I have made it my stance to not do too much on our local politics because I believe that should be left to our local paper and "true" journalists. Washington gives us enough to rant about. But I do want to address a couple of things.
First, Mr. Liggetts opinion piece is right on the mark.
There's a place for bloggers in our world and I know mine.
I started this one after leaving another one I had been on for a year because I was starting to be called "a co-conspirator", "having like minds" with the editor, etc.
However, for the most part, that is absolutely so far from the truth. Let me make this clear: on quite a few things we do agree - mostly national issues.
If anybody had read my columns or comments, you could easily detect the editor of that one and me were on opposite ends of the spectrum when it came to local politics. And to me, that was good. I loved the banter. I loved the disagreement and I welcome that on my blog. But how can you have a decent discussion if you keep people from "anonymously" posting and only allow "those that agree" with you to leave comments? You can't. It takes away the integrity and the purpose of blogs.
And if only one party is being attacked because the accuser is angry, there's no integrity in that either. There's enough evidence on the other side, DEMS, to bring you all down if our voters would listen.
However, for the most part, that is absolutely so far from the truth. Let me make this clear: on quite a few things we do agree - mostly national issues.
If anybody had read my columns or comments, you could easily detect the editor of that one and me were on opposite ends of the spectrum when it came to local politics. And to me, that was good. I loved the banter. I loved the disagreement and I welcome that on my blog. But how can you have a decent discussion if you keep people from "anonymously" posting and only allow "those that agree" with you to leave comments? You can't. It takes away the integrity and the purpose of blogs.
And if only one party is being attacked because the accuser is angry, there's no integrity in that either. There's enough evidence on the other side, DEMS, to bring you all down if our voters would listen.
Another thing about Mr. Liggetts' posting, he's right that it's obvious the mantra is "to destroy the person" and not destroy the politics of a person. That has become evident in the past months. I believe that is wrong.
We are all God's children, even Obama. As much as I despise what he and the left are attempting to do in this country, it is my duty to pray for him to turn his heart to God, as well as ALL members of Congress, and to pray for their protection. We are directed by the Word (not Nancy Pelosi's Word) but by the word of God, to pray for our enemies. Obama is an enemy of America. He is a student of Marxism (this has been documented!) and Saul Alinsky (more to come on this one). Both of them thwart liberty in lieu of an elitist society - the haves and have-nots.
AND I WILL do my best to not be associated with those intent on destroying a person. Nope. I'll do my best to destroy the politics but not the person. That's my goal - and if I fail, my heart is the first to let me know. I'm waiting for my turn to be hacked at. I've already been attacked in the Herald 's website comments (by posters only). Someone thought they were cute posting the value of my home and where I live. Jerk. I'll pray for you too.
We have far more corruption going on in our government(s) than what may, may not be the case with Mike Stone. I don't know. I wasn't there. All I have is a HUGE headline in the Sunday Herald. But I do believe it is our local paper's responsibility to report. Just give us the facts and let us decide. If only our trusty officials would do the same....let me DECIDE where to spend MY money. It's not yours.
In this county alone,we've had a pastor murder his wife, a lawyer be accused of wife abuse (only accused), a SPD individual put a video on you-tube and ruin the biggest drug best in this county, a woman sell her child for drugs and the child be murdered and left along a highway, a young woman pulled out of CCCC and murdered in the woods by a former lover, a kid murdered simply because the thugs broke in his home and found him there, and so on. And on the state level, a governor who hid flight records (she hid them don't dispute that) and who was the deciding tie-breaker for the lottery, a former governor still under investigation and several members of his party go to jail, NC house and senate representatives get DUIs, abuse the system like there's no tomorrow, etc. And on the national front? Where do I begin? That's another column.
And the "hot item" of the day is "local GOP candidate in piracy ploy"? Ok, let's take him at his word that he wasn't the one "who created the ploy". Why can't we? Didn't the left tell us Bill Clinton was just being a "boy" and having "talk sex" with an intern was ok and we need to just forgive him? In my world, that's adultery. Didn't the left tell us "our soldiers were murdering women and children in Iraq"? Some of you really bought that lie! And what they were doing was giving freedom to millions of people who never had felt or lived it! Didn't the left tell us, and still do, a woman's right to abortion isn't really killing? Do the words "Creator given unalienable rights to LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", ring a bell? They hate "creator given" because that means life begins at conception? Doesn't the left call us on the right RACIST if we simply disagree with them ON ISSUES? I have yet to see a valid argument from the left on the issues. Nope, it's destroy the messenger, not debate the message. Local blogs included!
