I n a lame effort to convince the NIGRA community that the Klaremont Kommunity Kouncil is not racist, Reverend Michael Tolbert was allowed to deliver the opening prayer at the March Kouncil meeting. Rev. Tolbert is the pastor of Liberty Hill Baptist church. Mike was also allowed to tidy up the Kouncil chambers after the meeting.
Which store is more economical, LOWE’S or FOOD LION? We have heard claims both ways. Well, YOUR CowPattie set out to settle the argument. We made a random list of 18 commonly bought items consisting of both store brands and national brands for comparison. Since LOWE’S has no regular prices and uses deceptive marketing practices, we decided to use the POSTED REGULAR PRICES… not sale prices. Both stores were shopped during the same day. Fresh meat was not included. Lets take a look-see:
CLAREMONT — Claremont police are searching for the man who robbed the New Panda restaurant in Claremont at gunpoint at about 2:15 p.m. Tuesday.
According to witnesses, the man walked into the restaurant then left without ordering food. He returned a few minutes later, threatened the clerk with a black pistol and demanded money, said Capt. Gary Bost of the Claremont Police Department.
The victim cooperated and gave the thief a small, but undisclosed, amount of cash, Bost said.
Three restaurant employees were working at the New Panda when it was robbed. No customers were inside, and no one was hurt during the robbery.
The suspect was described as a white male about 30 to 40 years old with a moustache and wearing a gray T-shirt. He weighs about 150 pounds – maybe more, Bost said.
He was last seen driving a green Jeep Cherokee toward Interstate 40.
The Catawba County Sheriff’s Office, the Highway Patrol and the Hickory Police Department helped Claremont police search for the gunman along I-40 and throughout the county.
“We’re getting great cooperation,” said Claremont Chief Gerald Tolbert.
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NOTE: What makes this robbery so stupid is the New Panda restaurant probably takes in less than $50 a day. The fellow would have gotten more money robbing a school bus load of kids for their lunch money.
Oh, yeah. Forgot to mention…. we stole this article from the Hickory Daily Has-Been.
No evidence of “intercourse” or “sexual experiments”
Not sure about the US but he has heard “rumours”
RUSSIAN or Soviet cosmonauts never had sex in space in the 50 years of human exploration of the cosmos. And that’s official, according to a Russian expert. As for Americans, well, you’d better ask them.
“There’s no official or unofficial evidence that there were instances of sexual intercourse or the carrying out of sexual experiments in space,” Valery Bogomolov, deputy director of the Moscow-based Institute of Biomedical Problems told the Interfax news agency.
“At least, in the history of Russian or Soviet space exploration this most certainly was not the case,” said Bogomolov.
Rumours have persisted for years of secret Russian and American programs to test the effects of weightlessness on sex but this has always been strongly denied by both sides.
“As for American space exploration, well, I just don’t have the information to categorically deny that,” said Bogomolov. “There are just anecdotal rumours which are not worth trusting,” he added.
Dee Dee Jonrowe, leading the Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon in January in northern Minnesota, took a wrong turn and went 300 yards before recognizing her error. The mistake cost her only a few minutes, but stopping to calculate where she was allowed her team to have an unsupervised rest, and by the time she was ready to turn the sled around, two of her dogs had begun to copulate. She was forced to wait on them for 25 minutes and lost the lead. [Duluth News Tribune]
Lucas Kocab, 31, was arrested in Medina, Ohio, and charged with “persistent disorderly conduct” after an incident that he attributed to having snorted “bath salts.” Kocab had called police to help him evict the “30” intruders in his home, and although none were found, Kocab insisted that the intruders were merely making it seem like they were not there and that they were actually blending into the surroundings, disguised as chairs or trees. Police said they were forced to Taser Kocab because he would not stop running in circles and yelling. The police examined the “bath salts” and determined that the substance is not illegal in Ohio. [Medina Gazette,]
Anyone who reads Chapter 7 of Agenda 21 and then reads his local comprehensive land-use plan will immediately recognize that most of the provisions of the local land-use plan come directly from Agenda 21. More often than not, the elected officials who adopt these plans have never read Agenda 21, and many have never even heard of the U.N. document, signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992.
