SC third-best state in which to do business, survey says

Area Development published its fifth annual Top States for Doing Business survey of site

Amazon had to fight anti-job liberals, but
has hired more than 3.000 in SC, with more
jobs on the way. 

consultants, ranking the states.

Business Environment, Labor Climate, Infrastructure and Global Access are some of the factors considered. All but two states rated in the Top 10 best, are in the South. 

Link: South Carolina a top state for business

TOP STATES FOR DOING BUSINESS 2014

1.GEORGIA

2.TEXAS

3.SOUTH CAROLINA

4.ALABAMA

5.TENNESSEE

6.LOUISIANA

7.INDIANA

8.NORTH CAROLINA

9.OHIO

10.MISSISSIPPI

No. 3. South Carolina

The Palmetto State long has been held in high regard by the economic development community, but South Carolina picked up two huge new testimonials this year from a couple of the biggest names in global manufacturing. BMW and Boeing each announced crucial new and expanded roles for their South Carolina operations.

The companies could cite South Carolina advantages such as its low overall cost of doing business (site consultants ranked the state No. 1 in this regard). The state was also given especially high marks for its incentive programs, cooperative state government, and certified sites/shovel-readiness in the Area Development survey. Site consultants ranked South Carolina No. 2 for all three of the aforementioned factors.

Probably the most consistent advantage of South Carolina is the quality of its workforce. South Carolina is a right-to-work state with a low unionization rate of 3.3 percent overall, and — at 1.3 percent — the lowest unionization rate in the United States for the private sector.

The state’s ReadySC workforce-training system includes recruiting, screening, training, and other aspects of workforce preparation. ReadySC, for example, committed to help Boeing hire 3,600 people over the next several years. And that was even before Boeing committed to producing the new stretch version of the Dreamliner at its plant in North Charleston, S.C., which will become the first Boeing jetliner model to be built solely in a nonunion factory.

Meanwhile, BMW said it would expand its plant in Spartanburg County with a $1 billion investment that will create 800 new jobs and make the facility the biggest exporter of autos anywhere in the United States.

Democrat Tom Ervin, out of the closet, endorses fellow trial lawyer Sheheen

Ervin has shown himself to be angry and
bitter toward Haley, SC's first female
governor. Maybe Sheheen's W-word
slur  drew  Ervin to endorse Sheheen

Democrat-based gubernatorial candidate, and trial lawyer, Tom Ervin has endorsed Democrat Vincent Sheheen. Ervin has suspended his 2014 campaign for South Carolina governor.

If you are surprised Ervin came out of the Demcorat closet, you're not very observant. And you must ask: was Sheheen's W-word slur against Haley enough to attract the angry and embittered would-be Democrat's affection? 

Ervin, who calls himself an Independent Republican, just proved himself a liar. And the Democrat brand is in the toilet currently, mostly because of the lies the Democrats have fed the American people. Remember Hope and Change? It's turned to “Mope and Pain” under Democrat Barack Obama.

Ervin said: “My campaign for governor was based on two core principles – one that we deserve a governor we can trust, and two that the challenges facing South Carolina are bigger than political parties and partisan politics.”

Ervin spent more than $4 million of money hoarded as a criminal defense attorney. Sheheen, also a trial lawyer, has been accused of protecting child molesters. No word on what type of “clients” Ervin represents.

Ervin did not even poll at 4 percent for his $4 million.

In other states (see Virginia) stealth campaigns for closeted Democrats, as a third party, have skimmed enough votes from the GOP, to put otherwise unfit Democrats in office. That is likely what Ervin was up to. Thank goodness the people of South Carolina are too smart for that. 

Anti-GOP attack dog calls Haley a B!t*h - Democrats attacking women

Now which party HATES women?

In a Tuesday commentary, seemingly endorsing Liberal-Tarian Steve French for governor, FITS News said: South Carolina’s got 99 problems … but in our case a bitch is one,” FITS said, referring to SC Gov. Nikki Haley.

“Errrr … sorry. We garbled our words there. “You people” must have misheard that.” the FITS attack of Haley continued, in reference to Democrat gubernatorial candidate Vincent Sheheen using the word “whore” while talking about Haley.

Link : Political operative calls Haley B!t*h

FITS went on: “Actually South Carolina’s got way more than 99 problems … but its biggest problem is that none of its leaders (least of all the “bitch”) are fixing the problems, they’re just trying to make themselves richer or more powerful by perpetuating them.”

