, it makes you wonder how homeless they really are if there’s someone guiding them all. thanks.

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it’s the night preceding the supposedly big blizzard in the northeast. and i’m wondering, dear reader, if you have learned that the governor of massachusetts and the authorities have ordered all citizens to be off the roads tonight. i’d like to know in a republic on what basis our public servants order their masters, the people, to get off their own roads. they’ve got a lot of nerve, these public servants. they perceive themselves as our rulers, not our servants. But they describe themselves as our servants, our public servants, when they want their big fat salaries and retirement and a bridge named after them. what a bunch of useless parasites. Just sign me off as an independent thinker.

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i must apologize to the editor of this newspaper for calling back again within 10 minutes. But it is my understanding that we get two one-minute calls per week. anyway, it has been fewer than 10 minutes since i called in my last sentiment and only now on nBC news i hear Brian williams telling the viewers that one of their reporters, has been ordered out of the Boston airport. ordered out? By whom? and what authority does anybody have to order a citizen out of an airport, which is public space? this continues the theme of people who are too big for their boots. in another sentiment on the same line, have you noticed how the mass media referred to laws as rules, as if we’re small children these days? we’re being treated like kids, not as sovereign citizens. Just sign me off as an independent thinker.

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we know now how Linda shaw got her new chairwoman position. she agreed to vote with the democrats every time for everything and has turned her back on her other republican commissioners and her constituents as well. and she loves having her picture in the newspaper, and the publicity she receives.

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Hi, after last week’s failure of The Rhino to have my favorite sudoku puzzle, New York Time’s Hyper sudoku, i was quite pleased to find two puzzles on page 22 of the Feb. 7 issue. then instantly disappointed when i found they were not two puzzles but two solutions. now, i’m really jumping for hyper sudoku. and three puzzles for Valentine’s may not be enough.

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i see gasoline, according to the news, is up 17 cents a gallon in one week. this is for the democrats that voted him back in that is not drawing a check. the healthcare system is a mess. Gasoline continues to rise. and they voted him back in. now the people that’s drawing a check, i can understand, they don’t know any better. But there is nowhere in the Constitution that it says that the government will keep the people up that i’ve ever found. whatever the case is, the Benghazi thing, he’s absolutely hiding from it. and they’re letting him get by with it. all he wanted to do was get reelected, and he got that. But somehow or another, the republicans better make sure that they get back in the House next year and get the senate, too, or we are in bad trouble.

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apparently you are a gun lover and obama hater. so, you put the two together to come up with some ridiculous thoughts. You say it would be incredible if we had a president who had shot a gun. do you think it would be incredible if we had a president who had never served in the trenches in a field battle, or never parachuted out of an airplane, or never commanded a battleship?


something most councilmembers would choose not to do.

sen. phil Berger of eden also arrived a few minutes late, but attended the meeting, and when he arrived perkins gave him the seat at the head of the table. Berger is president pro tem of the state senate, which is the senate’s equivalent of speaker of the House. in other words he runs the senate, and with a republican House and republican governor, Berger can get done pretty much whatever he wants.

to have one of the three most powerful men in state government at a delegation meeting made things interesting. Berger did not say a whole lot but his presence was felt and when he did speak the council listened.

after the official meeting Berger stayed around to talk to councilmembers about issues and made it clear that this is going to be a legislature that acts. Berger said there would be major state tax reform. He said a lot of different plans were being passed around and each had its own supporters, but so far no single plan appeared to have

the support of a majority. He said he didn’t know if the legislature would be able to do away with the state income tax in one year, but the elimination of that tax was a goal, even if it took a few more years.

wilkins asked Berger about the request by Greensboro to increase the city tax on vehicles from $10 a year to $15 a year. wilkins expressed concern that a 50 percent tax hike was too much. Berger said that he had never been in favor of such taxes and favored user fees instead. He said if someone was paying a tax on a vehicle you could assume they weren’t riding the bus but the proceeds from this tax go to fund the bus system in Greensboro.

in other words, that tax increase doesn’t have a good chance of passage. it also falls into the category of sneaky, because the council would no doubt proclaim that the legislature had raised the tax and all the council was doing was collecting it.

so that’s good news for the taxpayers of Greensboro; it doesn’t look like the city will get its hidden vehicle tax increase.

more good news is that the Jordan Lake rules, which have been hanging over the city for years, are supposed to get fixed.

Berger said, “Jordan Lake rules – we have just got to get that right this time.”

as the rules stand it could cost Greensboro over $100 million to come into compliance. in the past the city has worked hard to get the implementation delayed, but Berger is talking about fixing the rules once and for all.

everybody wants clean water, but what Greensboro would have been required to do would not have done anything to solve the pollution problems in Jordan Lake and would have cost Greensboro and the surrounding area a fortune.

a bill that is near and dear to our heart that is on the Greensboro legislative agenda is to open up legally required advertising to media other than paid circulation newspapers. the City of Greensboro could save a lot of money if it were not required to run legal advertising in the News & Record or other paid circulation newspapers.

Because most of the mainstream newspapers in the state endorse liberal democrats for office, this bill, which has been around for a while, didn’t have much chance of passage. But the republicans now run the government and most of them

are not beholden to the mainstream media.one big concern of the council was that,

because it is going to be a tight budget year and with tax reform, that the state will come down and steal money from the counties and municipalities like it did in 2002. the counties and municipalities would like assurances that any change in the tax code would not result in less money for them. Berger said that was one of the goals of tax reform – to hold the cities and counties harmless, a fancy way to say they get the same amount of state money although it may come from different sources.

several legislators complained about the lack of convenient parking near city hall and a brief discussion by councilmembers was held to try and figure out where these powerful guests could park. one suggestion that was not made was that in the future they could meet in mayor robbie perkins office. perkins recently moved his office out of downtown in large part because he didn’t have convenient parking for clients.

perkins reportedly has plenty of convenient parking at his new office on state street, so who knows, the next delegation meeting may be there.

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Lavatory Art, Oscar Songs and ScoresBY orson sCott Card

Uncle Orson Reviews Everything

Just when you think you’ve seen everything, somebody comes up with an entirely new genre of art. what nina Katchadourian thought of was airplane bathroom art.

actually, the airplane bathroom is her studio. starting in 2010, she has locked herself in the airplane lavatory and, using materials at hand (paper towels, toilet paper, the blanket provided at her seat), she poses in imitation of dutch masters’ paintings and snaps her own picture.

the results are both wonderful and hilarious. it helps that she has an expressive, sharply featured face. it would be insane if she actually paid for airplane tickets solely to take these pictures, but as a way to pass the time when you’re flying anyway, it’s quite a wonderful hobby.

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it’s oscar time this sunday. as usual, i’ll be shunning the fancy Hollywood shindigs to which i’m always invited (but really, how many new things does Gwyneth have to say?) and will hold my own oscar party.

the oscars matter – they can transform a screen artist’s career and provide permanent validation; they can also make really bad films weirdly important. we know that the oscars often “get it wrong” – the winner may not have half the staying power as a film the same year that wasn’t even nominated.

But the oscars aren’t about staying power – or, rather, they are an attempt to create staying power. still, they’re a product of their time.

the dreadfully simple-minded Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner gave Katharine Hepburn one of her oscars, when the truly enduring performances that year came from anne Bancroft in The Graduate, Faye dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde, and audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark.

But it was 1967, and the civil rights movement was very much on people’s

minds. of course, since it was Hollywood, the official racial-intermarriage movie wasn’t made until after all the hard work was over; if it had been made in 1963, that would have been something! Hollywood follows the trends, rather like a bloodhound following the elusive trail of the next Big thing and rarely finding anything but the Last Big thing.

Yet there is a kind of perverse courage here and there. Hollywood never really challenges the culture at large, but it does sometimes challenge its own provincialism. the case in point is Argo, Ben affleck’s movie about the rescue of the non-hostage americans who hid out in the Canadian ambassador’s home until they were brought out by pretending to be part of a film crew.

on one level, of course, it’s a standard self-celebration: Look, Hollywood pitched in to help fake a movie project in order to rescue americans at risk!

But step a bit farther in, and you find that this is a movie that doesn’t toe the politically correct Hollywood line. the Cia aren’t bad guys. neither are the political bigwigs. neither, for that matter, are the iranians – their anger is shown as being justified, even if their actions were outrageous violations of international law.

Argo does follow some Hollywood formulas, too – a somewhat artificial sense of urgency juices up the last-minuteness of the getaway. But it’s a smart use of the formula, because it depends on the fact that the events took place before the instantaneity of the internet. no way could these events happen today – but they happened then.

Argo is playful and smart, and defies Hollywood political groupthink even as it uses stock Hollywood tropes. Ben affleck is, of all things, a grownup.

with 10 films nominated in the Best picture category, we can assume that the winner won’t be a majority pick, or even much of a consensus choice. in fact, it might be very nearly random.

so i’m not going to try to outguess the

results. i do have opinions, though, and because The Rhinoceros Times is such an open-minded newspaper, i am allowed to voice them in print.