The facilitators and professional planners have heard about Agenda 21, but frequently claim that the plan they are working on has nothing to do with the U.N. or Agenda 21. Don’t believe it for one minute.
Gary Lawrence, former director of the Center for Sustainable Communities at the University of Washington, and chief planner for the city of Seattle, told an audience in London:
In the case of the U.S., our local authorities are engaged in planning processes consistent with LA21 [Local Agenda 21], but there is little interest in using the LA21 brand. … So, we call our processes something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management or smart growth.
In community after community, the same scenario is repeated. The federal government, through the EPA or the Department of Commerce or the Department of Interior, offers special grants to communities for the purpose of developing a vision for a greener future and a plan to convert the vision into reality.
Typically, the local government will find a private consultant to “facilitate” the process. The facilitator will identify a local “steering committee,” carefully chosen from people who represent various segments of the community, all of whom are known in advance to be sympathetic to the goals of Agenda 21.
Typically, the advisory group will meet in private to lay out the framework for the process and the goals for the finished product. When this is achieved, public meetings are scheduled to give the appearance of public input and ownership. Rarely are these meetings ever publicized adequately to attract the private-property owners who are most directly affected. Care is taken to see that members of local environmental organizations and social-justice organizations constitute the majority of attendees.
These public meetings are said to be “the visioning process.” The procedures vary slightly from community to community, depending upon the facilitator. Remarkably, however, the “vision” in every community contains essentially the same elements: restricted auto traffic; bike trails; walkable neighborhoods; integrated housing; high-density urban boundary zones; conservation areas; green belts; and much more – directly from Agenda 21.
Once the vision document is complete, the next step is to convert it into a comprehensive land-use plan, adopted by local elected officials in the form of an ordinance that is enforceable with fines and other penalties. The plans are necessarily so long and complex that few people ever read them, other than the professional planners and enforcement officials. Many, if not most, of these comprehensive plans incorporate many, if not most, of the codes developed by the International Codes Council. Here are some of the codes:
International Building Code International Residential Code International Fire Code International Energy Conservation Code International Private Sewage Disposal Code International Mechanical Code International Fuel Gas Code International Wildland-Urban Interface Code ICC Performance Code International Existing Building Code International Property Maintenance Code International Zoning Code International Green Construction Code
Here’s a sample of what to expect. From Chapter 2 of the International Green Construction Code:
CONSERVATION AREA. Land designated by the jurisdiction or by state or federal government, as a result of a community planning process, as appropriate for conservation from development because of the land possessing natural values important to the community including, but not limited to wildlife habitat, forest or other significant vegetation, steep slopes, ground water recharge area, riparian corridor or wetland.
DAYLIGHT SATURATION. The percentage of daytime hours throughout the year when not less than 28 foot-candles (300 lux) of natural light is provided at a height of 30 inches (762 mm) above the floor.
DEMAND RESPONSE, AUTOMATED (AUTO-DR). Fully Automated Demand Response initiated by a signal from a utility or other appropriate entity, providing fully-automated connectivity to customer energy end-use control strategies.
This is a tiny sample of the rules and regulations buried deep within the innocent-sounding comprehensive land-use plans adopted by unaware local officials to achieve the politically correct label of “sustainable community.”
These plans should be rejected, not simply because they arise from the United Nations, but because they infringe personal freedom and private property rights. The implementation of these comprehensive land-use plans effectively transfers to government the right to dictate to individuals what kind of materials must be used in constructing their privately owned homes. The Auto-DR provision defined above actually gives government the right to dictate the temperature in your home, and the ability to enforce it.
This is madness! This is sustainable development! This is Agenda 21!
Local tea parties, 9/12 groups and property-rights organizations must learn about Agenda21 and exactly what their local visioning statements and local comprehensive land-use plans contain. Many groups are forming study committees to analyze their local plans by section and then report back to the entire group. This way, not every individual has to read the entire plan.
