Can money buy me love?

Wealthy Trial Lawyer Tom Ervin. 

Gov. Nikki Haley (R) has a double-digit lead (43-33) over warmed-over challenger and Democrat Vincent Sheheen, according to a new poll released Monday.
But Tom Ervin, a Democrat-leaner in disguise, is getting the vote of 18 percent of polled respondents.
The filthy rich trial lawyer, part of a litigating power couple, just spent $2 million in television ads buy in his self-funded campaign. 
The Beatles told us, Money Can't Buy Me Love, but it looks like Ervin is dumping millions into a money-for-love scheme. Stay tuned. If Haley has to begin to take Ervin seriously, you may see some his ugly and scaly underbelly exposed.  

Haley, Congress should act on epidemic of violent Black on White crime

Violent mobs of Black people are attacking Whites in a horrific epidemic in this country.

If you are a White American, are you getting equal protection? Do your rights matter?
Your legislators (Republicans)  seem to be OK with it, as long as no one mentions it. It's time they move on the issue of Black race hate, and violence upon Whites. We're getting to the point where attacks on White people are on the level of what we've been told about KKK violence decades ago.

It's an election year, and White people need to have assurances that our leadership understands that Whites have a right to be protected from the violent and racially hateful.

In Memphis, over the weekend, a White man was brutally beaten in a grocery store parking lot.

Link: White man brutally beaten by Black gang

A gang of black males attacked and savagely beat a White female and male in Springfield Mo. a week ago.

Link: Black mob beats female and male in Mo. No one arrested

In late August, a White man suffered severe brain injury after a group of Black men beat him at a Mississippi restaurant.

In the spring, Steve Utash, White, was beaten until he was unconscious by a mob of Blacks.

Then there is the Knockout game, in which young Blacks target White, many of them elderly, and punch them with such force it has resulted in death.

Even In South CCarolina 16-year-old high school girl in Rock Hill allegedly beat another girl for acting “too much like a white person.”

There are many more. Some including elementary aged children on school buses, but the violent attacks on Whites by Blacks pass silently. 

Other than treating it like common crime, nothing more is being done. It’s as if hateful Black people in this country are showing they can violently attack White people and get away with it.

Meanwhile, President Barack Obama has inserted himself into incidents in which Blacks have been harmed, and the people harming them were defending themselves. US AG Eric Holder is now investigating the Ferguson Mo. Police department after dangerous criminal Michael Brown, it seems, attacked an officer who ended up having to shoot Brown.

An Hispanic man shot Trayvon Martin in Florida, in self-defense, and a national movement in support of the violent attacker ensued.

Yet no one is beginning any type of movement in defense of the right of White Americans.

Racial hate and violence is wrong no matter who does it. And it's time to call your legislator in the U.S. Congress and ask that this hideous issue be addressed. If we don't begin to take action, more will suffer and more will die.
Just because you don't fit the media and the the Democrat profile of a deserving American, does not mean you should be subject to beatings from Blacks.
Congress is elected to work for all of us, not just Democrat special interests.

Not only that, if Congress pushes the issue, Obama would have to respond. And then we may actually find out who he really is, as it relates to race. That would likely be eye-opening to a lot of people who voted for him, even some Blacks.  

RE: Murdered people, why does gender matter to leftists?

South Carolina ranks second in the nation in the rate of women murdered by men, according to some operation calling itself the Violence Policy Center (VPC) report.
While murder does not have to be gender-based to make it horrible, that is where we are in this liberal society. We try to tie any and all negativity to a special interest group, allegedly favored by the left, to evoke even more sympathy. If men were being killed, it would be just as sad, but the left would not see it that way, if they were white, Southern men. 

We've also been a victim of liberals who have demanded easy-divorce, quick-abortions and a total dis-respect for people who think responsibility should be considered instead a “Good Time” at all cost.

And: It may be a good idea for Daddys and Mammas to start teaching their daughters, and sons, the value of virtue. As it is, selfishness, lasciviousness and trash are what kids are brought up with, while the devil and liberals laugh and cheer.

Attaching killing to gender, to try to make it more egregious is part of the stupidity that has already debased this society.  

We need a total clean-up, male and female. 

Gamecocks defense fail causes quick fall, shocks, angers fans!

Clowney has left the building, but
same ol' defensive woes have not. 

Three weeks ago, South Carolina fans were promised a good team in 2014. Pundits and publications

had picked the Gamecocks, the program that finished 2013 at No. 4, as the best in the SEC East.

Now, 11 days later, South Carolina, nosediving in the polls, is a home dog to a Georgia team that lost five games last year.

Based on one of the most embarrassing defeats of the Spurrier era to Texas A&M, and a porous defense against a good mid-major, ECU, all the respect has evaporated from around USC.

There is NO reason for that level of a fall.

If you are a South Carolina fan, you should be infuriated.

You have milk-fed the program through the bad, mediocre to get to a point where two-digit win totals are automatic.

You heard Steve Spurrier say after the ECU win that his receivers are playing the best fundamental football he has seen since he's been at the school. The O-line gave QB Dylan Thompson time, and he showed that a Spurrier offense can be highly effective, and stun opponents with a quick-strike, or grind them down with Mike Davis, then a fresh Brandon Wilds run game.

While so much has become Prime-Time at South Carolina, an old, ugly and recurring problem is stealing the best of the Spurrier years.