Because i’m a member of both the writers Guild and the screen actors Guild, i got a lot of screeners – dVds provided to voters in the various award-giving groups. i don’t vote for the oscars – you actually have to have achieved something in film in order to become a member of the academy. But i had a chance to see everything.

Yet i didn’t see them all. why? Because life is short, i’m busy and there are movies that i couldn’t bring myself to watch. Lincoln is the main one.

i actually revere Lincoln too much and know too much about the Civil war and the political questions surrounding it to be willing to subject myself yet again to the smug stupidity and dishonesty of steven spielberg. especially since the screenwriter was the equally smug and dishonest author of Angels in America.

spielberg has shown us again and again – Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, Munich – that he has utter contempt for historical figures and will lie about them as readily as oliver stone.

when you add to that his penchant for the cheap pandering ending, i know exactly what Lincoln is. they will pretend that Lincoln wrestled with issues about which in real life his vision was clear; they will pick villains and lie about them; they will pretend that the right thing happened in spite of the people who actually brought it into being; and at the end we will be expected to respond with cheers and tears.

every time a new spielberg project is announced, i shudder at the realization that millions of people will watch his work and think they’re seeing something close to the truth, when in fact his treatment of history ranges from the reckless to the malicious.

so no, i couldn’t bring myself to see Lincoln. it also didn’t help that daniel day-Lewis’ makeup looked almost as rigid and masklike as the hideous big-face makeup dustin Hoffman wore at the end of Little Big Man. day-Lewis is as cold an actor as ever existed; Lincoln himself was a warm and funny man, even in the midst of adversity.

except for a vague physical resemblance (obviously you can’t cast philip seymour Hoffman as Lincoln), i can’t think of many worse casting decisions. people say he’s brilliant in the part, but knowing who created the script, i fear that the more convincing his performance, the falser the understanding of Lincoln in the minds of people who watch the movie.

if Lincoln wins the oscar, it will be evidence, not the cause, of americans’ abysmal ignorance of and contempt for their own history.

i didn’t see Django Unchained because Quentin tarantino is a vain and terrible

director and the subject matter leads me to assume the movie is yet another self-indulgent trip into “forbidden” (i.e., cliched but repulsive) territory. as far as i can recall, i have never found even five minutes of any tarantino movie or performance to be tolerable. why should i prove this to myself yet again? if it wins the oscar, it’ll be yet another example of Hollywood’s self-loathing.

i didn’t see Beasts of the Southern Wild because it wasn’t among the screeners that i got, and i’d never heard of it until it was nominated.

i didn’t see Zero Dark Thirty because, even though Bigelow is a superb director, her ruthless honesty means that watching the movie would be a darker experience than i could ever bring myself to choose on any given night. if i were paid to review movies, i’d have watched it. i’m not paid, and so i do get to decide that i just don’t want to spend a couple of hours going through a certain kind of tension, when i already know the outcome.

still, if it wins the oscar, i will assume that it is a perfectly just and appropriate victory.

Amour might be wonderful. i look forward to seeing it.

Life of Pi we attempted to watch. in the first five minutes, the condescending tone of the movie and the bad production values and the self-conscious writerliness of it made us yawn and switch away to watch some series television. since the book was in the Jonathan Livingston Seagull category of philosophy for the ignorant, i assume the movie is, too.

if Life of Pi wins, i’ll feel very smug and superior to the oscar voters. which, come to think of it, is how most reviewers feel every year.

i did watch Silver Linings Playbook, which turned out to be mostly smart and mostly real. the performances were superb, the writing was smart, the directing clear and unpretentious. it is hard for me to decide whether Silver Linings Playbook or Argo is more deserving of the label Best picture; a victory by either would make me happy.

But i think what would both please and surprise me most is if Les Miserables won. since it’s the best film adaptation of a stage musical ever (Singin’ in the Rain and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers were original musical films, not adaptations from the stage), there is no question that it deserves an oscar. so do most of the cast. so do the screenwriter and the director.

Yet i will be surprised if it wins, if only because most academy voters, though they are in the business, have no idea of what’s actually hard to do and worthy of an award. Look at how they keep giving shallow but showy performances the “best actor” and “best actress” awards, while far


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Yost Says Dancing with Snakes Optional

By scott D. yostcounty eDitor

The Bible (from Koine Greek τà βιβλία, tà biblía, “the books”) is a canonical collection of texts considered sacred in Judaism or Christianity. Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books. Christian Bibles range from the sixty-six books of the Protestant canon to the eighty-one books of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church canon …

wikipedia, the entry for “Bible”

a couple of weeks ago, i wrote a column about the different versions of the Bible, and, though i wasn’t intending to write a humorous column, by the time i was through writing it, the column had veered off in a comical direction and, while many people seemed to find it enjoyable, there were two main problems with that column:

(1) i never really got around to my original task of talking about choosing between all the different Bibles, and …

(2) Based on some emails and other communications i received after that column came out, some people were highly concerned about my salvation.

so, this week, i want to engage in the conversation i originally intended. i want to make some points that i felt compelled to make before i got sidetracked in my column a couple of weeks ago.

the idea of writing about the various versions of the Bible came to me when i ran into a lady at the supermarket who carried a copy of the King James Version around with her everywhere she went. she told me i needed to read the King James Version exclusively because that was the true word of God, while the more modern versions, she said, can be misleading.

the woman seemed to think the newer, more modern translations of the Bible watered down the meaning of God’s word, and they failed to adequately convey the message He had intended for us.

now i, on the other hand, have always preferred the more modern translations like The Message and The Living Bible, which use present day idioms and are much easier for me to understand.

i know a lot of people are critical of The Living Bible and other modern translations, because, they say, those modern translators have taken too many liberties; they’ve made some choices that have obscured the literal meaning.

they have, in other words, brought too much interpretation to it. some argue that that’s very important because every word of the Bible is literally true and the new versions often deviate from the strict meaning of the text. i appreciate that position, but i think it misses a point about literalism.

sometimes people say they believe every word in the Bible literally, but i always wonder if they really do, because, for instance, they still have their right hand on the end of their arm.

as Jesus said: “and if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. it is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.” (matthew 5:30, New International Version)

now, everyone has sinned and presumably everyone has sinned using their right hand at some point in their lives – yet people don’t cut it off as instructed.

i know they would tell me that Jesus’ remark in that situation wasn’t meant as a literal command. instead, they would say, it was a metaphor: Jesus was simply trying to convey the serious nature of sin and the importance of doing everything one can to prevent it.

in other words, they’re saying, Jesus is making a symbolic or figurative statement – which, of course, means it wasn’t to be taken literally.

at that point, when we make that judgement, we’re already moving away from a “strictly literal” interpretation of the Bible.

in 1 Kings 18:27, elijah tells those worshiping the false God Baal that Baal is “the supreme God.” He goes on to say, to the followers who are shouting for Baal, that they might need to shout louder because Baal may be out somewhere relieving himself.

now, is elijah really saying that Baal is the true and supreme God? and does he really believe that Baal would no doubt answer them if he weren’t out relieving himself? elijah does, after all, say that.

no, of course that’s not what he means. elijah is clearly mocking them. that is, he’s being sarcastic.

sarcasm, like speaking metaphorically, is not a literal act. in fact, sarcasm has the very interesting distinction of presenting a meaning that is the exact opposite of what is being said.

now those are a couple of minor examples of biblical statements being acceptably

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interpreted in a non-literal way; however, people are making much more important judgments of this type all the time – about what the text of the Bible actually does or doesn’t say. after all, literally, the Bible says gays should be put to death and that true justice consists of an eye for an eye.

now you might say that that was the old testament law and, after Jesus came and died for our sins, there was no more need to follow much of the old testament law. But don’t forget: Jesus said He had not come to change “one iota, one dot” of the laws of moses and the old books.

on the other hand, Jesus seems to frequently offer new rules in the new testament. it is hard to both “turn the other cheek,” and live by “an eye for an eye.”

if you want to limit the discussion to the rules in the new testament: women should be quiet in church and, if you marry a divorced woman, then you’re committing adultery.

that’s what it says, however we bring our own interpretation into the mix, and few people live by those particular rules today.

so that’s how it goes: we just began the discussion and already we’re knee-deep in interpretation, bringing in outside evidence, context, competing passages, cultural norms and a thousand other considerations – in an attempt to find the appropriate weight and correct meaning of various biblical passages.

also, we’re simultaneously trying to understand the uncertain or unknown motivations of the speakers – such as whether they’re being ironic, sarcastic, metaphorical, literal or what.

so, to get back to the topic of the various versions of the Bible and which one you should read – well, on one level at least, the choice is difficult because there are so many versions that offer a multitude of interpretations of the word of God.

the Bible is commonly regarded as the best-selling book of all time. no one knows exactly how many Bibles have been printed, but i read several places that the number is easily over 6 billion – with an estimated 25 million Bibles produced and distributed each year.

whatever the actual numbers, there are all sorts of differences in the various translations and versions. there are illustrated versions, versions for children, modern versions and ancient versions, and a good number of Bibles to choose from in many of the world’s 7,000 or so distinct languages. each version offers its own take on things, it’s own points of emphasis and nuances – sometime there are even dramatic differences.