No doubt FITS is trying to get attention to the less-and-less relevant blog. The people who read the Columbia-based gossip pages are mostly leftwingers who are so consumed with hatred, rational thinking or civility are not a strength. But according to FITS reports, it is one of the top political news sites in the state.

FITS, who has been arrested for violence toward a female, has been tied to petition candidate for US Senate and convicted drug felon Thomas Ravenel. Ravenel is being investigated for violence against a woman. FITS also rose to fame in a government job for philandering former Gov. Mark Sanford, who has faced charges of out-of-control anger by his ex-wife.

Tom Ervin, another more-left-than-right petition candidate, has aired a commercial that depicts an attempt to bully Haley, chasing her into an elevator to get away from an overly- aggressive questioner. Ervin is another favorite of FITS News.

With so many left-leaning operatives bashing females, is it possible voters will see from where the true War on Women comes?  

South Carolina political debates don't really matter this year

Henry McMaster won the Lt. Gov.
debate over Bakari Sellers before it began.
McMaster does not have a "D"  by his name.
That is a big advantage in 2014.  

Candidates in South Carolina's Lieutenant Governor race debated, Monday night.

Henry McMaster and Bakari Sellers' chat about issues was a yawner. 

The state's gubernatorial debates have been boring, as have the U.S. Senate debates.

Things have changed. In 2012, the presidential debates were a source of great interest. There was national hope, excitement and anticipation after the pundits credited Republican Mitt Romney with obliterating President Barack Obama in one of the debates.

Romney, reacting to the post-debate polls, thought he had won the White House. So in the next debate, Obama just started saying what he wanted to be true and Romney never challenged him. The moderator in one debate (Candy Crowley of CNN) even jumped in to protect some of  Obama's face-saving claims.

Obama regained his footing, and kept his voters believing in him despite his failures. Obama, sadly for the country, gained improbable reelection.

But this year there is no debate. Democrats can tell you what they stand for or what they will do. They can bash and ridicule Republicans with all the stereotypes, bigotry and hate of their mythology.

No matter what is said, it does not mater. The Democrats have had six years of Democrat leadership to show who, and what, they are. People know them and what they do.

As under-employed Americans struggle to pay high energy costs, or buy exorbitantly-priced food for their children, Democrats want to put a tax on the air we breathe.

As mothers fear for the public health of their kids, Obama is importing mystery viruses with illegals and he assures us Ebola is nothing to worry about.

The country is in a state of malaise or hopelessness. 

While Democrat candidates in South Carolina will not mention Obama’s name, he is present. Every voter in the state knows what Obama represents and what the Democrat Party has done to our country. So to debate, or argue about it, is futile.

Even if you don't like the GOP, people know they cannot afford to elect Democrats.  

And that is a good thing, because maybe there is a hero out there, ready to lead like an American and heal this tortured country. We can at least have hope. 

Liberal-Tarian Ravenel mad at Baby's Mama, ends campaign?

Ravenel's mug shot from
an arrest on a cocaine charge 

Petition U.S. Senate Thomas Ravenel has broken up with his baby's mama Kathryn Dennis. He also seems to be conceding his laughable Senate campaign .  

The self-absorbed, silver-spoon Liberal-Tarian announced Sunday on Facebook that he broke up with Dennis, his girlfriend and the mother of his infant daughter Kensington

The Charleston Police Department (CPD) is investigating assault allegations against Ravenel involving Dennis' friend and stylist, Lauren Moser.

Ravenel whines that Dennis could have provided him with an alibi and gotten him off for the assault charges. But, Ravenel complained, that Dennis would not leave the shoot for the reality show, "Southern Charm." 

Looks like she is just as self-absorbed and addicted to attention, as he is.

"The temptation of missing film time was a more a important value to her," Ravenel wrote in a Facebook post that was removed later Sunday. "So telling. Our relationship is over."

In an assault allegation filed with the CPD, Moser told police she and Dennis were sitting outside at a Charleston home on Oct. 17 when Ravenel joined them holding his daughter and screamed at Dennis about taking care of the baby, according to the police report. Moser said Ravenel then “slipped and fell into the pool with the baby” and handed her to Kathryn. Moser said she followed Ravenel into the house, who closed the door on her twice, striking her knee and arm, the report said.