Defense!

Why is it that every year, South Carolina fans have to endure a work-in-progress on the defensive side of the ball? Why is there always coaching-decision issues, poor-tackling, assignment-missing claims and charges that the unit has no fire?

It has started off poorly before, but improved. Usually in the always-present learning curve, the Gamecocks lose to some lesser -program, and all-but eliminate the chances for something that was expected, and really big.

This year, the hideous loss came in game one, for all the college football world to see.

The horror of the defense can be addressed. Maybe Spurrier will move a coach or two from somewhere else, to go tend to the job others are being paid to do.

But when is Spurrier going to get this right?

He likely wants to hire a defensive coordinator, and not have to worry about the job getting done. And that's how it should be if you are hired by Spurrier.

But because Spurrier seems to have made a bad decision in defensive coach hiring, all of his work is blemished.

And fans are left to wonder; can they EVER be left to assume the most elementary level of talent is evident in the defensive coaching staff?

This year, like others, the answer is “NO.” And it's getting old. The Gamecocks could have solved the problems with the defensive coaches in the off-season, before embarrassing the team. But they did not.

How mad will fans have to get, before they don't have to endure the painful process of seeing the defense get coached-up during the season, instead of before it?

Hopefully the quick fall in 2014 will scream to Spurrier that he has a problem on D, and it must be fixed, to move up in the SEC-East.
In the meantime, fans are left to stew. 

Media blaming players, protecting coaches, for Gamecock defense woes?

Spurrier, media at odds
about responsibility of
defensive problems.  

In his SEC Tele-Conference Sunday, SC Head Football Coach Steve Spurrier said he believes the Gamecock's have the players to do the job, but the D is not getting it done.

Spurrier said:

"We had a lot of good plays on defense, but we've got players not playing their assignment very well. We've got the same defensive coaches that were considered pretty good coaches last year. Now all of a sudden we can't get the team off the field very well. We don't force very many punts. We've got to improve on that. We think we have the players to do it, but at some point we've got to be a lot more disciplined in playing our assignments and so forth. But again it was good effort, I think, by our defensive teams. We did get a couple picks, but we've got a long ways to go."

Sounds like Spurrier may be directing his words about the coaches toward the media, who are defending and making apologies for the defensive coaching staff. Spurrier has been specific in his thoughts about a poor D-line system. But Josh Kendall, of The State newspaper. said DC Lorenzo Ward is a great and valuable coach. Ron Morris, The State's anti-Spurrier columnist, said the defensive coaching staff will correct their problems and be fine.

Gamecocks may be national champion contender except for mediocre defensive coaches?

SC has an SEC-level offense. But is the
D on the same level? 

It has been easy to be in full support of Gamecock Defensive Coordinator Lorenzo Ward. South

Carolina has won 11 games for the last three years. Ward has been DC for two of those years.

But after the inexplicable, inexcusable debacle of the SC defense versus Texas A&M, and a shaky performance versus East Carolina, is it time to worry that coaching personnel is hurting the team's ability to grow?

Offense has emerged

A big change in the Gamecock's fortunes in the last three years has come at the QB position. With an astute, character-driven student like Conner Shaw, Spurrier finally got a dedicated winner at Quarterback at SC. The wins followed. Dylan Thompson is a Spurrier-level QB, too.

The Gamecocks have also been helped with the acquisition of All-World RB Marcus Lattimore. When Lattimore was at full-go, the Gamecock defense could rest on the sideline, as Marcus ate clock and ended drives with TDs.

Brandon Wilds and Mike Davis have also been top-tier SEC talents at RB.

But has the emergence of a full-fledged Spurrier offense disguised some major deficiencies of SC's defensive coaching staff?

Ward was promoted (in practice) to DC after the 2011 season. In his first season, South Carolina gave up 44 points to Florida in a loss. Against Tennessee, the Gamecocks yielded 35 points, and almost lost at home to a hapless Volunteer squad. The Gamecocks D could not stop Tennessee, until a heroic individual-talent play by Jadeveon Clowney that snatched victory from defeat.

Has SC been depending on raw talent on D? 

In SC's post-2012 bowl game, versus Michigan, the Gamecocks could not stop the Big 10's Wolverines, even after another super-human effort by Clowney (known as The HIT.)

Link: THE HIT!!!!

The Wolverines marched down the field, after Clowney's fumble-causing tackle, to take a late fourth-quarter lead over the Gamecocks. Only a couple of miracle plays by Shaw and Thompson pulled out another victory, after the defense failed.

Last year, SC's D looked lost and pathetic versus a Georgia team, that eventually went 8-5.

The Gamecocks defense also almost gave back a win at Central Florida, last year, after USC's offense had seemingly put away the Knights.

In 2013, the Gamecocks needed a defensive stop late to preserve a 21-20 lead on Tennessee, but the defense relented and SC lost. That failure cost the Gamecocks an SEC-East Championship and a shot at the National Championship.

Can't have obvious deficiencies

To be a true national contender, there cannot be an evident deficiency. Last year, the Gamecocks finished with a No. 4 ranking, but missed its shot to do better. 

Steve Spurrier has brought SC to the brink, but has a less-than stellar staff coaching the defense already spoiled the Big Prize. And will Spurrier's genius running the offense be wasted because the Gamecocks have defensive coaches not on par with Spurrier? 