Listen, there’s nothing sacred about the King James Version of the Bible. well, oK, there is, but all that sacredness comes from the Bible part of the title, not from the King James Version part.

the King James Version is a translation just like other Bibles. it is not the original

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Bible. the bible wasn’t written in english. the tablets God gave moses didn’t have, “thy shalt not kill” written out in elizabethan english.

the old testament was written in Hebrew. (parts of ezra and daniel, were written in aramaic, as were a couple of verses of Jeremiah.) the new testament was written in Greek. so the King James Version, The New International Version, The Amplified Bible, The Living Bible, the ethiopian orthodox Church’s version and all the others – well, they’re all translations and versions with their own idiosyncrasies.

also, the Bible is a fluid document that has undergone many changes over the centuries.

in the fifth century, some translator apparently thought the dictum “never be angry” was too strong, so he changed it to “never be angry without cause” – which dramatically alters the meaning of matthew 5:22. that addition made it into the King James Version, but the original text was used for many later versions of the Bible.

Here’s another example. if you drive west a few hours into the mountains of north Carolina, some Baptists are passing poisonous snakes around as part of their worship service – yet some versions of the Bible don’t even include mark Chapter 16, verses 9 to 20 at all. those are the versions that talk about snake handling and being able to survive bites from poisonous snakes if your faith is strong enough.

according to scholars, the verses weren’t part of the Gospel of mark and can’t be found in the oldest and most trusted Greek manuscripts. that part of mark is in the King James Version, but is not in many other versions.

there have been many major changes in the Bible over the years as well. the Bible wasn’t divided up into chapters until the 13th century, when that was done by stephen Langton, the archbishop of Canterbury at the time – and the Bible wasn’t divided up into verses until the 16th century.

now, however, it’s almost impossible to imagine the Bible without thinking in terms of book, chapter and verse.

so there has historically been a certain fluidity there.

and maybe the Bible will also change in the future. John eldredge, my favorite living Christian writer, asked the question, is the Bible finished? is it conceivable, eldredge asks, that someone could write something that is added to the Bible and included in future versions? it’s an interesting question.

in the end, the key to finding the right Bible, i think, is simply to find one that speaks to you. some versions are better than others, but every Bible i’ve ever read or come across has seemed to be a good faith effort to convey the true word of God and help spread His message.

so my suggestion is that you go in a bookstore that has a wide variety of Bibles, or look through various translations online,


Rascal Flatts is my favorite group in the world and “God Bless the Broken Road” is my favorite song, so when Rascal Flatts played that song last Friday night at the Greensboro Coliseum – well, I enjoyed it. Before the concert, Ashley (above, left) and Michelle were trying to get a random person to take a good picture of them on their phone. He tried several times but they weren’t happy with it. I said to them, here, I work for the newspaper. I’ll take one on my camera and I’ll send it to you if you email me, and I gave them my card. Michelle is a cheerleading coach at Cape Fear High School, so she came a long way to see the terrifi c concert. (Thanks to Michael Strider for the picture of Gary LeVox below.) At one point in the concert, the Wake Forest Marching

Band even took the stage. The other pretty woman (left) is Jacqueline, the fi rst face you’ll see if you brave all the crazy cats and dogs and make it to front desk of the World Headquarters of The Rhinoceros Times. - Scott D. Yost.

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Letters to the EditorMinimum wage taxes consumers

Dear Editor,president obama really must believe

that the american public cannot think for themselves. He wants to raise the minimum wage up to $9 an hour, and this raise is nothing more than a tax increase with a different name. Here are some reasons why this plan should be rejected:

First of all, it is not the government’s business to set salary amounts for private businesses.

second, studies have shown that as the forced minimum wage is raised, the drive for further education is lower. why work hard and excel when your salary is guaranteed?

third, when the forced minimum wage is raised, businesses naturally raise the price of their products to compensate. minimum wages, then, become a tax on the consumer.

Fourth, studies have shown that the high school dropout rate increases as young people are guaranteed a certain income level. again, the drive to excel is diminished.

Finally, if we want to increase the unemployment rate, let’s continue to increase the minimum wage. many businesses will simple lay off employees rather than raise their prices in order to stay competitive.

my question is this: why in the world

can’t more of our “qualified” leaders understand these basic consequences of raising the minimum wage? only one answer is feasible: obama promotes this as a way to discredit the conservative republicans and to divide america.Sid Stewart

Davis needs guidance on moneyDear Editor,

it appears Bruce davis does not understand the federal guidelines for using the money in the drug fund. maybe sheriff Barnes should go ahead and let mr. davis and the commissioners use the money any way they see fit. then, when the fed seizes it or cuts it off altogether, he will get the message.Ramon Bell

Bending the truth?Dear Editor,

Under maurice “mo” Green’s leadership, the district: won $30 million in federal money to buy digital devices for middle school students and teachers. Launched the Guilford parent academy, which offers free workshops to parents in the county; the academy has served more than 18,000 parents and hosted more than 400 events. issued new service learning diplomas and awards to hundreds of high

school graduates; more than 500 students got the diplomas last year. opened two new early/middle college programs at nC a&t and UnCG. Created a summer arts institute for students. increased the high school graduation rate from 79.9 percent in 2009 to 84.5 percent in 2012. reduced the number of schools on the state’s “low-performing” list from 10 to one. avoided teacher layoffs during the recession.

not a single accomplishment is a measure of educational improvement. all are simply unrelated administrative facts about the system. all are ancillary to the mission of education

Conviently left out is: previous failures (state official report cards); overall reading and math have not improved in a decade; we are consistently below the state average; sat results have not improved in a decade; and we are consistently below the state average and have actually slipped 30 points

Conclusions: in the world of learning there are two types of knowledge: declarative and imperative. declarative are simply knowledge statements. imperative takes the declarative and through cognitive process arrives at new knowledge. Given the declarative knowledge above, using imperative techniques we arrive at the following.

Under mo Greens leadership: we have lowered the standards for graduation

and diplomas. we have dispersed the low performing students so they are not concentrated at isolated particular schools. we have spent a great deal of money but had little success improving overall education. we are a public relations/advertising/marketing success.

that is the school system’s chief of staff’s expertise and she is superb. i salute her.David Colin

Declaration a good readDear Editor,

when was the last time you took the time to read the declaration of independence? i mean take the time to really sit down, read it, look at what is happening today and compare it to when that document was drafted.

i am by no means advocating the overthrow of the government or succession or rebellion in any way shape or form. But i do find it interesting that the old adage “those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it” is starting to raise its head.

Look at the last 21 words in the first paragraph “a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

the declaration listed specific grievances the colonists had with the crown and were


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disabilities or other off-limit topics during the interviews.

Coleman, when asked about the performance of the candidates in the interviews, said that some did better in person than they did in the video interviews, while some, Coleman said, did worse.

while most of the commissioners said after the interviews that they believe the next Guilford county manager was in that group of four, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Linda shaw said she wasn’t so sure.

shaw said that, after the interviews, she’s interested in seeing other candidates beyond the four that the board interviewed on monday.

“i’d still like to see a couple of other applicants,” shaw said.

earlier this year, springsted inc. presented the board with resumes of 16 applicants who met all the qualifications for the job and had undergone a background check by the firm. shaw said there may be one or two good candidates who didn’t get selected for a video conference interview and the board might want to take another look at those. she also said the board might want to reconsider one or two of the seven who participated in the video interviews but weren’t selected as one of the four finalists.

shaw said there’s no rush and she added that the decision is an extremely important one. according to shaw, regardless of

when the county hires a new manager, he or she won’t play a major role in the budget process this year, which is already underway to a large extent. the commissioners are expected to adopt a budget in June, and some sources said that the applicants would need time to exit their current jobs with other local governments.

shaw also said the county has Fuller to lead the county until July, and shaw said Fuller would also be willing to help run the county after that point if needed.

“we do not need to rush into this,” shaw said. “we’ve already started in on the budget.”

even though shaw might want to look at other candidates, she said the current field of four yielded a couple of strong contenders – at least compared to the other two. “two are better than the others,” shaw said.

she said the questions asked of the candidates were fairly standard.

“they were questions about the budget, work ethic, and questions like how would they do such and such,” shaw said.

according to the chairman, two subjects that came up during the interviews were taxes and economic development.

a report last fall from the search firm stated that, based on conversations with commissioners, the next Guilford County manager can expect a salary of between $150,000 and $180,000 a year. Fox was making $183,200 a year when she stepped down about three weeks ago.

several commissioners said they do

not anticipate salary negotiations to be a problem once the board decides on the best candidate for the job. the pay range should be known to the candidates – it was made public in The Rhinoceros Times last year after the range was included in a confidential memo from springsted inc. to the Guilford County commissioners.

that memo summarized the results of interviews that the commissioners on the previous board had with the search firm. the new Board of Commissioners, which was sworn in in early december, has five commissioners who served on the previous board.

several commissioners said that, for the most part, the candidates seemed to have studied up on Guilford County before the interviews.

according to davis, two of the four candidates brought up The Rhinoceros Times during the interviews, though davis didn’t say in what context the popular weekly paper was discussed.

