Lee Cloer, from My Town Franklin, took this video from Palmer Street of the parade honoring Vietnam Veterans yesterday...
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Video of the Vietnam Veterans Day Parade in Franklin
Here is the video of the Vietnam Veterans Day parade held in Franklin yesterday...
More coverage can be found at My Town Franklin and Beautiful Franklin.
More coverage can be found at My Town Franklin and Beautiful Franklin.
Both Lee Cloer and I have been having difficulty getting Youtube to upload our videos...so keep checking by our webpages for updates.
Videos from Buncombe GOP Lincoln Day Dinner
The Buncombe County Republican Party held their annual Lincoln Day Dinner at the Four Points Sheraton in Asheville yesterday. Here are a couple of videos from that event...
Pastor Spencer Hardaway
Don Yelton
You can keep an eye on more video from Sound Off Buncombe via Youtube or Exposure Room.
You can keep an eye on more video from Sound Off Buncombe via Youtube or Exposure Room.
**10.35am** The Citizen-Times has a few photos from the event, and a story about it, part of which is excerpted below:
ASHEVILLE – State and local Republicans at an annual GOP dinner Saturday said they failed to show their party's distinctness and connect with voters during last November's election.
Leaders at the Buncombe County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner, however, urged about 130 people in attendance to get back in the game and champion core principles, like fiscal responsibility and limited government.
“We didn't really have a response to the early voting; we've learned from that. We weren't really technology savvy; we've learned from that. We weren't really embracing young people; we've learned from that,” said Buncombe County Republican Party Chairman Tim Johnson, commenting on his party's loss in county, state and national elections.
Although President Barack Obama was the first Democratic presidential contender to win North Carolina in more than 30 years, Johnson and others at the dinner said voters may be regretting their decision as they see the consequences of his economic policies.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Photos and Video of Vietnam Veterans Parade Coming Soon
(photo) Vietnam Veterans Day Parade in Franklin
The first ever Vietnam Veterans Day Parade and Ceremonies took place in Franklin, NC today, and I am working on getting the photos sorted and organized, and I expect to have them up by tomorrow.
The pouring rain did not deter many people from showing up and honoring the Veterans of Vietnam.
The video is in HD, so that will probably be uploaded to the Internet by late Monday since it takes so long to process.
A local photographer has some photos I want you to see in regards to honoring our Vietnam Veterans at Beautiful Franklin. Be sure to click on the In Memory of 49 Heroes section. Tom did a very fine job on them!
Others were there taking photos and video, and when they have them ready, I'll put up a link to their stuff as well.
You Can Counteract This Earth Hour Silliness!
Re-posted to remind everyone to turn on all your lights from 8.30pm to 9.30pm tonight. (I have also dedicated an earthhour light in my home that will be staying on until it burns out...
Earth hour will be from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on March 28, 2009.
VOTE FOR LIGHT
YOUR LIGHT SWITCH IS YOUR VOTE
This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Darkness and Light.
For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for the Dark Evil of Environmentalism, turning them on is a vote for the Light of Reason and against the fear-mongering environmentalists. I am urging the world to VOTE LIGHT and diminish the wacko agenda of the WWF. Their target is to reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.
This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.
Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.
We can turn the tide on this stupidity...turn on every light in your house, and turn on the outside floodlights if you have them. As a bonus, you can also turn on every Television and Radio in your home. Turn up the heat or A/C depending on your location. Turn on your vehicle and let it idle for a few minutes during this hour.
It is time we stopped being mute, and doing nothing in the face of this environmental extremism. We must begin to cancel out their activities and Stand Up to them...and expose them as the idiots that they are!!!
Who is with me?
Tom Fetzer for NCGOP Chairman
A lot of news has been lost in the shuffle of my busy days. Here is one that got past me...
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Franklin to host Vietnam Veterans Day Parade and Ceremonies Tomorrow
Vietnam Veterans will be honored with a parade and ceremonies in Franklin, NC on Saturday March 28, 2009.
The parade will begin at 10 am with participants leaving the Palmer Street Shopping Center and proceeding up Palmer Street (known locally as Back Street), then turning left at the Franklin Police Department, and left again onto Main Street, where they will proceed to the Gazebo on the Square.
The program will include speakers, schoolchildren performing songs, and a keynote by General F.P. Bodenheimer (ret) and a wreath laying ceremony.
There will also be 49 wooden crosses on display at the Macon County Courthouse with the names of soldiers from WNC that were lost in the Vietnam War.
I will be there to capture as much of the event as I can, but will not do a live broadcast because there will likely be rain.
Parade Route Marked Below:
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Daniel Hannan MEP: The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government
It is heartening to see that worldwide Marxism has eloquent opposition:
Transcript of Daniel Hannan's speech:
Prime Minister, I see you’ve already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate. You’ve spoken here about free trade, and amen to that. Who would have guessed, listening to you just now, that you were the author of the phrase ‘British jobs for British workers’ and that you have subsidised, where you have not nationalised outright, swathes of our economy, including the car industry and many of the banks? Perhaps you would have more moral authority in this house if your actions matched your words? Perhaps you would have more legitimacy in the councils of the world if the United Kingdom were not going into this recession in the worst condition of any G20 country?
