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27 May 2009
About eight months ago I took a
sabbatical on my Blog, but it seems as if I just might have to reactivate the
site because of what is happening in the local.
This BLOG is purely my opinion but I am sure that, from the facts that I
present, you will be enable to come to the same conclusions as I, this is known
as common sense. Issues like the
MILITARY veteran treatment, the Burke County School Board, and other local
items are bringing about a new challenge.
I have given one local organization a 60
day window to take proper action to correct a very bad injustice against
another local group. I have already
spoken to the Executive Director of a local organization and they now know that
I have taken personal offense to their recent decision. Hopefully certain individuals on their board
will pass on the fact that I do put my money where my mouth is, they know that
for personal fact.
The 27 of July is my release date
although that my be brought up even sooner, depending on how I feel, but the
bottom line is that it will be addressed on that date with either an apology by
me or a fact stating why I think we need to send a message to those locally,
and I do plan on naming the names of who I know are involved.
Is this a THREAT? No, it is just a promise that I will do what
I consider to be the right thing to do, in my own way, at my own expense. Start talking folks; is this worth the
embarrassment it will cause them? We
shall see.
Consider this, when an organization is
soliciting funds, which group do you give to?
The one you have faith and confidence in what they are doing. This confidence can be reduced by just a few
simple facts, whom is getting what?
Maybe more RESIGNATIONS are needed quickly. Some who think they know everything do not know
the law when it comes to giving from one non profit to another.
23 August 2008
About a month again, still keeping busy,
many things happen in the summer that just takes a bit of time. I am sure I will be doing more as the
elections get closer. I went to visit a
special friend of mine, Willie Flemon McIntosh, from the North Green Church,
who was in hospital for a few days this past week. The man needs to rest a bit; no one can go at
his speed forever.
My son is enjoying his coffee shop on
White Street and I hope all readers here have had a chance to go and visit with
him. This are progressing, not always
fast, but still progressing in the right direction. Other than having too much stuff to get rid
of and to clean up, not much has changed.
The county fair turned out alright
considering it was about a month earlier than usual. I can’t wait for Veterans Day to see what new
and improved things are happening. Keep
God in your heart and think with the proper head.
26 July 2008
It has been over a month since an update
so here we go. I have been too busy to
get much other stuff done. My DAV driving
will be cut back because of funding cuts, but we shall do what we are able to
do. Many vets are depending on us to get
them to their appointments otherwise they do not get their medicines sent to
them.
TGIF had another successful season. Next week is the Burke County Fair, hope to
see many of you there; I will be on the booth on Wednesday evening and some on
other days. Two weeks after that we can
all enjoy the Drexel Fall Fair and two weeks after that we will have the
Historic Morganton Festival.
Election is coming soon and we will be
generating maybe a bit more updates as the day comes closer. We shall see what they all say, sorry but I
am not a party person for either side, I vote for the person and for the
position they take on key issues.
No one wants to get too close to me for
fear of unwanted association links being tied to them or me. Oh well, life is sweet to me and I am
enjoying my retirement, how many others can say the same? Lead your life by example, talk is cheap,
actions speak much louder.
23 June 2008
These hot days are really getting to me,
can’t take the heat anymore like I used to.
Wish some of the rain that has been passing through would take a swipe
at my place here in town as it seems to be passing us up real fast. My yard could use a good soaking as I have
dry cracks all over now.
The internet has been acting up lately, I
don’t know if it is everyone or just a few depending on the ISP you are working
with. Sometimes things fly through and
other times they time out and need constant refreshing and patience. That last one really hurts as I don’t have
much of it at all.
The past several days my grandsons were
here and that took up quite a bit of time.
Went to Carrowinds (amusement park south of Charlotte in SC) and became
exhausted. Couldn’t believe I paid $3.75
for a 20 Oz. plastic bottle of Coke.
Lunch cost us $72 and that was no refills. Gasoline was a lot cheaper in SC than in NC.
13 June 2008
Oh my gosh, it’sssssssss Ffffffrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiddddddaaaaaaayyyyyyyy,
the 13th, part something. Oh
well, it should be another great day in Western NC, already had a bit of
drizzle at lunch time to make it nice and humid for tonight’s activities
downtown.
My trip to Oteen this morning started
before 6 this morning but I was home by ten.
The DAV van now has over one hundred thousand miles on it, turned it on
Wednesday of this week.
28 May 2008
Wow, I have been busy lately, with a lot
of trips up to Oteen for our veterans.
As a service officer I also assist with veterans attempting to obtain a
disability rating from the Veterans Administration. I will say, the vets
have been keeping me busy. So busy in
fact that this year I won the 2008 Volunteer of the Year Award from the VA
Medical Center up at Oteen. I receive a
lot of satisfaction in helping folks who only needs a hand, not a handout.
A great rainy day in Morganton but who
cares, we need all the liquid the good heavens can send our way. I have some azaleas freshly planted this year
and growing pretty well, at least much better than last year’s batch, they all
dried up.
20 April 2008
Time fly’s when one is having fun is the
old saying, all I can say, it has not all been fun but it has made the time
fly. Lately, things seem to be catching
up and I’m finally getting caught up with a lot of old items that just didn’t
have as high as a priority as taxes and such.
I wonder what will come out of the
meeting scheduled to be held at 7 p.m. on this coming Tuesday at Robert L.
Patton HS. Snacks will be served after
doors open at 6:30 p.m. Be prepared to
answer and defend the following opinions:
What do you love about Morganton?
What about Morganton should not be messed up? What improvements would
you like to see in Morganton? What is
Morganton missing?
Wonder how many loud mouths will put
their money where their mouths are? How
many will show up with their “My way or the highway” attitudes? We shall see as I do plan on attending. Hope this doesn’t make anyone nervous, I have
quite a bit invested in this town and I hope to continue to make it better for
all, including my children and grandchildren.
What I love most about Morganton is the
beauty of the area and its people. What
should not be messed up is the southern culture with too many immigrants, some
is great, too many is a problem. What
improvements would I like to see in Morganton depends on how much money are you
talking about. I would love to see a
complete new infrastructure upgrade to put ALL public utilities under the
ground and out of site. I would love to
see COMPAS put some locally produced and edited shows on Channel 2 as a
challenge to our youth.
5 April 2008
Wow, it has been awhile, but I have been
super busy as of late. I have had a lot
of trips to Oteen, as a matter of fact, every day this coming week. Taxes and trying to handle my Aunt’s estate
is taking more time than it should. I
have completed a long DAV project, a booklet of our local active members.
I was terribly disappointed to have a
close friend, James “Glenn” England, to pass away from a tractor accident. I saw him only a couple weeks ago and his
contagious smile was still in power and he was having a grand time at our DAV
meeting. You never know when it is your
time, it comes without warning sometimes.
I am glad that we are finally getting
caught back up on the rain we have been missing for so long. My twenty some azaleas plants have all died
and I have to go to Wal-Mart and see if they will replace them for nothing, I
still have my receipt. We shall see.
21 March 2008
Today was nothing short of a fantastic
day, the sun shining, jets leaving a lot of contrails in the sky, and a very
“Good Friday” to enjoy. So much to do,
so little time available to get it done; one step at a time is all we can
do. This morning’s trip up the mountain
was beautiful but a bit chilly. You
could still see traces of snow on distant mountains but everything else has
melted.
I did send an e-mail to the state board
of elections to ask why nothing has been done about those not filing final
reports as required by state law, if there is any that is. I haven’t heard back from them yet but I will
continue to check with the local board to see if they are filed.
My son’s coffee shop is growing every
day, so fast that many of the items are gone by late afternoon, the snacks that
is, but he will increase inventory as time goes on to keep up with the
demand. Hope you have had the
opportunity to see the wall at the coffee shop, they are very unusual and
unique, a definite piece of art.
19 March 2008
It is a rainy Wednesday morning in
beautiful Burke County, a little breeze every now and then and temperatures
that don’t really call for a coat but maybe a light rain jacket. I was supposed to be at Oteen right now but
my rider had other arrangements and it was a last minute cancel for me, thus
giving me a moment to update this.
My world is very busy right now trying to
do too much but meeting the challenge none the less. I have a 40th Class Reunion coming
up in a couple of years that will need preliminary work done starting in a few
weeks/months. Sometimes my busy work is
my own fault.
I am creating a pamphlet of the DAV
Chapter #43 local members who come to our Chapter meeting and I plan to give a
free copy to everyone at the meeting and sell the rest. I and my mother are in the book so it is a
special book for me, not to mention there is only one advertisement inside, my
son’s.
I still have taxes to do on several
accounts and that is killing me slowly, especially since my Aunt died and I
can’t find the original will. I have a
copy but that is not good enough, I must have the original. Waaaaaaaaa (That is
a long whine like a baby).
I really need to redesign my website and
group more of the items together in some sort of order, better than they are
now. Of course I will have my BLOG on
the front page to make it easy for folks to see. Need to put my son’s advertising on the site
also.
The Richardson searches have died down
but I haven’t been able to procure the final financial reports that are
required from his side of the mayor race.
Guess that tells you something about his campaign, he has a lot to hide
and that is what is happening, it is a shame they don’t play by the rules. I think it is great that this web site was
instrumental in bringing him down to the level where he belongs, obscure.
Why do most of our neighbors in
surrounding counties allowed to wash their cars and water their lawns but we
are not? Are we not at the top of the
water source? Why can’t we tap it first
and then send it downstream when we are done with it?
14 March 2008
It is a very cloudy day with rain on its way
to our area, and today at 4PM my son is having his ribbon cutting in front of
his new coffee shop. Business is slowly
picking up and more and more new folks are showing up daily. Just takes time for good stuff to go around
the area.
It has been a rough few days of
late. On Monday I had an Oteen trip that
lasted to very late as when a vet needs medicine you just need to wait until it
is ready. On Wednesday I took three vets
up and only two came back. One was
admitted after going to see their normal appointment and the doctor sent them
to the ER.
Thursday my vet had a similar situation
in going to an appointment then getting sent to the ER but that vet was able to
go home. Did get a couple chances to pay
a visit to the sick vet I left from the previous day.
Thursday’s veteran lost their spouse the
night before and you can believe that was a shock, then to go through the day
and getting sent to the ER made for a rough day for the veteran.
But it was not over, that same night,
with so many family members in the older home using lights everywhere, somehow,
the house caught fire and the veteran is homeless and having to deal with a
spouse funeral.
Always remember, god only gives what we can
handle, and this is a very strong veteran, but I know the pain must be great
for the loss of everything they held so dear to them. What is one to do in a situation like this
other than pray? This veteran has my
heartfelt prayers with them for the ordeal they have had to endure and will
endure during the coming days ahead.
3 March 2008
Well my sister in law is on her way home
from a nice visit with us. While she was
here she painted a mural on the walls of my son’s new business, The Perfect
Cup, located on White Street, across from the new city hall. I am surprised the Burke Art Council has not
even cared to take a look even after a personal invite from the artist.
My youngest son is now home from school
for spring break, time to relax for awhile.
He is playing it day by day but who knows what he plans to do now. He has been spending time with his Aunt and
his brother at the coffee shop. Little
guy is growing up fast, taking on new views from school, not all bad but
definitely eye opening for him.
Looks like the local race for
commissioners are coming up fast, wonder who will be the best candidates? I always have a tendency of going for the new
comer and not so much for the incumbent, but each individual deserves a close
look. I can easily judge the incumbents
on their records but the new comers will take a bit more work.
Any one out there wants to write a letter
of recommendation for any of those who will be running this fall feel free to
send it to me and I will put it on the web for you?
23 February 2008
It is a bit cool today but still a
beautiful sunny day in Burke County.
Tonight the Shiners have a special event for a special someone and I
know that will go off with a bang as I have had a preview of the special attraction. I still have a lot of family in town so time
is scarce.
I will get to enjoy a meal at the
Schnitzel house in Hickory, very good authentic German food and breads. We will have a party of 11 for tonight, this
will be getting a bit expensive, and I can see this now. What a great way to celebrate with family.
On 1 March this year, my son will open
his new coffee shop, “The Perfect Cup,” which is located on White Street, two
blocks from the old and new courthouse, across from the new city hall.
Tell Tom his dad sent you and see if you
can talk him into a discount. If not,
write me and I will send you a personal coupon good for a free small cup of
coffee, all on me, but you have to write and ask for it.
3 February 2008
Hi again, slow poke here, been really
busy doing a lot of driving and then a lot of naps to catch up on the early
hours and long days. But I will get an
award in the end; my volunteer hours are growing quickly so it will be fun to
see what my totals are. That should come
in the early summer at the Volunteer banquet.
I really need a few good parties to go to.
My Richardson quest is not yet over, I
have posted the newest report on his finances and I am still awaiting the final
report. I noticed that Samuel Avery gave
as well as a retired lady from South Carolina.
He put the squeeze on everyone, didn’t he? Wonder if he even put any of his own money up
on this? I haven’t noticed a penny in
the reports.
Remember the promises he made? What ever happened to his TEEN CENTER he was
promising and said he already had funding?
Did the money people back out for a reason? Must not have cared too much for the kids,
you dropped them real quick when you were embarrassed in the election. The money you wasted in your run would have
done a lot for our local economy.
Early in the morning I am off to Oteen to
take a couple of Vets to the Charles George VA Medical Center for treatment and
services. I will enjoy a nice breakfast
in their cafeteria while I am there.
Almost always the same, biscuit and gravy, one scrambled egg and fried
taters if they have them, and of course gravy all over it. Another cup of coffee and I am good for most
of the day.
My trip last Friday was a very early start,
0545 and the first two riders cancelled on me, not so bad but they were over 11
miles away and it was pouring rain that morning. We made for a much shorter day up at Oteen
with only one vet to wait for. These
vets have no other means of getting to their medical appointments and we do not
charge them for the trip so it is a good group effort.
Since I went so early I had my blood
drawn for my next Tuesday appointment with my regular doctor. He and I need to talk a bit about minor
things, console him on his mothers passing, and encouraging him to look forward
to retirement. Hope all goes well on
this appointment, at least this is not the mean finger annual checkup.
My son’s coffee shop will be opening up
in about one month. His Aunt is being
flown in from Phoenix to paint a mural on the large wall of his café. A custom job for a most excellent
opening. So much family input it has to
go well for him. Hope everyone will drop
by and see the place, the name is already up:
THE PERFECT CUP. His official
opening will be March first, Saturday, don’t know the time yet, but hope y’all
can come.
23 January 2008
Well, what can I say, I’ve been bad by
not writing more often and I am whipping myself with a dozen spaghetti noodles
directly to the brain. Yea, feel like a
real noodle head right now. At least
this is always something different, sometimes babbling on but other times are
just plain rants.
I can’t deny that I have quite a bit on
my plate right now and I am not comfortable with so many chores to do and so
little time to get them done. I know,
just prioritize them and go one at a time but sometimes other items change
their own priority and that puts a squeeze on the rest of the schedule. Oh well, we shall just do one step at a
time.
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mail you receive?
Weather has been cold lately but
yesterday morning it actually got warmer when I arrived at Oteen in the morning,
100 kilometers due west of here, in the mountains. The weather folks have not been accurate in
quite some time. The can predict
something rather obvious but not the details like they keep trying to do and
losing creditability.
7 January 2008
I hope to start getting time to start
BLOGGING on a more frequent basis again.
I need to get over the slump of losing my Aunt and press forward. 2007 was not a very good year for me
personally but then again 2008 will surely be much better.
What is your opinion of Barack Hussein Obama? I have a feeling it won’t be much longer that
we will be hearing much from him. I
really have no interest in seeing what kind of change he has in store for the
United States of America. I absolutely
do not trust that man.
I am still leaning toward either
Richardson or Edwards, then again they would make a great ticket on either
side, and I trust them to make things better for the American Middle Class,
which I hope to be in someday. Ms.
Hillary just does not have the same clout as her husband did; it is not her
time yet, maybe in 8 more years.
Locally, things are sure changing. There is new construction in our downtown
area as well as many new and conjoining businesses moving about. Soon my son will be opening up a coffee shop
in town and I hope the best for him. I’m
sure there will be some who will not visit him because of my views but what can
I say, I am not him, nor are his views the same as mine.
Soon he will bring in an artist from
Phoenix Arizona to paint one of his large walls, and I am sure it will be very
unique. Fish is the artist’s name if you
want to Google her but it won’t be easy, custom orders only, usually word of
mouth or “Designs by Fish”. I will post a photo when it is done.
29 December 2007
Not a bad day as far as the weather goes
for the winter time, temps maybe near mid 50’s, mostly cloudy, and not many
people out except at the big stores.
2007 was a rough year for me; I lost a family member after many months
of suffering with several disabling diseases, no fun watching the deterioration
of a loved one.
Our world is still in turmoil and there
are a band of radicals that want to destroy all that is our lifestyle and to
take us back to the barbaric days of the rule of strength of one against
another. Even then they cheat anyway
they can, the radicals of the world are cowards who have no good future for
them or their own. Any family member
associated with these individuals has either disowned them or has dug their own
grave to be with them, they are all filth and vermin.
Our soon to be new political leaders will
have many problems to take on; the war is only one of many. Our economy has gone to hell with the gas
prices and no relief in sight. We keep
sucking down the gasoline when we need to find new alternatives, but our
leadership does not say much about it.
Pollution needs to be eliminated so our children’s children will have
fresh air to breath. Why not a FAIRTAX
on the working people of this country, why does the rich get so many of the
breaks, can’t they afford it?
I still do not think this country is
ready to accept a female or a black president, especially one of Muslim
teachings; there are not enough independent thinkers in this country to allow
this to happen. What are the
alternatives? Richardson and Edwards are
the only two possible candidates in my opinion.
The other option is the automatic republican president if there is a
female or black opponent.
23 December 2007
Don’t forget the reason for the
season! God has been good to us the past
couple of days with a bit of needed rain, not enough but every bit counts. There were actually a few puddles about today
when the sun was shining, an indication that times are changing for the better,
keep up the prayers folks.
Today my second son came home from
college for Christmas and my first son came by as he will be in Wisconsin on
Christmas with his wife’s family so we celebrated an abbreviated Christmas gift
exchange with them. First time since my
Aunt died that we have all been together.
My time today at JJ’s
Movies, Munchies and More went very quickly with a mother, daughter, and three
grandbabies coming through for photos.
Taking kids photos is always a challenge especially when a guy in a big
red suits grabs you and tosses you on his lap, some kids can fight like
crazy. What a fun challenge working with
them.
I snuck in my yearly Christmas shopping at
Gregory’s and at Frill’s so maybe I won’t get into too much trouble this
year. I spent more money than last year
but a little less than some of the other years.
This year it appears as if those who are working are doing pretty well
and giving fair to the local charities.
Unfortunately, there are still too many unemployed in our local area and
not much relief in sight, at least as far as I can see in the near future.
Christmas is coming up fast and not much
time to do much shopping, hope all is well in your world and you get the items
you have been hoping for, as for me, my grandbabies are in house and all is
well in my world, as of right now that is.
Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a wonderful winter season’s
greetings.
21 December 2007
Played Santa Clause today and had a very
nice time, a lot of vets were remembered and their memories have been
renewed. Had a trip to Oteen every day
this week as well as went to shoot pictures for Santa at JJ’s
Movies Munchies and More.
Family should be in tomorrow and the
world will all be fine again. Christmas
this year is coming on fast and so much to get done before the end of the year,
wow! Met a very beautiful and charming
young lady today and she was able to persuade me into buying a gift for the wife,
like mother, like daughter, is all I can say about that.