Part of Ravenel's FB post: “$900k of my campaign money down the drain. The investigators even told me that if she would have come and corroborated the accuser's story I would be cleared. The temptation of missing film time was a more a important value to her. So telling. Our relationship is over.”

Ravenel, who was forced out as state treasurer on a cocaine charge in 2007, is trying to help skim enough GOP voters from Sen. Lindsey Graham to elect Democrat Brad Hutto, in a year in which Democrat has become a dirty word.

If he is saying he lost $900K, does it mean his bid to elect Hutto is over?   

Gamecocks' Spurrier will survive disaster season

South Carolina should have been demolished Saturday night at No. 4 Auburn.

Spurrier still has his head in the game.
Has he adjusted to a weak defense?
Maybe the Gamecocks can steal a
couple wins with offense only. 

Instead Auburn had to play an almost-perfect game on offense, and step up big on defense to beat the Gamecocks 42-35.

Carolina did not lay down or quit. The team came with pride, ready yo play.

South Carolina 's offense scored enough to win easily. It was the Gamecocks' defense that might as well not even been on the field. Auburn scored like it was sandlot football. The Gamecock defense looked lost, soft and uninspired.

But the game, that was a blowout on paper, was close because Spurrier had his offense ready to play. He gave his team a chance to win the game as a 17.5-point underdog to a team that had only lost on the road to No. 1 Mississippi State.

The impressive offensive showing should tell Gamecocks' fans to hold on. Help is on the way. It's possible South Carolina can win a couple games with its offense. Maybe a future opponent will make a couple costly mistakes, and at least put the Gamecocks in a position to get two or three more wins, and qualify for a bowl game. A good coach takes what he has and makes the best of it. That's how he attracts better players.

If Spurrier can exceed expectations for the next four games, maybe the Gamecocks have a chance to salvage something positive from a disastrous 2014 season.

If you look at Kentucky or Vanderbilt it is evidence that coaching changes make a lot of difference.

And coaching changes among assistants can be just as dramatic.

Give the Gamecocks time to correct past mistakes, get SEC-level talent on its defensive coaching staff and the program can move right back up to where it was.

It is obvious the Head Ball Coach still knows what he is doing. And he is not ready to leave the game he loves. For that, Gamecock fans should be ecstatic.  

Auburn is a football program that is difficult to like

Cam Newton was kicked out of Florida. Was it cheating or stealing; who knows?

Was Gene Chizik's best
 attribute to look the other way
as Auburn did what it took
to win? 

Newton surfaced at Auburn, where a the Tigers had just hired a coach from a losing program.

Later a claim was revealed that Cam Newton's services were being offered to the highest, or most-attractive, bidder. But for some reason those revelations never seemed to catch up to Newton or Auburn.

The losing coach at Auburn rode Newton to a national championship. Not long after Auburn's Head Coach was fired. Newton switched over to getting paid by the NFL, and Gene Chizik was found to be a one-trick pony. And was his trick to look the other way so Auburn could use a gifted- yet scandal-marred - player to ascend to the top?

In 2013, Auburn was not supposed to be very good. Instead the Tigers dodged bullets, found a couple miracles, and ended up in the National Championship again.

There are programs that labor for years, building, doing things honestly and the right way. Yet Auburn through a couple of flukes, gets a shortcut. That is not something that is good for college football.

Sadly, the fluke that won the Alabama game for Auburn, and Tennessee upsetting South Carolina, gave Auburn an easy SEC-Title game versus Missouri.

The result was not having the SEC's best team playing Florida State for the 2013 national title.

Unfortunately, that's how the system is set up. In 2014, with a playoff, Auburn would not sniff the title game. Lucky for Auburn there was no extra level of earning your slot.

As it ended up, Auburn lost to the Seminoles, a team Bama would have beaten by double-digits.

When Auburn's luck finally ran out, versus FSU, the Tigers had relinquished the SEC's hold on national titles to the ACC, of all conferences.

There are many reasons not to like Auburn. It is a program that seems to have a lot of off-field incidents, AFTER football season, but not a lot of attention from NCAA investigators.

It is a university that is off the beaten path that seems to keep a low profile where ethics are concerned, but get bolted into the limelight by good fortune, not merit.

