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"A school board meeting is not a public forum. ... I didn't sign up to be here until 1, 12:30 in the morning."
-- County school board member Stacey Caldwell, who did not sign up but was elected by fellow citizens, complaining about public comments at recent board meetings due to growing citizen engagement
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School Board indecision
suggests tyranny will prevail
Children masked pawns once more?
The Moore County School Board voted August 2 to delay a decision on its indoor mask policy for the coming academic year, despite strong recommendations from two school staffers that masks be required to minimize student absences during Wuhan virus imposed quarantines. "If masks are not required we will see more quarantines," said Dr. Seth Powers, director for student support services. "I have no doubt in my mind."
There were no references in the presentations to well documented research demonstrating that children rarely are infected or transmit the virus. There was no discussion about the psychological or respiratory harm masks impose on children, especially the very young.
Board chair Libby Carter, who is supporting a pro-mask petition via her personal Facebook page, abruptly said attendees of the August 9 regular board meeting (in which public comments are welcome) would be required to be masked. She quickly retracted the statement, saying, "I guess we will know later today (when an optional vote was on the meeting agenda)."
Carter further tipped her hand by noting as an aside that her grandchildren are back in public school in Lee County, where masks are required, and they "wear their masks quite happily every morning."
School boards appear to be bowing, in some cases, to Gov. Roy Cooper's sudden reversal on masks for K-12 students. In his July 29 press conference Cooper and his NC Department of Health and Human Services recommended that school districts require universal masking of students, staff and employees, regardless of their vaccination status (emphasis added).
This guidance falls in line with the CDC's latest mask guidance reversal issued July 27 -- vaccinated people should wear masks indoors in parts of the U.S. where Wuhan virus cases are growing. The CDC also recommended masks be worn indoors for all teachers, staff, students and visitors to schools, again, regardless of vaccination status.
As reported by CarolinaJournal.com, in the past week 19 North Carolina school districts have acted in favor of liberty by voting to make masks optional, leaving decisions up to parents, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Education NC. Read more.
Board chair enacts authority
to limit public comments
How does the chair of the Moore County School Board react to public outrage toward confining board meetings to a limited capacity meeting room in Carthage?
Libby Carter announced August 2 that the board's regular business meeting August 9 will be moved to the auditorium at Union Pines High School. Good news? It was until she decreed that a long ago discarded policy would be enforced effective immediately, which means that public comments will be cut off after 60 minutes. At the July meeting, public comments consumed three hours. Several board members have complained that they do not wish to be subjected to the concerns expressed by taxpayers and those who voted them into office.
So where do we stand? Fill the Union Pines auditorium if you must on Aug. 9 but free speech will be cut off in the 61st minute. According to social media traffic, a large rally is expected at Union Pines High School ahead of the Aug. 9 meeting.
"Try cutting people off," said board member Bob Levy. "You will have chaos."
Carter anticipated the fall out by accusing fellow board member David Hensley in advance of using his forum on WEEB radio (Tuesdays at 8:30) to advise the public that "Carter wants to shut down public comment". She indicated that she will absorb criticism because "we have business to conduct". And has for public comments, said member Stacey Caldwell, "I didn't sign up to be here until 1, 12:30 in the morning."
A Loudoun County (Virginia) board meeting not long ago in which public comments were terminated dissolved quickly. Attendees shut down the meeting.
War on freedom returns under guise of ginned up Wuhan 'variant'
The CDC is clearly concerned that it's losing the PR war to convince Americans that they must mask up and get vaccinated. Because less than a week after declaring that it would revive its mask mandate, the CDC has just pulled a classic media trick: turning the fearmongering nob up to '11' by leaking an "internal report" that supports the official narrative (even making it look like the more moderate of two options) while laundering the source of the information by allowing a (formerly) reputable news organization to market the story as an "exclusive".
The thing to remember here is that this data is already dated. The story readily admits the presentation was circulated months ago. Former FDA head Dr. Scott Gottlieb has highlighted data suggesting that the US outbreak will follow a similar trajectory as delta-driven outbreaks in the UK and Europe. The pattern is already most obvious in states like Missouri, one of the original hotbeds for the delta outbreak.
