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Re: “Barbecue nonsense, Texas-style”
Yikes. A mini BBQ war is raging.
Re: “City Paper's overview critic Jeffrey Day has some insights into the 2013 festival”
Thanks for letting us all know what you like by using the words "I" or "My or me" over 35 times in this article.
Re: “Mark Sanford rises from the dead”
The adage, "Success has many fathers (and, one assumes, mothers) but failure is an orphan," comes to mind while reading the remarks of Heather Higgins here and in other PR published by her group, IWV, since Sanford's victory. At least in this account she did not go so far as to state categorically that hers was the only group which supported Sanford when the NRCC abandoned Sanford's campaign. She only implied it. In truth, other organizations, such as Freedom Works, a large pro-life organuzation, and other groups both large and small jumped into the breach at the same time as, or even before, IWV. It is a shame that in its efforts to garner some (albeit deserved) praise and recognition, IWV would undermine the sense of solidarity and common purpose which attends an unexpected and resounding victory by dismissing or minimizing the efforts of others, including -- it sounds like to me -- the efforts of the candidate himself.
Re: “FCC may lift TV ban on boobies and F-bombs”
Ah yes. Boobs are great. But violence draws audiences, apparently with fewer public complaints. Most action programs feature sadism and random shootings without any psychological hangovers on anybody's part. It isn't even realistic violence: if you tie somebody to a chair and repeatedly hit him/her in the face with your fists, your poor hands would suffer terribly. Well, maybe that offers a little vicarious high to our sadomasochistic brothers/sisters. But tits, though wonderful, are sinful.
BTW, when does the new season of "Following" begin? Well, in the meantime, there's always "Criminal Minds".
Re: “Three distilleries pledge to raise spirits with more local booze”
"Is there any particular reason to operate a distillery in a downtown?"
Encourage visitation to sampling room.
Help sell bottles on site, which makes additional profit without the middle man.
Gets the name out there and acts as a form of advertisement.
Personally, I wouldn't open in downtown, but that is because I don't like dealing with traffic and high property costs. However, I can see why they would choose this path.
Re: “Three distilleries pledge to raise spirits with more local booze”
Is there any particular reason to operate a distillery in a downtown?
Re: “Three distilleries pledge to raise spirits with more local booze”
Wow, two on King Street! I'm looking forward to trying all of them.
Re: “City Council considers requiring bar security to patrol sidewalks, parking lots”
"I don't get the rest of you. You have no skin in this game, and the purpose of it is to preserve relative peace and tranquility in Charleston."
Have you never seen a fight between a bouncer and a drunk patron? These happen all the time, and most of this occurs because the bouncers have no authority. If a cop shows up, even the toughest alcohol fueled badboy will become timid and docile. This is bad for the businesses, as their employees will be involved in additional possibly violent scenarios, which lead to lawsuits. It is bad for for those of us that frequent the bars, since we have to deal with possible increased violence due to less policing. The only people that win are the city government officials, who get to pay less for police presence.
Re: “Three distilleries pledge to raise spirits with more local booze”
Can't wait to try some of these.
Re: “FCC may lift TV ban on boobies and F-bombs”
I am against all censorship by the Gov. It's called parenting. If you don't want your kid to watch something, don't let them watch it.
Re: “Listening pays off for the Charleston Symphony Orchestra”
How can anyone guarantee consistent quality with a per-service arrangement? What about the perdiem costs for those who come from other towns?
Unless you have a substantial "core" - preferably 32 to 35 (6,6,4,4,2 + winds and brass) you're just a band a freelancers. The results would be highly inconsistent and the quality suspect from concert to concert. An orchestra is a team - not a pick-up ensemble! And you cannot fool the audience forever. A well run orchestra and a supportive board can make it happen the right way -- as long as not every concert has some bombastic romantic program that will require 60 to 70 or more musicians every time. That's a recepie for disaster. Where is Haydn? Handel? And just one little Beethoven work? I understand you have six xnadidates and they feel they must prove themselves. A late Haydn Symphony is no less challenging than Sibelius or Thaikovsky - and if you don't agree, you missed the classical period training periods.
And the so called chamber orchestra series has too many non-chamber works that will baloon the size of the ensemble well beyond the "chamber" genre and brake the bank. St. Luke's, Orpheus, English Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul, etc. can do that. Not the Charleston Symphony. After next season you'll again have severy financial issues. You need a more realistic, pragmatic mix. A sense of proportion and less ego. You need 'quality' more than "quantity" -- bigger is not always better. Certainly not six times in a row with a severly curtailed theatre capacity and an expensive, heavy chamber series loaded with romantic works again, performed only once and in a smaller hall yet! Has anyone hear of trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, septets and octets, for instance? The Mendelssohn violin concerto is not chamber and neither is the Fingal's Cave Overture. Who's doing all this overly ambitious programming for an orchestra that not so long ago was in a coma? Never mind. I know the answer and you're all in trouble!
Re: “FCC may lift TV ban on boobies and F-bombs”
I'm not sure I have a problem with the existing regs, except that violence seems to be fairly unregulated.
Then again, I'm just a Big Government Commie or something.
Re: “Charleston County considering a switch to paper ballots”
ohhh that hurt whats a matter need thicker glasses? can't read lowercase? maybe all caps would be better? your definition of True and mine r prob different.
seen one liberal democrat seen em all.