At the end of today, expect Auburn to demolish South Carolina. But maybe the Gamecocks can muster some “luck” and Auburn can begin to pay back some of the karma the Tigers deserve from college football.

Do Democrats, Sheheen and their supporters lack respect for women?

Sheheen uses women in his campaign ads.
Do they approve of his characterization of
Nikki Haley, SC's first female governor?  

Remember former Missouri US Rep. Todd Akin who was crucified because the tried to make a distinction

between false rape claims, and true cases of the crime in 2012.

The mistake ended Akin's chances in a US Senate race. The media ripped him apart. It was proof, in their eyes, that the GOP hated women. It solidified their claim Republicans have declared a WAR ON WOMEN.

LINK: Democrat Sheheen uses slur against Haley

Fast-forward to 2014. Live by the Clam, die by the claim.

Well it seems the Democrats are leaving of trail of true anti-women sentiment this year.

Thursday night, S.C. Sen.Vincent Sheheen (Democrat) in comments made in Florence appears bungle his speech and call Gov. Nikki Haley a “whore.”

While it seems like a slip of the tongue Sheheen laughs and mocks Haley after he said it, and says you “got to tell the truth” as his supporters become excited and laugh too.

Sheheen was exalting US Rep. Jim Clyburn when he called Haley the name. Sheheen has been reluctant to tie himself to any Democrat in federal office in the 2014 campaign.

Lauding Clyburn may be as harmful as attacking Haley with a dirty name, as federal Democrats are seen as the root of a nation in a state of chaos.

Also, the anti-Haley, pro-Democrat website FITS News was giddy over the characterization and ran the headline: Did Vincent Sheheen Just Call Nikki Haley A Whore?

FITS a Website known for its crudity, and filthy language toward women, called the slur “accurate.”

FITS is also associated with the campaign of Thomas Ravenel, who is being investigated for physical assault against a woman. FITS' founder was arrested when he was a member of Gov. Mark Sanford's staff for assaulting a woman.

The name-calling comes as news surfaces of women withdrawing support for Democrat candidates because they don't trust them. Under the Obama Administration border control, Ebola fears and immigration concerns have plagued the nation. And the poor Obama economy has taken its toll on women, and all Americans, since he was elected.

Not that Sheheen had much of a chance, but did he hit Haley because he wanted attention?

Regardless, it cannot help the already downward spiraling Democrat Party.

Bobby Harrell episode was a media jubilee, ends in a yawn

Harrell episode ends
with a whimper. 

Today, SC. Rep. Bobby Harrell, a former Republican speaker of the House, pleaded guilty to six

counts of use of campaign funds for personal expenses. He has agreed to resign immediately from his House seat.

The truth is this is a very minor offense. It is a boring crime. And it's not worth all the fanfare behind it, except for the position Harrell fell from.

In a plea hearing at the Richland County courthouse, Harrell was given six one-year prison sentences, but all were suspended by circuit court Judge Casey Manning. The sentence fit the alleged crime.

The media had been all over this. But now it's over. It ended with a whimper, not a bang. Harrell did not apologize and said it was the stress on his family that compelled him to finally plead guilty to get it over with.

So another powerful Republican goes down. The last time it was Lt. Gov. Ken Ard.

Ard also was busted for spending money in a way government regulations demanded he not.

It's over for Harrell for now. But he did agree to testify about others. That is a service to the people, if elected officials or administrators are breaking the law.

In the end there was no taking of bribes, blackmailing or even sexual harassment as took place with Democrat hero Bill Clinton.

The opponents got their pound of flesh. Maybe they will shut up. Or even better can we start to hold ALL political officials accountable for the damage they cause, rights they violate, and the laws they break? Would the Obama Administration like justice to be served upon it, like it was Harrell?  

Ravenel, FITS examples of dangerous Liberal-Tarians

Convicted Liberal-Tarian Tommy Ravenel
could be in trouble with the law again. 

Thomas Ravenel, a petition candidate for the U.S. Senate seat in S.C. has been accused of physically assaulting his 21-year-old girlfriend’s hair stylist.

Lauren Moser – is a hairstylist to Ravenel's Baby's Mama, Kathryn Dennis.

Ravenel allegedly slammed a door and "the door struck the victim on the inside of the right arm.... The victim stated that the door hit her so hard it caused her to topple backwards down three steps and into some bushes."