If so, that would be a shame. 

Media badgers Spurrier to bash Gamecocks' players, coaches are doing fine job

Was Spurrier wrong about defense, or did defensive coaches let him down?

Spurrier expresses humility because defense is not where it should be. 

“Are you beginning to feel differently about this team talent-wise,” Josh Kendall, beat writer for The State newspaper, asked Steve Spurrier after South Carolina defeated East Carolina 33-23, Saturday.

On Tuesaday, before the ECU game Kendall asked: “Do you still feel the potential is as high as you (said pre-season?)”

Before the ECU game, Kendall, in an interview with WVOC radio vehemently defended SC's Defensive Coordinator Lorenzo Ward. He said Ward is definitely not the problem, and other head coaches would be lining up to hire Ward if he were let go by the Gamecocks.

The State's anti-Spurrier columnist Ron Morris has also defended Ward. 

Anti-Gamecock columnist says defense will be fine, not D coaches fault

In the pre-season, Spurrier said the Gamecocks would be pretty good in 2014. Spurrier said that because he believed it. If he knew there were major problems with the D, he would have said so. Spurrier does not shy away from the truth.

In the pre-season, Spurrier even complained defensive players had not been selected for all-conference teams. Skai Moore, LB, was left off, Spurrier noted. And he lamented that only Brison Williams,a safety, made third-string on an all-conference team.

Saturday night, after ECU, as Kendall's again prodded Spurrier to retract his pre-season enthusiasm, Spurrier talked about a deficiency with the defense only.

Spurrier said: We did lose a bunch of guys on defense. “We thought these other guys can play, like the defensive players we lost.”

Spurrier specifically mentioned the losses of Chaz Sutton and Victor Hampton. A D-line player and a secondary player. He also alluded to the D-line, where he called out D-line coach Deke Admas after the debacle, 52-28 loss to A&M.

“We still don't have that much of a pass rush, unless we blitz a whole bunch of people,” Spurrier said.

What Spurrier is saying: The defense is not that good. Not as good as I thought pre-season.

Spurrier left the defense in the hands of Ward, and thought it was OK. He was incorrect in assuming Ward had gotten the players and would be able to coach his players on a level that the offense is now on.

Spurrier is having to express humility about a part of the team he is not directly responsible for. The season has started. He'll have to make the best of it. And then we'll see, by the moves Spurrier makes after the season, how Spurrier will solve the issue of a porous defense.  

Spurrier in depressed mood as he comments on the Gamecocks vs ECU

Will the Gamecocks look like a Spurrier team of late? 

On Tuesday USC head Football coach Steve Spurrier spoke to the media.

You can discern a lot from his personal communication and based on how he answered questions.

On Defense

Spurrier said the practices had not been conducted well for the D before the Texas A&M game. He seemed to say there has been a lot of standing around when the D practiced. Spurrier indicated he is getting  more involved in the job of coaching the defense. May be  mading it more of his responsibility.

He there would be more competition and that the first-team players would scrimmage versus the first-team offense more. Had the defensive coaching staff been running the No. 1s versus the No. 2 offense? If so, that may explain one of the problems of not being ready for an SEC offense like A&M's.

Spurrier said there would not be a lot time for the defense to be standing around watching each other. Had they been practicing like that? Why?

Motivation seems to be a problem too. Spurrier said the team was “lackadaisical.” He said the there needed to some “fire” and players needed to “act like we like playing.”

All fans knew, from watching the game, that there was little pass rush and little pass protection. Spurrier alluded to the protection issues. Playing ten yards off the receives may have been what he was referring to. The whole stadium could see that was a problem, down after down vs A&M.

Also: Spurrier was down. It's he believed he was to the level that he would not have to deal with the type of debacle of the A&M game. He said he was embarrassed, as we are all for him.

He said he has to stay positive, but that is likely not easy after last Thursday.

Of all games, that ridiculous performance seemed to take a lot out of the “Head Ball Coach.”

It may take a while to get his spirit back.

ECU to be a barometer of Gamecocks' strength

ECU will make its opponent earn it. 

ECU was barometer in Gamecocks' bad ol' days; Spurrier has changed that. Or has he? 

Remember when a win over East Carolina was significant for South Carolina.

But in the last two meetings SC has handled the Pirates. East Carolina is coming of of a 10-3 year an Spurrier calls the Pirates a “solid” team. Could losing today show that we;re back to those dark days of the Brad Scott era? No The gamecocks are far from that level of mediocrity.

The Pirates have been an opportunistic team in the past, and hungry to bully would-be power houses.

And South Carolina has had some poor coaching staff, that have been taken down by ECU.

On a heavy rain night in 1992, Spraky Wood's Gamecocks lost to ECU after Marty Simpson missed a late-game FG. The Gamecocks caught fire later that year after an almost-team revolt against Spraky. Gamecocks won five of the last six.

In 1994, the infamous Brad Scott's first year, the Pirates routed SC, 56-42. The Gamecocks later won its first bowl game with Steve Tanneyhill, versus WVU. East Carolina also beat Brad in 1996, beating him 23-7. You can also lay the Gamecocks' 21-3, 1999 loss to ECU on Brad, because he left USC decimated, and in disarray, before bolting to Clemson after 1998.

