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Re: “If you need a beer run”
I endorse covert, discreet, illegal drinking.
Re: “School of the Arts tweet exposes Charleston County Schools' hypocrisy”
Let us not also forget about the hoplophobic, neo-segregationist bigotry in government schools. Zero tolerance/intelligence teachers and administrators punishing children, and sometimes calling the police, for children who are drawing a picture of a firearm, or having paper folded like a firearm, or chewing a poptart into the shape of a firearm. That's like punishing a child for violating racial segregation laws for bringing a black crayon to school. The teachers and administrators who punished kids for the "offenses" above, are, literally, mentally infirm, and need to have their mental capacity tested by a licensed psychologist, before they are allowed to be near children again. Any children the offending teachers or administrators may have should be kept safe by the state until such tests can be performed. This is what Neale Bortz means when he says that government schooling is child abuse.
Re: “Is Anne Frank's Diary pornography?”
There are editions of this book available without this content, which the author apparently didn't want to have published. I understand the book is old and it takes controversy to get headlines, but it was a valuable document before. It's fun to run this through the mill of media commentary and controversy, but now every school district in the country has to deal with the collateral damage. I'm not sure it is worth it.
Re: “Gearing up for a sober summer on Folly Beach”
PURE propaganda being printed by the City paper. Just another attempt by the Marketers to juice up the Bonjovi chardonnay matrons-gone-wild visitors, hipsters and teeny-boppers. (note the PBR... lol) If there were the numbers of VALID signatures it would be submitted to council or placed into a referendum.
Re: “Let the Lee Bros. throw you a party”
Okay, this is just freaky. In their first cookbook the Lee Brothers acknowledge Peter Milewicz, one of the founders of Steven Duvall Catering. I am close friends with Peter and after the Lee Brothers burst onto the scene he talked about how he frequently did dinner parties for the Lees in the 1980's and the boys spent a lot of time in the kitchen with him. It's pretty awesome to see this come full circle and now the Lee Brothers are working with the company that helped them develop an interest in the food industry.
Re: “School of the Arts tweet exposes Charleston County Schools' hypocrisy”
The present system is anti-White. Especially the US educational system. I was a teacher briefly and had to get out of it. I couldn't stand the bias. I feel sorry for young White students who have to suffer this sort of system. It's wrong. I would never put my own children in a public school. It's cruel to do so when they will surely be subjected to anti-White propaganda as well as racial harassment from non-White students.
Re: “Gearing up for a sober summer on Folly Beach”
"those guys who took the vote away from those who wanted to make a decision based on law."
Laws passed by elected officials are based on law.
Re: “If you need a beer run”
The Folly Police can't (or won't) even make sure that all dogs are leashed, never mind what's in your cup.
Re: “If you need a beer run”
"What is the word on very discreet drinking on the beaches? Are the cops going to go around and be the beer Nazis, or will they just go about their business if no one is flaunting a brew or a glass of vino?"
My experience has been that keeping your drink in a plastic cup (or other discreet container) pretty much guarantees you won't have issue with the IOP cops. I am not sure about Folly, but I assume it would be similar there.
Re: “Bourbon be damned, it's time to return to rum”
I love the high-end rums, but could never turn my back on bourbon. I will echo the Clarey's post. That place is about as good as it gets for high-end rum and bourbon selection.
Re: “Is Anne Frank's Diary pornography?”
Double Huh, Pronghorn. Who is this guy? If you put many of his phrases into the internet, you can see them word for word many times. This is where college and high school kids go for easy term papers.
Re: “Gearing up for a sober summer on Folly Beach”
Hey, if some of you ban folks want to sell your houses on the cheap, I'm interested in putting some money into some beach property. You shits rent out these places anyway, so why do you care if we have a few brews on the beach? I'd personally like to vote out those guys who took the vote away from those who wanted to make a decision based on law. Maybe we can get some folks in there who care about Bert and merchants like him. Next time a bus full of idiots come calling and make a scene, how about arresting the first 12 or so, and then we won't have a problem.
Re: “School of the Arts tweet exposes Charleston County Schools' hypocrisy”
PS: This is a free speech issue and the school system has NO business being involved. If it was a negro tweeting the school wouldn't say a peep!!
Another example of radical liberalism and political correctness gone wild in schools. More liberal/progressive indoctrination. Just like idiotic zero tolerance gun policies throwing kids out of school for anything gun related - tshirts, pictures, little boys playing cowboys & indians, etc. etc. A real gun, yes! A piece of paper, a shirt, a picture, a pop tart, a water gun, a toy soldier, a GI Joe toy, etc. etc. get an eff'in life morons!!