Ravenel is also said to have fallen into a pool with his seven-month-old baby during the substance-related, domestic dispute. (DSS anyone?) 

Is anyone surprised that this man lives like this? He has been convicted on a felony drug charged and served prison time, despite being raised with the silver-spoon treatment. 

Ravenel is the epitome of a Liberal-tarian. 

Liberal-tarians are selfish enough to covet the fruits of Conservatism, because Conservative practices lead to success and prosperity. But unlike Conservatives,  Liberal-tarians are decadent and so self-serving, they shun any discipline and feel they are entitled to do as they please, with no accountability.

It is a growing disease of many post baby-boom brats who have had much handed to them by fawning parents. The founder of FITS News - former aide to Liberal-tarian Mark Sanford - is also Ravenel's campaign consultant. FITS NEWS is a sometimes-sleazy, gossip website. It's founder is a RonPaul disciple and ignorant of the value of role-model responsibility. He had his own brush with the law as a Sanford hire, because of a lack of control. 

These Liberal-tarians are, in FITS' case, married with children.  But they promote dope smoking, hedonism, degradation of women dull enough to allow it, and extra rights based on homosexual habits. 

The true danger is that these people can sometimes bleed away enough votes from more Conservative candidates, so that an otherwise rejected Democrat can sneak into office. It happened in the Virginia governor's race in 2013.  

Ravenel - this year -is trying to elect a Democrat in the U.S. Senate, as is FITS. So is Tom Ervin, in the SC governor's race. 

Thankfully, it's not working in South Carolina. 

Another peril from Liberal-tarians is that some Republicans are attracted to the "liberty" claims embraced by the Liberal-Tarians. 

Liberal-tarians talk a big talk against corporate welfare and opposition to tax breaks for large job-providers, including Boeing and Amazon in SC. It's a legitimate argument, but the problem is these anti-job Liberal-tarians have done nothing to stop WELFARE-WELFARE. They bash Republicans, but are cozy with liberals. 

In fact, by indirectly resulting in more liberal power-barons, Liberal-tarians are responsible for more hand-out programs, entitlements and special treatment based on the monetizing of victimization.

While Liberal-tarians may hold some allure for the independent, it's fool's gold. They are as big a liar about their true intentions as the Democrats are. 

You cannot run a country based on the childish and irresponsible ideology of Liberal-tarianism. Just look at Thomas Ravenel, and it's easy to see what we DON'T need. 

Feminist icon bashes Beyonce over pop culture and slutty role model

Feminist Annie Lennox, former member of the Eurythmics, is criticizing media-worshiped icon and

Obama White House guest Beyonce. Beyonce is a pop culture music star.

Annie Lennon was a liberal,
feminist goddess in the 1980s.

The androgynous Lennox, once considered a doyenne of feminism, now has children and is figuring out just how damaging liberal pop culture and Democrat polarization-politics have been to women. Of course she does not describe it that way, but she is beginning to understand what liberals like her have done to Western culture.

Still ultra-liberal, Lennox, now a mother, is
complaining about the rot liberalism is to culture. 

Link: Interview in Billboard magazine

Lennox said modern music put out by women is over-sexualized. 

Lennox said in an NPR interview: “The reason why I've commented is because I think that this overt sexuality thrust -- literally -- at particular audiences, when very often performers have a very, very young audience.....I find it disturbing and I think its exploitative. It's troubling. I'm coming from a perspective of a woman that's had children.”

Lennox said "Listen, twerking is not feminism. That's what I'm referring to. It's not -- it's not liberating, it's not empowering. It's a sexual thing that you're doing on a stage; it doesn't empower you."

Are women duped by the Democrat Party?

What Lennon left out: the Democrat Party has duped their female voters into believing being a slut is empowering. When all it really is, is creating low self-esteem, dis-respecting yourself and damning yourself to self-hatred. Same with abortion. A woman is no good to a man after she gets pregnant, in accordance with much of feminist, and liberal, doctrine. 

A man knocks up a woman, then kicks her out of bed to go get herself fixed, so she can come back to be his play-toy, some more.

All irresponsible pleasure for him and heavy baggage for her.

Any man who loves a woman, as in your mother, sister, wife or daughter, should be sickened by what feminism, and liberals, have done to women.

What's amazing is that so many women have fallen for this farce. As feminism has grown, the number of women with depression problems and prescription drug issues has grown exponentially.