I'm not condoning illegal activity at all. Piracy is illegal. I never let my kids download songs from those free sites because it was wrong. I made them pay through itunes. And if I did see the programs on my pc, they were deleted and privileges were revoked. How would you like your songs or creations being pirated? It's plagiarism in another form. It's wrong, all the same.
Maybe Mike needs to read my blog directed to him, "Dear Mike", and understand, I mean what I write. You, who are reading this one, need to take a moment and read it as well. It applies to all of us. Somebody is always watching. (look on the right hand side under Past columns - August)
So, I posted these comments on the Herald's site this morning or last night (they all run together these days with school, grandkid, job, blog, etc):
"So let me get this straight: Stone, may have been on the hook for $10,000 for pirating DirectTV.
And Jimmy Love can LEGALLY pirate all the money he wants from us and nobody can do anything about it. Isn't the America the Dems bash all the time the best place in the world to be?
Ty and Mr. Clark- if that's all you got, get the tylenol out now. If we will forgive a President who lies about his friskiness with a young chic, listen to representatives call our soldiers "nazis" and "murderers", watch our representative assault a college student, watch our Prez clap with a foreign leader when he bashes a state trying to secure its borders for AMERICAN citizens and then that same Prez bash us all over the world, we'll forgive Mike. For goodness sakes."
Read more: Sanford Herald - Satellite pirating suit against House candidate surfaces
I'll leave it to Billy or Bill Horner to tell me I shouldn't have copied them here. And if I shouldn't, I apologize. They are my words under the name, qgirl232.
And I don't care if I make the ones in that posting or other letter writers to the editor that I call out ticked off. Enough is enough. They are associating themselves with the left and what is wrong with our country. Don't give me the bull about being a moderate. You can't have it both ways. There's heaven and then there's hell. There's right and then there's wrong. In the Bible, there is no gray area.
Our world is in dire need of prayer. It is in dire need of ones who will take the pledge (see Glenn Beck's website for that - http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/39452/) and LIVE IT! This goes for our local, state, and federal law enforcers. The last thing we need right now is for Lee Co. Sheriff's department to be hinting at some corruption but not coming out and declaring what it is. Geez, Sheriff Carter, we need you to stop hiding. Stand up for your beliefs. Please stop playing games because that what it appears to be. I haven't heard nor seen where you are being viciously attacked by the local GOP. By all means, post comments here if you want defending that position. I would rather you talk to the Herald because bloggers are a dime a dozen. And it would mean so much more to the citizens.
But that won't keep me from trusting you. I just have to live my everyday life with some type of security that our local police department and sheriff departments are not so blinded that they will let politics skew their actions. Dang, I want honesty..Is that too much to ask?
So all of you who read this and disagree with me, please comment! Seriously. I'm a big girl. I might not like what you say, but that's the beauty of the First Amendment.
We are all God's children, even Obama. As much as I despise what he and the left are attempting to do in this country, it is my duty to pray for him to turn his heart to God, as well as ALL members of Congress, and to pray for their protection. We are directed by the Word (not Nancy Pelosi's Word) but by the word of God, to pray for our enemies. Obama is an enemy of America. He is a student of Marxism (this has been documented!) and Saul Alinsky (more to come on this one). Both of them thwart liberty in lieu of an elitist society - the haves and have-nots.
AND I WILL do my best to not be associated with those intent on destroying a person. Nope. I'll do my best to destroy the politics but not the person. That's my goal - and if I fail, my heart is the first to let me know. I'm waiting for my turn to be hacked at. I've already been attacked in the Herald 's website comments (by posters only). Someone thought they were cute posting the value of my home and where I live. Jerk. I'll pray for you too.
We have far more corruption going on in our government(s) than what may, may not be the case with Mike Stone. I don't know. I wasn't there. All I have is a HUGE headline in the Sunday Herald. But I do believe it is our local paper's responsibility to report. Just give us the facts and let us decide. If only our trusty officials would do the same....let me DECIDE where to spend MY money. It's not yours.