Re: “If you need a beer run”
What is the word on very discreet drinking on the beaches? Are the cops going to go around and be the beer Nazis, or will they just go about their business if no one is flaunting a brew or a glass of vino? I personally like to sit on the beach and enjoy a cool one, and would never have an exposed can or bottle. But, if I do what I do while downtown Chas., I simply fill empty Mt. Dew or Coke 1/2 liter bottles all the way to the top, and they work out fine and don't lose their fizz. I also put vino in the same empty containers. Have never been approached by a cop yet, but now I guess the word is out, and I'll have to think up something else.
Re: “School of the Arts tweet exposes Charleston County Schools' hypocrisy”
More racist & hypocritical bullshit from the left. This is what Obama has brought us - anti-anything Christian and/or white, while enabling and advocating anything non-white & non-Christian.
Our DOJ gives amnesty to Muslim families not in danger in their home countries and our gubment gives them all sorts of public assistance, yet refuses to help a white Christian family from Germany that will have their children taken away if sent back to Germany.
@Anthony - Racism is far from limited to the south. In fact, it's worse in most parts of America today than here in the south.
@FactoryConnection - you're an idiot.
Re: “School of the Arts tweet exposes Charleston County Schools' hypocrisy”
to: And if elected... You must be on drugs! Have you some DNA from Jessie and Al? The problems in the mostly minority schools have been going on for years, and the staffs at these schools refuse to do anything. Well, let's see some rather large lawsuits be settled in favor of the plaintiffs. I doubt there will be any changes made in the administration, but some kids might receive enough money to go to college.
Re: “School of the Arts tweet exposes Charleston County Schools' hypocrisy”
Why is it when _____ happens to _____ , it doesn't seem to matter. It's just another day. But God forbid _____ should happen to_____, well, then, well, suddenly it's the end of the world!! Why is that? Tara? Why?
Re: “The problem with for-profit hospitals”
Most rational people also consider a house, a car, food, clothes, and other items necessities that we need every day, unlike healthcare, which for most is rarely used at all. Yet no one is telling the providers of those other necessities what they can and can not charge.
Healthcare is expensive because the gubment has been screwing with insurance for decades. Same with college tuition. Anytime the gubment gets involved, prices skyrocket. Back in the day - pre-1990s - health insurance was largely used for hospital stays and major emergencies. Typical doctor visits were paid via cash out of pocket. Prices started skyrocketing when insurance started being used to cover everything, including preventative care. Same with dental care & eye glasses. They were much cheaper before insurance got involved.
Once someone else starts paying the bills customers stop caring how much it costs. There is no more market incentive to help hold prices down.
Same with college costs. As soon as loads of easily obtainable, low interest student loans from the gubment became available college tuition skyrocketed. My entire 4 years at Clemson (1984-1988) - tuition, room, board, books - EVERYTHING - cost around $20,000. Today one year at Clemson as an in-state student costs more than my 4 years!!! That's 400+% inflation in only 25 years! That's insane.
https://www.clemson.edu/admissions/undergr…
I had many friends work their way through school, but that's nearly impossible now! My 1st car was a (new) Nissan Stanza bought in 1983, one year before I went to college. It cost a little over $10,000. Today you can but many cars far nicer than my '83 Stanza for not much more than $10,000. Yet college tuition has gone up in less time over 400%. Again - INSANE!! Why? Because the gubment is subsidizing it. Same as medical insurance. Yet basic cars have gotten far better, far safer, much more technically advanced yet only moderately more expensive.
The surest way to create asinine inflation is with government subsidies. The gubment isn't helping anyone with subsidies of ANY kind!! Subsidies hurt infinitely more than they help and they come with higher taxes and huge gubment bureaucracies to manage them. And once start become almost impossible to end.
Once again, it's the gubment "saying" they want to "help" but all it does is expand the size, scope, cost, and influence of gubment while taking more money out the pockets of hard working folks. The ONLY winner is gubment and supporters of more & bigger gubment!!
Want healthcare costs to drop and service/quality to go up? Go back to cash for services rendered for MOST medical expenses and return insurance to its intended purpose - hospital, emergency, major medical, & catastrophic care!!
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Re: “Columnist Erin Perkins goes to boogie at Republic Reign”
Erin Perkins articles are all pathetic. Another "big city feel" club....really?! bottle service, come on!! U love the big city, please go back to Ohio missy and spend ur nites behind a velvet rope In Toledo please!