Y’all have a blessed day and I will try
and get in more updates to the Blog as the days go by. Time to reflect on the reason for the season,
later.
14 December 2007
Wow, what a gap in time, but with so much
happening in my life right now, time is not very available right now. Battling with the loss of my Aunt and trying
to take care of a nightmare paper work battle as well as a dozen other
projects.
Weather in beautiful Burke County has
been nothing short of fantastic, the near 80 degree weather in December is not
a common occurrence. Tomorrow is
predicting rain and cold to return, make it seem more like Christmas, hmmmmmm.
The local water restrictions are doing
nothing for the landscape in the area and management of the water levels are
getting to be very questionable, and there will probably be a lawsuit brought
against Duke Energy and their management of the Catawba Valley River Water flow
and control.
Two standoffs in the local area, people
in their 60’s, both in trailers, both in need of serious medical and
psychological assistance, as well as financial aid to survive. These are the baby boomers who
are coming of age, good luck people, the are a different breed of people, very
independent.
Primaries are coming quick and I kind of
hope Richardson takes the lead in the democratic presidential race, he is a
person of high character, fully respected around the world, knowledgeable of
government, and his rarest trait yet: I
think he is HONEST in his dealings and has GOD in his heart.
My prediction is that if Hillary Clinton
or Barrack Obama take the democratic ticket, the Republican running against
them will win, doesn’t even matter which one, even Jeb Bush could do it then,
this country is sadly not ready for a president that is female, black, or/and
especially one of Moslem belief, just won’t happen in the next twenty years, at
least. Let’s wait and see how correct I
will be.
I still have not heard from the city
election office concerning the final financials on the mayor race. I want to see who jumped on his bandwagon,
hoping that nobody would find out, but I will post the set of names I receive,
just like I have on the other two filings.
Richard Trosdal opened up a State Farm
insurance office on E. Union Street, across from Morganton City Hall, and I
hope you visit with him if you need some insurance. He and his wife will give you what you need
to be protected from life’s unexpected turns.
During the break in blogging I had many
trips to Oteen, even this morning I had a trip, with some daily trips of long
duration. Oteen is now being called the
Charles George VA Medical Center, in honor of a Korean war causality, from
Cherokee, American Indian, United States Medal of Honor winner, sacrificed
himself on a hand grenade, saving many of his fellow soldiers and costing him
his life.
Last Tuesday was my Vietnam Veterans of
America Christmas dinner held at Ryan’s in Asheville. Tomorrow I have the DAV annual Christmas Dinner
at our local chapter. This past
Wednesday I enjoyed our monthly meeting at Charlotte for the Carolina’s
Information Technology Professional Group, where I volunteered my time.
My son will open his coffee shop this
spring, and things are already starting to flow with it, the building is coming
along well, still much to do. He will
have an artist flown in from Phoenix, who will work on the big wall with a
mural, I believe. That will be done in
January and February with a grand opening slotted for around the first of
April.
Still trying to find the right tenant to
occupy an upscale townhouse, with two master bedroom/baths, a third bedroom,
garage, plus all appliances, not washer/dryer, fully maintained yard, no mowing
required; part of an association. Not
many folks in this area can afford rent in the $12-14 hundred per month
ballpark.
I have been helping a friend take Santa
pictures at JJ’s Movies Munchies and More, located on
the bypass near the lower side of the deaf school. From 1730-1830 a Santa shows up and my friend
and I pose the kinds and then try and make the kids smile for the camera.
25 November 2007
I’m back and I have had a nice time at
Myrtle Beach with my kids and grandsons.
We had the penthouse at the Dunes and the view on the beach was
outstanding. Yesterday morning was so
bright it was impossible to take a sunrise shot but I did get a few others that
were breath taking.
Check out the readers comments and notice
some clown trying to insult me again.
These cowards always try and hide behind an alias because they have no
integrity to speak up for themselves.
They hide behind a curtain and try and disguise their voice and lie
about who they really are; a nobody.
If the poor writer is curious about my
background and record, just pay for an FBI background investigation on me and
see what you find, it may just surprise you when you find that they look closer
at you. I’m willing to publicly compare
document for document as to achievements and recognitions.
My security clearance speaks for itself
to knowledgeable and informed intellectuals, as well as my past duty
locations. I take pride in my actions
and history, too bad they can’t say the same for them or their family, all they
bring is shame upon themselves and their family name.
Their ignorance is shown in the fact they
say I am speaking filth, if the truth hurts them that bad, I don’t care. I call it like I see it, if JIMBO’s friends don’t like that then they can all PISS UP A
ROPE, as I really don’t care about them, they are not my friends. This site is for my intelligent and unique
friends, not my ignorant enemies.
Too bad they monkey man couldn’t identify
who my “cohorts” were supposed to be that he wishes death upon. The only teen issues I seen in this town is
too many inattentive parents not keep tabs on their children. Besides, I made no false promises about
assisting the “teen problem” in this community, I have had all my children go
through those teen years and they are never easy.
Why did he not identify where he believes
I distorted any truth? I have document
and posted many documents on this site that shows JIMBO’s
administrations distorted truths and plain out lies for all to see but some
just push their heads in the ground and act like they can’t see the truth. If this site bothers them so bad, why do they
keep coming back for more?
As soon as I get my hands on the final
financial reports for the Mayor race I will post them on this site and pass the
word around so everyone in this community can see exactly what the truth is for
themselves and not the false and misleading truth they seem to spread around
this area.
17 November 2007
Today is a cool and mostly cloudy day but
no rain. Thank goodness as today was the
day I laid my Aunt to rest for all eternity.
Her funeral was held today at noon at St. Charles Borromeo Church with
Father Ken Wittington performing the rites and special friend Ann Crutchfield Castain interpreting for my mother and her hearing impaired
friends.
It was an impressive ceremony and my
mother is much more at peace now that she knows that her sister is in heaven
with her mom and dad. Religion can be
very comforting during times of grief, more than those who do not have any
faith. Now to catch up with other items
I have had on the back burner.
Still working toward getting the final
financial records on the Jim Richardson campaign to see who snuck in at the end
in an effort to purchase this election for mayor. Can not believe how much money was wasted by
Van Noppen and Richardson. I imagine that Fulenwider
is not too happy with the JIMBO now, realizing he made a bad selection. This is a total loss for JIMBO and his
acquaintances, who will probably not want to deal with him any longer now that
he has been tagged as a loser.
As soon as I procure the records, I will
post them on this website and mention it in this BLOG so that everyone knows
the whole story, not just what the other side is spoon feeding you with. I called all the winners in the school board race, now that worries me, as I don’t normally agree with
the politics of any office. In the
military I had battles with the GAO and Congressional members but I never gave
up the battle, but it did teach me that I hated all politicians and my trust in
them is very limited anymore.
Received an e-mail from a company who
wants to promote my website but I am going to refuse as my website is for me
and my friends, it is not a commercial money making venture, it is an outlet
for my stress and anxiety, as well as depression. If I get upset with someone I can easily call
them jerks or some other nice and nasty words if I so choose to do so. Have any comments, drop me a note and I will
post it, try one time and see if I am not telling you the truth. Have a blessed day here in beautiful Burke
County.
15 November 2007
What a great day it is today, chilly in
the morning but the day becomes a fantastic day. We have been blessed with a bit of rain, but
much more is needed, problem is, if we get what we need we
will be flooded for awhile. Guess the
good lord will do what is needed for us.
Sorry about the big gaps in the BLOG
lately, reason for this is most of my time lately has been doing errands and
going to stay with my Aunt who was in Britthaven for awhile and then Frye. She passed away on us yesterday morning and
the shock is still with us.
It will take a few days to get back into
the routine but before long I will start getting caught up with events and
gripes in the local. My Aunt Eleanor
Butkus was a special lady, never married, no children, and just her sister’s
family who she treated like her kids.
There are a lot of memories that my siblings and I will never forget.
For the past several years her health has
been one challenge after another. Consider
this, she had her pacemaker installed in 2002 and before that visit, she had
not been to a hospital since prohibition.
She did become a frequent flyer, she developed lung disease, her
kidney’s failed and forced her to dialysis, and finally the MRSA/sepsis
infection did her in, she battled all past challenges but she decided on this
episode to call it quits and she refused meds and food/drink. She got her way, she is free now.
12 November 2007
Sure did warm up today to a nice toasty
point but I’m sure it will cool off and chill again tonight. Today I had the honor of escorting three
veterans to the Golden Corral Veterans Day meal, what an event. Two of the vets are Korean War era vets and
one was a WWII veteran, and previous mayor of Glen Alpine, what an honor to
dine with these great individuals.
Earlier I visited my aunt and I talked
with her quite a bit and when I was ready to leave and I told her goodbye she
opened her eyes and looked directly at or through me, I kissed her goodbye and
her tear filled eyes were hard to face.
I know it is only a matter of a few days now but the days seem to be
harder and harder.
Tonight she refused all attempts to drink
a spot of water, a couple drops from a straw was too much for her and she
refused to open her mouth to receive anything so now it is just a matter of
time. Hard to make plans with such an
impending event, just can’t stop life but getting
prepared is not easy either.
11 November 2007
Couldn’t miss comments on this day of all
days, happy Veterans day to all our veterans both past
and future, our current vets are enduring some of the hardest times of military
service in our history. I fully support
our troops in all areas of the world, in the artic,
in the deserts, in the mountains, and in areas where no American should ever
want to visit. God Bless each and every
one of our veterans.
I slept until noon today; I was rather
exhausted after yesterday. I assisted
with the DAV in preparing a free breakfast to our local veterans, all they
needed to do was come in, sign in, and help themselves to a hot breakfast of
biscuits, sausage gravy, grits and eggs, as well as coffee and orange
juice. These were some of Burke County’s
finest people, our veterans.
After breakfast I had to get to the
ceremony at the courthouse and hear our guest speaker, Dr. Giles, and to see
two of our county’s finest receive recognition for
their many years of service to the veterans of our county. The end of the day was spent with family,
going to visit my Aunt who may be in her death bed, she is going downhill fast
and not much we can do, it is hard to see her this way.
Monday still has a Veteran’s Day
celebration that will be held at the Golden Corral in Hickory, a free meal to
all vets, what can you say, they are saints, in their
own right. This recognition has been
going on for many years and because of it I will visit them more frequently
through out the year. Tuesday will be
another Oteen trip with a few vets to take care of business at the medical center.
I have been hearing a lot of excuses
about why Jim Richardson lost his mayor race and the majority is centering around the fact that his last few weeks were his worst as he
kept losing more than he had gained, many folks did not like what he had become.
He talked his way out of the race and
became worse and worse, asking distant friends to vote for him, pushing out a
fortune in expenses, phone messages, door knob jokes, as well as all the signs
and flyers, what a waste.
Here is what you need to judge him on,
look at how he abandoned the local children and the promise of a teen center,
what a liar; he couldn’t make that happen even with Fulenwider’s
money. A friend of mine said Richardson
never put a thank you note in the News Herald and we figured out why, Fulenwider wouldn’t pay for it.
4 November 2007
It started out a bit cool this morning
but it is now a fantastic day in Burke County.
I’m sorry about the gaps folks but I have family in the hospital and I
have been running back and forth all over the area.
School board race is going quick, and I
would like for folks to consider the following items; there are a lot of folks
running which indicate dissatisfaction with the current board, meaning most
incumbents should be voted out and replaced by new folks with new ideas and new
challenges. Buff is the only incumbent
that I will be voting for on Tuesday and Rob Hairfield is my second candidate,
I am still up in the air on others but I am leaning toward Ms. Sain, but again, I am undecided on that one, any
suggestions?
Well I am now off to visit my Aunt who is
at Frye this week, trying to recover from a massive sepsis infection. Don’t hesitate to send your comments, I will
post them on the comments page for everyone to share, it is an opportunity for
you.
1 November 2007
Well the weather has been unusual and the
rain was nice but we just do not have quite enough yet. I am actually looking forward to a very white
Christmas this year, a very heavy white Christmas. Sorry for the update delays, have been to
Oteen four times this week and I have to go again early in the morning.
I have a family member who is having
great difficulties with MRSA infection and we are at her side most of the
available times. It got to be such an
issue that my mother insisted that we advise the staff of the priest’s phone
number in case she did not make it through the night. Life is always a challenge and how we deal
with it is as unique to each individual as is their own personalities.
I have checked with the city to determine
when the final paper work from the Mayor’s race would be available and it may
be as late as mid January, to allow all accounts to be closed and have a final
statement. Don’t worry; keep checking
back here, I will post the last set of Richardson’s financial records when I
purchase them, for all my friends to see who was working behind the others
backs. The final listing will say a lot.
Our mayor race was one of the nastiest I
have ever seen in this community. I have
lived here since I retired in Nov of 1991, before the 20 years of service I
attended WPCC and Morganton High School, class of 1970. I know this area better than most think. I moved to NC in 1963 and was raised through
the transition years of prejudice, and I discovered there was no such place in
the military for discrimination, rank was rank.
Today marks my 16th year of retirement from the Air Force,
and I would probably go back today if they would let me.
26 October 2007
Another wonderful rainy day in Burke, but
the rain is not quite hard enough at this time but we can always hope for a
long stretch of it. Then again, it may
take a couple days off to rest and then come back again as gentle as it has
this time. The ground is getting a good
soaking so I guess that means one more grass cutting before the end of the
year.
Yesterday my mother went to the local DAV
meeting to receive her award from the past raffle ticket sales, the award was
$300 in gasoline, of which she donated to the Chapter 43 Transportation Program
to take local vets without transportation to their medical appointments. While she was there she signed up for
membership in the DAV auxiliary group, and I think she had a wonderful time.
I am finally starting to see the light at
the end of the tunnel, hope it’s not another train coming, but I may start
getting the stack on my desk filtered down to something reasonable. I still have not received any inputs to this
site, from either the upcoming School Board group or from the primaries that
will be here soon. Send me what you want
to see on the web and you know me, I will post it. Freedom of speech does not have to cost us a
fortune.
Who will be Patrick McHenry’s
opposition? Steve Ivester has declared
his intention to run for office and I met him at the Burke County Fairgrounds,
nice guy, a veteran, and someone who might take McHenry to the limit. I am still looking for inputs folks.
21 October 2007
I believe this was a blessed day, the sun
shining and a light breeze, warming up through the day, made for a pleasant
evening. There have been quite a few
events happening in the local area, for whatever reason, I have been missing
most of them.
I went to a receiving at Heritage Funeral
Home in Valdese this evening and brought a 
few pictures I printed up today. I
was happy to see the photo they used in the paper and the one they printed on
the announcement was one that I had taken and given to them, how proud that
made me feel.
I also printed a photo taken six days
before his passing, a smiling man without a care in the world. You will be missed Melvin Hildebran, your
wife Nell had to endure two hours of constant visitors to your family, paying
their respects to someone they cared about.
The last visitors came through at eight, thirty minutes more than they
expected. I am expecting a large church
group tomorrow at Philadelphia Baptist Church.
Today’s paper talked about health care
around the world, and what is left out is the information about the third world
countries, where many go to hospitals to have a nice place to die, never to
improve. Good health care costs money any way you
want to look at it, where is the money going to come from?
Controlled health costs? Never happen.
We should have started universal health care for our youth as they are
our future, and if we do not show them by example now, what will they learn
from us? Now I am not wild about paying
for illegal’s health care, we need to deport any illegal family who needs this
assistance.
America is number one in the world and we
need to start acting like it and taking care of our young and our very
old. I would like to see free health
care for groups, 0-18 and the 55+ group, with completely paid premium health
insurance coverage, and no limitations for health care.
Others who are in the working age bracket
should provide for their own insurance through their employers, no exceptions,
just like a tax, it needs to be there for everyone. Mandatory health insurance for all, free to
selected groups.
What do you think about this? We are a great country and the rich need to
share the wealth with the needy in more ways than they are doing today. Do you think the high dollar donors of the
past election will put that much money into local charities?
The School Board election is coming soon
and I have not heard much from anyone with regards to how to vote. Does anyone want to vent an opinion and see
it on the web? As I have said before, I
totally support Rob Hairfield on his run for School Board, he has worked very
hard and he knows what questions need to be asked and which issues must be
addressed in public.
20 October 2007
It was a beautiful day to wake up to, a
breeze and cool weather is a great sign of fall but we still need the
rain. The clouds were flying by at a
fast rate but evaporating at an even faster pace, just not dropping any liquid
stuff for us. Hopefully we will have
rain in the next couple of weeks.
Tomorrow evening is receiving for my
friends’ family. Monday is the funeral
and services and that will take up a good part of my schedule. I hope I can do the family justice with my
presence and respects. I am very glad
the widow has so much family surrounding her right now as this is her time of
need and comfort.
I haven’t heard much about the Overmountain
Jamboree that we had a couple of weeks ago.
I took a bunch of pictures and have been building a power point
presentation of them for the company I was shooting for, hopefully they will
get around and next year there will be much more advertising and even more
people. I was hoping to hear some
feedback on the pictures I have already posted here, or have you seen them?
19 October 2007
Another blessed day in Burke County and
when I woke up this morning to a cloudy day, and was then blessed with a spot
of rain, not much more, but at least something.
Hope we get a lot more of the stuff as we do so need it. Prayers go out for relief from the drought
and the hard job situation we are looking at.
It has happened; my friend that I talked
about has passed away at 11 this morning.
His name, Melvin Hildebran, previous DAV Chapter #43 Commander, for
2005-2006, and previous Sr. and Jr. Vice.
This past Saturday he went with me and a couple others to a DAV district
meeting in Statesville and we had a real good time with good chicken and
BBQ. I and three others visited him in
the hospital on Wednesday, we will all miss him, and he was a great commander
and an even better father to his many children.
17 October 2007
Looks like another beautiful and dry day
in Burke County. We need to find the
Indians who knew the original rain dance, or maybe the gypsy who knew the magic
spell to make rain come quick. Too bad
there is not a weather service we can use where we order what we want when we
want it, wouldn’t that be grand, bet every Monday will be bad weather
days.
This morning I was up at 5 and on the
road at 6 on my way to Oteen to assist with a breakfast presentation to the
long term folks, it was just like a restaurant visit for them, in they come,
one young lady takes their egg order, and then me and my fellow vet go to get
the coffee and other items they may desire.
Biscuits and of course the sausage gravy
to put all over them, toast on white or
wheat, jams, jelly’s, apple butter, hot grits, assorted cereals, oatmeal of
assorted flavors, coffee, milk, orange or apple juice and fruit galore. Forgot about the sausage patties and crispy
bacon, and the eggs were made to order, even loaded omelets were available.
The veterans were overwhelmed by the selections
and service they received while coming to the DAV Chapter 43 Hosted Breakfast
at Oteen ECRC. That means Extended Care
and Rehabilitative Care. Some call it a
nursing home; others prefer to call it the government term to confuse
others.
After all the vets were fed, we then went
on and fed the staff while the food held out.
With the final leftovers, we went up to the Oncology Clinic and left the
food with them, not a bunch, but something to settle the stomach.
Here comes the depressing part of the
day, we were done at Oteen shortly after ten and decided to visit our past
Chapter Commander who was at Mission Memorial Hospital Heart Ward, in the ICU
section. Turns out that his heart was
just the beginning of many other major shutdowns in his body and it now appears
he only has a couple days to go. His
family has been called in and it is quite a large family.