Based on a quick glimpse at a distance, none of those interviewed looked familiar to The Rhinoceros Times, so none are presumed to work for Guilford County or any nearby local government, at least not in a high-profile capacity.

there’s quite a bit of speculation that Guilford County Budget director michael Halford applied for the manager’s job; however, Halford hasn’t said. regardless, Halford wasn’t one of the four men interviewed by the board on monday.

Before the search process heated up early

this year, some republican commissioners said they would like to see some candidates with backgrounds in the private sector rather than a lifetime career in government bureaucracy. However, it appears that all of the 16 applicants that have been under consideration by the county have most or all of their work experience in government.

in that group of 16 applicants, there was only one female and one minority.

Fuller said the county is picking up the tab for bringing the candidates in.

she wrote in an email that there was no real cost for the video interviews last month, but the county is paying “reasonable” expenses for those finalists who were invited in for face-to-face interviews.

“today, more and more companies are starting to rely on video technology, such as skype, to conduct job interviews, which can be very effective,” Fuller wrote in an email. “However, generally, when an applicant is invited to a second and/or final (face-to-face) interview for a senior-level position, such as a department director or above, the County is willing to cover all or part of the travel costs (no plane tickets were necessary) and one-night of reasonable lodging.”

one source said that none of the candidates stayed at the sheraton but instead stayed at nearby hotels.

the Board of Commissioners is expected to meet in closed session in the upcoming weeks to discuss the candidates and the selection process further, and perhaps even agree on a new manager.

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State Democratic Party Chairman David Parker, a Statesville attor-ney, said he sees no need to seek a

second term, taking credit for what he calls a “substantial rebound” for key members of the party near the end of his tenure.

In an exclusive interview with Carolina Journal, Parker discounted the significant electoral losses his party suffered in November, and the bad publicity resulting from a sexual ha-rassment charge that a former male employee made against the party’s male executive director.

Instead, Parker said, his behind-the-scenes efforts have helped rebuild the reputations of six disgraced demo-crats.

“These individuals have been through some tough times, but thanks to my influence and advice, they will once again be influential and respected North Carolinians. Rebuilding their reputations is key to rebuilding the Democratic Party,” he said.

The six• Former Gov. Mike Easley, who

took a felony plea on campaign finance violations involving improperly re-porting campaign flights: “I helped him

get his law license restored in Decem-ber, even though he still has not paid $95,000 of a $100,000 fine his campaign owes the State Board of Elections. Mike told me people have already forgotten about that fine.”

• Former first lady Mary Easley, fired from a $170,000-a-year job at N.C. State University that she obtained as a result of her husband’s intervention: “I guided her though a successful settle-ment with N.C. State officials involv-

ing a reworked retirement scheme. Her new annual government pension jumped from $37,171 to $80,597. She was very thankful.”

• Ruffin Poole, a top aide to Mike Easley, who took a felony plea on cor-ruption charges: “After Ruffin got out of federal prison in April, I helped him buy a new Raleigh home down the street from his old boss, Mike Easley. I’m still working on getting his law li-cense restored, and I hear he’s becom-

ing a lobbyist.”• McQueen Campbell, the for-

mer chairman of the N.C. State Board of Trustees, who stepped down after his role was revealed in both Mary Easley’s hiring and in providing Mike Easley with illegal campaign flights: “He won’t be flying politicians around for awhile, but I hooked him up with the football and basketball coaching staff at State. They like free flights, too, and these appear to be legal. McQueen say’s he’s happy as long as he is flying someone important. ”

• Lanny Wilson, a major Demo-cratic fundraiser who was involved but not charged in the scheme that sent Poole to prison and helped the Easleys get a sweetheart deal on coastal prop-erty: “I called in some favors and got the [state Department of Transporta-tion] board to name a Wilmington bridge after Wilson. Lanny told me he is beginning to feel important again.”

• Gov. Bev Perdue: “Even though people might think she doesn’t like me because I refused to step down as party chairman when she asked me to, we are actually good buddies. I helped her come up with some excuses for not sending her unspent campaign funds to the Democratic Party. She is sitting on about $1.2 million that she can use for a variety of things. She said she owes me big time.” CJ

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the primary reasons for the rebellion.now look at some of those grievances,

taken verbatim from the declaration, in the light of actions taken by this administration and the rest of the elected “representatives” (a misnomer if there ever was one) and you will see a very scary similarity.

“He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.” (For example the defense of marriage act and immigration laws)

“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.” (Czars created out of thin air and granted power by him without congressional approval)

“He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power.” (proposed action allowing the military to detain american citizens for unlimited periods of time without due process/abolish posse commutates)

“He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by

our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation.” (two words – United nations)

“For imposing taxes on us without our consent.” (the most glaring example is obamacare, but there are others)

“For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury.” (drone strikes executing american citizens without due process)

How many times have you heard the argument “this was written over 200 years ago, it has no relevance today, things have changed.”

really? they’ve changed?Your counter is to use the above and give

them the education they should have gotten in high school but obviously didn’t.

if anyone decides to draft a modern declaration of independence, use this with my blessing.

in closing i give you another quote from the declaration:

“in every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.”Alan Marshall

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go, with a radiation leak edwards said was about the same as getting one X-ray, but a bad enough public relations disaster to end the construction of new nuclear power plants in the United states.

nCmpa1 bought into the Catawba plant in 1978, a year before three mile island and the nuclear thriller The China Syndrome – a perfect storm of bad press for the nuclear industry.

edwards said the cost of the plant almost tripled during the resulting construction delays, from $500 million to $1.4 billion, and the resulting debt has dogged the agency ever since. the agency’s 2013 budget is $564 million – $192.6 million, or 34 percent of which goes to service $1.4 billion in outstanding debt.

But duke energy has a more diversified energy generation portfolio, and the cost of coal, and, especially, natural gas have

been falling as new reserves have been discovered.

Councilmember Jay wagner drew attention to the falling cost of natural gas. He said, “my fear is that we’re going to be stuck owning a nuclear plant when the economy is converted to gas and may be stuck with higher rates for a long time.”

edwards said that natural gas prices are expected to increase in seven years. the outstanding debt on the plant is projected to drop to $500 million in 2022 and the final debt on the original plant is projected to be paid off in 2020. the agency will still have $500 million in debt on improvements made since the plant was built.

the Catawba plant is licensed until 2043.

edwards answered wagner by saying that the debt curve on the Catawba plant will eventually reduce its power generation cost below that of natural gas. He said, “the crossover is going to be there,

because in 2020, when the cost is paid off, in my opinion, you’re going to be in the driver’s seat.”

“in any event, in 2020 we cross over and go below duke significantly and go below duke when it comes to average cost of energy,” edwards said. “of course, getting to that point is always difficult.”

the reason for the difficulty is probably politics. High point and the agency’s other municipality members can pass through only so many 5 percent yearly rate increases before they start getting major political pushback.

electric rate increases were a large issue in the november 2012 High point City Council elections, and are only going to increase as an issue along with the electric bills of High point residents.

edwards said the municipalities could have a 26 percent rate decrease in 2020, once the main debt on the Catawba plant is paid off. But seven years is a long time in politics, and it’s likely that the agency

will want to use a substantial part of that 26 percent to capitalize whatever replaces Catawba.

the rate increases above are wholesale rate increases to member municipalities. the cities and towns have the option to absorb some of the rate increases by using money from their electric funds. Last year, for example, the agency increased its rates to members by 5 percent, but High point increased its rates to residential customers by 4.9 percent.

However, absorbing rate increases has an effect on High point’s budget. Unlike cities that don’t run their own electric companies, a third of High point’s budget goes to buying electricity from the agency.

High point’s 2012-2013 budget is $328 million – $123 million of which is for buying wholesale electricity. the city is estimated to take in $119 million in electric fees from customers, meaning absorbing that 0.1 percent of the wholesale rate increase cost High point $4 million.

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and simply pick a Bible you like. if you enjoy it and relate to it, you’re much more likely to read it regularly. after all, everyone is already doing a lot of picking and choosing when it comes to reading and interpreting the Bible: You are, i am, the protestants and Catholics are, and everyone else.

or better yet, why choose at all? read a lot of different Bibles and, while you’re at it, read the concordances, and modern books on Christian living and everything else related to God you can get your hands on.

there’s clear evidence that the good Lord enjoys variety – look at all the plants and animals God made and put in this world. and i think he’s very pleased that different times and different cultures have such a wide take on, and such a diverse presentation of, the words that He gave us.

also remember that God’s message comes in many forms: this Bible or that Bible, a warm feeling inside you, a breeze as you sit in the garden, a string of unexpected coincidences or a flock of robins that sets down in your yard. all of these things are part of the experience of hearing the word of God in the world.

the best advice i ever got on the subject was from my Young Life leader years and years ago, who said to pray for guidance before reading the Bible or trying to figure out what God is trying to convey. simply pray that what you hear is what God is trying to tell you.