Re: “The Agenda: Mignon Clyburn breaks FCC glass ceiling, Controlling Edisto floats, Hurricane Awareness Day”
OK, then, nofaith - why don't you tell us who is qualified to be the acting Chair of the FCC or what those qualifications even are? Perhaps you could enlighten us on why Tom Wheeler, a venture capitalist, is qualified. Perhaps it is the money he donated to the President's re-election? Or perhaps he has long been a lobbyist for the very industry he may end up regulating?
Conservatives are only concerned about qualifications for government when they aren't calling the shots. You certainly didn't complain when George W. Bush filled up key government positions with wildly unqualified goons - except when those goons then went on to fail miserably at the jobs they were in, at which point you pointed and cried, "Government is ineffective."
It's a brilliant game, but it's utter crap.
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John,
The media does not care about the hundreds of other groups scrutinized by the IRS. Only the 75 conservative groups count, since those are the ones they can raise the specter of scandal over.
Re: “Charleston County considering a switch to paper ballots”
It isn't my fault you don't know the difference between Big Letter Words and their lower case companions.
Re: “When and where to take your furry friends”
I take my dog to a local, open to the public, beach and she can run off-leash everyday, all day within a 3000 foot stretch of beach. Guess where.
Re: “The Agenda: Mignon Clyburn breaks FCC glass ceiling, Controlling Edisto floats, Hurricane Awareness Day”
As someone who was on the board of a non-profit on the other side of the argument from the tea party I can vouch that what they got was almost identical to the way our group was treated. All 501c3 groups go through the same thing to verify that they aren't being used to funnel money to candidates and issues under the table, illegally.
Re: “The Agenda: Mignon Clyburn breaks FCC glass ceiling, Controlling Edisto floats, Hurricane Awareness Day”
The head of the PSC and ran a newspaper with a circulation around 10k tops for fourteen years has so much experience that she should be put into a key position with the FCC and on a fast track to run the Commission. Real smart. And I am not so sure how she got rich, her family ran a small newspaper that targeted a small market and then she worked in government. Not usually a path to wealth without corruption.
As for her race or gender, it is liberals that worry about those things, not conservatives. Liberals are so trained to believe that is they way they should make all decisions that they fail to worry about things like experience, talent and ability to actually do the job. Liberals are the hate mongers that they accuse their opponents of being. Facts just do not bear out the "I know you are but what am I" bullshit liberals like to pull when the are confronted about their blind hatred and intolerance.
My issue is whether or not she is qualified, which based on experience she most likely isn't, and I doubt seriously she is the best qualified person out there for the job. But, qualification and ability doesn't matter, especially in this administration.
Re: “City Council considers requiring bar security to patrol sidewalks, parking lots”
I'd like to see studies that show how Charleston bar traffic has or has not reached or crossed some sort of percentage threshold where an uptick in violent/vandalism activities will begin to be more common and more egregious. Then I'd like to see how much it would cost us all to hire the equivalent level of professional policing.
I get the Libertarians view this is the literal end of the world. A city council enacting a law. "SlipperySlope!SlipperySlope!SlipperySlope!BigBrother!SlipperySlope!SlipperySlope!SlipperySlope!"
I get how business owners don't want to pay a new employee.
I don't get the rest of you. You have no skin in this game, and the purpose of it is to preserve relative peace and tranquility in Charleston. Preserve Charleston's brand as a gleaming, harmless tourist Mecca. Preserve a happy, clean, healthy Charleston for natives to enjoy. Preserve businesses' security to continue to grow and prosper unabated. It's a proactive move to preserve what we enjoy.
Folly Beach wishes they'd thought of it.
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Rezoning the Sergeant Jasper apartment building will have a big effect on what replaces it
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Three distilleries pledge to raise spirits with more local booze
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City Paper's overview critic Jeffrey Day has some insights into the 2013 festival
And is a sucker for puppets
Re: “Rezoning the Sergeant Jasper apartment building will have a big effect on what replaces it”
An old building which has done a lot of good service to the community. I've lived there and it shelters a remarkable, diverse community. Some of these group's determination to drive everyone but the rich out of the city is gradually destroying the living city which once existed here. Almost no children grow up downtown now. Fewer young people live there. We're going to be left with a city which is a luxury experience largely enjoyed by older people who have made their money elsewhere.
After 20 years of relentless damage, during which my family had to leave for Mount Pleasant, Charleston is incapable of understanding that the city a century of poverty could not destroy is being leveled by the rich. The city's cultural institutions are weaker. The once active civic life is a shadow of what it once was. Do we have cooler restaurants? Sure. Can we put on festivals full of tourists and the occupants of trophy houses? Certainly. Do people here still know and honor each other's stories? Children, the young and those who need to earn a living need a city. A city should be devoted to the people who need and love it. It is not a product to be marketed to the highest bidder. Charleston and the Lowcountry's incapacity to comprehend that is why our communities are being obliterated.
Having seen the last strong years of the downtown community, an economically diverse, racially mixed experience and gone on to help attempt to recreated community in I'On in Mount Pleasant, I do understand what is at stake here. It's incredibly hard to maintain today. It is far more important and special than how the places look or how much parking you have.