You should have seen the smile on his
face when four of his DAV friends come walking into his room. He was so glad to see us and it gave us all a
chance to say our best wishes and our good byes for now and we will see you on
the other side. Our Chaplin said a short
and touching prayer and we all left with heavy hearts and shaky voices.
Melvin’s family is in this
writers’ prayers as the next several days unfold for them. Guess I need to get my suit to the cleaners
and be ready for what should be to come.
The hard times, heavy hearts, and the passing of a generational icon in
the tight knit family. It is always hard
to tell a friend goodbye, even when you have the time to do so. Gets a bit harder when it’s family.
16 October 2007
Another wonderful day in Burke, a cloudy
day for most of the day but it ended with a fantastic sunset, as usual. I’m not sure why we deserve this dry weather
but I’m sure it is hitting us for a reason, maybe some things need to dry up
and wilt away, who knows. I just hope it
will not be much longer as most of the wildlife will be affected by this
reduction in available water.
This drought will affect our ecosystem
for quite some time to come, many critters cannot
stand this long of a duration without water.
Lake James is now over nine feet below average and no end in sight. Funny how the lakes down around Charlotte are
still high but ours is so low. Think our
little trickle can even generate 10 million gallons of water for some other
town’s growth? Guess our survival does
not mean so much to them.
Saturday the DAV had their district
meeting at Statesville and it was attended by me and three others. One of the three is now in the hospital in
Asheville, trying to recover from some heart troubles. Prayers go out to him and his family,
especially his wife, who everyone can imagine, would be at a loss without her
mate. We are never guaranteed a time line
but we sure do have an effect as we go on, and it is the others who realize it.
Tomorrow morning, very early, the DAV van
is back on the road up to Oteen to help even more vets, with a breakfast for
the long term care residents. These are
the folks who normally do not come home once admitted, but they have the best
of care and the most amount of visitors, even if the visitors are not all
family, we are a vet family there.
14 October 2007
Another fantastic day in Burke County,
very chilly in the morning but warming up throughout the day to a pleasant
temperature; a nice fall day. It was a
great sleep in day and it has given me time to get caught up on some things,
and time for a family visit at the rest home.
The four of us then went to a quick meal at the coffee shop and then
called it a day.
Water restrictions have put a toll on all
the plant life in this town. Most all of
my new azaleas that were planted this spring are now dead, dried up to a cinder
it seems. Twenty four plants were not
cheap; hope the warranty will cover this.
Hope there are no major fires in the mountains this year as we don’t
have much water to battle it.
What is going to happen when Duke cannot
send enough water down the river way?
What happens when Lake James is so low it can not flow anymore? Seems like the lakes around the Charlotte
area are more important to Duke Power than the lakes in the mountains. What is going to become of us if we have no
more rain this season?
The numbers of hurricanes predicted were
not too bad but they were all very small ones which did not target the USA
mainland. This is the driest I can
remember this area being ever in my lifetime.
Will the winter be bitter cold and windy or will we actually be blessed
with a lot of snow? I vote for the snow
and plenty of it, we need the moisture.
11 October 2007
Folks, it is another great day in Burke
County, a bit cooler than most days, but very few clouds and a slight
breeze. The late evening cooled this
area down quite a bit and I have a feeling we will be having more fall days
than the extended Indian summer I think we have been experiencing.
Took a vet to Oteen again today and I
have another run tomorrow. Some trips
come up at the last minute and not many other alternatives, I am so happy our
community has the resources and volunteers to take care of our local
veterans. Today’s rider turned out to be
a classmate of mine who is a Vietnam Era vet who has had problems ever since
the military.
Next big race locally will be for School
Board members, and I am wondering what the feel of the community for the
selected candidates. Does anyone want to
make an endorsement for any candidate?
I will tell you right now, I want Rob
Hairfield to be on the School Board because he has done his homework and he
want to try and make our system the best in the State. With that kind of motivation we can not lose
unless we overlook him again because of dirt of the past. Let’s see if this race gets dirty like the
past Morganton city election. It did not
use to be like this and it is not impressive to see this kind of dirt.
One thing everyone needs to remember, I
was not a Mel Cohen supporter, telling everyone to go out and vote for Mel, but
I was the very active person trying to say to everyone NOT to vote for
Richardson. This was a thing between Mr.
Richardson and me and it did not involve Mr. Cohen, contrary to many others low
opinions.
10 October 2007
Well one big battle done, another yet to
come, guess who is jumping all over my website without an invitation? I wonder if he is
trying to recoup his losses, what do you think? Is this going to be the source of the next
letter from a corporate attorney who lives and works in Winston Salem? This entire website might just be a work in
progress toward a novel of mine and I certainly do not want FULENWIDER
ENTERPRISES to steal my stuff, would you?
I WONDER IF I SHOULD REPORT THEM? Naaaaaa, I just
locked him out of my website, can’t come at me from his business spot any
longer.
I am truly sorry that Mr. Richardson’s
health went down at the end of the race as I have NEVER wished ill health on
the man. He did put up one hell of a
fight but the people spoke up and the decision has been made. Now we shall see how big of a person these
individuals really are.
Campaign promises were made and now we
shall see if those promises are kept or were they just a bunch of false
promises. Let’s see if we get a new teen
center in our community in the near future and see how active Mr. Richardson is
in bringing it to maturity, or was it just a false promise?
Now is the time to see if the individuals
will work with city government to make things happen in the future, we shall
see if Mr. Richardson steps up as a “diplomat” for the other side of this past
race, and bring the people back together after such a dirty race.
I wish him improved health and a speedy
recovery; he has much to do in the next several months. I am glad this is over,
the election took its toll on me also.
Look at the comments and you will see that there are many that do not
like me and never will, so be it, they are not friends, and my friends know
what kind of person I really am.
9 October 2007
Today is the day, I have heard from a
friend that Mr. Richardson is sitting alone under his tent at the Recreation
Center and Mel is at the other with a crowd of people around him and most
everyone coming by stopping and talking to him, NOT Richardson. Seems like most do not want to get side by
side with him throughout the event, they know they have problems and they are
already jumping ship.
I will say this much, Richardson did get
more people out to vote, mainly against him, but the numbers will be much
higher than any recent campaigns.
Richardson has brought out the supporters of Mel who did not vote before
as they knew Mel would take them as easily as he has. They saw how much money was being pumped into
this race and they knew they would lose the unique characteristic that makes
Morganton what it is, envied by all.
The Richardson supporters are calling my
website “filth” and filled with “hate” and that is fine as they are entitled to
their opinions, my facts have been posted if the complainers wanted to dig deep
enough, the facts and documentation is there.
But no, they immediately get emotional and want to defend their rich
social acquaintance. I worked at the
school for six years, I know him better than many of them, and I knew him on a
professional level. Maybe I did barge
into his private office at WPCC in an Ape costume on Halloween and give him a
piece of candy, which is why he didn’t recognize me I guess.
Everyone else who reads this and digs
deep find out for themselves what has happened and many of them have seen it
before. Most folks do not have the
resources to get this information out to the public where it needs to be seen,
but I did and that is why this site exists today, it is my way of expressing
myself to my friends, and if some unwelcome visitors come by complaining, I
will post their notes, record their phone calls, and post it all here, look at
the comments.
Mel has done nothing short of give most
of his life to the progression seen in Morganton and he does not deserve to
have such a dirty campaign waged against him.
You have seen in the comments the racist comments made by Richardson’s
friends and supporters. You have seen
negative advertising attacking what Mel has done for us.
They attack the city attorney, why? Bet you they want to replace Settlemeyer with someone who they control and who will be
paid even more as if Richardson is in charge there will probably be several
lawsuit against the city within six months because of his style of
management. We don’t need his style of
leadership, it is worthless in my opinion and this is based on a 20 year career
in the military with most of the time in leadership positions at headquarters
level.
I am going to jump the gun and say
congratulation to Melvin Cohen now, as I know I can trust the people of
Morganton to see through the expensive barrage of bullshit that has been thrust
at us; the true citizens of Morganton.
Here is one big question, how many folks
have actually had a one to one conversation with Richardson? Not hear a debate read from a script book,
not hear a radio spot that was read poorly, and not hear a recorded phone call
of Richardson reading another script, I’m asking how many have had a direct
conversation with him? Ever had three? Ever talk to Mel? Enough said.
Richardson spent a fortune, lined some pockets, and disgraced himself,
and to be honest, I hope this site was the primary cause of his defeat, it will make me feel much better. Need to visit the voting location and see
what has been happening and take a few photos for this site. TT4N
I walked up to the Recreation Center and
low and behold I am intercepted by an individual who tried to stick a
Richardson sicker on me, even with my BurkeTruth.com shirt on. Funny that Jim Richardson stopped his conversation
with whom he was speaking with to tell his helper that I was David Tubergen,
guess he knows me now!
You will notice I have cleaned up the
site considerably but the stuff is still there for as long as I can keep it
there, several years at least. If you
want to see it go here.
8 October 2007
Another wonderful day in God’s Country,
Western North Carolina, it can not be compared equally to any other spot in
this big world of ours, I have been around it, and have never seen anything quite
like the greatness we overlook in this area.
One more day until Jim A. Richardson is
embarrassed in a public election and gets trounced with a 4-1
odds against him. The lies he has
been telling about Morganton and it’s leaders is
nothing short of filth in my book. Then
again, if Richardson is so well liked, why doesn’t his number one money man
even put one sign in his own yard?
Charles Michael Fulenwider has the home
on the corner of West Union Street and Burkemont Avenue, right next door to the
Baptist Church. It is a beautiful
landscaped yard with plenty of advertising room to support Richardson, but he
hasn’t done it. He could have even put
in a very large sign and caught at least a third of the residents of this town
but he didn’t want to stoop to Richardson’s level, he does have his limits.
I sure do hope all of these conspirators know that I will have
their names floating through the internet for years to come. These stories and facts will follow them
through the next several years of their lives.
I may move them around on my website but I will not remove them just yet
in case someone else needs to check on these individuals characters and they
can find MY truth on this site. Look at
the stats, they show you what folks are searching for and the fact they hit my
sight trying to look for things.
Next time you want to push a candidate
through this community and you hope I don’t take action, just ask me in advance
and I will tell you if I will support or fight the individual you present. I don’t hide things as you can see for
yourself on this site. I don’t need to
hide as there is not any gain in deceiving folks. I try to be the best person I can, I do God’s
bidding as I see it, and I do my utmost to keep my word and to be honest with
people. This is a lot more than I get
back from most folks.
The stats I just seen shows over 365
unique visitors coming to see the truth, and I will assure you, maybe not all,
but many of these visitors are Morganton voters who will see what kind of
people we are really dealing with. This
is a list
of phrases that my web site has responded to, it shows what folks are typing
in and finding my website, good to see when someone is looking for information
on JIMBO it hits my site.
I got HATE phone calls and HATE mail sent to me, I have posted all the mail, I
have nothing to hide, these misinformed and uneducated individuals have the
right to their opinions, no matter how foolish I really believe they are, they
are entitled to their word, and I posted them, unedited. Really good friends you have there JIMBO, you
can keep them, they are no friends of mine.
Here is another fact
sheet with the truth about Melvin Cohen and it shows how some in our
community will try and deceive you with half truths and plain out lies, check
this out.
Here is a very special treat for MY
FRIENDS only, if you go to the main page, click on the four question marks in
the second row, fourth column, and enjoy.
Please be patient as these are very high quality shots and each one is
one to two megs in size. If you have any questions about the shots,
let me know with a quick e-mail and I will do my best to explain what it is I
saw. Again, enjoy friends, these are
some special shots.
Tomorrow is election
day, please get all your friends out to vote for Mel Cohen as there is
no other suitable candidate, Jim A. Richardson will destroy Morganton as we
know it. We have been unique way before
Cohen was made Mayor and now is not the time to change. Richardson wants to sell our electric company
when so many who have lived here a long time know that it is the best service
around, bar none.
If Richardson is elected, our Cable
system will be given away for peanuts, which will show a big profit, and cost
the cable citizens of Morganton about twice what they pay for now, and there
will be no way to ever turn this around.
The people who make the Historic Morganton Festival work so well will
not work for Richardson and no matter what you do; the festival will never be
the same.
Anyone who enjoys CoMMA will not be happy
as that is one area JIMBO has said he will cut up into pieces, maybe turn the
building into the new teen center he has promised so well, lets see what
happens when he does not win, he will drop the project as he really does not
care about the kids at all, he demonstrated this at WPCC with his absence.
7 October 2007
What a day it has been, so much to catch
up on, and such a nice warm day to enjoy it.
For the past couple of days I have been enjoying the entertainment at
the First Annual Overmountain Jamboree and I’m just starting to catch up. Trying to return phone calls and get many of
the needed actions done can take a lot out of a person.
Again I will be able to finish finally
with the Richardson attempt to take control of this town and run it into the
ground like he did at WPCC. How many
donated houses did he sell for a loss to his associates? I could not believe some of the names I seen
on the foundation list, it shocked me they could be involved in something like
this. Shame on them, their judgment day
will come, and I will be smiling from the sidelines.
I just found a marvelous website called www.guidestar.org and it has a lot of
interesting information about the Western Piedmont Foundation and how this
group has managed their funding leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Why were expenses higher than the
scholarships they were designed to give?
Big parties cost a lot of money and travel to foreign countries not
cheap either, is it?
Several new comments;
one who is trying to act like they know something but
they show their fear to speak up using their own name, and they even hide their
phone identification. No big deal, I
played awhile, but most of dribble does not even deserve comments. Others that speak for themselves, they can
read, many others jump at emotions.
Funny thing is, JIMBO is passing my site address to others hoping for
sympathy, when in reality, if they read deep, they find the truth about the
Richardson gang.
Who will Richardson delegate the running
of the town to? VanNoppen
or Fullenwider, or maybe even the eye doctor, Gresham
Orrison? Think
any of these people have much to do to take over from Richardson? They bought and paid for him. Look at both (1st
and 2nd) financial reports and see for
yourself who is pumping out the dough.
Consider
these Richardson supporter statements: Mel Cohen only associates with pedifiles and
low-lifes; ie Yianni, the Norvilles, and the Peelers. All of
his friends have had sex offenses against them. Mel
Cohen is a low life jew trying to get ahead. He NEEDS t ogo/ And another one here: Mel's a
Jew? I thought he was an albino African.
Then the real
background story comes out: I agree 100%!If there was ever a place that needs term limits,its Morganton.They mave wasted millions uptown and all they have achieved is
to create a mecca for illegal immigrants.I
have already voted for Jim Richardson,and strongly
urge everyone to do so.We can't take 4 more years of
this crook.
Richardson has the audacity to accuse me
of having filth, vulgar language, and hate all over my website. The statements in the previous paragraph are
his close friends. These are the racist
we are dealing with in our community, the rich ones and the wanna be associated with the rich ones, who think
their shit don’t stink. I have worked
with much more honorable people with much less and much more educated than old
Mr. Richardson, I have absolutely no respect for that man and I never will.
How about this comment sent in to another
BLOG: Does
anyone remember Morganton before Mel was mayor??? There's always room to criticize, but bottom
line - Morganton is a beautiful place to live and work. I don't live downtown, but I certainly enjoy
the new theater, restaurants, shops and activities the city provides. Mel has been largely responsible for the
downtown revival - which has brought revenue to the city. Mel Cohen has worked to make Morganton a
safe, clean city with wholesome family activities available to everyone. He deserves better than these bitter attacks
against his character.
That is the bottom line tonight folks,
Melvin Cohen does deserve better than these attacks, which were started by the
opposition from the very beginning, when VanNoppen
bought Cohen for Mayor net site so the Mayor could not. That was the beginning of the plotting from
many people who really do not care about Morganton but what they can get out of
it.
Look at the facts; want to see the
financials of the foundation? Go to the
website www.guidestar.org and sign up
for the information and you will see for yourself what a poor state of affairs
the foundation was in when Richardson left, he drained the books to a very low
point.
You always hear about the United Way
saying they have the lowest overhead for charitable organizations and how
others charge so much that only a small percentage is given to the intended
recipients, well the same can be said for Richardson, he will drain the city
resources and then move on out of town.
6 October 2007
We have another warm SUMMER day to deal
with today, the heat is hard because the humidity is
very high. Maybe this afternoon the FALL
will come visit and cool things down a bit for the concerts and fair this
evening. The music has already been
playing out at Freedom Park and the day will be fantastic for those who attend
this Star-Studded Entertainment we have right here in Morganton. What an opportunity to see the big folks in
entertainment and why they are so good.
As yesterday evening grew on the
entertainers were better and better, all were great but you could see slight
differences in approach to the crowd and some entertainers could play the crowd
like a harp, they had them in the palm of their hands. Not to mention a few towels and a bunch of
guitar picks went to the screaming crowd just inches away from them. JMM even sang Happy Birthday to one in the
crowd; you could see why he is so good.
Bless that man for coming to Burke to help our kids.
I need to edit the Richardson film, it is
too large for most, but I will work on that soon. Believe me when I say, the fly is very funny,
not to mention the obvious reading of a script, he
needs to go take a speech class at WPCC.
As an instructor I would have given him a “C” for his efforts in the
debate.
If you read this today, please go to the
Burke County Fair and/or go to Freedom Park and attend the Overmountain Music
Jamboree that is going to be very special tonight, we will have Diamond Rio
right here in Morganton. Come on out and
enjoy folks, it is all in support of Burke County and our kids.
5 October 2007
Another fantastic day in Burke County, a bit
of rain in the morning and on and off sun in the afternoon. The Overmountain Jamboree is going hot and
heavy at Freedom Park, next to Freedom High School. Folks are already there and it is only 5 in
the afternoon.
I will be rather busy the next couple of
days but I will have more on JIMBO later.
I will post a video of Richardson with a fly on his head and trying to
read a speech to the public and doing a poor job at it. As for now, look at the comments,
another person is worried about my out of control opinions, they don’t agree
with hers.
Jim A. Richardson remained at the college
for 25 years because a handful controlled the foundation and the board, any
more questions Nancy? I worked there
back in 1997 and Richardson was hated by most of the staff then, and he and
many others in leadership positions were not liked for the whole six years I
was there, I have first hand experience, do you?
4 October 2007
What a
wonderful day, rain is coming down very lightly but every drop is
appreciated. We are truly blessed when
the rain comes after the fair closes and leaves before we have to take on the
evening. I worked the fair yesterday,
manning my booth, selling raffle tickets for the DAV.
When you go
by the DAV booth, tell the guys that Dave said HI, and purchase a raffle ticket
for a chance at $300 in gasoline, something everyone needs today. It looks like the Jimbo has turned it up a
notch, sending in the in-laws to do his dirty work at the fair. He has sent his wife and family to work the
fair, why can’t he do his own work?
By the way,
quite a few folks noticed my “ask me about BurkeTruth.com shirt” and if I could
be selling those, I think they would go a lot further than other items. There are a lot of people out there that do
not like Richardson, no matter how many lies he tells. Guess I need to get the word out more; even
my dentist yesterday morning said hi mother was the one who told him to go to BurkeTruth and read about Richardson.
Need to drive
up to Oteen now, may post more when I return; I want to get the updated numbers
of donations the JIMBO has squeezed out.
This election turned dirty the moment Richardson joined the race, he is
nothing but filth and needs to be removed from this great community that Mel
built. If Richardson does not like it
here, tell him to leave!
Spent all day
up at Oteen and did not get back until late, I did enjoy the rain this evening,
when I dropped by the fair it had quite a few people there enjoying themselves
in the drizzle. I left when the rain got
a bit harder and it dumped on us for a short time, thank god, we need this.