Meanwhile, weeks of increasingly apocalyptic statements by CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky as well as Dr. Anthony Fauci, accompanied by little to no evidence, finally came to a head in the last few days. Their concerns and statements regarding the Delta variant of COVID-19, coupled with reversing health policy and guidance, were finally met with calls to see the data leading to these conclusions. On Tuesday, Dr. Walensky made a statement urging a return to mitigation by masking, citing data – which she did not cite or release at the time – that the Delta variant resulted in a higher viral load, more severe disease than the original strain, and caused vaccinated individuals to be just as infectious as the unvaccinated. (Source: ZeroHedge).
CDC’s own math proves vax mandates,
re-masking is completely anti-science
The CDC’s own math proves just how stupid and anti-science CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky’s (AKA, Dr. Hot Mess) new mask mandates are for those of us who are vaccinated.
These numbers also show how absurd the fascist left’s rolling vaccine mandates are. See graph below. The variant's spread quickly declines after peaking. (Source: Johns Hopkins)
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Board impasse on Land Trust
land heist remains after debate
The schools of thought within the Moore County School Board on what to do with 17 acres of land in Southern Pines continue to vary dramatically.
Board member David Hensley believes the land can be sold to the highest bidder for north of $1 million.
Bob Levy advises the school board should keep the land and use it for future educational needs.
Libby Carter, the board chair, views the former site of the Southern Pines Primary as "surplus property" and says the debate has dragged on too long.
The item will be on the agenda during a Aug. 9 regular business meeting.
The Southern Pines Land Trust, which has been pursuing the property since late 2019, believes it is entitled to buy the parcel at appraised value. It currently has offered $685,000. Hensley suspects the Trust desires to buy the property at a bargain price then seek commercial re-zoning, which would increase the value dramatically. The Trust bid was unsolicited, as was a subsequent bid by local home builder Ron Jackson for $900,000.
Re-zoned, the land "would be valued at $500,000 per acre, Hensley said. "They're trying to purchase it for $25,000 per acre. ... By selling it to SPLT, each one of you is leaving $1.4 million on the table."
Levy contends selling the land to the Trust will merely "perpetuate segregation" in west Southern Pines because its plans include an African-American history museum and recreation center in what is principally a black community.
Hensley said failure to sell the property for fair market value will make the board vulnerable to lawsuits by citizens enraged that funds for school improvements will have slipped away.
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About Southern Pines Primary School:
One of nearly 5,000 rural schoolhouses, modest one-, two-, and three-teacher buildings known as Rosenwald Schools, built between 1917-1932. They came to exclusively serve more than 700,000 black children over four decades. It was through the shared ideals and a partnership between Booker T. Washington, an educator, intellectual and prominent African American thought leader, and Julius Rosenwald, a German-Jewish immigrant who accumulated his wealth as head of the behemoth retailer, Sears, Roebuck & Company, that Rosenwald Schools would come to comprise more than one in five black schools operating throughout the South by 1928. (Source: Smithsonian Magazine, March 2021)
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GOP Men's Club's
2021 golf fundraiser
closes in on sell-out
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To help our Republican candidates stay on course in 2021 and '22, the Moore County Republican Men's Club is hosting its 25th annual golf fundraiser on an unrivaled course, the Dogwood at The Country Club of North Carolina, on August 30. The challenging Dogwood recently was the venue for the 73rd U.S. Junior Amateur Championship.
Your participation on August 30 also gives you an opportunity to join the club in honoring local first responders -- 32 guests from the ranks of law enforcement, fire and rescue and EMS playing as eight foursomes.
On a trial separation from golf?
Alternative activities:
- Fitness center
- Fishing by the lake
- Swimming pool
- Tennis
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Afraid of freedom
By Steve Woodward
The Left is mounting a new surge in the war on freedom. First, China unleashed a manageable virus that the Left declared was a pandemic that would slaughter civilization. More than a year later, the Left has unleashed a "variant" of the deadly manageable virus. Their compliant foot soldiers are donning masks and trembling yet again. It's like old times. Read more.
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Trusted sources
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American Greatness: A content rich news and analysis site featuring many of the nation's leading observers of the war on our values, including the great Victor Davis Hanson. Read his latest, Democrats No More.