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Council meeting in the council chambers at city hall.

the council plans to sell $20 million in limited obligations bonds that do not require voter approval.

the City Council voted to service $10 million of the debt with user fees from a ticket tax and parking fees and to service the other $10 million from Greensboro’s portion of Guilford County’s hotel/motel tax fund, which the Guilford County Board of Commissioners has to approve.

Councilmember Zack matheny, who made the motion to commit the $20 million, said it was important that the facility not rely on the taxpayers.

the GpaC task force has said they have gathered $20 million in pledges for the facility but have not divulged any plans to fill the $20.5 gap in construction costs.

director of Budget and evaluation Larry davis said the facility is estimated to have a $174,000 to $388,000 operating deficit in its first year. the $174,000 figure was by ams consulting and the $388,000 figure was by Coliseum staff. davis said ams projected higher revenue from ticket sales.

davis said the deficit could be offset with money from the general fund, by turning the war memorial auditorium into premium parking, and with savings from closing the war memorial auditorium.

since the Coliseum consistently loses $1.5 million to $2 million every year that would have to be a whale of a lot of parking to turn that deficit into a profit. otherwise the city is just playing with figures to hide the loss.

Councilmember nancy Vaughan pointed out that because the war memorial auditorium is used about 52 days out of the year, moving those performances to other venues and shutting down the facility should lead to significant savings.

Former Greensboro mayor Bill Knight spoke against using public funds for the GpaC, saying that the facility should be private. He highlighted differences between the successful durham performing arts Center (dpaC) and the proposed GpaC.

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Knight said. He also gave the example of the Blumenthal center in Charlotte, which he said was private and has turned a profit.

Knight also said dpaC has the advantage of being near an expressway, which has allowed it to take business from other regional venues. “the raleigh performing arts Center has pretty much been shot in the head by durham,” he said.

Knight said that durham has an agreement in which they share in the profits of dpaC but are never liable for losses. He expressed concern that Greensboro may end up financially carrying GpaC.

“i noticed that the Coliseum is going to manage it,” Knight said. “the Coliseum has received almost $35 million from the general fund in the last 20 years.”

Vaughan, who along with matheny was on the financing options committee task force, said that the Coliseum has been in contact with nederlander, the theater operator that runs dpaC, and has discussed an arrangement similar to durham’s.

Coliseum manager matt Brown confirmed that he had been in contact with nederlander and the company that operates it, professional Facilities management (pFm), and they had shown interest in working with the GpaC.

Brown said that he had a 30-year relationship with the owner of pFm and that he along with nederlander would be the Broadway producers for the GpaC.

Vaughan said the council wasn’t discussing the $20.5 million gap, only the $20 million from user fees and the hotel/motel tax.

Councilmember marikay abuzuaiter asked if there was a guarantee that money would not have to be taken from the city’s general fund if the projected revenue for the GpaC was not met.

City manager denise roth said there was no guarantee the general fund would not be used.

Councilmember Jim Kee asked if the council would have the opportunity to approve the additional $20 million when the funding sources are found.

Vaughan said again that the council was only looking at the $20 million from user fees and hotel/motel tax. “we can’t do

anything at this point to move the project along until it comes back to council for another step.”

the motion to commit to spending $20 million on the GpaC from user fees and the hotel/motel tax passed 6 to 3. mayor robbie perkins and Councilmembers nancy Hoffmann, Yvonne Johnson, matheny, Vaughan and Kee voted in favor. Councilmembers tony wilkins, dianne Bellamy-small and abuzuaiter voted against it.

the council also voted unanimously to give roth a raise from $175,000 to $180,250. the raise is retroactive to nov. 19, 2012.

also at the meeting a motion made by Vaughan to look for ways to market and promote economic development of downtown Greensboro without downtown Greensboro inc. (dGi) passed unanimously, indicating broad concerns about the job dGi is doing.

Vaughan said there were questions about the effectiveness of dGi, and that despite discussions with the organization the improvements the city is seeking haven’t been getting done.

also at the meeting supporters of the sebastian medical museum bullied their way onto the agenda to harangue the council for declining to pay the group’s rent at 500 Benbow st. at the Feb. 5 council meeting.

the group, which was not on the agenda, was allowed unlimited time to speak after the 30 minute time limit for speakers from the floor had ended.

ezekiel Ben-israel, head of the sebastian museum, ranted against the council, and in particular matheny, who had spoken against paying for their building saying they had not demonstrated a sustainable operating model or a realistic budget.

“i did not take you seriously,” said Ben-israel, who was flanked by over a dozen supporters at the podium. “i listened to you spewing vile disparaging comments toward these my people and this project, and i dismissed it as tragically comical. i was wrong, forgive me.”

perkins allowed Ben-israel to speak without interruption for several minutes, and then said that the council would

commit to reading a letter that the group had sent them earlier in the day.

“i think your point has been made, your message has been delivered,” perkins said. But he also allowed another member of the group to speak about contributions that blacks had made to the field of medicine.

matheny said he would be more than willing to meet with the group to talk about the issue.

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meet. the last time it happened, in the summer 2012, former part executive director Brent mcKinney came and asked the commissioners for $120,000, and mcKinney said at that time part wouldn’t need to ask again.

But on tuesday, new part executive director scott rhine was before the commissioners asking for money. He also cautioned that there may be additional requests on the way. the work session discussion was held in response to a letter rhine sent recently to Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Linda shaw.

that letter begins by pointing out that Guilford County contracts with part to provide trips for indigent and low-income medicaid patients, as well as to provide rides to and from work for county residents who don’t have other means of transportation.

part has been providing that service for the county since mid-november 2011, when the county hired part to do the job. the contract called for the county to pay part based on the number of service hours required, but the contract didn’t guarantee part a minimum number of hours of service needs each month.

rhine’s letter states, “Unfortunately, i have to seek your assistance to maintain a long lasting relationship. … part agreed to assist Guilford County with their transportation needs in an effort to strengthen our regional partnership. when we agreed to assume this service we were assured that part would ‘be made whole’ and would suffer no financial hardship.”

the letter goes on to state that, due to its operations with the county, the organization – which provides many other transportation services within a 10-county area – suffered losses of nearly $25,000 from handling the county’s transportation in the first six months of fiscal 2012-2013. now part is asking the county to hand over the money.

the letter states, “part is requesting reimbursement for the $24,894 deficit which part has incurred to operate the Guilford County transportation program for the period July 1 – december 30, 2012.”

rhine made the case for the request at the Board of Commissioners work session. He told the commissioners that, when the county’s service needs decreased, that drop caused part to incur losses.

But the commissioners seemed skeptical – especially the five who have been on the board for years and have heard this song of woe before.

part has repeatedly made the rounds to member counties and other local governments asking for funding increases.

at an october 2011 Guilford County Board of Commissioners meeting, mcKinney asked Guilford County for $394,000 to help part make it through the fiscal year that had just begun three months earlier.

the Guilford County commissioners voted to give part that money – while eight participating counties didn’t contribute any additional money. though part serves 10

counties, only two – Guilford and Forsyth – have regularly been willing to meet part’s requests for more money.

it was also in october 2011 that the Guilford County Board of Commissioners awarded part the contract to run Guilford County’s transportation operations.

in June 2012, mcKinney asked the commissioners for another $120,000 to cover a projected shortfall that he said part experienced as a result of the county’s transportation contract over the previous eight months.

at that time, mcKinney told the commissioners that part had miscalculated the cost of providing Guilford County with the service.

so the county has handed over a half million dollars and given part a $3 million a year service contract in the last year and a half.

Here is an excerpt from the June 28, 2012 Rhinoceros Times at the time mcKinney made the request for the $120,000: “mcKinney assured the board that part would operate the transportation service in fiscal 2012-2013 on the $3.07 million amount budgeted by the [Board of Commissioners]. He said he certainly didn’t expect to come back to the board in the middle of the next budget year and ask for more money.”

true to his word, mcKinney didn’t come back and ask for more money – however, what he failed to mention last summer was that the next director would be doing so in his place.

now, with the reduction in the number of service hours needed by the county, part claims it’s no longer making money on the contract.

at the Feb. 19 meeting, rhine told the board that part needs 5,500 service hours a month to be financially stable with regard to Guilford County’s operations.

He also said that, in the first two months of 2013, it looked like part was getting the needed hours – so those months shouldn’t create any further deficit.

“the month of January looked good,” he said. “February is looking good.”

He also made a major understatement about part: “it is not an organization which is financially stable in all areas.”

a more accurate way to say that is that the authority has been bleeding money for years and years.

Commissioner Carolyn Coleman, who serves on the part board, had some questions about the numbers used in part’s calculations. she said that, in the financial breakdown done by part, the regional transportation authority had somehow figured that 25 percent of the executive director’s salary, and 50 percent of the operations director’s salary, should be calculated as a cost related to running Guilford County’s transportation service.

Coleman said the 10-county entity, which provides all sorts of services across the middle of the state, shouldn’t attribute all those costs to Guilford County. Coleman added that there’s no way part should count 33 percent of the chief financial officer’s pay and 50 percent of the payroll

manager’s, as costs created by Guilford County’s transportation contract.

she said she certainly didn’t see why half of the operations director’s salary should be viewed as a cost from the contract with Guilford County.