I heard a
rumor that there may be an official tax exempt organization in this town that
is getting involved in our local politics and I really hope this is not
true. There are limits in politics but
when you get a tax exempt organization involved in the politics; you lose your
tax exempt status, don’t you?
Surely no one
respectable person would ever ask their club members to do something so
unethical such as make a phone call, lets just say to maybe 75 unknown people,
and tell them to vote for a particular candidate. That would not be very professional of the
organization nor would it be accepted in the community if it is discovered
something like this occurs. It would
definitely be worth reporting to the international headquarters, like maybe any
day now? Then again, anyone who deals
with Jim A. Richardson gets dirty eventually, just look around him, it shows.
You can see
the newest list of dirty people here, the money
bucket two. Someone needs to tell
these people about this website, they need to learn they are backing an
educated pig. I wonder if Richardson
knows who I am now?
Can you hear me now? Guess he
wishes he never had me working at the college for over six years, since I am
such a discipline problem at the place, but he was trying to give me a
break. And thankless me
still thinks the man is an asshole and he has flies around him a lot.
3 October 2007
Another
beautiful day with dark clouds on the hills but not near town. I’m sure the County Fair folks do not mind
not having rain until early Sunday morning.
When ever the good Lord wants to give us rain, we will all appreciate it
around her, the drought is going to cost us in tourism dollars on several
fronts. I have heard mixed reports on
the leaves of fall in the mountains, some say not much and others say they will
be outstanding.
My drive
yesterday had more small trees turning pure dark red, but hardly any orange and
not much yellow. Many are green or a
very pale green but they are not normal as opposed to previous years of going
up the mountain. On the hill the trees
are looking pretty good and they may have some great color.
Less than a week
until the election comes to a close. I
hope this site reaches the people of Morganton as they need to know what kind
of man I have found out Jim A. Richardson to be. If he comes in, our town will never again be
the envy of any community in this state.
The town will dry up and investments will collapse.
Richardson
had the fireworks removed from the WPCC location where it was always a great
location for the most people and he hid behind everyone else when the blame was
laid out. He will be responsible for the
ending of the Historic Morganton Festival and probably CoMMA, as most every one
knows it today.
Anyone who
goes way back into the BLOG history will find out this site was created because
of what kind of monkey business was going on at the college and it was
bothering me. Creating this site
relieved my stress, caused by the injustice received because of lies from the
college to a federal agency.
I served my
country for over twenty years, I am medically retired now, I have had some very
high level assignments during my military career, much higher than a Mayor
position, and I have never seen a group perform actions of mismanagement as I
have from the WPCC Leadership. They
steal credit from the staff and claim it is a different type of delegate
management style, bullshit.
Oh yea, Elsie
Childers claimed she didn’t have a dog in this fight and I think she is the
BITCH in this fight, she had an opportunity to fix the problems at WPCC and
share the information with everyone on the board instead she went into the back
room and made some personal deals with the leadership, in my book, this lady is
a female dog.
Richardson
has the audacity to say he is “invested in this community” and he does not even
own the property under his barn. He has
never had a business in town, at least not to my knowledge, the college
property does not count, and it is not out of his fat pockets. Funny how he has not put in a penny of his
own money into his campaign effort, guess he considers this as waste.
He is bragging
that he has already made funding arrangements for a teen center. Is he going to pull the funding if he is not
elected? Is this the package that we
must accept? If he really had things
lined up then what is keeping him from starting the ball rolling, holding it
over our heads is not a very good quality of a leader. I wonder if he will get the funding from our
investment in the Electric Company our city owns and he wants to give away. Maybe he plans to convert CoMMA into the new
teen center and use that funding to do his miracle.
Does
Richardson think that our country is not in debt? Why wouldn’t a city be in debt? He put Burke County deep in debt on funding
issues at WPCCs for the past several years he was
there, why does he not mention anything about this debt that he is responsible
for creating on all of our backs? How much of the bragged $30 million
in raised funds are actually the debt he put our local neighbors into,
commitments for utilities on buildings not well thought out?
2 October 2007
Yesterday was
a very good day of rest, this morning I was off driving back up the hill to
Oteen with two other veterans. The drive
up was cool, and clouds were all over the place, but no rain anywhere. When I got over the mountain, there was
hardly a cloud in the sky on top, it was clear all over and still a bit
cool. Warmed up a bit through the day
but not a lot, still wishing for rain.
One more week
of listening to the lies of Jim A. Richardson, snake of Morganton. Hopefully he will move to another location
shortly after he is embarrassed in this next election. I am sure that my family has a lot more
invested in this town than the plain Mr. Richardson does. For 25 years all he did was ruin the
reputation of WPCC in the State’s eyes, and covered up the eyes of all in Burke
County with false accomplishments, taking all the credit from his subordinates
for absolutely not much effort.
I will wait a
couple of more years before going and changing the name of the eastern campus
to something other than a fool’s name.
He thinks his long leaf pine needle is a great accomplishment, well it
is not, everyone who retires from a state position of
that level is given the same award, no big deal. This is not very much of an accomplishment
for a twenty five year career. Even I
got a personal letter of appreciation from the president of the United States
for a twenty year career, is that not a bit higher than a CC prez?
Hope some of
you have seen the Do NOT vote for Richardson signs in the business windows of
business on White Street and also on East Union Street. Wonder if there are many more around town
which I have not seen. Most of
Richardson’s signs are in the right of way areas, meaning, not too many local
town folks are willing to put them in their yards.
Tell you
right now, my neighbor across the street put a Richardson sign in his yard and
because of it I decided NOT to make a major purchase from his employer, the
Music Shop in town. Yes, because of
Richardson, I refused to even entertain a visit to the store.
I spent my
money’s elsewhere. Last Christmas I
purchased over a $350 Amp from the same store and I was going to follow this up
with more equipment this year but not from that location. Anyone who associates with Richardson shall
wear the smell and stain of his friendship, and I will not have any business
dealings with them.
If the people
of Morganton elect Richardson, I will be his biggest thorn, until his defeat in
the next election, unless he is recalled by the people sooner. I will even consider divesting my properties
in the city if he gets in any office. I
wonder if I should start looking into other options to give him a hard time in
office.
30 September 2007 – New Website Record daily -- check
stats above.
Another cool
and beautiful day in Burke County, God’s country, in western North
Carolina. I must say, my first amendment
rights as defended by all, is freedom to speak truth without fear of
repercussions. I shall enjoy this
freedom as long as I am able. This
website is an example of the first amendment rights to pass on what I consider
as truth necessary for my friends and community.
There are
many of those who would love to cap my rights, and if they had a chance, they
would probably jump at it as I believe I am currently Jim Richardson’s worst
nightmare. He wants to play victim to my
pen attacks, so be it, and there are quite a few out there that do know the
truth, even if they are not free to speak it.
If any employee of WPCC was to speak up against Richardson, think they
would have much of a future at the college or in this community?
I was an
instructor for six years at the college, on occasion, taught more classes than
any full time instructor, and received awards as a student prior to
teaching. If I was such a problem, why
was I there for over five years? Jim
Richardson’s style of leadership in my opinion is nothing but saying what you
want to hear then get someone else who will eliminate you for starting an
inquiry. No he will not fire you; he
will delegate that duty to someone else, they will do it for him.
He will not
clean house himself, he will delegate that authority to blame them when
something backfires. Talk to those at
WPCC and especially those who have retired, the job security is in direct correlation
to being passive to their demands.
Consider this, how many will plain out quit rather than work for the
kind of person he really is? This is his
primary area of trimming the budget along with CoMMA.
We are not
blind to the statement of who gets credit if Richardson’s fingers are in it; he
claims all the credits and rarely mentions any others. He is quick to say 20 years in office is too
long but when he touts his 25 yeas at the college, what is he really trying to
say, they should have gotten rid of him five years earlier?
Then again he
is never around, he wants to get out in the community and beyond, yea, so far
beyond us being able to reach him when decisions are needed, we shouldn’t have
to send city employees to the smelly and fly infested barn to get him. He does not belong in city government and I
for one believe I will never receive justice from this individual. Hence, he is not for ALL the people of
Morganton, only himself and his personal friends.
29 September 2007 – New Website Record daily -- check
stats above.
This was a
very cool morning, went to an auction for real estate off Conley Road, did not
sell as the right buyers were not there and it was not going to be given away,
understandably so. Fall is definitely
coming with a vengeance as the summer has been a very dry time; fall will be
more of the same but with much more wind.
We shall see.
This
afternoon I helped my fellow vets in setting up our booth for the Burke County Fair, scheduled for
next week, hope everyone has a chance to come out and support the various
charities with donations or purchases and visit with the many diversified
groups in our community as well as the viewing of flowers, fruits, vegetables,
and so much more.
It has been a
very busy couple of days, so many errands to do, so many chores to catch up
on. Still a couple of weeks until
Richardson is defeated and then he will go back into
the background where he belongs. He
wants to destroy the heart of Morganton.
He wants to remove what makes Morganton unique.
Weather he
wants to admit it or not, the Historic Morganton Festival organization that has
been working hard for over twenty years, will disband and Richardson will never
find the appropriate and skilled manpower to take over. In addition, the other people in the city
government will leave because of the treatment they have witnessed from Mr.
Richardson against current city employees.
He will give
our electric company away and we will never be able to get it back. He uses wacky math to scare people. $121,625,925 owed to the “BANK” where we have
deposits exceeding this amount, meaning, we are borrowing our own and not going
in debt to someone else. As Duke grows,
so does our value in it, but not when you give it away to a friend of yours to
make all the money themselves, and leave our city in debt.
While he is
at it, he will give away our cable company.
His wacky math of $1,395,521 transferred from our own BANK to invest in
a unit that has over a $17Million dollar value is not bad. If the cable company was owed by another one
of his friends, what do you think they would charge the city for all the video
production needed by the city?
My guess is
we would pay about a million or so a year,
and for much less than that we got the same value for ten plus years, consider
what we paid for it. The payback for the
city owned system is incalculable in displaying city government to the people,
especially those who are not as mobile as other. The city would not have this freedom if he
gives away our cable system. We watch
debates, parades, and many other special occasions that we would not be able to
afford if the system is given away.
His form of
tax cut will probably include a large percentage of current staff as well as
many services we are now taking for granted for. Richardson is hardly invested in this
community, that I believe I can safely say my family has more in this city than
his does. Here is what I believe is a
firm FACT: He has so little here that he
was ready to leave just this past spring, to go to Colorado. Is this not FACT?
I am
surprised he will destroy CoMMA and the culture it brings to this city as I had
thought it was many of his rich friends that enjoy these shows, as a matter of
fact, I would not doubt that Mr. Richardson having season passes for the
theater he is threatening to remove as waste.
We will probably lose experience in this spot also.
$250,000 in
revenues annually pays high insurance premiums, enormous advertising costs
outside of the local area, recruiting costs for many vendors, and supplies for
cleaning up after such an event, as well as many other items to be sure. To be quite honest, if I was really concerned
about what was in their budget, I would volunteer my talents to assist with the
events, not cry that I’m not allowed to see their personal books.
Consider
this, when he says “I do not intend to eliminate jobs or staff.” You might want to understand he didn’t do much of that at
the College either, he had Richard Greene do the dirty work, who do you think
he will have as a lieutenant in the city
government to do the firing for him?
Personnel officer? Like it or
not, you will never get back the same city of Morganton once he messes our city
up!
I realize I
am not very politically correct but I am effective in my own way, and the
statistics speak for themselves, folks are interested in knowing the truth
about some things from other sources, sources they may trust much more. May God keep
watching over our great city as he has for so long, and keep us safe from
outside harm.
27 September 2007 – New Website Record daily -- check
stats above.
Hope everyone
is having a great day, I know I am.
Today’s drive to Oteen was a very nice one, traffic a bit heaver than
normal and a lot of haze on the mountains today. Came home after 3PM and it was only 79 in
Asheville but much warmer here in Morganton.
Don’t think we will luck out on the rain today.
Received
another comment today from Warner Ellison of AVATAR,
a Fullenwieder run company, with a lot of in between
the line remarks and comments. Just take
a look at the sight, excuse me, site, and you will see what I mean. I am wondering how all these other folks are
getting to my site as I only tell my friends to visit it. Guess sometimes some of the best friends are
the worst enemy’s.
The following
applies to his comments: Saying that a
person was looking fine is not adultery.
Spell the word “BOSS” backwards and you might then understand the
quote. The amusing names and accusations
Richardson’s acquaintances are spitting at me, on the web and on the phone,
really do not bother me, what bothers me is these people think they know JIMBO. They don’t know me, they never took the
opportunity.
As for suing
the college, I told them I would not pursue it any further and I, unlike many
others around her, do my best to keep my word, it means something to me. If enough folks think I should go ahead
and sue the college again with the additional evidence I have collected for the
lies they told to a federal judge to get the first suit dismissed, think maybe
I should now visit a Charlotte lawyer?
Who will pay when I win, the people of NC and Burke County, and they are
not the ones who should pay for these deeds, the guilty shall pay, one way or
another. Can’t hide from GOD.
By the way,
during my several years working at the college, I wore a suit more than
Richardson did, what does that say about his professional image? He couldn’t even notice people on campus with
a suit? Guess his eyes are real bad too,
what other excuses will he need now? He
knows me now, if he
wants to admit it or not is up to him.
Check the
stats, third day in a row with over a hundred visitors. Hmmmmmm, how many
normal voters in Morganton? I hope my
message gets through to my friends, and many of my old students were friends, I
still see them in the local, and they can pass the word about what the truth is, they were there when it happened. Comments?
26 September 2007 – New Website Record daily -- check
stats above.
Waaaaaaa, the JIMBO claims he does not know me,
has not met me, and knows nothing of me.
Fine, this captain of the ship can sink with it; he can’t take
responsibility for anything. I told him
I shook his hand when I graduated, his response was, “I shake a lot of hands”
which totally indicated to me, the act means nothing to him, so be it. How can someone not remember the person who
sued his establishment? This is another
fine example of why I think he is a liar.
His act of “I
don’t know you” won’t go far with me as I know him. He will no longer receive Christmas party
invitations from me. Doesn’t remember
me, why do I have an old Christmas card signed by “Jan and Jim?” Still don’t know me? You should, I will be the one individual who
will not let folks forget what a slime ball you really are.
Jimbo, tell
your friends I don’t mind posting their dribble as I don’t really care what the
foul mouth female hooker had to say about me.
But then again, I consider the source and it all goes away, a friend of
yours is no friend of mine. Funny how
someone who hates my grammar wants to come back repeatedly and see more of it,
kind of like staring at a pile of crap, it don’t get any better than that, does
it lady? You and your friends will have
lots to talk about, and if you want to write, I will give you even more to talk
about.
It is 7:15 AM
and I need to make another Oteen run for one of Burke County’s finest, a
veteran who served their country. I will
be back later with more about the past day.
Until then, enjoy, check out the stats, yesterday was the first 100+
visitors in a day. Guess no one will
ever see any of this, will they? Pass
the word, pass the truth.
Back from
Oteen, weather was warm, but not as warm as here. A lot of fog on the way up and it was still
around a bit when I came back at 9:30am.
Folks, at the debate, I sat in the fourth row, the first three reserved
for candidates and their families, proudly displaying my “Ask me about WWW.BurkeTruth.COM” T‑shirt. I got the occasional stare from the handful
of Richardson supporters whispering about my presence and throwing their best
cold shoulders. What a rush.
I was also
thanked many times for telling it like it is, no punches held back, keep up the
truth and show the facts. Some folks
take too long to come to the conclusion that all of the statements are true,
the facts are on this site, somewhere, you need to remember, I do post the documentation. I
have plenty of documentation if you want to dig into the depths of this
BLOG. Go back to the beginning and you
will see plenty of documentation on why I have a gripe with Richardson and the college
administration of the time.
I have done
more volunteer work in the past year than Jim Richardson and Richard Greene
have done in the past ten! I give to my
community not only a large portion of my time and efforts but my money as well,
I try to be generous to all, but now I need to limit some, those I do not trust
any longer. I will say this, Richardson
has split our community and I do not believe it will ever be the same again,
some folks do not forget so easily.
For a moment
I actually felt sorry for Richardson, when you watch the debates again, watch
Richardson closely at one minute into his opening statement and you will notice
the large black fly on his head. It
eventually flies away but you know what they say about where flies land. All you need to do is to judge for yourself
when you see the reruns. The fly on
Richardson is FACT. I mentioned it on
other occasions before this and people thought I was joking about it.
While you are
at it, after a few more seconds, he gets to a point in his script where someone
obviously made some unexpected changes as he stuttered a bit and his remarks
did not make any sense, watch it and see for yourself, these are facts. I think he said “A leader who will not alienate
??????Uhhhhh????? Who will not ???Uhhhhhh??? garble ??? that builds
and develops…?” Guess I would not make a
very good stenographer or court reporter, as I just couldn’t make out what he
was saying there.
25 September 2007 – New Website Record daily -- check
stats above.
It is a
scorcher out there today, in the mid to high 90’s where I was looking for
temps. Had an emergency trip to Oteen
yesterday evening but the vet is feeling like a new person today so every
little bit helps, we need to help each other, not hurt. How many of you have already made plans to
visit the Burke County Fair? It is coming up next week and I will be there
on occasions doing my thing.
Think JIMBO
will have a booth? If so, think they
will be offering Champaign to the parents of those who live in Morganton? Wonder who will be serving the drinks, his
ole friend from the party? How will he
buy the votes of non drinkers? Either
way he tries, it will not work, he is a joke.
I have
noticed the DO NOT VOTE FOR RICHARDSON signs in the windows of two businesses
on the 400 East Union developments, it is starting, people will hear the truth,
look at the stats for yourself, it is enough to make
JIMBO sick.
Today is the
debate; I hope to have the opportunity to take a few shots while the debates
are hot and heavy. I will report what I
hear, and will attempt to take sound clips while there; we shall see what we
are allowed to do. More to come folks,
I’m sure.
24 September 2007 – New Website Record daily -- check
stats above.
Howdy Y’all, it is another warm day in Burke County North
Carolina, God’s country, where most people care about their neighbors, noticed
I said most, we have our fair share of the bad ones too. Fifteen more days of HELL for Jim A.
Richardson, once he finds out how badly he showed he will turn tail and
run. Guess his group can see for
themselves at how much this site is growing, right before the election.
Tomorrow will
be the great debate between the Mayoral candidates and that should be fun. Hope I can get front row center with my
camera, I will also be sure to wear my “BurkeTruth.COM” t-shirt so everyone can
see dissention on Richardson’s campaign.
After that, it is two more weeks of politicking and then the final
count, another embarrassing show for a Cohen competitor.
I have
already posted a couple of signs in two downtown business locations, now to see
if anyone else prints them and posts them.
I also will keep one on my windshield so everyone around can see it. Can’t fight the stats, they speak for
themselves, more and more are looking, I wonder what they think? Most folks hit this BLOG and lately it has
pushed the CESSPOOL up the list quite a way. Drop a line; what do you have to say?
I went to
vote today, guess what, I didn’t vote for the guy whose mother runs out from
under the porch and chases you, the dog I call JIMBO, Jim A. Richardson has
another dissenting vote on his permanent record now. Just remember, when JIMBO’s
potential supporters visit this site, think they will stay with the snake? The voting process was easy and quick; the
folks there were very kind and professional.
If you have time drop by city hall and do your duty and vote.