In 2011 and 2012 USC beat the Pirates rather easily, but the game in Charlotte, Conner Shaw's first start, looked about as bad as the Gamecocks' versus Texas A&M last Thursday.

Expect Spurrier to show how far USC has come. If he doesn't, something is wrong.

Video of brutal fight at Lexington High -UPDATE!!!!

WIS TV has published video of a brutal fight between two girls at Lexington High School.

Brutal fight at LHS while onlookers marvel

One girl violently slams the other to the floor and begins viciously punching her.

Onlooking students 'ooh' and 'ah' with delight and approval at the violence of the aggressor.

Lexington School District One's Board is filled with self-back-patters and free-spenders.

The district fat-cats are quick to take credit for the intelligence of the kids in the district, and the success of their parents.

And when a government directive is imposed on families, from federal education czars, Lexington 1 does not question it, but it quickly embraces it.

Lexington 1 is also efficient in telling parents, resisting harmful influences on their child, to sit down and shut up.

The fact that schools in Lexington have gotten this far out of hand in Lexington 1 is unacceptable. It's time for the public to demand this school board be held accountable.

Raising taxes every year, forcing subject matter on students, and taking credit for the quality of the product is not enough.

It's time to clean house in Lexington School District Board of Trustees.

Example: Pamela Bradley wrote on FaceBook comments:
 When my youngest son started Lexington High, they would not allow his youth pastor to eat lunch there, for fear of the influence he might have in other students. LHS was the only high school that year that our youth pastor couldn't visit. Maybe girls fighting is a better influence.

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  It's not Lexington high that has that rule. It's Lexington school district 1.

Definition of “stupidity” - the Sheheen Campaign

Unless can come of with
 something positive, he is
spinning his wheels. An
attack only campaign is
not working.  

Albert Einstein is charged with saying "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, is insanity."

If Einstein did say that – some say he did not- he was not accurate.

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is stupidity.
Insanity is sitting in a corner and poking at feces, or the like.

Democratic gubernatorial wanna-be Vincent Sheheen has released yet another television ad attacking GOP Gov. Nikki Haley because someone at a state agency allowed some personal information of taxpayers to be hacked. But don't expect the ad to make any difference.

A recent poll shows Sheheen way (double digits) behind Haley, and not improving. 

The reason Sheheen is striking out on the data breech is because there has not been a victim, yet. No one has been affected. But you can likely expect the media to produce a few poor souls, near election day, with some sort of tale of how Haley ruined their lives. Democrats can always find a stooge, drooling to do their bidding in a commercial.

Because of the breach, us taxpayers actually got government-paid ID-theft protection. How about that, the contributors were looked after. That's nice.

Let's face it: the -five-ton elephant in the room, every time Sheheen brings up Data Breach, is his record and the brand of the Democrat Party.

Until Sheheen can tell us he will be adamant against Obamacare, inflation and dangerous terrorists and for a strong America, capitalism and racial harmony, he has no chance.

But if Sheheen all of the becomes a true voice for positive change, he will alienate the Hate-Vote, that comprises a substantial portion of the Democrat Party.

In other words: it stinks to be Vincent Sheheen, and running for governor in 2014.

Gamecocks' defensive problems have been solved, really?

Building on 33 wins in three years,
big things were expected. But the
Gamecocks are already in a hole.
(USC Media Guide cover)

Changes are being made to the South Carolina defense.

TJ Gurley will start in the secondary over Chaz Elder, says SB Nation's Garnet and Black Attack. On SDS, they report that DC Loenzo Ward is starting  linebacker Skai Moore and cornerback Rico McWilliams. The coaches are saying the players will be physical now. 

But the question is: if you had eight months of an off-season, How can you look so bad versus Texas A&M, a team that had just as much time off? In addition to being idle, Texas A&M had to replace Johnny Manziel, a first-round QB pick, and Heisman Trophy winner.

Will shuffling personnel on South Carolina's defense solve the problems?

All Gamecock fans are, of course, hoping there has been some sort of epiphany for Lorenzo Ward and his defensive coaching staff.

And the Gamecocks' opponent this Saturday is unranked, and non-SEC, East Carolina. So regardless, the defense should look better. But will it really be better?

During the A&M game, South Carolina could have made adjustments at halftime. But the Aggies tore up the Gamecock D as much in the second half, as it did in the first.

Aside from that, the Gamecocks lost a prime opportunity to go 1-0 in the SEC and show off in front of the nation. Instead the Gamecocks are being buried, and are in a deep hole. All that has been worked for has been damaged.

Will South Carolina redeem itself? Hopefully so. But the fact that the team is faced with crawling out of a hole, because of the D again, is frustrating.

While a win over ECU will begin to heal some wounds, it will take weeks to get over the embarrassment of A&M. And the record of loss will be there forever.

Head Coach Steve Spurrier has turned the Gamecocks into a player on the national stage. Home win streaks, a streak in openers and defying odds have become a staple of Spurrier's at SC.

But the Defensive coaches did a lot to tear down that image by not having their players anywhere-near prepared in week one.

A new game and a win will help, but the defensive staff has a long way to go to prove it deserves the job it has.

Bigotry is damaging us, and it's WRONG, no matter who is doing it

The State failed to run a photo of Frazier.
A SCPSD reader found this photo.
What is The State hiding? 