“i question the amount of time he has been spending on Guilford County – it is a service that is up and running,” she said.

the commissioners are supposed to make the decision on part’s request at a later date.

while many of the long time commissioners were clearly taken aback at the request, several new commissioners,

who’ve had no experience with part, said they need to consider the matter further.

Commissioner Jeff phillips said he needed time to mull the request over.

“i’d like some more information,” he said.

phillips added the county’s own finances weren’t in the best condition right now.

either side, part or the county, can pull out of the transportation contract with 60 days notice. the commissioners are considering putting out a request for bids for the contract to find a new provider, or to use those bids as a baseline for a new contract with part.

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of the three issues, the vehicle tax would have the greatest impact on High point residents. according to Baggett and Boynton, state law allows municipalities to add up to $30 a year to county vehicle property tax bills to pay for road resurfacing and sidewalks. High point now adds $5 to vehicle tax bills.

according to a list provided by Boynton, Greensboro and Cary add $10, winston-salem, Concord and Charlotte add $20, Carrboro and raleigh add $25 and Chapel Hill and matthews add the full $30.

Boynton said that High point would raise an additional $1.1 in revenue if it

increases the vehicle tax by $15. He said the additional money would be used for road repair and sidewalks, two areas in which High point has cut its budget in recent years. He provided a sample bill for a member of the High point state delegation to file if the City Council wants it done. Both the state legislature and the City Council would have to approve the tax increase.

it may be unlikely that the republican-led state legislature will approve new taxes for cities, although they are cutting state funding to them. Boynton said that High point may not use the increased tax authority even if the legislature approves it, telling the councilmember it was “just another tool in the toolbox if you choose to use it.”

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tomlinson building, which the academy at Central partly occupies, returned to High point Central to relieve crowding.

the tomlinson building was originally tomlinson elementary school before being merged with Central, first as a ninth grade academy, then as the academy at Central, a separate school that is not part of High point Central.

what was surprising was that some of the speakers were from the academy at Central and also supported buying the iHm school. the old iHm school has a gym, library and cafeteria, amenities the academy would no longer have to share with High point Central.

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the immaculate Heart of mary Catholic Church on Johnson street, which is building a new school on the same property, is asking $2.1 million for the old school – the old school’s 2012 appraised price.

eric Hill, of the group Citizens for Central, wrote school superintendent mo Green on Feb. 7 that two speakers also spoke on the iHm school issue at the meeting of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners that night: one asked the commissioners to act quickly if there was a school board proposal, and the other asked the commissioners to include High point Central in any renovation plans.

Hill wrote, “surprisingly, four of the Commissioners stopped the floor speakers to talk about their respective times at High

point Central and three of them voiced outright support for allocating unused bond monies for High point Central.”

at the school board’s winter retreat on Feb. 2, the Facilities department released a construction priority list that would spend $132 million on renovations or replacements of 11 schools, including $23 million for Central. the $132 million includes the $71.5 million left over from the $72 million airport area high school the school board voted to kill on Jan. 8.

the money to fund the renovations on the list also included money left over from 25 other building, renovation and maintenance projects the school board paid for with $457 million in school bonds approved by Guilford County voters in may 2008.

High point Central wasn’t on an earlier maintenance priority list presented at the school board’s september 2012 retreat, which enraged Central supporters, who turned out in force for two specially called school board meetings on how the money should be spent.

Hill said that most parents in the Citizens for Central group come from families that have sent multiple generations of students to High point Central.

“i think, generally, all the folks at Central, both the ptsa and our organization, support the academy at Central 100 percent,” he said. “we want to see that facility and academy have their own opportunity to grow. they can’t do that in the tomlinson


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Hill said that there will be at least three speakers from the floor from Central at the Feb. 28 school board meeting and “a reasonably good turnout” of supporters.

that’s something for the school board to take seriously. Central supporters have shown that they can fill an auditorium, as they did at a special school board meeting on nov. 28, 2012, on whether or not to build the airport area high school.

High point Central (ptsa) Co-president

(Continued from page 37)Kelly Gage said that the ptsa and other groups are rallying the troops for the Feb. 28 meeting.

“we certainly expect to have people there to speak on the 28th,” she said. “we will have speakers from Citizens for Central. we will probably have some students there to speak as well as parents. we also expect that there will be some people from the academy at Central.”

Gage said she knows that Facilities department administrators will make a recommendation on Feb. 28.

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a motion the night of the recommendation,” she said. “so we expect a good turnout for buying the iHm for the academy.”

of all the things the school board could do with $132 million, buying the iHm school for $2.1 and relocating the academy at Central could be one of the most cost efficient. it would free up 12 classrooms in the tomlinson building for students – and one of the main complaints of Central supporters is that the school has 16 “floating teachers” without classrooms.

Gage said that buying the iHm school would make sense for both High point Central and the academy at Central.

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more difficult achievements in acting go unnominated.

and because the actors sing almost everything that’s said in the movie, there are idiots who will assume that they’re not acting. no, kids – they are still acting, it’s just harder to do it well because their words are sung instead of spoken. so the achievement of a powerful, moving, real performance is all the greater.

outguessing what will win is profitless. saying what should win just sets you up for disappointment.

Yet i will mark my ballot at our oscar party and then watch dolefully as andy Lindsay and Kay mcVey duke it out with their stratospheric totals of right Guesses.

meanwhile, let me just point out that the movies i loved best this year were not even nominated – as is usually the case. For me, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World and Looper were more moving and powerful films, and far greater achievements, than any of the nominees, with the obvious exception of Les Miserables.

other films that are better than most of the nominees (though not all) were ignored because of the kind of movie they are. think of The Dark Knight Rises and Hunger Games.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel had its flaws, but it was better than many on the list, and it makes me happy just remembering the wonderful moments and great performances in the movie.

the real question is whether the oscar winner is ever the “best” movie of any particular year. even if it isn’t, so what? we benefit, as an audience, from the fact that filmmakers aspire, not only to make money, not just to make “a movie,” but also to make a good movie.

even the truly awful filmmakers like spielberg and tarantino (and there are so many others on that list) think they’re making “good” movies, on some level. they can’t help having no integrity. well, they could help it, but they apparently don’t associate with people who regard that as a serious standard in artistic choices.

....Best song used to be a hard-fought

oscar category. movies had the power to introduce hit songs – but that was back when good songs could become hits. (they still can, but it’s rare outside of country music.)

still, in handicapping the oscars, it’s one of the hardest categories because we’ve rarely heard the songs. the only oscar song that actually made Billboard’s top 10 was adele’s very good “skyfall” from the James Bond movie of that name.

James Bond movies have a history of introducing hit songs – which are usually, but not always, better than the movie they came with. think of paul mcCartney’s “Live and Let die” (1973), shirley Bassey’s “Goldfinger” (1965), Carly simon’s “nobody does it Better” (1977), sheena easton’s “For Your eyes only” (1981), and Chris Cornell’s “You Know my name” (2006).

adele is hugely popular, her song was a top-10 hit, and that would ordinarily mean she’d be a shoo-in for the oscar, except that there’s a song from Les Miserables.

if you doubt the influence of the oscars on filmmakers, look at the song “suddenly” from Les Miz. it stops the action cold; it has no business being in the film. it adds nothing to the story that we don’t already see in other ways. it’s not even a particularly good song.

it exists only because there had to be one new song introduced in the movie for the film to get a best-song oscar nomination. the songs from the Broadway musical wouldn’t be eligible.

and if Les Miz is treated by the oscar voters with enthusiasm, “suddenly” will win. even though it’s not the best song, either in its movie or in the category.

i had no interest in seeing Ted, but “everybody needs a Best Friend” is a clever song in the tradition of the Great american songbook. Hearing norah Jones sing it is a pleasure. But the song is ultimately slight – it seems to have been written almost as a tribute to upbeat songs. Yet it works and i liked it better than either “suddenly” or “skyfall.”

“pi’s Lullaby,” from Life of Pi, is lovely; it must mean a great deal if you liked the movie, but if you didn’t, then it’s merely a pleasant song sweetly performed.

my favorite – and i admit it’s just a matter of personal taste – was “Before My Time” from Chasing Ice, a movie i had never even heard of. the song is dreamy in almost a Julee Cruise way, and scarlett Johanssen’s and Joshua Bell’s rendition, from the movie soundtrack, is moving and memorable.

even as movie songs have diminished in cultural importance, soundtracks have grown ever more significant. with “serious” music having abandoned tonality and, along with it, the audience, the public now finds the tradition of beauty and power in music from movie soundtracks.

elmer Bernstein may have been the first movie composer to rise to individual fame with the general public; since then, John williams and Howard shore have dominated the big epic-film category.

But there are other favorites doing brilliant work as well, and i think that in a hundred years, when “serious” composers are mentioned only in essays about how 20th century music completely lost its way, the composers we celebrate will include names like James Horner, miklos rozsa, alfred newman, alan silvestri, nino rota, James newton Howard, Hans Zimmer, danny elfman.

and max steiner, who wrote the scores to Gone with the Wind, Casablanca and A Summer Place, wrote so memorably that his scores are quoted in – and he gets credited for – dozens of movies made since he died in 1971.

this year, the films nominated for best musical score are Anna Karenina (dario marianelli), Argo (alexandre desplat), Life of Pi (mychael danna), Lincoln (John williams), and Skyfall (thomas newman).