23 September 2007 – New Website Record daily -- check
stats above.
It is another
wonderful Sunday in Burke County. Too
bad we have just been notified about the closing of Henredon and the loss of so
many jobs. They make it sound like it is
a last minute decision but I believe the decision of when to close was made
very long ago in a boardroom in Michigan.
Funny the VanNoppen name came up, wonder if he
had anything to do with the closings?
Oh boy, what
an opportunity for JIMBO, right? Wrong,
he thinks now that all the people will need to find new jobs, he can make false
promises of great wealthy futures with his plans for educating them at WPCC for
new local jobs with big companies that he himself will bring into our
town. Bush said there were weapons of
mass-destruction.
Guess the supporters
of JIMBO are starting to worry even more, the group bit off more than they
could chew, look at the way the big bucks are pushing, and they made it a dirty
campaign from the start. Stealing
website names is nothing short of dirty politics and this was done long
ago. Falsely accusing people of things
without evidence is nothing short of dirty politics, where are the festival
records? They are where they belong.
I heard about
JIMBO’s style of leadership that he displayed at city
hall this past week, upsetting workers with that poor style of leadership to
the point you made someone sick. Too bad
no one wanted to take out verbal assault charges against you, which would have
given you some FREE press.
On October 9th,
JIMBO will be hiding his face when we all find out how poorly he will do in
this run of his. I heard a rumor that
Jim A. Richardson squints a lot when he is lying, sorry, he squints all the
time. Also heard his mouth moves just
like “speed racer,” but in a more feminism tone. His wife sounds better than he does, does
anyone else agree with any of these items?
Drop me a line and you may just see it here.
Look around
next week, you may see some new signs popping up, I can assure you of
that. Check out the new business near
city hall, they will tell the truth.
Love the editorials in the News Herald, much like they were in the good
old days, not chopped up and cut apart.
Pickup on anything someone wants to write about, not just newsworthy
stuff.
I put up a
new SIGN
for folks to print and distribute, it is on the main page. They fit anywhere, store front windows,
dashboards, trees, poles, etc. Pass the
word about this site, let folks know that BurkeTruth.COM exists and they have
an open source to say what they want to say.
Let’s start spreading some of the truth about the candidates and not
hold back.
I’m hoping to
see someone at Tuesday’s debate, hope photography is open to anyone, I would
really like to post some pictures and sound clips. Wonder if I will be escorted out for my
t-shirt. I wore it to Britthaven to pick
up my aunt for my brothers birthday party and they all seemed interested in
what BurkeTruth.COM was all about. Hope
they enjoy this when they all come to see it.
21 September 2007 – New Website Record daily -- check
stats above.
Was it not a
good feeling to wake up to this mornings sprinkle, made the air fresh and
crisp, at least for a few minutes. The clouds
passing over are keeping us cool but it is not dropping moisture, which we
really need soon. Wish the good lord
would have pity on us poor souls and give a bit more water.
Have you
noticed that the News Herald is already reporting the excuses that JIMBO is
throwing out for why he is going to lose so bad! There were painters in the way, parking was
limited, it was on the wrong day, etc.
The jerk better start working on his speech of concession and
congratulatory accolades to the continuing mayor of Morganton.
It was funny
to see the article in the paper that said they attempted to call on numerous
occasions and there was no answer, you would think they would of at least put on an answering machine to beg for votes or
take messages, but no, they aren’t very bright on that end. I won’t doubt that JIMBO may get some votes,
he surely paid enough for them, but it will still be an embarrassing show when
the tally is over. I will really get to
gloat then, won’t I?
Start passing
the word folks, everyone needs to know this site exists and that anyone can
post a remark with me, just try it and see for yourself. No point biting your tongue, you can let it
rip with me. I updated the Top 10 Reasons
button on the first page, changing it from a document to a web page for easy
loading. Enjoy yourself.
Late night
update: I have just received a very nice
reply to my note sent to the Charlotte Observer. I have posted this letter in the comments page, take a look. Today set a new record of unique visitors and
by tomorrow the number of visits will set a new record also. Can’t stop the truth, can you JIMBO? Guess your supporters are starting to worry
about now, aren’t they?
20 September 2007
Another
wonderful day in Burke County, weather was cloudy, on and off all day but
unfortunately, no rain. I was at Oteen
from 9AM until 2PM and it was cool and cloudy but no rain up to that point. On the drive up, the clouds were covering the
high grounds through the mountains, which is probably why they look so green at
the tops.
I have
noticed from the statistics that a few folks have been reading my BLOG. I would like for just a couple of you to make
up little signs telling folks to “Check out BurkeTruth.com” and place them
around where folks may see them. Maybe
we should consider some bumper stickers for the folks in town? Does not matter how; just pass the word about
this site for the next three weeks, after that it does not matter?
I started
this website years ago to combat my anger, frustrations, and muzzling of the
truth with regards to my employment at WPCC for so many years. The college did me dirty and covered it up
with lies. The college slandered my name
to a federal agency thinking it would never be discovered. Thank goodness for my camera, I took pictures
of the documents that clearly show the college’s guilt. If I can prevent Jim Richardson from
deceiving the people of Morganton then I will feel vindicated, to a slight
degree.
I offer
anyone with a gripe or comment to say what they want on my site, just write me
and I will post it with or without your name.
Of course there will be some limits, but not very many when it comes to
your free speech. The main goal of the
air force airman is INTEGRETY, and I intend to uphold just that, truth may hurt
but truth will set you free.
Some may
wonder why I do not worry about those rich folks who are in the CESSPOOL and all I can say is, in the last 15 plus
years I have lived in this town, they have never given me a nickel or the time
of day, except Roy as a teacher. Am I
worried I will not be invited to their parties?
Never invited me before, why should they want to start now. Besides, it is guilt by association, plain as
day. Pass the word folks; hope you have
voted today for anyone other than Jim A. Richardson, the known liar who wants
to be Mayor of Morganton.
How did
Richardson find a corner building in downtown Morganton for only $75.00? Why did he sign up as an Unaffiliated when
the instructions clearly ask for it to be listed as Nonpartisan? Why has JIMBO not invested a nickel of his
own money on his own campaign?
Why are
people who reside outside the city limits providing money to a candidate for a
city election? Is there no limit on how
much money one family can give to a candidate?
What do you think about this financial report? Guess they forgot the “Buy in Burke” slogan
going around. Whose checking account was
the first check written on? Check
numbers just do not compute.
Is the
campaign contributor “Gresham Orrison” or is it
“William Gresham Orrison?” Guess “full” name does not mean the same to
everyone, especially when directions are given.
Guess I will just refer to this one as “Willie G” the mad eye doctor.
Notice how VanNoppen is racking in the bucks on this campaign? And he did not contribute a penny to the
campaign. He did purchase
MelCohenforMayor.com and I wonder how he will write that one off? Doesn’t it hurt when people find out the
truth about you when you thought it was a secret?
I saw the
jokester who wrote to the News Herald who was sucking up to Jimbo with a firm
showing of his own ignorance. If he
thinks his college education of one semester of leadership and “hands on?”
approach with JIMBO at WPCC as an example of a leader, then the poor man shall
surely fail in the real world, that is not leadership, that is a dictatorship. Richardson will lose and those around him
will feel the ripples for long to come.
Sites like this one will hold the history of this man for a very long
time. Remember, someone searching for
anyone who I have listed in the cesspool will come across this site and the
truth.
19 September 2007
What a
beautiful fall day it has turned into.
The drive up to Oteen this morning had me wondering about the weather
but I guess it was mainly just a lot of ground fog early in the morning and by
10AM it had dissolved and there were hardly any sight of clouds to be seen, and
the air was crisp and clear.
Yesterday’s
trip to Oteen turned into an all-day event.
Was tuckered out yesterday but today can make up for it. All the vets had a great need to get to their
appointments and without the DAV transportation program, it would not have
happened. Since I have been driving I
have put nearly 20K miles on the vehicle and it still runs great, a Ford
Windstar model, I believe.
Can’t wait for
Tuesday’s event, I plan on attending and getting front row center. I plan on wearing my gift from my kids, my
WWW.BurkeTruth.COM t-shirt. Think anyone
at the event will know what that will mean?
Of course, I would also have to have my camera by my side, in the event
there is something newsworthy to report on.
Initial
indications are that the next victim of my wrath will be the new real estate
agency opening up across from the Courthouse.
Dirty business people, truth will come out in the end, it always does,
eventually, but that is only a maybe, we shall see.
Think the
Richardson camp will make any gains on the debate? I believe it will show that JIMBO is not a
very good speaker after all; his girlish voice will start cracking when he gets
nervous and I believe his ignorance of what is required for Mayor will ring out
in the debates. He will embarrass
himself and those around him.
His noted lack of
attendance at many official functions and events, not to mention a large number
of business meetings, will show he is not concerned. This is not a job for an old “has been” to
come out and say, “I’m bored now that I’m no longer a big shot, won’t someone
give me money so I can buy a job for myself. “
This man makes no sacrifices except for himself,
he does not care about the others.
I think it is
time for Gresham Orrison to move on down to Florida
and retire like all the other senile old folks down there. This community is getting tired of select
rich folks trying to take control. As an
ex-Air Force Officer, he is displaying actions and conduct unbecoming of a
commissioned officer. Welcome to Richardson’s Cesspool.
I wonder if
he is the idiot at Morganton Eye Physicians who sent my son home after a
serious chemical burn to the eye, that idiot caused the blindness in my son’s
eye, it burned all night, until normal business hours, couldn’t be bothered,
just wait for the final judgment, we shall see about this when the time is
appropriate.
The most
amazing part of all this is the numbers that have been visiting the
website. That tells me that there are
folks around the world looking up information on people and low and behold,
they hit my site and find what they were looking for, truth. Spread the word folks; tell a friend about
this site, watch the numbers grow. If
you know anyone who lives in Morganton, let them know about this website,
please.
17 September 2007
22 more days
of Hell for the Richardson campaign, I’m not going anywhere. I know the Richardson supporters are hating
me with a passion and that is A-OK with me, a friend of JIMBO’s
is NO friend of mine, remember that next time one of you ask me for a
favor. Will I hold it against someone
for supporting a political position, I will in this case as I have personal
knowledge of what kind of man he is and I think he is a snake!
I started
this website because of the injustice I received from WPCC administration and
staff, and I have laid out evidence on what kind of people they are. I will let the people judge for them selves
and not be misled by half truths and lies as they seem to like to push out to
everyone who asks. Anyone who goes back
into my BLOG at the early dates will see what it is all about. I have been warning folks for years the group
at the college were no good, and corruption will be identified in the future
and things will be corrected at that time, the truth will come out.
I’m wondering
why I haven’t been offered a sum of money to shutdown my website. Think they would even consider doing this? It sure would take a lot of money for me to
bite my tongue off not saying what I think about the dastardly plot to put
JIMBO into office. Should have asked my
permission before putting him into the position like someone did with the CC
president position. I had no objections
to their selection and I told them I would do nothing further, to allow them to
clean up their act. I have kept my word
on this, I do my best to always keep my word, and it means something to me,
unlike most of those supporting Richardson.
There is no
doubt in anyone’s mind that this site is the worst thing to happen to the Jim
A. Richardson for Mayor of Morganton Campaign and they know it. Sometimes you need to eat your mistakes and
cut your losses, have him withdraw today and I will take down everything on my
site about him that I have posted for the past two months. What a waste of money and burning of bridges
this man has caused this community, we don’t need his kind around here, hope he
moves when he loses.
In addition
to getting to the truth behind some of the local hidden stories I also make my
website available to many other local friends to get their message out on the
web. My dearly departed friend, Robert
D. (Ted) Calloway needed a spot to spread the word of GOD and I gave him “Calloway’s Cube,” and I will keep the cube as long
as I keep the site to keep his memory and mission active as long as I can.
Another
special friend who is passing the word of GOD is Carl Saunders, and I have added
his Christian
Link to my site and will post his monthly newsletters as long as I
can. When sent a Christian joke I post
it to the Godly cube, take a look for your self. If you wander through the site you will find
many unusual links to strange places, some nice, some not so nice.
Of course, I
would not be complete without my military cube
and links. As a twenty year retired
veteran, I now do my best to assist with many other veteran organizations as I
can and will post anything military related to assist with my brother
vets. I have a search link that will
allow you to look up the owners of websites and also to look up an IP (Internet
Protocol) address to see who is really looking at you.
I would love
to see more readers send comments to me, I will cover your name if needed, and
let your views be heard, do you think I’m just some vengeful nut or do you think
I have a point behind my words? Drop a
line, see it here, you know they will.
16 September 2007
It has been a
beautiful day today; sun is shining but not too hot or humid. What a wonderful church day it is. I was so happy to see today’s News Herald
Editorial section with a letter from Dr. Edwin Chapman, President Emeritus, who
seems to know the real Jim Richardson and he recommends we support Mr. Cohen,
and not Richardson.
Good to see
those people of Morganton not supporting the lies and misleading information
being distributed by the Richardson for Mayor Campaign. It seems like Richardson does not have enough
money to take this election, and those who spoke so loudly about his changes
are the ones who will end up leaving town with their tails between their
legs. Wonder where VanNoppen
will go, I’m getting tired of his wasted space in the paper with useless
dribble.
Jim A.
Richardson is responsible for the fireworks at WPCC being cancelled; he didn’t
want to pay anything extra for cleaning up after the celebration. If elected as Mayor of Morganton, you can
count on the Historic Morganton Festival closing down for good as the people
who make it happen will not want to work with Richardson. We will lose all the great entertainment we
have enjoyed these so many years.
Richardson
will probably cancel the TGIF events on Friday evenings as the ones who set
that up will not work with his type of leadership. It is cooperation with so many others that
make these events work, and Richardson is nothing but a dictator and these
volunteers do not respond to that type of his leadership, or those of his
friends.
Why does
Richardson get people who live out of town to give him money to run a race in
our local city? If this does not prove
he will take money from anyone, I don’t know what is. His handful of signs is getting old real
fast, how long do you think they will be left around town after he is
beat?
Richardson’s
downtown merchant supporters can depend on not having my business; they don’t
belong in this town and ought to sell out to someone with more respect. Morganton is not for sale. Move up to Wilkes County where Jim A
Richardson is from, take him home with you.
I was going
to spend a bit of money at the Morganton Music Store, to buy my son a birthday
gift, to supplement the $350 Amplifier he already had, but after seeing the
employee having a Richardson sign in his yard was enough for me to spend the
money elsewhere.
I may owe an
apology to Mr. Taylor, who is a WPCC trustee, if what I hear is true, I haven’t
heard from him to confirm the information and until then I will be leery but he
needs to understand why I do not trust the Board of Trustees at WPCC. The Board is associated with Jim A. Richardson,
and everyone associated with him is pure trash in my book.
I heard that
Mr. Taylor was not on the Board when Jim A. Richardson, Richard Greene, Jane
Carswell, Cindy Calloway, the Board of Trustees, and the Foundation did me very
dirty, if this is in fact true, I apologize to Mr. Taylor and ask he get with
me so I can explain the whole truth about the events around my departure from
WPCC, after six straight years of outstanding reports.
Maybe some
are now trying to clean up the WPCC board of trustees and foundation, it is
long overdue. Notice on my stats that
everyone in the www.so.ncccs.cc.nc.us is passing the links for the other local
community college presidents to know the story behind Jim A. Richardson and
what a piece of crap he really is. JIMBO
knows this is a true statement too; the others just do not like him.
14 September 2007
What a
beautiful rainy day we have been blessed with today, I love it. Wish it would stick around for a few days,
not 30 but more than a day. This should
help make the grass turn green for a few days.
I regret not being able to go hear the candidates stump downtown
tomorrow for five minutes each, I would have loved to wear my “Burke Truth”
shirt when Richardson attempted to speak.
Today I had
the opportunity to sleep until noon, and I enjoyed every minute of it. It sure did recharge my batteries but I’m
still quite slow most of the time. I do
not enjoy getting aged with additional health problems popping up all the
time. Thank goodness I am a military
retiree and the government takes good care of me, anything goes with them.
Tomorrow
morning I have an early trip up to Oteen to assist with the wheelchair events
that will be held for the veterans who are paralyzed from the waist down. I’m not sure what I will be doing but it sure
will be a warm fuzzy helping the veterans as best I can. We all need to give somewhere, and I mean
somewhere other than just home, yes, that is where charity begins but when you
are blessed, take it elsewhere.
13 September 2007
Today is my
son’s 29th birthday, next year he will no longer be trusted by
youth. When I was young they said never
trust anyone over 30. What were they
talking about, times were much different then.
Today I buried a friend of my, Ted Calloway, I will miss you bud, and
your special phone calls, may God bless you with all his might.
The drive
early this morning to Oteen was nice and cool.
When I hit the foothills by Old Fort I ran into rain all the way going
up the mountain and just over the top but when I got to Oteen it had quit. Hope it comes this way as we need it ever so much, plants are having a very hard time during this water
restriction period.
Still have
not heard from anyone concerning the mystery photo that put through my mail
slot, is the young lady pouring spirits a minor or not? If she is, is this the type of supervision we
can expect on his dream teen hangout location?
So few teens, only around for a few years, get something everyone can
use, like the sports complex and picnic grounds out on the bypass.
I am tired of
seeing Jim Richardson trying to buy control of the town with his handful of
conspirators. It is easy to see where
the money is coming from, look here. I was shocked when I seen two names of Burke
County residents, but not Morganton residents, giving a large sum of money to
Richardson’s campaign. Lost what I
thought was a friend there, but that is their loss, not mine, no good computer
work for them anymore, not when they consider my opinion worthless in this
case.
I have not
seen very many Richardson’s signs popping up in yards, but then again, Cohen
does not use signs, so every clean yard is a Cohen yard, good to see so many
voting for Cohen, and not listening to the song and dance act by Richardson
supporters. Does Richardson even own a
business in the city limits of Morganton?
Has he ever owned any businesses in this fine town? He is just an overpaid and overrated child, wwwaaaaaaa.
And Jimbo,
here is another Comment letter to you and your
acquaintances.
11 September 2007
Hot again and
no relief in sight for the wicked. I
lost a special friend today, Robert D. Calloway, Shiny Head Ted, he has been
fighting health problems for quite some time and I did visit him a couple weeks
ago at Brian Center. We were going to go
to one of the Crawdad ballgames soon; we were going to sneak him out. Guess that won’t happen now, duh. Sometimes when you get bad news, it is hard
to concentrate.
God Bless the
USA.
10 September 2007
Another warm
day today with not much chance of rain, we need to be keeping our prayers
active with an extra request for a bit of rain.
Plants all over the area are turning brown, some are fighting it but
most are losing as the heat of the day is drying out the leaves. Wonder if this will mean a dry winter coming?
I have a
couple of new items about Jim Richardson on my main page, I keep finding more
data about him, and sometimes when you get flooded with data it takes time to
filter through the facts. I will get the
financials on him soon so keep watching, you never know what I will do, as they
like to say, I’m sick, no one person should say such things about a
professional, but I might.
9 September 2007
Another scorcher
today and no definitive relief in site.
Water rationing is now in effect and local wells will be drying up soon
at a faster rate than they are now.
Water table is dropping and we need quite a bit to bring it back up to
normal levels, all the lakes in this region are way down and dropping every
day.
It was a
great morning, I think; I slept in until past noon and enjoyed it very
much. The family spent the afternoon
with my Mother and my Aunt, celebrating my mothers 87th birthday today
with her 81 year old sister. My Aunt was
only there for a couple of hours as we needed to return her to the nursing home
for her medications, but even a couple of hours are a joy to her.