Mayor Steve Benjamin and Bakari Sellers should answer for the harm racial bigotry is doing to our institutions.
Racism was wrong and destructive when it was done decades ago, and it is not all of the sudden OK, because Blacks in power  are the high-level institutional perpetrators of racism, now.

The State newspaper ran an exclusive Thursday, telling us the Columbia Police Department was warned not to hire Brenda Frazier, but she was hired anyway.

“Frazier’s job performance has resulted in 746 cases she handled during 21/2 years with the police agency being reviewed by prosecutors and defense lawyers,” according to The State.

The State while exposing the incompetence and ignorance of Frazier's hiring, failed to fathom a reason as to why. The State also did not publish a photo of Frazier.

Instead, The State has replaced the story, with a story in which Lt. Gov. Candidate Bakari Sellers, a Democrat, is claiming that his opponent, Henry McMaster, is a member of a whites-only country club. Most of us did not know a whites-only club exists. If it does, US AG Eric Holder is not doing what he is paid lavishly to do. Shouldn't hiring the incompetent based on race be made illegal, too?

Democrats, across the nation, are trying to make race an issue, because policy-wise they have been a total, and disastrous failure.

In 2012, Richland County was completely incompetent in running its elections. The main blame for the debacle was Voting Operations Director Lillian McBride. She, like Frazier, was hired despite not being qualified. McBride was promptly given a large pay raise with her promotion to a job she could not handle. Frazier and McBride have something in common, that is likely why they were hired.

No matter if voters, who vote for all the wrong reasons, keep putting these incompetent, bigoted elected officials in place, it is time for it to stop. We must DEMAND that people being paid to oversee the public trust are honest, and not bigoted.
Our country cannot afford to do business with the racism and hatred of the Democrat Party and the media, any longer.  

Have a photo of Brenda Frazier, hired by Columbia despite not being qualified?

Brenda Frazier- Media AWOL.

 The State newspaper says: "The Columbia Police Department hired a crime lab chemist in 2011,

whose work is now in question, despite being told that she was not qualified, Sheriff Leon Lott said Wednesday.

But The State, as far as I can tell, has not released a photo of Brenda Frazier. Maybe that would be responsible because if her face was made public, it would stop another agency from making the same mistake. 

The State says: "Brenda Frazier’s job performance has resulted in 746 cases she handled during 21/2 years with the police agency being reviewed by prosecutors and defense lawyers."

The State has photos of many others involved, but not Frazier. Or if they do, I cannot find one.

Can any readers help? 

Sanford, US Rep. of cheating gone bad – the drama of the common never ends

Sanford looks good, but his life seems
 like a sordid mess. 

If you're scoring the Sanford imbroglio, you have to give Jenny credit. Claiming he is crazy and needs anger management. That alone would make him need anger management. Stroke of genius on her part. 

In 2009, as South Carolina governor, Mark Sanford disappeared. He returned five days later from Argentina to publicly confess an affair with a woman he says he is going to marry. But you know how that perpetual “fiance” claim goes with some people in the South. The live-in only turns into a “fiance” if they are on TV, being arrested or one (the non-fiance) hits the lottery.
Sanford is an example of the kind of Republican the media loves. If you truly embrace family values, the media hold Sanford up as a hypocrite of the GOP. 

Anyway: Sanford's wife, and mother of their four sons, Jenny Sanford sued for divorce. It was granted in 2010.

Now, attorneys for Jenny Sanford, in a family court motion last week, are asking a judge to limit Mark Sanford's visitation with his youngest child. Lawyers are also requesting that he undergo psychological tests and take anger management and parenting courses. You have to admit, it is a stroke of genius on Jenny's part. Can you see his face when he gets that letter and reads it? 

He, in turn, is calling everybody else crazy. 

What is so humorous about the drama is that Mark Sanford always, as a candidate tried to place himself in a class above the common. He was smarter than those around him, he thought. I'm sure many of the people he tried to bully are getting a big laugh as his dirty laundry is being exposed for all to see.

Aside from that: there are men, who have endured divorce, and viscous ex wives, identifying with Mark Sanford. They see her as a mean and vindictive bitter witch.

And there are women, who are members of the First-Wives Club, wanting the courts to burn Mark Sanford a new one. 

The best thing we can take from it: The ugliness from cheating on your wife, and children, is a liability that may never stop haunting you. 

The idea that you can deliver a punch like Mark Sanford did, and live happily ever after may be a myth. And the fact that a man as preachy as Sanford is enduring such a public embarrassment is sort of a morality play. It certainly would have been cheaper to keep her in his case.

Fired Harvest Hope Food Bank add to Obama's joblessness rate

Media, food bank director still claiming "recovery" and "uptick."

Harvest Hope Food Bank (HHFB) has reduced its work force to 78 from 88 and enacted indefinite

furloughs, effective immediately at four emergency food pantry locations in Columbia, says The State newspaper.

The bad news was sprung Tuesday, on the poor souls terminated. Harvest Hope canned employees in Cayce, Florence and Greenville.

What the media failed to say is: trickle down economics works. And it works both ways. Liberal politics leads to Obama voters starving. Obama has transformed America into a third-world economy.

“What we’ve got is a continued spike in needs over this recession period,” said Mark Zion, HHFB Board Chairman.