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The Epoch Times: A comprehensive print and digital news publication (some content requires a subscription) with roots in opposing human rights abuses in Communist China. It's investigative reporting is second to none. On July 6, Epoch TV released a documentary entitled, America Rewritten
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Also:
Jamie Boles' weekly newsletter: Contact Alison Johnson to subscribe (alison.johnson@ncleg.gov)
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A time will come for
Americans to stand up
About 47 percent of Republicans believe that a time will come when “patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands,” according to a George Washington University poll on Americans’ faith in election systems and democratic values.
The GW Politics Poll, conducted among more than 1,700 registered voters from June 4 to June 23 and released this week, found that support for principles like free and fair elections, free speech and peaceful protest were nearly unanimous among Democratic and Republican voters.
Approximately 55 percent of GOP respondents, however, said they support the potential use of force to preserve the “traditional American way of life,” compared to just 15 percent of Democrats.
Only 9 percent of Democrats agreed with the statement that "a time will come when patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands."
(Source: TheHill.com, July 30, 2021)
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“So now it’s my fault that the Biden administration hasn’t hit its COVID vaccination goal. It’s my fault that Biden is failing. That’s on me. I did the right thing and got vaccinated, and now he wants to punish me for it because some other people didn’t get vaccinated. I’m supposed to start wearing a mask again because somebody somewhere did a study, and some bureaucrat saw it and flew into a panic."
Political pundit and blogger Jim Treacher writing July 30, 2021.
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Conservative Summer Social |
A Conservative Summer Social
Co-hosted by:
Moore Republican Women
Moore Co. Republican Men's Club
Thursday, August 12
7 - 9 pm
The Country Club of North Carolina
Cash bar. Coffee and cookies.
Mix and mingle with local candidates for office in 2021 and 2022
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Moore Republican Women
Summertime Brunch
WEDNESDAY
10:30 am
The Country Club of North Carolina
Speaker:
Dean Jones, filmmaker
A 30-year Hollywood filmmaker and Emmy Award winner who thrived but never betrayed his Conservative values
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The 66th Robbins
Farmers Day Parade
THIS SATURDAY
11 am
Tractors Parade
4 pm
Carnival Rides & Midway
9 am - Midnight
Visit our Moore GOP tent
Middleton Street
Robbins
Also:
Gospel on The Depot State
Thursday, August 5
6:30 - 9 pm
Live on The Depot Stage
Friday, August 6
6:00 pm - Midnight
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Foundation for Applied
Conservative Leadership
Political Leadership School
THIS Saturday
9 am - 5:30 pm
Phoenix Global Support HQ
2847 Bridgewood Dr., Fayetteville
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Moore County
Republican Men's Club
Annual Golf Fundraiser
The Reburn Memorial
Mon., Aug. 30, 2021
CCNC
8:30 am shotgun start
ticket packages
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James E. Houlshouser Jr.
Speaker Series
Inaugural live event
Thursday, September 9
Remembering Gov. Houlshouser
Bradshaw Performing Arts Center
Sandhills Community College
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HOW YOU CAN HELP AS A VOLUNTEER: Complete a new survey to align your skills with GOP objectives going forward to help restore our liberties. Volunteer today
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Candidate roster finalized
for 2021 municipal elections
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District court judge Michael Stading (NC-26), a 2022 candidate for the state Court of Appeals, visited Pinehurst July 28. The military veteran was interviewed during a stop at WEEB, then participated in a Q&A at The Market Place restaurant, where owner Luke Black (at right) is always a gracious host. To donate to the Stading campaign, click here.
Below: A classic sentiment straight out of the Bidenese dictionary.
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Those in the know know ...
JD and Maureen have a show
John Zumwalt and Maureen Krueger keep us focused on government overregulation and abuse during their new WEEB Sunday 1 p.m. show, an hourlong discussion of local and statewide issues, some well known, others uncovered by the co-hosts.
If your golf tee times or Sunday brunch rituals conflict, fear not. Go to weeb990.com. Click on Podcasts on the lefthand navigation. Scroll to the John and Maureen Show. Click on the show you wish to hear. Click here.
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