Can’t believe
my neighbor has a Richardson for mayor sign in his front yard. I will need to speak to him about that and
have it removed. It is a sign of how
much money Mr. Richardson is throwing around to get elected, yard signs are not
cheap. How about the posters starting to
pop up everywhere? What about the
magnetic signs on vehicles parked around Morganton? Across the street from the new city
hall?
This race
will show how much value the citizens of Morganton put on their city, are they
going to let someone from outside come in and ruin what has been built? Richardson has no idea about the
infrastructure of the city, or much of its history over the last twenty
years. Is Morganton for sale to the
highest spender? I don’t think so, but
those who put the signs in their yards will not be forgotten.
8 September 2007
What a day it
has been, this morning I went to Hendersonville to celebrate our annual Air
Force Sergeants Association Chapter 363 picnic and auction. Got back and had to run to visit family at
the nursing home, then a photo job out in Mountain View, outside of Hickory,
good band playing. I missed the great
entertainment in my own town.
I have never
seen so many people in and around Morganton in all my life. I saw so many people and cars everywhere and
so many smiling faces in the entire crowd.
I know that Jim Richardson could never pull this off. He wants us all to ride ponies and says he
can relate to teens as his wife has one.
I think the teens downtown tonight are having a total blast.
To be
truthful I hope teens do not read my BLOG as they are not the intended
audience; my target is my friends that are a bit more mature than that. I can say what I like with the BLOG and I
enjoy telling it like it is, no holding any punches, and call it like I see
it. When I departed the college I never
had a bad evaluation but that did not stop the college from sending a letter to
a federal agency stating I was a discipline problem.
Might as well
act the part of a discipline problem now, their tag, not mine. I have a very notable and outstanding career
in the military and it is well documented.
To have someone or something state otherwise is an insult without
forgiveness. I tried to get you in court
and you told lies to get your way out of it, I never got my day in court with it, that can cause quite a bit of frustration.
Now with my
own website I can let others know just what kind of snake Mr. Jim A. Richardson
really is. Funny the way he claims that
Morganton is so dear to him when just this spring he was trying to get a job in
Pueblo Colorado but they didn’t want him.
They took some other retired military man instead. If he was selected, think he would have
stayed here or would he have already packed up and took off to enjoy Colorado
and a new job?
It is now
obvious that he is trying to buy this election with the large flood of
expensive advertising he is putting out.
The radio spots are starting to come out hot and heavy now, but the
message is not very effective. His voice
on the radio sounds so flat and fishy that it makes him sound limp, but his
wife’s voice is more pleasant, but not believable.
Yard signs
are starting to pop up, I am thinking about going around taking pictures of
where they are and adding the places to my cesspool. All I need to add them is a bit of hard
evidence, and of course, I am the judge if it makes it here. So far, nothing has been refused, but there
may come a time. Again, what trash in
the yards. And on trucks too, the bumper
stickers are starting to show up.
And this same
jackass thinks he has hard evidence against the Mayor for pocketing money from
the Festival. Think again JIMBO, Mr.
Cohen is working the festival, it is his private time, he is not acting as
mayor. Guess you have it confused with
the deals that you used to make at WPCC, unlike your normal deals, these deals
are fair, when you work, you get paid.
Today my
mother turned 87 years young and is still able to celebrate with us. She and I experienced a hard life here in
Morganton in the mid 60’s but we have come a long way. She will enjoy having her 81 year old sister
to party with tomorrow afternoon.
7 September 2007
The last
three days I have driven to Oteen, some much earlier than others but still a
busy schedule. I also had the honor of
being a Guide for groups of students from the Buncombe County Schools, who sent
thousands of students to see the traveling Vietnam Wall, the Healing Wall for
many, much more meaning to others.
Exit 59, turn
right, then turn at the next right, into the Harley Davidson parking lot, it is
in the wide open space next to the dealership.
It is hallowed ground and nearly everyone paid nothing short of total
respect to these heroes of America.
One problem
is, many of those visiting Vietnam era veterans
remember being spit at and cursed for being in the military. It was a different world and this wall helps
many to deal with it. It will be there
until Saturday night, at which time there will be a closing ceremony, maybe you
can see it on the Asheville TV station.
Today and
tomorrow will be fun. I plan to wear my
“Ask me about BURKETRUTH.COM” t-shirt to the festival and I have to see what
the Richardson for Mayor booth says to me when I walk
by. Wonder if they even know this site
exists?
I used to
hear a lot of older people who say they would never vote for the person who
uses his family to get others to vote for him.
Why is he throwing his wife out in the public eye when it is he who is
running? I agree,
she can speak much better than he does, but she is not the one running. How soon before we see his wife on TV
commercials pushing the guy as something that he is obviously not, we already
know the guy. He only deals with the
rich and uses little people, ask around.
4 September 2007
Just was released
from the hospital, feeling a bit under the weather, but nothing that a bunch of
pills can’t cure, I hope. The folks at
the ER are getting better all the time, the first time I visited, I was
impressed, but not nearly as impressed by this visit. Still hurt quite a bit but now I know what it
isn’t and what they think it is.
Weather today
was nice and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky. I drove a couple of vets up to Oteen this
morning and it seemed very hazy going up but after a couple of hours of
sunshine, the haze went away and it was so clear you could see the mountains
much sharper. The drive between Burke
and Buncombe is just fantastic; these mountains are just one of a kind, none
other like them in the world.
Fifty
visitors so far today, all wanting to see what I have to say about the man I
refer to as an asshole, Jim A. Richardson.
Folks, I am working on a couple of projects and will post them when it
is ready. I am still wondering why I
have not gotten any response yet to the picture I posted of some
strangers. I still don’t know why I got
it and I still don’t know the people in the picture, do you?
Why would Jim
be afraid of CITY HALL for his debate?
The fool wants to work there but he is afraid of being in “hostile
territory?” Just think if elected he
would probably spend maybe an hour or two doing city business and then go to
his smelly barn on Bost road and chill.
That is all
he did at WPCC, he became a leach on the State System and probably black mailed
a few trustees in the process to get what he wanted. I am surprised he doesn’t have his jerky side
kick, Richard Greene, there trying to taint the system. Who is doing the dirty work?
Who is paying
for all the advertising I see around?
Who is the group supporting the asshole?
I will add everyone associated with him to my cesspool when I get it all
together. Richardson knows that I know
what he is, he can’t stand it, & he can’t do a thing to stop me. Funny thing is, it
is the truth that hurts him the worst.
Getting all this off my chest sure does make me feel better, it is
therapeutic.
1 September 2007
What a week
it has been, busy, busy, busy, but not a lot of relief. Better than the alternative of not having or
being able to do anything. Weather has
been teasing us in town the past couple of days. We hear the thunder but nothing to follow.
Yesterday a
very good friend in Oak Hill called and said it was pouring rain there. I asked him to send some my way but wouldn’t
you know, it was turned around somewhere and we didn’t get a drop. Another thunder and no rain day for today, so
far at least, it may still rain, I sure hope so.
Couple days
ago I received a picture through my mail slot and was trying to figure out who
they were. I asked a couple people and
they had no clue, as well as myself having not much. I posted it on my Burke Politics page for all my local friends to
see.
Don’t forget
folks, if you are not my friend then you are not welcomed at this website. This site is only for my friends who know I
won’t shoot them a bunch of stories like the others always seem to get away
with. Sometimes truth hurts but that can
be forgiven, after atonement for the deed.
I don’t need leadership based on false appearances.
Just how much
do you think Mr. JIMBO knows about Morganton’s infrastructure? Think JIMBO knows the history of the town as
well as the other candidates? Morganton
employees need to talk to the real employees at WPCC and see what the truth is
about JIMBO before a major mistake is made.
Consider this, ever been invited to a party where JIMBO is in
attendance? If you say yes, you have a
lot of money.
Diamond Jim
Richardson is only in it for the money, or am I allowed to say the kickbacks
without going too far? As the highest
paid state employee for many years, and I have been told all the gifts, and
additional benefits are not considered as part of his salary, because if it was
the he broke the law and the SBI would look into it. It does pay to have connections to some
places, but they never seem to get very far at the federal level, do they?
Do you have
an opinion about this man or anything else, write and you will see it on the
comments page. You do have a safe place
to say what you want, without being chopped up and changed. Here is your opportunity to get it off your
chest.
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stats above.
What a great
day it is, a bit too warm, but still enjoyed a great definition of the “Smoky
Mountains” on my drive to Oteen this morning.
Hit the continental divide with solid fog. When I departed Oteen at 10:30 it was clear
and sunny on that side, but got to be overcast coming down the big hill.
Today is the
day I became eligible for some senior discounts, I’m wondering if and when I
will actually ask for it. Vengeance can
be therapeutic when it can be taken with the pen and not the sword. Good things come to those who wait. My turn now, why should I hold back my story
about my life? Folks need to know the truth,
and that always feels good.
Through this
site I have the ability to get things off my chest, relieve the pressure of
things I cannot control. I was reassured
today when I read about the Air Force core values -- Integrity first, service
before self and excellence in all we do.
It is my personal opinion, based on my experience, that I do not believe
Jim A. Richardson has much integrity.
For this reason he is unfit as a candidate for Mayor of Morganton.
Service
before self, I believe my driving veterans back and forth to Oteen can be
considered as service before self. As a
volunteer, I responded to an emergency phone call last Thursday evening of the
big storm, with no power at my place, my midnight call to Washington still
enabled an active duty military member to return for a family emergency. Would you consider this as service before
self? Live by example.
Am I any good
at any of this? I do the best I can,
volunteer where I can, and help my fellow man where I can. I believe I have touched a few nerves that
were not expecting any repercussions.
The stats of this site say folks are talking, one way or another. Feel free to voice your opinion, send me your
comments and see them posted here.
28 August 2007 – New Website Record daily -- check
stats above.
It started
out a bit cooler this morning but warmed up real quick. Will be glad when the heat spell is over, I
don’t do so well in the heat anymore, age sucks. My birthday tomorrow ought to put me in a
good mood. This way I will not forget my
wife’s birthday tomorrow and I still haven’t figured out what I am going to do.
This
afternoon I had the opportunity to visit the DMV off Enola Road, to get a
renewal of my drivers’ license. What a
bummer, my new one is only good for five years and my wife’s new license is
good for eight years, no fair. Seems
like the number “53” is the new NC age of instability, then again it may be
somewhere around 57 or 58, within the five year period?
I noticed
that Mr. Roy McGalliard has again stuck his foot in
his mouth and it won’t take much longer before he regrets the taste. The more I see him support Jim Richardson,
the more respect I lose for that man. I
certainly hope he didn’t claim to be a soldier and sailor because of his
Department of Defense Dependent School work with the government. How can he be so blinded by the scandals of
his previous BOSS? Is he claiming
ignorance on Richardson’s “unofficial” record that is hidden so well?
By the way,
know what a “BOSS” really is? It is a
backward Stupid Son of a Bitch and a good supervisor and good leader knows this
difference. You judge a person by the
people they associate with, and you are obviously blind to the truth.
Roy needs to
understand that more people wanted the Wal-Mart where it was going to go, the
traffic will not be as bad as the High School will reduce the student load by
one half after the two new schools are online.
Besides it is all a mute point now and someone just can’t let it go,
seems like that is the only spark they have in their arsenal.
27 August 2007 – New Website Record daily -- check
stats above.
Another warm
day in Morganton, the rain has helped the weeds grow much better and you can
still see pockets of damage from last Thursdays storm, up from the post office the
apartment on the right has three trees and all of them took damage.
Local paper
had a story on the web worms, turns out that is what they are called, webworms,
moths lay eggs below the leaves of selected trees and the webs are a form of
protection to the worm like critters, expect a bunch of moths this year.
Now that Karl
Rove and Alberto Gonzales are gone I wonder who will be next? Seems like the purge is starting now; this
way they can get their claws into the next administration and not worry much
about their past as a pardon will surely come to them who have problems. I have a feeling Bush will have the longest
pardon list in history when he leaves office.
I have
actually seen a couple of Richardson for Mayor bumper stickers on a couple of
cars, sad. Of course the first one I
seen was on his wife’s SUV and the second was on an old vehicle driven by a
lady so old she couldn’t have known what she was doing, driving 35 in a 45
zone, probably his mother or something.
If both of these ladies really knew the man inside and the dealings he
has made in the past they would probably take the stickers off their
vehicles. In my eyes Jim A. Richardson
is nothing short of a snake.
Who knows the
real story behind his actions with his present wife? Is it really our business? Is it true that he committed adultery and was
forgiven by the WPCC board of trustees?
What kind of leadership do you think this is? Same people who went to all the local honky tonks just a few years ago?
They don’t drink much either, do they?
They destroyed the fun 4th of July celebrations this
community used to enjoy by kicking us out of the WPCC area, shows how much they
care about the people.
Think about
this, over 500 different visitors to this site this month and the main subject
of the visit is what I have to say about JIMBO Richardson for Mayor of
Morganton. Guess what? I really don’t like the man as I know what
kind of a person he really is, based on personal experience. People are talking and they will tell others
who will then tell even more. Richardson
will not buy his way into Morganton politics.
26 August 2007 – New daily Website Record check stats.
What a long
drive from Wilmington, NC to Morganton.
Hardly seen any highway patrol, one was hiding well, and a couple others were
already writing tickets but nothing like holiday weekends.
It may have
been the rain, seems like it rained all over the state this weekend, thank
goodness. We really do need rain right
now.
Notice from
the chart that August has been a very busy month for my site? I am almost breaking the one thousand visits
this month. Guess it might have
something to do with the upcoming election?
I have been looking into some of the site that has come to visit my
site. Look for yourself, some are easy
to tell, others take a bit of digging.
I forgot to
mention, I met a big wig from WPCC Board of Trustees, Taylor, I was not
impressed and I now understand how some of the shady deals had been made. I can never trust that shady man. Can’t believe he attempted to claim veteran
status as he is not a very good example of a veteran in my book. I will check around with my resources and let
everyone know what the story is on that one but I think he is going to be in
the Cesspool with the others next month.
Think he knew the story about what the college did to me so long
ago?
Funny how
JIMBO Richardson says 20 plus years in office is too much but he was in for how
long at WPCC? What about his buddy
Taylor? How long as that snake been on
the board? This community needs to do
some house cleaning in some very key positions, but Mayor of Morganton is not
one of them. What can one say, one step
at a time.
25 August 2007 – New daily Website Record check stats.
It is a very hot
day here in Wilmington NC and the humidity is fierce. My youngest grandson celebrated his 3rd
birthday today with many friends playing all over the house. Right now everyone is out shopping, and
tomorrow is the day I shall come back home to wonderful Morganton. Sure will be glad to be home in the best spot
in the country.
Funny thing
happened last week, I ran into Jan Richardson at a local quick stop store and
she is looking fine as ever, too fine for JIMBO. That pretty woman needs to find herself a
real man, not one of those cowboy want to be’s, he is
only a smelly man after he has been to the barn. Who in their right mind would want a stinky
representative in charge of their city, not I for sure!
I have had a very
busy schedule the past couple of weeks.
Thursday I took a vet up and back to Oteen and in the afternoon I had a
computer call to assist with, by early evening we had our local DAV chapter
meeting and then I ran off to WPCC to see my representative Patrick McHenry,
who seemed to have a harder time on this meeting than he did on previous
ones. Things heated up after the power
went out in the meeting.
Fifteen
minutes prior to the end of the meeting the power went out over almost every
bit of the city. Local law enforcement
pulled out their flashlights, only to find out their battery power was very
low. With those dim lights and the cell
phones many pulled out seemed to light up the area. Even Mr. McHenry had his phone open and it
lit up his face a bit, but not in a favorable way but they guy was trying hard
to keep going.
Unfortunately
he got to the back of the room and one gentleman asked him why he cut off those
who asked the wrong questions and encouraged dialogue with those who made
complementary statements and then asked favorable questions. Funny how the one group of people all sighed
when that was said, but if anyone looks at the video of the event, they will
see how obviously true this was. I do
understand the point of the statement but it did not change a thing, all folks
tend to lean toward those who favor them.
To be totally
honest, I respect Patrick McHenry for having the guts to get up before everyone
and take on the questions but his answers always slant one way, toward the
party stance. It was totally hilarious
to hear one person comment on Mr. McHenry not voting party line as the
statistics show otherwise. It was also
funny to hear him talk about campaign funding as he has one of the biggest
purses in
I was
disappointed that I heard no one person mention his staffer who was convicted
of voter fraud, voting for Mr. McHenry in a close race and cheating his own
party people in the process. Using
Patrick McHenry’s home address is nothing short of collaboration of this
violation of law and a pre law student should of known better, it doesn’t say
anything good about his character. What
do you think folks, got anything to say?
21 August 2007 – New daily Website Record check stats.
What a busy
day it has been, had one rider to Oteen and four more for the Bingo event which
was held today at the long term care facility.
Arrived home at 5PM and had to go and pick up my Aunt from Britthaven to
celebrate her 81st birthday at her sisters house. Now I get home and try and catch up and get
ready for tomorrow.
I hope
everyone has had an opportunity to visit the comments
page as there is a new letter posted and it is real good, it comes straight
to the point, and lays out what the bad guys are trying to do, misinform the
public, give us a dose of eyewash so we can’t see the truth anymore.
20 August 2007 – New Website Record daily.
Another
scorcher in downtown Morganton, where is the rain when you really need it? Need to be careful for what we are wishing or
we may have another flood on our hands.
Weather is getting to everyone and everything. Tempers are as short as ever and domestic
disputes are easy when there is nothing there to cool them off.
The critters
in my yard have thinned out considerably and when I put out the last dose of
seeds a few have shown up, moving real slowly.
I have not seen the predator bird for several months but the local cat
has been prowling steadily, mainly for the small birds and rodents.
I couldn’t
believe that I heard someone actually blaming the Mayor for us not having the
new Wal-Mart. Folks need to understand,
the only reason Wal-Mart put us on hold is so that no one person would be
slighted during the election. Who really
thinks the decision for Wal-Mart is that of the Mayor alone? Not well informed, are they?
Why does the
News Herald not publish their unofficial website poll of the desire of people
who want the store where they were headed, on North Green and
One of the
biggest things that really hit a nerve with the JIMBO supporters is that there
is nothing that they can do to stop me.
Believe me; I really enjoy telling the truth about how bad of a decision
Jim A. Richardson is for this community.
They can’t affect my job, my salary is as secure as the U.S. Government
and they don’t have the power to corrupt or control my pay.
I have a
property investment in the downtown area as well as paying for my home in this
city; can the same be said for Jim A. Richardson? Has he invested anything in the downtown area
of Morganton? What experience does he
have with the general public? NONE. He used to hide behind his expensive college
desk and spend the rest of his time in the barn with his only other true
friends.
Have fun
folks, go to the GIS
and do a search for Jim Richardson and see if you can make any sense of what he
has in this community. I believe he pays
taxes on a barn but not the land the barn is sitting on, strange.
Why not write
to him at: RICHARDSON JIM, P O
Why doesn’t
the city go on ahead and incorporate the corner of land out on Bost road where
the big petting barn is and bring it into the city limits? Maybe the county tax folks need to reassess
that area of the county?
I still
invite all the readers of this site to write to me, you can protect your name,
let your views be shared with others, you will not always get the local paper
to put what you want in the paper, this is the web, it is freedom here, I will
not censure you or your opinions so let ‘er rip.