And with the growth of a multitude of social issues, a couple of generations of children are growing up with only the mother doing the hard work to raise them. And on top of that, the role models too many women follow to “empower” themselves has done nothing but damaged the strength, dignity and unique feminine and beautiful quality of the woman.  

Government conveniently claims hottest year, do you believe them?

“Earth is on pace to tie or even break the mark for the hottest year on record, federal meteorologists

say.” That's what the the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced Monday.

But do you believe anything the government tells you? We're told millions of jobs have been created since 2008, yet Americans are suffering with deficient incomes and a lack of hope and prosperity.

The government claims just don't match the reality people see on a daily basis.

The same goes for inflation. We're told by government statisticians that we have no inflation, but take one step into a grocery store and experience severe sticker shock at the high, and climbing, price of groceries.

Along with Monday's AP story about the high temperatures, AP “Science” Writer Seth Borenstein quoted an expert.

"This is one of many indicators that climate change has not stopped and that it continues to be one of the most important issues facing humanity," said University of Illinois climate scientist Donald Wuebbles.

I wonder if Wuebbles was at East Anglia University when it was busted in 2009, for presenting fraudulent data, trying to support a bogus case for Global Warming?

Getting caught in a lie has not deterred Global Warming zealots. They have changed the name from global warming to “climate change" but still peddle political propaganda as science. Their methods have changed.

Global warming alarmists used to make bold predictions and sit around with egg on their faces when the dire warnings proved only to be ignorance-based hysteria.

America now has a presidential administration that invents science, gets the media to promote it as  reality, in hopes of taxing Americans to pay for government-based solutions.

Even if the “Global Warming” claims were true, there is not anything humans can do to prevent it.

But sadly, under President Barack Obama, there has been a major assault on the truth in order to feed political greed and maintain power.

This country needs to purge itself of all of the liars, charlatans and greedy political opportunists who are running it.

Hopefully we can. If we don't, we won't have to worry about climate change destroying us. Our government will finish the job before the sun can.  

Man gets third life sentence for killing child molester in jail

 John Michael New
strangles child molester. 

Ricky Cooper, of Graniteville, was serving time, in 2011, for sexually assaulting minors. 

He was charged in June 2007 with eight counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, two counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor and 10 counts of committing lewd acts on a minor. 

He pleaded guilty in March 2009 to two counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

On Nov. 25, 2011, John Michael New choked Cooper, who was his cellmate, to death. He then mutilated his body, according to a press release last week from Eleventh Circuit Solicitor Donnie Myers of Lexington.

It's that what is meant when we hear fellow inmates are hard on child abusers? 

Myers called the murder “a particularly gruesome one. The manner of death, mutilation, and the condition of Cooper’s body were absolutely horrific.” Myers said.

For killing Cooper, New was condemned to a third life sentence.

New was a S.C. Department of Corrections inmate at the time he murdered Cooper. He was serving two life sentences for “Taking Hostage by Inmates.”  That incident occurred at Lee Correctional Institute in Bishopville in 1999.

New had nothing to lose for offing the child molester.

Circuit Judge Howard King sentenced New. New confessed to SLED agents that he killed Cooper by strangling him.  

SC media whines over campaign fiance, after Democrat attacks fail

In 2008, members of the Democrat
hate group New Black Panthers
wielded clubs, and intimidated white
voters. Obama's "Justice" Department
dropped the case over political kinship.  

The Sunday Charleston Post and Courier headline reads: Donors use loophole to pour money into governor's race

The story is complaining about a campaign finance loophole that allows contributions – the media does not like- to the S.C. governor's race.

The State newspaper is also using campaign financing methods  to attack Republicans. 

There is an adage among trail lawyers that instructs: if the evidence is (or facts are) not on your side, argue about the process.

Bill Clinton did that after the infamous “Blue Dress” surfaced. He knew he was busted, so his defenders began to savage prosecutor Ken Starr and complain about the money it cost to prosecute such a minimal crime, like perjury in a sexual harassment case. Remember the “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy?”

The media - with no tricks left-  is now attacking the process. 

With Gov. Nikki Haley polling in the double-digits ahead of Democrat Vincent Sheheen, the media is beginning to run out of ploys. Sheheen cannot attach to the Democrat Party, because of the mess it has made nationally. Other attacks of Haley have failed, and looked amateur. So now the media, and the Democrats, are left to whimper over campaign finance. A mainstay of the left because they can claim it puts the rich in control of elections. But they never seem to have a problem with big-money donors to the Democrat Party.