If this rush to oblivion is going to be stopped, it is up to private citizens to get informed, get involved and help get into office only those people who truly respect the Constitution and the individual freedom it is supposed to guarantee.
SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines — Seven devotees were nailed to crosses on Good Friday in a northern Philippine village where the rites drew thousands of tourists and spectators.
The devotees’ palms and feet were attached to wooden crosses with 4-inch nails soaked in alcohol to prevent infection after a nearly mile-long walk to the mound, each carrying a wooden cross on their backs.
Among the yearly penitents in San Pedro Cutud was Ruben Enaje, a 46-year-old commercial sign maker who was nailed to the cross for the 21st time on Friday.
‘They take this religion to the extreme’ Earlier in the day in the same village, dozens of half-naked men hit their bloodied backs with bamboo sticks dangling from a rope in a flagellation rite meant to atone for sins.
More than 100 foreign tourists flocked to this year’s Good Friday rites, with many of them seated on a stage at the side of the mound.
“They take this religion to the extreme,” observed Gomas de Miguel, a tourist from Spain. “In Spain, we say we are Catholics but we don’t do this anymore I think.”
EACH WEEK (OR SO) WE WILL PICTURE THE ARMPIT OF A WELL KNOWN CELEBRITY. YOUR JOB IS TO PUT THAT ARMPIT WITH A NAME. ARE YOU READY? LET’S PLAY…..
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NAME THAT ARMPIT
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THE ANSWER WILL APPEAR NEXT WEEK (OR WHEN WE FIND A NEW ARMPIT) ALONG WITH A BRAND NEW ARMPIT! THE FIRST PERSON TO SUBMIT THE CORRECT ANSWER WILL RECEIVE A SUBSCRIPTION TO THE CLAREMONT COWPATTIE
If you were a reader of the old Cow Pattie you probably remember the “TACKY YARD CONTEST”. The winner of that contest was Tommy Lambert of N. Depot St. You remember Tommy…. he left his wife and family to run off with a trashy county fair stripper.
Anyway, it’s that time again! Move those couches out to the front porch, dig out the plastic flowers and polish up those gazing balls. We will be touring the town to find the TACKY YARD of the year! No prizes but the winner will have the HONOR of having his or her yard pictured in YOUR CowPattie. (YES, you can nominate a yard)
Recall, if you wil, YOUR CowPattie stated a need for a TORNADO early warning system similar to the siren that used to be located on the water tower behind Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church. The bags of hammers that run this town told us that we should depend on County Communications for our warnings. In other words, THEY DODGED THE ISSUE!
Why would they IGNORE THE SAFETY of the citizens? It’s simple. We need to spend the money on another useless park for Henry.
A short report from WCTI appears below:
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NC Needs Better “Early Warning System”
By Anna Bulszewicz / Anchor
POSTED: 8:47 am EDT April 20, 2011
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North Carolina’s insurance commissioner Wayne Goodwin is calling for a better early warning system for our state. Our state does not have sirens to alert residents of approaching disasters, like a tornado. Goodwin says that needs to change. Tornado warning sirens are common in states like Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama.
On April 4, 1949, FBI agents in Utah sent a cable marked “urgent” to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. It said an Army guard at the Ogden Supply Depot, a Logan policeman and a Utah Highway Patrol officer in Mantua each saw from miles apart a UFO — which they said exploded over Utah.
Under the title “Flying Discs,” the cable said they “saw a silver colored object high up approaching the mountains at Sardine Canyon” that “appeared to explode in a rash of fire. Several residents at Trenton … [reported] seeing what appeared to be two aerial explosions followed by falling object.”
That and other documents show the FBI was investigating whether UFOs were real, and it figured they could be. Such documents are now available in “The Vault,” vault.fbi.gov, a revamped FBI website for documents that have been released through the Freedom of Information Act and have been recently or often requested.
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