19 August 2007 – New Website Record as of
2030 Hrs – 694 visits to this
site this month
Hi folks, it
is another great day in good ole Morganton.
It is another day that my Charlotte Observer is missing. Wonder why, is someone stealing it early in
the morning or is the paper person forgetting where I live. I’m sure it was beautiful walking around at
four or five in the morning as that seems to be the coolest and quietest time
of the day.
Thought it
was funny when I went to the
JIMBO was
booted from WPCC along with one of his biggest cronies, Richard Greene, and I
think the words he was told was something like “Leadership gets stagnant after
too long” and that really touched him so much that he can’t forget it. I think that statement belongs more to
I have a
sneaky suspicion and prediction that JIMBO will move out of town with two years
after the election, as most of his friends will eventually abandon him. The people who really know him are talking
and it is not what he is expecting, many are telling the truth. Had you asked him if he would move to
Bottom line
in the Mayor Race: Cohen has an open
book history that speaks for itself, he has done nothing but improve this small
town and he is not yet finished. We can
see for ourselves that Mayor Cohen has not gotten rich from his position,
unlike the overpaid
18 August 2007
Well folks,
it was another super hot day in Burke and also in the surrounding areas. Some folks are lucky to get a bit of rain
every now and then but it is really never enough. The ground is drying up and everything is
starting to show it. More and more trees
between Morganton and Oteen are turning quickly and some are even dropping
leaves already.
I have seen
several trees with the webs of critters so thick that the tree is going to die
from their invasion. Someone needs to
write me and educate me as to what are inside of all the webs we see on the
sides of the roads. I see the
caterpillars. Are they normal moths or
will they be something else? Does anyone
really know? Anyone know why we don’t
spray them? If you are driving slowly
past the post office, right next to the building entrance, look straight ahead
and you will see one of the trees that will die from the infestation.
Today my
volunteer time went to VAMC Oteen, as a representative of DAV Chapter #43,
myself and my Commander, William “Bill” Wall, of Highway 126 fame, did several
hours in temperatures that we really shouldn’t have been out in but when you
say you will you are committed to your word.
The 2007
Veterans Appreciation Motorcycle Run was a success to the extent that my
battery burned out on my camera from taking so many great photos of
motorcycles. How many of you can say you
have seen a real Indian motorcycle? They
have raised over $7K to make the veterans lives easier when the end is
near.
Many of those
ill veterans live for nothing other than the next BINGO game. Many groups donate money and gifts to present
to the veterans. Next time you see one
of the veteran groups trying to raffle an item, please try and remember where
the money ends up, always helping vets.
Those vets were there when we and our forefathers needed them; they
performed their duty; we should honor and respect them; no matter what their
financial or social status may be.
I am still
hoping for more comments about Jim A. Richardson, either way, if you support
his style of leadership, why not say so?
If you know some facts about him you would like to share, then please
do. As anyone can tell from the
statistics, someone has told someone else about this site. Pass the word on around, even if they don’t
live in Morganton, they may have family or friends that do.
You may have
noticed, I have started the Cesspool.
Should I have a contest on how to name the cesspool? Do you have a suggestion as to what or whose
name should go on the cesspool? Should I
ask the WPCC trustees? Some things just
need to be corrected before it is too late for how they will be judged, seems
like the truth always comes out in time, look at the way much history has been
rewritten.
I wonder if
“one of them” apologized for their involvement with what had happened would
they be forgiven. Yes, truth is one of
gods’ best attributes; it is restitution for the soul. Who knows what the future holds? Look at the direction history is going, see
where we are at, and be your own judge, most every person reading this has more
sense than anyone else wants to give them credit for. Are you going to let JIMBO buy this
election? Speak up, ask the hard
questions, opportunity knocking.
17 August 2007
Well it
appears to be a good start for a great Friday in Burke and surrounding
counties. Was up five this morning
picking up my son and delivering him to the Charlotte Airport for another trek
down to Miami for an eye appointment, this afternoon I will have the joys of
going through the airport at rush hour, oh what a life. J
Seems like
sometimes our lives seem to guide us into many directions and setting
priorities are always becoming a challenge as all ventures are special. I know that I have learned a lot but there is
so much more and so many different ways to experience it. Some folks go to school and gain their
experience from a book and others travel the world to experience the world and
the life around it for themselves.
We are all
special in some way and very limited in others.
Opportunities come and go and whether or not we grab onto it is our
choice. Many times the opportunity is a
false hope that only hurts us but we cannot be afraid of trying. We learn from each experience and apply it to
our future lives. The best leader is the
one who leads by example, not by fear of reprisals.
Yesterday I
had the opportunity to visit with many veterans from all the conflicts of
The heat cut
the number of participants as you couldn’t expect H.S. bands to plan in their
uniforms in 100 degree temperatures.
Even many spectators had to stay away because of the heat but it was
still very crowded and a great event.
I am still
hoping others will speak up either for or against JIMBO. So far the count is two and two, two
complaints {crank phone calls} and two letters of encouragement. You can see the two letters on the comments
page of this site. I post their letters
anonymously as I do not want to put anyone into jeopardy as I know the type of
power some jerks in our local community have and will gladly abuse to hurt
someone.
Do you know
something about JIMBO that you can share with the rest of Morganton so everyone
can understand what a gross mistake
it would be to vote Jim A. Richardson for Mayor of Morganton. Someone needs to speak up for the actions
that the good ole boys club has been getting away with. They need to learn to do unto others as they
want them to do to them, so with that in mind, I will continue to rant about
the quagmires of the future if JIMBO and his coconspirators take control of the
city.
I know I mean
nothing to them {the twisted socialites of town}, but then again, they don’t
mean much to me either. I do not care if
history changes their one sided twisted set of facts to the truth. I believe with enough time, the truth will
reign supreme. Look at what DNA does today. It will get better with time, and hopefully
the lack of setbacks, which will occur if JIMBO gets elected. Can they buy the election? Speak up!
This is your opportunity knocking.
15 August 2007
What a
scorcher today, over 100 degrees makes for a miserable day to be outside, not
to mention how dangerous the sun’s rays must be now. My drive up to Oteen this morning was not
that bad but I left at 6:30 in the morning and came back at about ten. After lunch, the temperature kept climbing
and I noticed in the car as it went from the mid 90’s to up over 100.
Do you trust
our current administration in
Yesterday’s
trip to Oteen was about the same, hot all the way with the haze getting much
worse than the past few days. I have a
sneaky feeling that we are about to get slammed with some more extreme weather,
and I hope no one gets hurt by it. Last
night I had a trip to
Stats on this
site have been climbing quite rapidly, as you can see for yourself by looking
at the stats at the top of this page. Of
course I really think it has something to do with my childish ranting about
JIMBO, the looser. But let me also say I
have received another
comment.
How
about photos taken at the City Hall with JIMBO’s
picture on the dash of a car.
You can
expect about fifty some more days of this JIMBO, with each passing day, maybe
something more awful than the one before, and don’t forget the upcoming
CESSPOOL of you and your coconspirators attempting to take over the city. It is not a choice with JIMBO, it would be a
disaster.
Today,
another person joined the cesspool, and that person was Roy A. McGalliard, because of his kiss butt endorsement of the
JIMBO in today’s newspaper, and this was really sad as I had Mr. McGalliard as an instructor and I used to have a lot of
respect for him, but not as much anymore.
He more than others should know JIMBO’s back
room, closed-door, no one needs to know, dictatorship form of leadership. Sad, another socialite one bites the dust.
I don’t think
we are in the shadow of anything, especially
The issue of
Wal-Mart is gone and not a part of the election as JIMBO was hoping but it
seems like his rich straw man support tries to make it an issue. These jerks are normally referred to as
trouble makers in most areas. The
opinion poll mentioned was not that of the news herald which shows 42% of
Morganton residents want the new superstore located at Green and
13 August 2007
Another warm
day in God’s Country, that is Western North Carolina, and especially in
If I had
control in the government I would have made Duke Power pay for the damages that
occurred downstream as well as the expense to help with flood control and clean
up. The insurance companies should dig
deeper to see the underlying cause of the floods, poor management, poor
priorities, and primary concern only for lake front owners.
As of this
morning, this site has had more visitors this month than the entire month of
January of this year, 264 unique visitors, maybe it will double this
month? I must say, it is due to all the
politics we have in our local area that is generating the traffic. Some folks are surprised to hear the truth
about one of the local socialite who wants to have the office of Mayor bought
for him.
I would really
like to hear some feedback, good or bad, and not by phone call, e-mail me and I
will post it in the comments. If you
want to remain anonymous just let me know and I will hide your real name and
address. Do you think I am being too
hard on the old JIMBO? Here is your
opportunity to say something, before it becomes too late.
The Cesspool
will soon be established and you will see who in this community is attempting
to tear it apart and make room for cronyism and kickbacks, at least in my
opinion, that is what we are looking at.
On the main page, I will post a page with the facts linking the smelly
people together, and I will explain why some of these folks belong locally and
some just do not.
We do not
need businesses in this area that tries to hurt other business folks,
pre-emptive actions will show the intent of the individual, let’s try and see
through the smoke screen and notice the facts that are indisputable. Sad to say but not all the people in this community
tell the truth, many tell half truths and they especially like to twist words
to their desires, not at all close to the writer’s intent.
In the event
folks are wondering why I am so DOWN on JIMBO I will let you know right
now. The man was involved in my removal
from WPCC as an instructor because I filed a grievance at the college and was
terminated immediately. I ultimately
sued the college for what they had done.
The college sends a damaging letter to the EEOC with false information
saying I was a discipline problem, never expecting me to find out about
it. Every one of my evaluations from the
college, for five years, was nothing short of outstanding. Well I saw and photographed the letter the
college sent to the federal agency, it is posted in this BLOG, near the
beginning.
Remember
JIMBO, you started this feud, and you must now live with the
repercussions. You did me nothing short
of dirty and your associates should know by now what kind of a person you
really are, and shame on them for supporting you for MAYOR. Just wait until I put the big sign in my
front yard saying NO to
BTW: There has already been one anonymous writer
to the comment
page; I believe they are an employee of WPCC, one who must feel much better
now for letting it out. Thank you friend
for writing, more folks need to do so, nip this in the bud before he thinks he
needs to blossom and scare us with more advertising.
11 August 2007
What another
beautiful day in Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. This is definitely Gods’ country as he did
his best work around here.
Heat is real
bad again today, they keep saying it will not get to be as bad as the day
before but it seems just as bad. Hope
the rains come soon and get our levels back up to normal, we need all the help
we can get right now.
Currently I
seem to have gathered a following to see what I am going to say about the man
who I believe is worthless and a gross mistake for the local community. Can you believe that four months ago I
believe he was ready to move across the country to
Why do I say
this, the announcement from the
10 August 2007
It was in the
80’s when I left this morning for Oteen on another Vet run, it was in the 90’s
when I left Oteen and it got hotter on the drive back. The haze that has been over the mountains the
past few weeks seems to be clearing up on the piedmont side of the mountain but
not on the far side of
Many trees on
the hillside have already started turning colors; after you get to Old Fort you
will notice more and more trees that have brown leaves all over the side of the
climbing mountain grapevine stretch. And
whatever those worms are in the funny looking web like cocoons you see all over
the sides of the road seem to be very heavy the more you go westward. Bumper crop of some sort of flying critters
coming soon.
I have
another needle for my Jimbo Voodoo Puppet: Check the stats and you will
notice the most frequent search phrases
that hit my site, here are the top six:
“burketruth.com”; “www.burketruth.com”;
“burke truth”; “david tubergen
morganton nc”; “truth burke
county”; “asheville poker run”; and “jim richardson Morganton.”
This tells me
that when someone types in “jim
Not to mention
the current average is over thirty people a day looking at this site. Well now jimbo, am
I hitting any nerves yet? Want to tell
someone to stop me? Just remember jimbo, you and yours started this so long ago. It feels good to finally get some form of
real justice on what you had gotten away with.
Another funny
thing I learned is that there are many folks who have programmed an instant
notification when this page is updated, meaning I make a change; they want to
know about it immediately. That sounds
nice, as they will find out the hard way that they have picked the wrong person
to run. I will expend my resources to
put out the truth about this person.
Hope someone else will eventually write and give their sides.
Folks, mark
your calendars for September 5-8, The
Wall That Heals, the traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be in
Swannanoa, I-40 exit 59, located adjacent to the Harley-Davidson
Dealership. Opening ceremony on
Wednesday evening and closing ceremony will be on Saturday evening. http://www.vvmf.org/index.cfm?SectionID=505
will take you to the Tour home page.
LATE NIGHT UPDATE:
Just found out that charlotteobserver.com has visited my site and went
through quite a bit, but I don’t know exactly what, think they could have heard
of BURKETRUTH.COM?
Also, found
one individual who has jumped from the sinking ship, one day I go to see who
registered the website for JIMBO, send the notice to his campaign site, and now
the guy has pulled his name from the website, as well as selected other
sites.
Some folks don’t
understand how easy it is to save a webpage.
Once saved it is sent by email to yourself and then you have a date/time
stamp put on it that would hold up in a court of law, I believe, I’m no
attorney, but I am a near nerd and know it can’t be tampered with and is easily
verified in the ISP files.
Would anyone
like to see what the page had on it originally?
Enough requests will have me posting it on this site. Any comments from anyone? Maybe I should explain why I think that JIMBO
was going to run out on us and go to
9 August 2007
Another
scorcher today, hope there are no jumps in the numbers of heat related
injuries. I heard on the radio this
morning about the Wal-Mart pullout.
Personally it did not bother me for moving them right down the street
from my house but it seems like almost everyone else thinks they have the right
to complain, and they do. All I know is
the city cannot afford the loss of the tax base the business provides to our
city as well as all the employment opportunities.
You know
folks, it is really amazing how quickly this site has picked up visitors. The monthly stats above will attest to what I
am trying to say. My top three pages
that get the most traffic are the one’s where I explain why Jim A. Richardson
is not a good candidate for Mayor of Morganton, guess a lot of folks are
agreeing with me, as I have not yet received a comment about what I have been
saying.
Sorry, that
last bit was not quite true, I have received phone calls with comments about my
BLOG but then they would quickly hang up so those don’t count. A real comment is where someone has the guts
to put their name on the product.
Actually, I think I will be getting more comments and visitors as the
next couple of months go by, people do talk.
Besides, I am on a mission, a mission to expose the truth about the
statements.
Here is the
big question, why would VanNop and Fulenwi support such a looser? I am one of those who judge people by their
associates and you two are not doing well right now. Even the Judge would have been a better
choice but I would not have supported him either, we too have history, very
long ago, I know what I know from personal experience, the old school days. My, my, my, the things we learn on the net.
All I can
say, this site will become more active as the election draws nearer. And here is a pledge to everyone, after the
election, when the required paperwork is finally filed in the board of
elections office, I will dig into the contributors list to see who was also
associated with this attempted coup of the downtown control. I will show you the documents filed and let
you see for yourself. I will show where
money was spent. Might as well let the
truth be known.
8 August 2007
Hottest day
that I can remember in a long time, feels like the heat I experienced in
Haven’t heard
from any of the JR supporters in awhile, guess they like what they hear on my
site or they would be coming after me to try and stop me. Then again, they will have a hard time
complaining about my personal rights being ignored, freedom of speech, that
kind of stuff. He shouldn’t be looking
at my site anyway, it is for my friends, not his, if they don’t like it, they
don’t have to look. In other words,
like Bush likes to say, WWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
7 August 2007
Another real
hot day in good ole
That is the
name of the game though, be young, be foolish, and be happy. I have done just that with this website. Don’t think I will ever be accused of being
grown up – as most say, I am just a dumb kid, won’t ever amount to nothin’ in this world.
Then again, maybe sarcasm is not a good thing, is it?
Posted
another parody of the jerk jim and his website, check
it out.
Glad the
Sherriff department had a housecleaning at the jail that ought to keep the bad
boys in line for awhile. Drove by the
Richardson headquarters and noticed the door wide open but not much inside,
just like his head, it was only full of hot air in that place. Want to find out what horse shit smells like
on a hot day, visit his headquarters.
5 August 2007
Another hot
day in Morganton, we could sure use the rain about now, and for about another two
weeks, but not 30 days and nights please.
The drought is getting worse daily and when you go around town and see
who is watering laws it becomes evident who listens and who just doesn’t care.
Come by my
place and see the brown grass spots, I haven’t watered all year, and it
shows. I have let my yard go this year
as I have had other priorities to deal with but maybe next year I will do
better. Right now the only ones who should
be watering is the gardens and maybe small church yards, but let’s see who
conserves.
Guess that is
not totally fair as some areas have actually been getting rain on a frequent
basis but not enough to settle into the ground, just enough to make the grass
grow at a faster rate. This weather is
certainly not the same as when I was a kid, 40 years ago things were a lot
different, and nicer.
If you take
the Morganton News Herald, you would have noticed that today’s paper had an
expensive advertisement by the guy who wants to run for mayor of this fine town
of mine. Shows you where he will spend
money, not on local charities or community events, he pays his friends off with
this attempt to legally buy an election.
What can I say, I think this man is a jerk and I have posted my own
personal parody page of his advertisement.
Click
here to see the parody.
4 August 2007
What a warm
day it is today, sun shining and clouds flying overhead at a quick pace. This morning I tried to log into the city of
This is
really bad as it is a Saturday and government folks who work in offices do not
like to be bothered on a weekend. The 24
hour folks can relate to what I am saying, they are a different breed of
people; they have a mission to fulfill.
Funny how those of you who went with the BellSouth high speed have no
problems at all, then again, that professional company would never allow their
web to be down for very long. Boils down
to priorities, who’s and how high.
The City of
Doesn’t
matter anymore, it is now 1220 and they are now back up and running. They were down for several hours. Because of the amount of time they were down,
they should refund all customers of their service, maybe a free speed upgrade
for a month. Maybe they will want to
continue at the faster speed, if not, nothing lost.
31 July 2007
Can’t believe
how many folks have been asking my opinion about the Mayor race here in
Morganton. Some seem surprised about how
I explain the fact that I think Jim A. Richardson is the biggest mistake that
this community has made, he is not honorable and in my 20 years of military
experience I can safely say his leadership skills are totally lacking.
Think about
it, how many times has he ever talked to you in the past twenty five
years? He only talks to those who have
money or those who he wants something from.
He is an arrogant leach in my opinion, sucking the state of NC dry of
benefits, and now he wants to sell out the people of Morganton to give favors
for a few rich folks.
Someone
actually said this guy is running as a Republican in a non-partisan race. Is this a moron or what? I can already see his leadership style in
action; he has spent a bunch of other folk’s money just to push his name
around. He is good at spending money
that is not his for his own comforts.
Here is the
bottom line; I wouldn’t support Jim A. Richardson for Dog Catcher. His associates will be judged by their
participation in this attempted coup, bought and paid for by whom? Check the stats on this website; the link is
at the top of this page, notice that since I started talking about that jerk
the stats have climbed dramatically.
This month alone I have set many new record highs.
28 July 2007
Well, I
haven’t heard from my special witch in the past two days, maybe she grew
up? Maybe she should look at the TITLE
BAR (top line) and notice that it says my opinions for my friends, and I really
don’t think she is being very friendly.
Bottom line, she is not welcome at my BLOG, look at the rest of the
site, but this BLOG is for my friends.
Must say, I
am surprised to see how many different people have visited my site and how many
are reading this BLOG. Look at the monthly stats and you will notice the climb of the website.