The truth, Prime Minister, is that you have run out of our money. The country as a whole is now in negative equity. Every British child is born owing around £20,000. Servicing the interest on that debt is going to cost more than educating the child. Now, once again today you try to spread the blame around; you spoke about an international recession, international crisis. Well, it is true that we are all sailing together into the squalls. But not every vessel in the convoy is in the same dilapidated condition. Other ships used the good years to caulk their hulls and clear their rigging; in other words – to pay off debt. But you used the good years to raise borrowing yet further. As a consequence, under your captaincy, our hull is pressed deep into the water line under the accumulated weight of your debt We are now running a deficit that touches 10% of GDP, an almost unbelievable figure. More than Pakistan, more than Hungary; countries where the IMF have already been called in. Now, it’s not that you’re not apologising; like everyone else I have long accepted that you’re pathologically incapable of accepting responsibility for these things. It’s that you’re carrying on, wilfully worsening our situation, wantonly spending what little we have left. Last year - in the last twelve months – a hundred thousand private sector jobs have been lost and yet you created thirty thousand public sector jobs.
Prime Minister, you cannot carry on for ever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. And when you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we’re ‘well-placed to weather the storm’, I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line. You know, and we know, and you know that we know that it’s nonsense! Everyone knows that Britain is worse off than any other country as we go into these hard times. The IMF has said so; the European Commission has said so; the markets have said so – which is why our currency has devalued by thirty percent. And soon the voters too will get their chance to say so. They can see what the markets have already seen: that you are the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government.
Tim Peck Schools Scrutiny Hooligans on Fascism!
Liberaltarian blogger Tim Peck has schooled the unruly crowd of progressives at Scrutiny Hooligans on what fascism is, and since I have had my commenting privileges revoked over there, I'll note it over here, especially since Tim has taken on the role of opposition in this case.
You can find out more about liberal fascism by checking out the book Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
by Jonah Goldberg.
by Jonah Goldberg.The subject of the post is a column at Campaign for America's Future by Asheville Marxist, I mean Progressive, Tom Sullivan, who also intermittently blogs at Undercover Blue.
I am finding it entertaining to watch how traditional Marxist lefties in the Democrat party are responding to President Obama, who has crafted a curious blending of fascism, Marxism and liberation theology into his Administration. with him as the messiah. This would be very entertaining were it not for the millions of lives that will be destroyed if President Obama is successful.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Dan Seals 1948-2009
Hat Tip to SWAC Girl for the notice of this untimely passing...
Dan Seals, who was diagnosed two years ago with lymphoma, has died from complications at the age of 61.
He was one of the few singers that I liked nearly everything he put out.
This was recorded live from the 1985 Music City News Awards.
Dan Seals, who was diagnosed two years ago with lymphoma, has died from complications at the age of 61.
He was one of the few singers that I liked nearly everything he put out.
This was recorded live from the 1985 Music City News Awards.
Into The Fire - 9/11 - Firefighters Tribute
I'm hijacking Thunder Pig to post this video (hope ya don't mind, TP) from a website I just found called Great Americans, where our heroes in the military, law enforcement, fire-rescue and Homeland Security are celebrated, and not hated by those who hate American ideas, and not feared by the whack jobs who think 9-11 was not an attack perpetrated by young Muslim males.
--Mohican
This video is about 9-11, and is an awesome tribute to the heores who ran into the fire on the bright September morning:
--Mohican
This video is about 9-11, and is an awesome tribute to the heores who ran into the fire on the bright September morning:
Into The Fire - 9/11 - Firefighters Tribute - watch more videos
NC General Assembly 03-26-2009 Legislative Calender
Here is the schedule for today in the General Assembly...
| 10:00 AM | JUDICIARY I (Senate) | 1027LB |
| 10:00 AM | JUDICIARY II (Senate) | 1124LB |
| 10:00 AM | JUDICIARY I (House) | 1228LB |
| 10:00 AM | JUDICIARY III (House) | 1425LB |
| 11:00 AM | INSURANCE (House) | 1228LB |
| 11:00 AM | EDUCATION/Pre-School, Elementary, and Secondary Education (House) | 421LOB |
| 11:00 AM | EDUCATION/Community Colleges (House) | 424LOB |
| 11:00 AM | Session Convenes (Senate) | Senate Chamber |
| 12:00 PM | Session Convenes (House) | House Chamber |
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Roofs
This is an interesting video made by Marco Antonio that is a study of roofs in Gijón, Spain. I particularly like the music that accompanies it:
Eeek! I broke the template!!!
Click here to see the video at Exposure Room
Click here to see the video at Exposure Room
No More Cheap Seats For You
The blog Cabarrus Cheap Seats has reached the end of it's run.
I have enjoyed the rough and tumble portrayal of the local political scene from that blog and the interplay of the cast of characters over there during it's run.
Go on over and say your goodbyes...
(VIDEO) Budget Reductions at Western Carolina University
I have the video of WCU Chancellor Bardo discussing the nature of the budget cuts at the University here, and on Conservative Thunder. Unexpected problems at both Youtube and Blip.tv were responsible for the delay in getting the video out the past day or so.
Bush Deficit Versus Obama Deficit
A Watauga Conservative has the astonishing graphic. Yep, the Republicans sure were spending like crazy...NOT!
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