In this county alone,we've had a pastor murder his wife, a lawyer be accused of wife abuse (only accused), a SPD individual put a video on you-tube and ruin the biggest drug best in this county, a woman sell her child for drugs and the child be murdered and left along a highway, a young woman pulled out of CCCC and murdered in the woods by a former lover, a kid murdered simply because the thugs broke in his home and found him there, and so on. And on the state level, a governor who hid flight records (she hid them don't dispute that) and who was the deciding tie-breaker for the lottery, a former governor still under investigation and several members of his party go to jail, NC house and senate representatives get DUIs, abuse the system like there's no tomorrow, etc. And on the national front? Where do I begin? That's another column.
And the "hot item" of the day is "local GOP candidate in piracy ploy"? Ok, let's take him at his word that he wasn't the one "who created the ploy". Why can't we? Didn't the left tell us Bill Clinton was just being a "boy" and having "talk sex" with an intern was ok and we need to just forgive him? In my world, that's adultery. Didn't the left tell us "our soldiers were murdering women and children in Iraq"? Some of you really bought that lie! And what they were doing was giving freedom to millions of people who never had felt or lived it! Didn't the left tell us, and still do, a woman's right to abortion isn't really killing? Do the words "Creator given unalienable rights to LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", ring a bell? They hate "creator given" because that means life begins at conception? Doesn't the left call us on the right RACIST if we simply disagree with them ON ISSUES? I have yet to see a valid argument from the left on the issues. Nope, it's destroy the messenger, not debate the message. Local blogs included!
I'm not condoning illegal activity at all. Piracy is illegal. I never let my kids download songs from those free sites because it was wrong. I made them pay through itunes. And if I did see the programs on my pc, they were deleted and privileges were revoked. How would you like your songs or creations being pirated? It's plagiarism in another form. It's wrong, all the same.
Maybe Mike needs to read my blog directed to him, "Dear Mike", and understand, I mean what I write. You, who are reading this one, need to take a moment and read it as well. It applies to all of us. Somebody is always watching. (look on the right hand side under Past columns - August)
So, I posted these comments on the Herald's site this morning or last night (they all run together these days with school, grandkid, job, blog, etc):
"So let me get this straight: Stone, may have been on the hook for $10,000 for pirating DirectTV.
And Jimmy Love can LEGALLY pirate all the money he wants from us and nobody can do anything about it. Isn't the America the Dems bash all the time the best place in the world to be?
Ty and Mr. Clark- if that's all you got, get the tylenol out now. If we will forgive a President who lies about his friskiness with a young chic, listen to representatives call our soldiers "nazis" and "murderers", watch our representative assault a college student, watch our Prez clap with a foreign leader when he bashes a state trying to secure its borders for AMERICAN citizens and then that same Prez bash us all over the world, we'll forgive Mike. For goodness sakes."
Read more: Sanford Herald - Satellite pirating suit against House candidate surfaces
I'll leave it to Billy or Bill Horner to tell me I shouldn't have copied them here. And if I shouldn't, I apologize. They are my words under the name, qgirl232.
And I don't care if I make the ones in that posting or other letter writers to the editor that I call out ticked off. Enough is enough. They are associating themselves with the left and what is wrong with our country. Don't give me the bull about being a moderate. You can't have it both ways. There's heaven and then there's hell. There's right and then there's wrong. In the Bible, there is no gray area.
Our world is in dire need of prayer. It is in dire need of ones who will take the pledge (see Glenn Beck's website for that - http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/39452/) and LIVE IT! This goes for our local, state, and federal law enforcers. The last thing we need right now is for Lee Co. Sheriff's department to be hinting at some corruption but not coming out and declaring what it is. Geez, Sheriff Carter, we need you to stop hiding. Stand up for your beliefs. Please stop playing games because that what it appears to be. I haven't heard nor seen where you are being viciously attacked by the local GOP. By all means, post comments here if you want defending that position. I would rather you talk to the Herald because bloggers are a dime a dozen. And it would mean so much more to the citizens.
But that won't keep me from trusting you. I just have to live my everyday life with some type of security that our local police department and sheriff departments are not so blinded that they will let politics skew their actions. Dang, I want honesty..Is that too much to ask?
So all of you who read this and disagree with me, please comment! Seriously. I'm a big girl. I might not like what you say, but that's the beauty of the First Amendment.
Sheila