More people want
more choices, but they want choices they can trust, not money controlled
puppets. The reader’s comments are
another area that has picked up. Soon
the Burke Politics section will have information posted in it.
Can’t believe
how heated some of this political stuff gets folks. Posting my thoughts to the website relieves
my stress but what do the other folks do?
Writing your thoughts never hurt and if folks would send me theirs I
would post them for the world to hear it.
Weather
lately has been fame and famine. I have
been to Oteen at least 8 times in the last two weeks, and getting home after
5PM makes for a long day. I keep
reminding myself, it is for the VETS and they are worth it; every minute I
volunteer is payback for the blessings I have received in life.
Does anyone
out there think I should open an Anti-Jim Richardson office downtown near the
city hall? Freedom of speech is a lovely
thing sometimes. Living right in town
also gives me a perfect advertising spot, next to a main artery coming through
town.
26 July 2007
My..My..My… I think I hit someone’s nerve, calling
my home and leaving the language you did on my phone, and to top it off with,
you hid your caller ID. No big deal to
me, call as often as you like and leave any message you think will make you
feel better. And yes lady, I am a mother
fornicator, I have been married over 30 years to the same wife and mother of my
children, and we do have a very satisfactory love life. From the sounds of your voice, yours had
shriveled up into a prune, probably like your face, and nobody wants it from
you.
Got to say,
having one’s own website sure relieves the stress of the controlling freaks who
think they have all the answers. No
matter what you say you know there will be a bunch reading it, the statistics
prove that one out.
Such a
gentleman that Mr. Jim Richardson wants himself to be viewed as but to
associate with the dredges of Morganton and act as friend to the witch who
keeps calling me and saying nasty things will not look favorable toward the
jerk. How much volunteer time do you
think he has under his belt? None, he
was paid by the College when he didn’t need to show up to work but did show up
for the animals. He is worthless in my
book, certainly to most of the local towns folks.
This is a note to the ugly lady, I dare
you to send an e-mail and I will post it in my readers section, unedited. I try to push truth, not the BS you are
trying to sell.
25 July 2007
Just got my
first hate call, they said I was a sad person and they wanted to give me the
phone number to Broughton so I could sign myself in. Waaaaaaaa, I’m so
sad that an ignorant little girl called and hung up before anything could be
recommended to her. If this little
witch/bitch with the funny voice wants to say something, write to my site and I
will post it for the entire world to see, listen up little girl, no guts, no
glory.
Guess this
wide ass rich bitch didn’t like what I had said about an ignorant smelly
retired state employee by the name of Jim A. Richardson. We don’t need this kind of sad trash in our
community and I wish everyone within his personal cesspool would move out of
this area and make the air cleaner without their stink.
As I said
before, it has only begun and all the other trash talk against me will just
reinforce my position. It is easy to
fight for what is right and hard to cover-up all the unpleasant history
associated with the jerks.
Lady,
678-367-0008 has now been locked out of my books, if you think you have a
comment that anyone wants to hear, send it to this website and I will post it
for everyone to see how you try to belittle and insult me. Tell ya right now,
that is hard to do, besides, I don’t get mad, I get even, ask the others about
me, maybe I do belong in Broughton, I was nuts to work for WPCC to start with.
23 July 2007
A lot of
things happening in my life right now and it is going to be rearranging my
priorities for awhile. Family is first
and foremost; my Aunt is now in a nursing home and holding her own for the
moment. Other projects are pushing; as
well as a bad tenant I need to deal with, but life is going on.
Three
candidates for Mayor of Morganton in this election, I wonder how many voters
are going to show this year? I have
already sent my wishes of bad luck for Jim A. Richardson. I believe he would be a bigger mistake than
Bush turned out to be. I think he is a
disgrace to
Funny thing
is, now that I have started with my anti-Richardson statements, think they will
stop for awhile? Naw,
I don’t think the others in this community will allow this kind of trash to be
place in a position of authority without having some of their own
comments. Good thing the money powers
didn’t pick some Judge to try and run, hmmmm.
Folks have to
realize, the internet is allowing more information to be distributed in a
broader array of audiences and the word of mouth as well as the endless e-mail
chains have put some information out to more that would have ever
believed. Websites like daily
Who wants a
man for mayor who has been a snob at the local community college? Who would want a man who only wants to attend
dinner parties and have expensive trips overseas at taxpayers’ expense? Who wants a self professed leader who has not
demonstrated much leadership in 25 years of sucking tax payer dollars at the
local state paid, locally appointed, political spot. Ask for the truth about who is paying for the
campaign?
Some folks
have to look harder to see what a real looser the man really is. You can check the stats on this site, see who
has been visiting, do a reverse search to see who is doing what, check out the
reader comments, they will be posted.
Things will really start heating up the next 90 days or so.
13 July 2007
It has been
awhile since I have been here. I have
family that is in an End of Life cycle and it has been heartbreaking and
exhausting. My Aunt is now at Frye
Regional Medical center, she was transferred on the 4th of July from
Grace. She has just recently decided to
try dialysis, I am hoping it is not too late.
I have a
teenage son, is that enough said? He is
now 18 and will soon move to
Every morning
this week I have been up to Oteen taking veterans to their appointments. Every evening I am on my way to visit my Aunt
in hospital, and that is wearing on me.
Hopefully my Aunt will be transferred to a nursing home locally and the
visits won’t be so hard.
Can’t believe
the jerk Jim Richardson is running for Mayor, pushing his “Leadership” ability
as an asset. He is the worst leader I
have ever seen and after a twenty year career in the military I believe it
gives me an edge at judging leadership.
It is my belief that Jimmy boy wants to sell us out somehow and it will
take that position to do it.
As time goes
on, I will be sending an editorial letter explaining my reasoning. I happen to know that Jim Richardson was
instrumental in passing on fabricated/false information to a federal
agency. I also know for fact that he was
under investigation by the State Bureau of Investigation concerning his
position or the abuse of his position at the Community College.
Mel Cohen has
taken care of the city of
27 June 2007
Wow, life has
been hectic the last couple of weeks, took my son to UNC-Wilmington to sign up
for fall classes and complete his orientation.
Time for him to move to an apartment and go through the cycle of
education for a few years, I know that is going to cost us a bundle but he is
worth every cent.
My aunt is
back in the hospital and that means daily visits. For the past two days I have been up to Oteen,
one for a patient trip and the other was today’s hot dog festival for the
veterans. I served Mustard, Ketchup, and
Chili on the station I worked for about two and a half hours. Now my back is killing me but a day or two
will straighten it up.
Hopefully
time will pass soon and I will get back to my daily ramblings. I have finished a couple projects and some
things are improving, still have a stack to get done. Weather has been strange of late; some places
getting rain and other have none. Only a
few miles apart and that much of a difference is strange.
15 June 2007
We finally
got the much needed rain, but not enough for area, just enough to slow the
drought. The wind and hail yesterday was
just enough to help some of the local attorneys with some personal injury
claims, meaning, several fender benders in the local area because of the
weather.
Some crazy
lady on a cell phone got me real intense because of her driving habits. I was sitting at the bottom of the hill next
to the Children’s Park, waiting to make a left onto
I have
finally gotten all my children through high school and now I have to get the
young one into college, hopefully. Kids
today are not the same as my generation, we had a draft to contend with and
most of us were caught up in the financial reality of not being able to afford
college and the military had us. Wasn’t
all bad, and some really needed the military, I was one of those.
5 June 2007
It has been a
hazy day, warm but not too warm, a bit of sunshine and then a bit of overcast,
what a day. On Sunday we had a nice
small rain but no where enough to make up for our drought. Hope we get more soon or many folks are going
to have a problem.
My Aunt is
now home from hospital and many lessons were learned on this past visit, like
to ask more questions, don’t assume anything logical, protocol needs work on
hospital transfers.
My son is due
to graduate from
1 June 2007
Can’t believe
how fast time is going sometimes, other times it just seems to drag on and
on. The heat is not real pleasant to me
but my wife loves it and can’t seem to get enough of it. My old skin does not do so well in the sun
anymore, guess age is a way of saying it’s time to change the routines.
Here is the
link for the monthly
stats, see for yourself what this site has been doing. Don’t forget to look at the other
months. Click on the full lists to see
who is visiting. I set a record on
number of visitors and also the number of hits has hit the five digit range and
hopefully it is still climbing. From the
amount of bandwidth I have used it indicates that quite a few folks are
downloading the items on the site.
Oteen trips
are dropping off a bit, seems like everyone is in the same date ranges now,
lately it is only one or two trips a week, the five day a week trips really
take a toll on a person, especially when I have to wake up before five in the
morning.
As you have
noticed, I have calmed down a bit from the hospital episode but I am not very
happy with the way things happened, they take advantage of good people and they
do not advise them of the whole story.
After discharge I will be doing a bit of writing about the situation,
but with the Blue Ridge Administrators and the State Medical Board as the
action offices. Folks will understand I
get upset with stupidity and incompetence.
Valdese
hospital is working a bit harder with my Aunt now and she is showing signs of
improvements and no more bouts with breathing because of excessive physical
therapy. My Aunt is to the point it is
difficult to do daily functions, a walk to the bathroom takes all the energy
she has, a leisurely walk is just out of the question. It is not easy being a caretaker to two
senior family members.
A lot of
fires happening lately, with the drought getting worse it won’t be long before
we start having real problems. The water
transfer to
Oh yea, I
forgot to tell you that it sucks getting real old, when we are young we look
forward to the great times when we are old enough and now when we are really
old enough we no longer have the health to enjoy the great times. We go from diapers, to big kids pants, to
sports underwear, to baggy old people underwear, and then back to the diapers,
what a circle of life.
30 May 2007
What a few
hot days it has been. Monday morning my
Aunt went into the hospital with congestive heart failure. It turns out that
Only problem
is the idiot doctor she is being seen by and who is working with her there has
never went to see her history and in my opinion he has nearly killed her. What morons they have working in hospital
administration say it is not protocol to contact a family physician when a
patient of theirs is in another hospital.
What idiots come up with these kinds of asinine rules of protocol, they
all need to be sued until they end up under the damn hospital. Time to start paying their attorneys again.
I’m not done
with this screw-up and I will make sure they never want to piss me off again
with this kind of deception. I was
misled to believe her treatment at Valdese would be equal to that of Grace,
WRONG! Their doctors must all be morons
as they can’t make phone calls to check on their patients’ medical
history.
Grace
administrators are going to hear from me soon and they won’t like it. Oh well, I guess you can see I am kind of
pissed right now, maybe a good nights sleep and a trip up to Oteen in the
morning might change my mind. If not,
this Friday will see several people ending up with a real bad weekend.
26 May 2007
Last couple
of days have been catch up days for me, but I have been bad for not updating
the Blog soon enough. I know many folks
may not agree but I support the new war budget without the timetables. Let our military do the job it can, and make
the area safe for future generations.
Last Monday I
visited the VA Medical Center Clinic at Winston Salem, for the first time. My mother had an appointment at Baptist and
two friends had appointments at the VA Clinic.
Found a shortcut between the two and it didn’t slow us down very
much. Still we left at seven thirty in
the morning and got home about four thirty in the afternoon. Long day on the road and a long time waiting
on appointments, can wear a person thin.
Last couple
of days has been very warm for me; windows open at night and a fan trying to
circulate some air. What a strange
transition from winter to spring to summer, hope this is a new run for the
plants, not so many bugs this year, or so I hear.
20 May 2007
Guess I
shouldn’t always be telling folks how good
I have been
too busy for this boys' likens, and will be glad when I can get caught up a
bit. Right now I am overdue for a
computer call but what can I say, I’m waiting for the phone call, they too had
plans for today. Have to do what we
can, when we can.
Saturday was
a trip to
15 May 2007
Another wonderful
and blessed day in Burke County. The day
started out a bit chilly but it warmed up very well. Several DAV members spent the day at Oteen
playing BINGO with the residents of the Veterans Nursing home. I had the honor of calling the numbers and we
have a couple dozen happy vets by the time we had finished and then they were
served a snack by the DAV ladies auxiliary.
Yesterday’s
trip up the mountain was equally as good, my rider had wonderful news that they
did not have the disease they were suspected of having. It is fantastic to hear good news once in
awhile instead of having to accept the reality of it not always being so
great. Small blessings are sometimes
overlooked in this world.
Was shocked
to hear the excuse used when a politician’s hired worker is caught
committing a felony, registering and voting when they are not a resident of the
area. To even hear someone say it was
politically motivated, duhhhhh, it was also against
the law. What do you think of an attorney
from
12 May 2007
Ouch, it has
been too long, what a week it has been.
Today is catch‑up day for me, I forgot to put whatever I was
scheduled for on my schedule and my memory is not quite what it used to be so I
forgot what it was. That opens up my day
to something else. Catch up with all the
many, many things that I am behind on.
Many projects to progress on that are long overdue.
Monday
started out great with a trip to Oteen that didn’t start until ten in the
morning. Tuesday and Wednesday the trips
started at 0530, oh tooooo early, but those days make
for a good breakfast of biscuit, eggs, taters, and gravy early in the morning
at the cafeteria in the basement of the hospital. There are assorted vets everywhere, all in
great spirits and all smiling for the most part. We all share a common bond and it brings out
an especially strong ESPIRIT-DE-CORPS.
Thursday was
a sleep catch‑up day and I didn’t wake up until after 2 in the afternoon,
I was plumb tuckered out. My favorite
son‑in‑law was visiting on Wednesday evening but I didn’t get back
in until late so I missed most of his visit, he was gone early on
Thursday. Then I went into rush mode and
ran to deliver a canopy only to find out I was a week early. These senior moments are getting funnier all
the time, ;~).
Friday turned
into a family business day, trying to catch up on items that I’m behind on, and
still I missed a biggie, but I take care of that on Monday when I get back from
Oteen, I hope.
Know anyone
wanting a commercial location with lower rent than they pay now? I can give a friend a very good opportunity
to get in initially. 1200 square feet
ready to be made into anything, office space of any kind, retail space, just
about anything short of a porn store.
Super Wal-Mart
would have been a sign of growth in this community but too many narrow minded
folks just couldn’t stand someone getting something they couldn’t catch a part
of, meaning it didn’t put anything in their pockets. All their petty complaints were truly unjustified. We could have used those tax dollars it would
have generated.
Security,
what a joke, we have an outstanding law enforcement group in this community and
they can handle anything, including a super center. Can’t compare our city to the ones where
crime is high anyway. Poor excuse.
Too close to
the school is another joke, who will want to go shopping when they know the
traffic is going to be heavy? Besides,
the school traffic is bad very early in the morning when shopping is a minimal
and when school lets out; it is cleared up in about twenty to thirty minutes
anyway. Poor excuse.
Traffic is a
factor but it will be a factor anywhere, the normal store on highway 64 has
major traffic problems now, it would not be any worse on 181.
News Herald
is looking better and better every day now that the previous non local managers
are gone and a local is running things.
It is great they now let the local folks voice their opinions without
being chopped up in their writings. Keep
up the good work and the local information is getting better all the time.
2 May 2007
Another
wonderful day in
Sad to see
today’s newspaper talking about the attack on our elected School Board member,
and if something is done against her, it will be reflected in the next election
with a complete sweep of the board, wait and see. Too many family members being protected from
routine actions and exception to policy granted for those who do not deserve
the exceptions.
The East
Burke Assistant Coach diabolical will never come clean and the board will
suffer for this cover-up. This incident
was handled very poorly and someone will need to atone for the wrong
doing. Let’s see what happens to the
four slots that are coming up in the next election. My prediction is at least 2 will be replaced
and the other two may also fall, who knows, we shall see, won’t we?
1 May 2007
Here is the
link for the monthly
stats, see for yourself what this site has been doing. Don’t forget to look at the other
months. Click on the full lists to see
who is visiting. There have been quite a
few countries hitting the site as well as our federal government. I still know a few folks in the system and it
is always great to see them looking at what I am up to.
28 April 2007
It has been a
great day with an occasional gray cloud passing through but no rain during the
day. I was out mowing the lawn this
afternoon after a great sleep in this morning, actually, early afternoon. Watered the 24 new azaleas we had planted
last weekend and they seem to be doing well.
Time to get things done, right.
Wonder if the
cold is gone for good now and we can expect more warm days? I know the days are going to be heating up as
there is an election coming up and there is going to be a change in quite a few
offices, which is assured. Yea, you can
say you heard it here first, Dave’s prediction on the election, more than a 50%
shift in policy deciders.
From the
interstate it is hard to see the fire but it is burning well. Here are shots from Thursday afternoon:
On Friday
morning it was still burning but we couldn’t see it because of the fog in the
morning but when we returned in the afternoon it was still burning but it moved
quite a bit down the mountain. Rain
helped but did not stop the fire, it is still smoking.
Now what do
you think of the pictures? Any good or
worth seeing?
Many folks
don’t realize that most of the silent majority of Americans support the war
effort and don’t appreciate a time table to bring troops home. Sounds too much like the Vietnam war. Does
26 April 2007
It has been a
pretty cloudy day with an occasional sun burst but it became very threatening
in the late afternoon. Wonder if we will
see any rain, we need it, the plants need it, and it will be great to wash the
pollen from the air.
I have been
wondering why no one has said much about the forest fire in the gorge near Tablerock. I took a
few shots yesterday and today when I drove by it seems like it has grown a bit
and moved further down into the gorge.
When I make my trip tomorrow to Oteen I will look again to see what it
has done and let folks know.
Tonight is
the DAV monthly meeting and there is a lot of business we need to take care
of. We will be sending Representative
Patrick McHenry a message about H.R. 1318, which will reinstate the ban against
attorneys representing Veterans to the VA for a fee up to 20% of the veterans’
entitlements/pension. In my book only a
coward would do that to a veteran but we shall see how far this issue goes.
Hope they
catch the BOY who left the bomb threat at East Burke and put him in a lock up
for doing such a cowardly and unforgiving act.
People could have been hurt by this action, as well as the mass
confusion it created in the Eastern part of the county, as well as the disruption
in the entire school system, and the costs associated with event.
Has anyone
else noticed the News Herald is doing much better in the editorial area? I am glad they are giving an outlet to those
who live in the community. If not in the
editorial pages then where?
25 April 2007
I have got to
say that this morning has been a beautiful morning, sun shining, a slight
breeze, and no clouds in the area.
Keeping busy with a lot of Pith Ants biting harder and harder, little
buggers are a real pain sometimes. The
wife and I went to a volunteer awards banquet in
Can’t believe
the School board is trying to attack Tracy Norman for her actions while on the
board, but they are going to have a hard fight.
Wait until this fall when the incumbents are all voted out for their
actions. After what they did with the
East Burke thief and then punishing the student for taking action, which is
just plain wrong and the board members are going to pay the price.
Have two
commercial rental locations in case you know anyone wanting to relocate their
business to a great location in town, less than three blocks from the
courthouse, either one, old or new. Who
knows what is going into them?
I have an
Oteen trip early in the morning so I may not make it back to BLOG in time. I have noticed the News Herald has changed
the editorial section and we are starting to see more items in the editorial, outstanding,
it doesn’t matter what they say, it is a sounding board for the locals and we
like it.
Recently I
went to a few military funerals and it brings back old memories when I was in
charge of a burial team while assigned to
By the way,
if I haven’t said it before, I will say it now, AGE SUCKS! Yes, I will sure be glad when someone bright
develops a cure for that dreadful disease.
Have a great day folks.