And the media does not care that Democrat hate groups, like the New Black Panthers, intimidate voters at precincts, and get away wit it. Only when they see it helping the GOP, is any law or rule, attacked.

The media may as well quit whining.

Tom Ervin, a sleazy trial lawyer and petition candidate for governor, is claiming to be a Republican and spending $4 million-plus to try to get Sheheen elected. And he's still losing. The media loves him.

The truth is, Democrat is a DIRTY word because of what the party leaders have done to the country. The Democrats and the media need to suck it up and deal with it.

The Democrat Party is seen as greedy and corrupt. It cares only for selfish little special interests, like gays, black people, feminists and abortionists.

The Democrats need to clean up their act, and care about ALL Americans for a change. And then maybe the party can quit complaining about people LEGALLY giving money to the candidate they like best.  

Probably not IF Gamecock defensive coaches are fired, but when

A beautiful day for football. But the Gamecocks showed the team has a
long way to go. 

Gamecock Head Coach Steve Spurrier was relived and sounded genuinely satisfied to get a 41-10

“W” against a lower division Furman team, Saturday.

In the stands, the fans were grumbling and still perplexed at how their solidly-built program had sunk to such a low level. 

Spurrier is likely past the anger. He is probably looking to making the best of a bad situation with not much chance to fix it until off-season, with coaching changes.

That is what it has come to. South Carolina was ranked in the Top 10, pre-season after three 11-win campaigns. Now it may be difficult for the team to get to six wins after two fourth-quarter defensive collapses. Two of SC's “Gimme” wins – Missouri and Kentucky - are losses.

South Carolina has a home game left with South Alabama and a home game versus a resurgent Tennessee team that beat an 11-2 Gamecock squad last year. Everything else, Auburn, Florida and Clemson are on the road.

Morale is especially low among fans. There is just not much to look forward in this once much-anticipated football season. 

On Saturday, the Gamecock defense gave up chunks of yards to Furman.

On one play, Furman running back Hank McCloud broke loose to score on a 60-yard touchdown on the SC defense. It was career-long run for McCloud. 

Other times the Gamecock D was bailed out by Furman fumbles, but there was not much to believe the defenses' problems are solved. Furman had lost five in a row, and stood up to the Gamecocks well at times. The Paladins finished with 211 yards on the ground. 

It is inexplicable that a program could fall as much as the Gamecocks have slipped from 2013 to 2014. Chances are the team just finally ran out of superior talent on defense.

And while the offense seems to be struggling now, it's a case of contagious failure that damages a team. It takes a lot to build confidence, and little to destroy it.

Gamecock fans can hope the defensive coaching staff has found a clue, but don't count on it. It looks like a poorly coached unit, without direction.

Not only is it likely the whole defensive coaching staff be released at the end of 2014, it is the right, and most just, thing to do. The special teams coach has not done a very good job either. 

Too many people have sacrificed too much, to get Carolina to where it was, to let it be destroyed by the very coaches paid to move it up to the next level.

Fans have become accustomed to expect better from Spurrier's teams. 

Ministers being ordered to conduct gay marriage ceremonies

The homosexual movement is quick to
 accuse others of hate. But how tolerant
is the gay movement of the others? 

Could the real motive behind homosexual marriage be to coerce churches into accepting their version

of marriage?

According to the Daily Signal, a digital publication connected to The Heritage Foundation, “a case has arisen in Idaho, where city officials have told ordained ministers they have to celebrate same-sex weddings or face fines and jail time.

Link: Ministers ordered to conduct gay marriage ceremonies

“The Idaho case involves Donald and Evelyn Knapp, both ordained ministers, who run Hitching Post Wedding Chapel. Officials from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, told the couple that because the city has a non-discrimination statute that includes sexual orientation and gender identity, and because the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Idaho’s constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, the couple would have to officiate at same-sex weddings in their own chapel.

The non-discrimination statute applies to all “public accommodations,” and the city views the chapel as a public accommodation.

On Friday, a same-sex couple asked to be married by the Knapps, and the Knapps politely declined. The Knapps now face a 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day they decline to celebrate the same-sex wedding.