I'll say. And that “Recession began the day Obama took office, and it has not let up. But the media was not admitting Obama is to blame. They are even trying to claim things are better.

Food stamp hand-outs have spiked under
Obama, and food banks are still overloaded. 

From The State: “While the economy has seen a slight uptick, (HHFB Director Denise) Holland said that has yet to resonate in many of the state’s rural areas.”
 What “slight uptick?” What planet do these leftwing space cadets live on?

The economy is so bad, the people who depended on Obama, and voted for him, are on the verge of collapse. Holland admitted that each morning, the lines of those needing food are to the road. The demand is enormous. That's in addition to a record almost 50 million people on food stamps. And the people who produce, and fund the food bank are hurting too, thanks to Obama's poor handling of the economy.

Yet liberals are in denial: Quote from The State: “The people who are suffering from hunger have not seen an improvement in their financial condition yet,” Holland said, adding it may take longer for those families to benefit from the recovery. “I think that’s why the numbers (of starving) have increased.”

RECOVERY? Is this woman drunk on kool-aid laced with happy juice?

One of the ugliest traits of the left, and the media, is denying the truth, if it is not in line with their politics and myth-based belief system.

People are starving, liberal-staffed help-agencies, funded by the productive are falling apart. But the question remains, when will the left stop denying that their savior-government of Obama and the Democrat Party has failed?

Until those who elect collapse, repent for the disaster they are creating, we cannot begin to totally heal this country.

And the media, by avoiding to tell their minions, is just exacerbating the problem.  

Ban on homosexual marriage upheld in La.

A federal judge upheld Louisiana's ban on homosexual marriage, Wednesday.

Judge Marin Feldman rules that sexual
preference does not entitle the courts the right
to redefine marriage for special interests.

Judge Martin Feldman made the ruling Wednesday in New Orleans just before noon. His ruling is in line with a vast majority of voters. Feldman said Louisiana's ban is constitutional.
The ruling makes Feldman the first federal judge in the US to uphold a state's ban on gay marriage, to the delight of most US citizens,.
Will the media obliterate this judge, as punishment for going against liberal and pop culture dogma?

Free Times compromises liberal beliefs, ends up with egg on its face?

Rare for liberals to throw in with the
convention of college football. It's noticeable
when the left compromises and it backfires. 

Suffering from anemia, as many uber-liberal publications are, Columbia's Free Times became a victim of fate, last Thursday.

The leftwing weekly chose to try to parlay college football fever into some much-needed ad revenue. To do that, Free Times ran a photo of a bunch of Gamecock cheerleaders, with the title: “Great to be a Gamecock.” The subhead read: “Photos capture spirit of Columbia's gameday culture.”

Surely Free Times had no idea the Gamecocks would get thrashed by Texas A&M, and any rah-rah sentiment by the media would be met with disgust.

The irony of it is: liberals, like those running Free Times, had to have a dilemma. Normally they would hate the Southern white-male redneck persona (as they see it) of Gamecock football. But on the other hand, the money those rednecks part with, pays for the education of many “underprivileged” players and turns some from the sub-culture – they exploit - into icons and millionaires.

Not only that, it's the “ball” that “foots” the bill for all of those court-ordered Title IX (non-revenue sports) scholarships for females.

So what a juxtaposition for a liberal weekly newspaper, printed a day before the A&M Massacre, in hopes of capitalizing on that which they hate.

Now remember, heretofore, Free Times biggest score was when their ace reporter took out REPUBLICAN Lt. Gov. Ken Ard for spending his own money, in a way the government had forbidden.

Free Times' Corey Hutchins graduated to the Huffington Post for his Watergate-esque dispatching of Ard. Hutchings was also the reporter who balked on the infamous Danny Frazier recordings, presumably because the name of top Democrat Steve Benjamin, Columbia's mayor, is mentioned in the indictment-yielding dialogue.

At any rate, you have to laugh when you see liberals swallowing their bitterness-based principles for profit, only to have it backfire, and ad insult to their injury.

Anti-Gamecock columnist says defense will be fine, with no personnel changes

Lorenzo Ward, USC-DC, has
Ron Morris in his corner. That
may not be a good thing, considering
the track record of Morris. 

Ron Morris of The State newspaper says give Defensive Coordinator Lorenzo Ward time to fix USC's

defense, that was atrocious last Thursday versus Texas A&M. Is that sound advice, with the best interest of the team in mind?

Morris said Wednesday: “Lorenzo Ward remains in charge of the defense, as he was a season ago. He was considered one of the nation’s top defensive coordinators before Texas A&M ran up 52 points and 680 yards of offense this past Thursday, and he remains that as USC prepares for East Carolina on Saturday.”

While Morris may be right that the Gamecocks' D has looked horrible before under Ward; should Gamecock fans trust the judgment of Morris?

On top of that, Head Coach Steve Spurrier was very direct in criticizing defensive coaches, and even talked about coaching personnel decisions (firing a coach over the A&M debacle on defense.)

To put the Morris-Spurrier relationship in perspective.

Morris is the columnist who compared Spurrier – and his control of the program - to the child-rape case at Penn State.

While that comparison was sensational, it was not the problem most Gamecock fans had with Morris. Before he went off the deep end, with the PSU connection, Morris seemed to employ a constant nitpick, and brooding animosity, for Spurrier. He accused Spurrier of “poaching” former hoops player Bruce Ellington (now in the NFL.)