John williams is always the favorite in the category whenever he’s nominated, and if you download the 11-minute symphonic poem “the peterson House and Finale,” you’ll see that it’s no fluke. this is beautiful music by any standard.

Both desplat and marianelli rely on music from foreign times and places, and do a wonderful job, in each case, of adapting traditional iranian and russian music to fit the sensibilities of a western-trained ear. i could listen to both soundtracks again and again.

thomas newman’s work on Skyfall is a worthy entry in the tradition of great James Bond movie scores.

But for me, the standout is the work of Mychael Danna for The Life of Pi. danna is young, and much of his work has been for films that are dominated by pop music tracks, with the original composer playing catchup. But he did fine work in (500) Days of Summer and The Time Traveler’s Wife, so it’s no surprise that he’s nominated for an oscar.

Life of Pi may have been too arch for me to watch, but danna’s score is worth listening to instead. i especially like the eight-minute track called “Back to the world.” what i understand is that when pi’s ship sinks and he loses everyone, there is no music at all; only as he comes back to the surface and calls out for his drowned family do we get musical underscoring, and if i guess right, this track is that passage.

whether it is or not, it’s beautiful and moving.

But John williams will win, especially if Lincoln does not win Best picture. You never feel like a fool voting for John williams’s music, because it’s always good.

Fortunately, our ballots allow us to note what we think will win and what we want to have win. For me, danna is my want-to-win, with williams my prediction. But i’ll be listening to both soundtrack albums often.

when you go on amazon looking for the oscar-nominated songs and scores, you should be aware that there’s a downloadable album called And the Nominees Are ... Oscar Nominated Songs for 2013.

these are performers i haven’t heard of, which is not to say you might not have. they do a credible job of setting all the songs on an equal footing, so you separate what’s performance from the core of the songs themselves.

i still think it’s best, though, to go to the trouble of finding the original tracks themselves, as they were performed in the film or on the soundtrack album, if only because this is presumably the best, most film-appropriate performance; or if it isn’t, it should have been, and that would be a mark against it.

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Cusimano continues to say cutting down the trees in the right-of-way was the right thing to do.

Furious residents demanded the city protect trees in areas like westerwood and sunset Hills from further clear cutting by duke energy, but Cusimano, the city’s tree expert, was in full support of the tree cutting in the city right-of-way.

in a dec. 10 email responding to a picture of a block of trees cut by duke energy in westerwood forwarded by mayor robbie perkins, Cusimano wrote, “the truth of the matter is that a lot of these trees need to be removed not trimmed.”

Cusimano went on to mirror the same line of reasoning as duke energy representatives, writing “60-80 years ago some well meaning person planted the wrong tree in the wrong place. it is not in anyone’s best interest nor the tree’s to keep perpetuating that mistake by butchering these trees every 5-10 years.”

the dec. 18 meeting of the Greensboro City Council marked a turning point in the duke energy tree controversy where residents demanded en masse that the Greensboro City Council take action against duke.

Cusimano, who had reviewed duke’s plans and agreed with them, was not at that meeting.

“i wasn’t asked to be there,” Cusimano said. Cusimano was also not on the tree work team headed by deputy City manager Jim westmoreland. the tree work team is a committee of community members, city staff and duke energy representatives.

Cusimano said he has been involved with the issue and has participated in numerous staff meetings. Cusimano has also attended the council’s tree ordinance review Committee meetings.

“i’m not sure being in the public eye is where i want to be anyway,” said Cusimano. “i’m an advisory person, and an enforcer of the city’s ordinances.”

Cusimano said that before cutting on westerwood, duke energy called him out to look at trees that had been marked for removal in the public right-of-way, but not the trees that had been marked for trimming.

“it seemed pretty clear at the time that the trees needed to be removed,” Cusimano said. He said it turned out afterwards that a lot of the trees that were removed were rotten or had other defects.

Cusimano said he did have the option to disagree with duke energy, although, he said, “i didn’t have the authority to make them do anything.”

“i would certainly hope they would take my comments into consideration,” Cusimano said. However, he said he felt the arguments for removing the trees, which duke energy said posed threats to their power lines, were compelling.

However, mike simpson, specialized parks services supervisor, helped reach an agreement with duke energy to preserve trees in Lake daniel park along east Lake drive.

simpson said he told duke energy that the trees were an important part of the park and should be left standing if at all possible, and that duke seemed receptive to it.

Cusimano said there were trees in the park that duke energy had agreed to trim rather than remove, and that the health of the trees would be the responsibility of the city. However, duke energy has not trimmed or removed those trees yet.

Cusimano said he did not think a similar arrangement should have been tried to preserve trees in the neighborhoods.

Cusimano cited the american national standards institute (ansi) guidelines for tree pruning, as have representatives of duke energy, as justification for the level of cutting and removal done in westerwood.

the guidelines state that when more than 25 percent of a tree’s canopy or root structure must be removed, it is better to remove the entire tree.

Cusimano said that over pruning puts a tree “in a very precarious situation.” He also said that the westerwood trees had been over pruned repeatedly in the past.

However, he could not say whether or not a tree over pruned by ansi standards would die or how long it would take.

“if i could answer that question i would get on a plane to Las Vegas,” said Cusimano. He said it depends on many different factors, like the age of the tree and how often it is pruned. He said trees are tenacious organisms but can be pushed past their limits.

Cusimano said he understood why residents were upset about losing trees, but said they tended to approach the issue from an emotional rather than technical perspective. “i cannot promote or condone the improper pruning,” he said. “i certainly sympathize with them, however.”

Councilmember nancy Vaughan, the chair of the tree ordinance review Committee, said she had been disappointed that Cusimano hadn’t shown more sensitivity to the interests of the residents when duke energy was removing trees in december.

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do you think it would be incredible if a Ceo of at&t had never climbed a power pole, or that the president of General motors had never worked on an assembly line? Following your line of thinking, we would never have any individuals who would clearly qualified to be president or commander in chief.

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Yes, how can Greensboro give away all this money for incentives when the fire and the police has not had a raise in three years, and they are 24/7 putting their life on the line all 24 hours a day? mr. smart-aleck robbie perkins, he thinks that’s the greatest thing in the world to try to get the art center here, but he don’t care about the


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fire and police who protects the lives of the citizens of the city and county. needs to be something done about giving incentive money away without looking after the people that need it, lowest-paid in the city.

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to all liberal readers who are sympathetic to the mexican who is being deported for driving without a license or insurance. would you like to be in an accident with these people, and have you or your family killed or injured? send him back, and his children, too. we can no longer afford to support the children every year even when they are born here. this country is broke. poor liberals. some people are so open-minded that their brains have fallen out.

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if The Rhino is looking for a Cso, i’m definitely interested in applying. Cso is chief sudoku officer. my qualifications: i can track if one is in the paper or not, and i know the difference between the actual puzzle and the answer sheet. so, if you’re hiring, i’m definitely interested. also, my wife said if you don’t get it right soon, she’s going to quit giving me an allowance to buy the paper every week. thanks guys.

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You really make a stretch to criticize the News & Record’s for their misspelling of warren Buffett’s name. But you would not go farther to tell the story that the N&R immediately printed an acknowledgement of its error. You do not have the integrity to acknowledge yours, i know. i have called and written about your many mess-ups, but you never print them. the N&R could publish all of them, but it doesn’t. this is the difference between you two. it is called character and integrity. You should get over your obsession with trying to criticize the N&R and stop your childish pettiness. in other words, grow up.

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Good morning. well, 1984 came and went and nobody blinks. now we have drones. they’re not the kind of drones we though they were going to be. But nonetheless, Big Brother is watching your every move. so, you better behave yourselves unless you want to get in trouble or accused of being a terrorist.

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picking up litter, both in a very limited area of the downtown improvement district, which pays an additional tax allocated each year to dGi. some people, including the entire council, think more could be done with $700,000. Here’s an idea: free on-street parking all over the downtown just like on elm street. another is, instead of fining property owners for buildings that the city doesn’t think look as good as they should, work with property owners to improve the aesthetics of their buildings.

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most companies are trying to save some money these days, looking for places to do more with less and generally working hard to be as efficient as possible. i can tell you one company that is not: Uline shipping specialists. so far this month Uline has mailed us five of their catalogues, which are the size of the phone book. their catalogue, which we don’t need, completely fills our post office box and it’s just really annoying to have to recycle them one after another. and we have called them repeatedly throughout the years to alert them, but they have never taken us off their mailing list. if you’re an investor you might want to buy some stock because they have money to burn, or you might want to short them because they are burning money.

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it’s tempting to just concentrate on state politics this year. the republicans in washington don’t seem to have any plan.

they really can’t do anything because they only control the House, but no one else can do anything either because the republicans control the House. the Greensboro City Council has turned left so fast that it wouldn’t be surprising for the next budget to include the words “from each according to his ability and to each according to his needs.” the republican majority on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners never materialized. But down in raleigh Gov. pat mcCrory and president pro tem of the senate phil Berger, with the help of state sen. trudy wade, are in the process of making much needed reform.