Morris also seems to think exactly opposite of true supporters of the Gamecocks.

So the logic is: if something is good for the Gamecocks, don't expect Morris to get it or express it. If he does support something related to the improvement of the team, it may be a good idea to suspect he is not right, and headed in the wrong direction.

In this case, Morris is opposing Spurrier. Spurrier says it's the coaching on D, and he is holding coaches accountable.

Morris says give Ward and Co. time to fix the problem, because they have in the past. But Gamecock fans, like Spurrier, are asking why are we in this mess, again, in another year?

Fans would also be right to suspect the intentions and motives of Ron Morris. His PSU reference, and the reason for it, cannot be easily forgotten, nor should it be.

If Morris is on your side, it's likely not a good thing, if you're a Gamecock.  

Those classy Sanfords (once of the Gov. mansion) are feuding in public again...

According to WCSC in Charleston Jenny Sanford is demanding that Mark Sanford, her ex husband and a

Dirty Sanford's dirty laundry in the news
 again. Does this guy EVER think about his poor
kids, and the embarrassment he causes them? 

Congressman undergo psychiatric evaluations and complete an anger management program as part of the couple's ongoing divorce proceedings.

That's quite a request from Jenny Sanford considering. Mark Sanford campaigns on the idea that he is the sage changed man from his flawed character that led him to cheat on his wife and leaves his four sons, for his Latin lover.

Not to mention: Sanford has always projected a quiet personality of piety, that is intended to make voters believe he is somehow more thoughtful, moral and honest than them. 

Evidently Lowcountry voters buy his charade, or the GOP, and the Democrats, did not put a worthy candidate up, who could defeat this fake and self-serving, egotistical charlatan.   

TV Station 5, said it has obtained a document filed by Jenny Sanford in Charleston County Family Court.

In the complaint, Jenny Sanford says there has been a substantial change of circumstances that a visitation schedule should be put in place that limits Mark Sanford's visitation with their youngest son, who is now 16.

A hearing has been scheduled for September 15.

Columbia Mayor Benjamin addresses Ferguson, but not his own scandals

Rioters in Ferguson used the incident to destroy
 property. Scandal-plagued Columbia Mayor Steve
Benjamin is not likely to tell the truth about Ferguson,
or the real impediments in the Black Community. 

According to Tuesday's ColaDaily report: “In response to recent events in Ferguson, Mo, Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin will host a town hall Tuesday to bring civic officials and local youth together to discuss how to build community in the city.”

Since scandalous accusations were made against him Benjamin has held a conference on “Climate Change,” welcomed illegal aliens and now he's obsessing over an event that took place hundreds of miles away from Columbia, that the media has all-but played out.
All the while, Benjamin has yet to adequately explain being linked to claims of strippers in his hotel room, a lavish trip by a wealthy developer, pay-outs, influence-wielding and ethics violations.
Also: “Civil Rights” leaders, as Benjamin likely claims to be, are forever responding to political motivations when a racial incident flares up. The blame is usually one-sided, and never asks responsibility from the guilty, or the civil rights community.
Would it not be appropriate, and refreshing, if a “Civil Rights leader” held a town hall meeting to discuss the importance of fathers marrying the mothers of their children, and not straying to impregnate other women?
Fatherless homes is at epidemic proportions in the United States, and hurts Black children at astronomical rates. It takes a special level of heartlessness to ignore. Yet leaders in the community can find all kinds of blame among the people who have no direct influence, but there is never accountability demanded from fathers.
Would it not be a nice departure for Benjamin to show he has truly repented, come clean, and actually do something positive to heal, instead of just re-walking tired, and fruitless paths?
As it is, Benjamin is ringing all the bells that keep liberal voters blissful, but do more harm than good.
Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but is it too much to ask a Democrat to do something to actually help society, instead of pushing buttons that will only self-serve to get him re-elected by people who care about themselves, not the true welfare of their fellow citizens?
We can always hope.

The SEC down, or was Week 1 deceiving?

Can you bury the mighty SEC after Week One?

On face value, you could conclude that the oft-powerful SEC is down after the first week. Or is it a mistake to put so much stock into one week of 12?

Alabama, No. 2, came as close to struggling as it can, winning 33-23 over unranked West Virginia.

Arkansas went to Auburn and played well, before the No. 6 Tigers pulled away to win 45-21.

And No. 9 South Carolina, not usually a hot-starter, looked atrocious, versus what-was-thought to be a rebuilding No. 21 Texas A&M squad. The Aggies won easily, 52-28.

Vanderbilt, that had become legitimate under now-departed James Franklin, lost by 30 to Temple. And No. 13 LSU won by only four, 28-24, at home over No. 14 Wisconsin. It will be called a quality win, but that is not the Tiger standard most have come to expect. And while No. 12 Georgia instantly became the SEC-East favorite after a 45-21 win over No. 16 Clemson, the verdict is far from over in qualifying either of those teams.

The rest of the conference played such a light schedule, we will not know about strength until a more worthy opponent is fielded.

If you have followed college football for any length of time, you know it is easy to draw conclusions based on week one. But so often what the first game of the season teaches us, turns out to be deceiving.

You can take a swat at the SEC, maybe begin to bury it, with a little chuckle of jealousy. But do so at your own risk. So many times, those who exaggerate the demise of the conference end up with egg on their face by January.

But surely that will not stop the pundits, experts and gurus from dancing on the SEC's graves. Because sometimes what you want to be true is difficult to let go of, even if it's not.

#21 Texas A&M 52, #9 South Carolina 28

Boise State 13, #18 Ole Miss 35

Temple 37, Vanderbilt 7

Tennessee-Martin 14, Kentucky 59

South Dakota State 18, #24 Missouri 38

West Virginia 23, #2 Alabama 33

Arkansas 21, #6 Auburn 45

#16 Clemson 21, #12 Georgia 45

Southern Miss 0, Mississippi State 49

#14 Wisconsin 24, #13 LSU 28

Idaho at Florida - Postponed due to weather

Transgender group to sue DMV over too much makeup disguising transgender child

Chase Culpepper,16, demands the right to
wear makeup to disguise his appearance.
His mother is pushing special privileges
for the transgender child.  

A group calling itself the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) says it will sue the S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles on behalf of a 16-year-old boy who claims he's transgender.

The Anderson boy's name is Chase Culpepper, and his mother, Teresa, has sided with the TLDEF to bring the lawsuit.

The federal lawsuit is being brought because the boy was told to remove makeup for a driver's license photo. The child wears girl’s clothing and makeup every day.

TLDEF says it will hold a news conference, Tuesday, on the south steps of the State House to announce the filing of the lawsuit.

The DMV wants the licensee to be identifiable. It does not allow non-transgender drivers to wear a ski-mask to get a driver's license photo taken.

Beth Parks of the DMV said the employees at the Anderson DMV followed policy. She said policy states, "At no time will an applicant be photographed when it appears that he or she is purposely altering his or her appearance so that the photo would misrepresent his or her identity."

The lawsuit is reflective of a society becoming more emboldened for people wanting special rights because of sex-based proclivities. Requesting special privileges for special interests that vote Democrat have become more prevalent during the leftwing presidency of Barack Obama.

Attacks on traditions have been increased, yet the economy has been crippled by the poor management of the Obama Administration.

Was not long ago, Spurrier's comeback was a new thing

Steve Spurrier has had to crawl
back up, out of a hole, before

South Carolina fans are no-doubt sickened by the 52-28 loss to Texas A&M. But Head Football Coach Steve Spurrier is putting the ugly loss, and the horrific defensive effort, behind him.

And it it was not that long ago, the Gamecocks would have expected to lose. And the yearly schedule featured a list of teams that fans would look over, hoping to find six poor teams that SC could beat and earn a lowly bowl bid.

The year 2005 was Spurrier's first year at USC.

The Gamecocks lost three of its first five games. Alabama and Auburn dominated South Carolina. Fans celebrated a moral victory with a two-point loss at Georgia.

While Gamecock supporters were resigned to the “Here-we-go-again” syndrome, Spurrier's team defeated Kentucky and Vandy at home. And an improbable win at No. 25 Tennessee got tongues to waggin' as the Gamecocks won at Arkansas and beat Florida at home.

Sure the struggles of the early season had fans down. But that nadir led to one of a most satisfying seasons for Gamecock fans.

Spurrier's comeback, after all seemed lost, show that he does not quit, just because he is counted out.

And Spurrier's track record is the reason Gamecock fans should shake off the loss to A&M. Was it an aberration? Who knows. Spurrier is saying time will tell if it was his team being terrible, or if the Aggies are that good.

But there is a lot of football left. And Carolina fans have a lot to look forward to, if history, under Spurrier, is an indicator.

SC's defensive coaches failed to keep Quarles, Hampton from NFL mistakes

A&M QB Ken Hill has all day to pass.
And DBs had virtually no coverage for SC's
defense. Quarles and Hampton could have
played a big role, but they were gone. 

Were the very ill-advised departures of South Carolina's defensive tackle Kelcy Quarles and cornerback Victor Hampton a sign that the Gamecocks' defensive coaches lack adequate influence over players?

Of course it's hard to convince a college student to do what is best in the long run sometimes. But just as soon as Quarles and Hampton announced they would forgo their final year of eligibility at South Carolina, and enter the NFL draft, it was seen as a BAD idea. Was no one close to them at USC, and in authority, counseling them?

Quarles barely got signed, after being cut over this weekend. He was picked up by the Patriots.

Such a low status for a man who would have been heralded as one the SEC's best linemen if he would have played in 2014. And the Gamecocks D, that looked pathetic, with no pass rush, desperately needed him. That was evident versus Texas A&M last Thursday.

And the Gamecocks' defensive secondary was horrible, as the Aggies put up record passing numbers against it. Hampton could have been a shining star on the big stage. Instead he is not playing football.

The leadership of upperclassmen Quarles and Hampton would have been invaluable to a unit that looked green and lost.

Instead of possibly lauding those veterans Thursday, SC Head Coach Steve Spurrier was left calling out his defensive coaches after one of the most-embarrassing performances ever delivered at USC.

How much responsibility does the SC defensive coaching staff shoulder for not having the influence to convince their players to stay?

How Spurrier handles a defensive coaching staff that failed miserably will indicate the Gamecocks' fortunes in 2014.

Fans better hope the SC defensive coaches inability to advise players is not a sign of a lack of control. Otherwise, a season that has begun ugly, could get worse.