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the muse and i attended the annual John Locke Foundation dinner in raleigh last saturday. the weather looked much worse than it was, so the drive through wet snow really wasn’t bad. the dinner is not cheap, but the money goes to a good cause, and if you are a conservative it is refreshing to find yourself in a room full of like-minded folks. Congratulations to former nC House speaker pro tem dale Folwell and Carolina Journal columnist mitch Kokai for winning awards.

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oakcrest Family restaurant on Battleground avenue in the Fleet plummer shopping center has reopened after a complete remodel. if you are a regular, you can return, and if you have never been before, check it out because it looks great.

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the documentary Runaway Slave by CL Bryant will be shown at the international Civil rights Center and museum on south elm street on saturday, Feb. 23. saturday’s

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By John Hammersen. John mcCain and other republicans

have been critical of sen. ted Cruz for his questioning of sen. Chuck Hegel, president Barack Hussein obama’s nominee for secretary of defense. mcCain’s problem – and the reason he shouldn’t have been reelected – is that he has been in the senate for so long he is much more loyal to the senate than he is to the republican party, or the people of arizona.

mcCain was determined to have sen. Joe Lieberman as his running mate. think about that, Lieberman was al Gore’s running mate. so mcCain’s first choice for a running mate was a democratic senator so far left that he fit in with the Gore campaign.

mcCain is first and foremost a member of the United states senate. the republicans need some party discipline, but they don’t have any. the nominee for secretary of defense should have to answer tough questions to win confirmation from the senate. when the democrats decided to go after rep. sen. John tower it was not a pretty sight, and they weren’t very nice, but they were successful.

one of the big complaints it seems other senators have with Cruz is he asked questions about rumors that he didn’t know the answers to. the rule in court is that a good attorney never asks a question that he doesn’t know the answer to, but this isn’t court. why not ask him about rumors? sometimes rumors turn out to be true. remember when their were rumors that presidential candidate in the democratic primaries John edwards was having an affair with the campaign videographer and it was dismissed as just a rumor started by the National Enquirer. it wasn’t until the National Enquirer got photographs to prove the rumor true that the mainstream media would touch it.

Hegel is nominated to run the most powerful military in the world. Certainly he should be required to answer a few tough questions.

, , ,do the republicans in the senate have

enough clout to get some answers about Benghazi? wouldn’t it be nice if some democrats were interested in how, for the first time since the 1970s, a Us ambassador was murdered and why president obama didn’t know what happened for weeks?

according to the reports that have been released, there is still doubt about how and where ambassador Chris stevens died. isn’t that something that the american people have a right to know? shouldn’t the area have been cordoned off and a complete investigation of who was involved in the attack begun as soon as the attack ended?

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said she didn’t know what was going on because she didn’t read her cables, and wasn’t involved in the cover-up involving Us ambassador to the United nations susan rice because she wasn’t consulted. if Clinton didn’t choose rice, who did and

why? rice was far out of the loop on a terrorist attack in Libya and, as we now know, she didn’t know anything about it and what she was told was wrong.

it’s incredible that Clinton believes that not reading her mail is an excuse. she was the secretary of state. a state department compound was under attack and overrun, and a second location came under attack during the seven hour battle, and Clinton had on a blindfold and ear plugs so she could sleep and hung a do not disturb sign around her neck, or whatever she does when she is on a flight somewhere and doesn’t want to know what is going on. and this wasn’t just another day at the office; this was the anniversary of 9/11. in today’s world that is not a day that the Us secretary of state can take off.

the question is why wasn’t she reading her mail? what was she doing that was more important than an american compound under attack and americans who worked for her, including an ambassador, being killed?

at least her story jibes with that of secretary of defense Leon panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff martin dempsey. they agreed when testifying before the senate that nobody contacted the secretary of state. it does make you wonder what kind of executive branch obama is running. the secretary of defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff are up all night dealing with an attack on a state department compound, but they don’t contact the state department. in fact they were up all night dealing with an attack on a state department compound evidently by talking about it, worrying about, hoping the attack would end, but definitely not doing anything about it.

as sen. Lindsey Graham finally got them to admit, all during the long night of the attack not one single soldier or military asset was moved toward Benghazi to help the americans under attack.

Can you imagine, the two men who control the most powerful military the world has ever seen and they can’t think of a single action they can take to help a group of americans fighting off a well-organized and armed terrorist force for seven hours.

But at least they admit they knew about it. Clinton has decided that she can’t be blamed if she didn’t know and no one can prove that she read the messages from ambassador stevens. obama was told about the attack, but he had no interest. He didn’t ask to be kept informed, and after the one meeting where he was told an american compound that housed stevens was under attack by terrorists, he went off and did whatever in the world he does when he isn’t being president.

He may have shot basketball for the rest of the night. maybe he is a big fan of reality television, or he may play videogames for hours. His father had a terrible drinking problem, so there is a reasonable possibility that obama was off with his good friend Jack daniels. we know so little about this

president, it’s hard to even make educated guesses about what would have held his interest to the degree that he was not concerned about americans being under attack by terrorists, but we know that he found something so important that he could not be disturbed once during the hours of the attack to get an update or offer advice.

although panetta and dempsey couldn’t think of anything to do to help the americans under attack, if they had been ordered to do so by the president, it is likely they would have found a way.

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obama are disturbing. From an intelligence perspective it would make far more sense to capture some of these men and find out what they know. But to do that, the Us would have to use methods like water boarding, which, despite what you may have read elsewhere, is not torture because it causes no harm. it is evidently a terrifying experience, but there is no pain and no physical injury. the Bush administration found it necessary to use such techniques to get information.

But even without that kind of technique, information can be gleaned from sources if they are captured. obama’s problem seems to be with Guantanamo. obama, on his first inauguration day, promised that it would be closed. this is over four years later and, not only is it not closed but those in charge of closing it has been moved to other jobs. obama has given up on closing Guantanamo, but he still doesn’t want to start putting more people there, so it appears he chooses to kill them instead. He not only kills them, he kills those around them because missiles have collateral damage.

it sounds more like death by firing squad than anything else. obama is the judge and jury and the military carries out the execution he orders. the United states will certainly have no room to complain if there is an assassination attempt against any high-ranking american by al Qaeda. an ambassador is pretty high ranking, but it is certainly possible for al Qaeda to decide to retaliate, not by going after the president or Cabinet members who are well protected, but going after a bunch of lower level leaders like ambassadors or members of Congress. we certainly could not call foul if our enemies did what we are doing.

actions have consequences, and it may turn out the consequences of these actions by our president have far reaching consequences that we can’t imagine – just as before 9/11 most of us never imagined using a jet liner as a weapon.

, , ,isn’t it a wonder that John Kerry is now

secretary of state? the left wing of the democratic party is alive and well. when Kerry ran for president we found out that he was not a very good student. in fact, George walker Bush had a higher grade point average than Kerry at Yale, and

according to the liberals Bush was a dolt.But what is more interesting – since he

is secretary of state, or the representative of the Us to the rest of the world – is that Kerry was not popular in the senate. the senate is an extremely exclusive club with membership restricted to 100. some senators are popular on both sides of the aisle and some are not popular on either. Kerry, according to colleagues, fit in the latter category.

He also was not very popular with the american people when he ran for president. He kept making boneheaded moves that, while not having anything to do with policy, did make him look foolish.

But the best argument against Kerry being secretary of state is not that people don’t like him very much, but that a large part of his new job is hiring good people to represent the Us all over the world. when Kerry had the opportunity to hire someone to potentially be the vice president, he chose John edwards, who is about as low as you can get. edwards was tried for campaign finance violations because he was using money donated to him to hide his pregnant girlfriend from his wife, who was dying of cancer.

, , ,during the north Carolina state of the

state address, Gov. pat mcCrory made some excellent points. imagine coming into office and finding that the state had run up this little bill with the federal government for $2.5 billion and it was being left on your plate. most people assumed that former Gov. Bev “dumpling” perdue didn’t run for reelection because she was told she couldn’t win, and in an effort to stay out of jail.

imagine perdue leaving and, on the way out the door, looking back over her shoulder, she says, “By the way, pat, we owe the feds $2.5 billion and they want their money. oh, and by the way, i heard the computer system for Health and Human services doesn’t work.”

some folks may find that depressing, but it would appear that mcCrory finds it to be a challenge. You do have to wonder how high perdue had planned to run up the unemployment tab with the federal government.

in his speech mcCrory actually talked about real ideas to fix real problems. it wasn’t one of these “everything is wonderful” speeches. the question is going to be, will the republicans be able to get enough done this year to get reelected in 2014? the short answer is that the republicans, for the first time in 140 years, got to gerrymander the districts themselves, so it would take something catastrophic for them to lose control of the state House or state senate in two years.

the democrats, of course, lost in their own gerrymandered districts, but they had been in power for so long they had forgotten that they could lose.


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