A week of honoring their faith and declining to perform the ceremony could cost the couple three and a half years in jail and $7,000 in fines.

Fake Ebola scare shuts down part of Pentagon!

Chaos at the Pentagon. 

The country is in a state of fear and chaos, and nothing is a surprise anymore.

A woman faked an Ebola scare Friday. According a a radio report, the woman got off a bus in Arlington Va. (near the Pentagon) and vomited.
The Woman  "allegedly indicated that she had recently visited western Africa" Arlington officials said. All pedestrian and vehicular traffic was then suspended around the Pentagon's South Parking lot, while Arlington County responded to the scene. Officials temporarily sequestered people on the bus and personnel who went to her aid.
The woman's story was made up.
But Pentagon police shut down a Pentagon entrance along with the portion of the south parking lot.
Arlington County Fire Department and Fairfax County HAZMAT Teams were on the scene.
The woman - alleged to have recently traveled from Liberia.

Iraq WMDs covered up, Bush justified, Rove is WRONG for the GOP

Maybe America would be better off
if this would have happened. 

The New York Times published an article this week that provided evidence that Iraq possessed

weapons of mass destruction (WMDs.)

The proof of the weapons justified the US's 2003 invasion of Iraq. President George W. Bush – who has been vilified unmercifully - was right, it turns out.

The expose, by Times reporter C.J. Chivers, revealed U.S. service personnel's encounters with chemical weapons in Iraq.

The article focused on U.S. soldiers who suffered from exposure to the sulfur mustard and other nerve gases from bombs.

According to the story, about "5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs" were found . The U.S. government buried the cases from both the public and the troops. As a result, injured soldiers did not receive proper medical treatment.

First you have to ask WHY was this hidden? Did the Democrat Party have a hand in the cover up to forge a political gain? That is in keeping with Democrat, and media, information-control tactics.

Or was it Bush' top adviser, Karl Rove? and why? 

Link: Rove is to blame for covering up WMD evidence

Also many of us did not need this added evidence to exonerate Bush.

The way the US, at the demand of the media and the UN, made us telegraph that war, Iraq had more than enough time to hide, or move out, WMDs. There is evidence they did.

Bush's crime was not TELLING everyone what happened. Blame Karl "Moderate Play Pretty" Rove for that. And it's what has damaged Bush's legacy, and helped give us Obama.

America is suffering severely because of the lack of communication and the media crucifixion of Bush.

We must learn for this experience. What we must make sure not to do is let moderates, like Karl Rove, anywhere near the White House, or the GOP nominee in 2016.

Aside from advising Bush not to counter untrue and vicious claims from the media and the left, that, Rove gave us Mitt Romney in 2012.

The post-Rove-Bush America is a nightmare. We need a true American HERO to undo the mess that is the result of the moderates of the Republican Party, like Rove.

Keep that in mind as you consider a GOP candidate for 2016.  

Sending Reserve soldiers to fight Ebola - Race-baiting political move?

Politically, the Democrat Party is in free-fall less than three weeks from Midterm elections. 

Thursday, President Barack Obama issued an executive order calling up reserve troops, or National Guard soldiers, to walk into the danger of Ebola in Africa.

Is sending troops into an epidemic of death a ploy to pick a fight with white military leaders? Could Obama be trying to be seen as the savior of an African country, with non-blacks contesting him, just before an election that could totally cripple him politically?

Obama has been fervently trying to stir the pot of race-hate politics. He has thrown fire on the Ferguson shooting of an attacking assailant by a police officer, along with a term-and-a-half of racial politicking. 

The Troops for Ebola order is issued as Obama's CDC has bumbled and fumbled in its responses about the deadly disease. And two nurses, tending to a now-deceased Liberian, have contracted Ebola. Obama – or his minions -have implied it's the nurses fault, even though so much of what his CDC czar said about Ebola has been proven erroneous.

Obama told Congress of his order today. It reads: "I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation United Assistance, which is providing support to civilian-led humanitarian assistance and consequence management support related to the Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa."

The Pentagon said it had no immediate plans to send reservists or National Guard troops to Africa. Pentagon officials said the order allows the military to begin planning to send forces in its overall response.

Should Guard members refuse to go. Should they take Obama to court, and make them go? Any sane American on a jury would rule against Obama in this case.  

In the meantime, anyone else have a feeling Obama is not going to accept the Pentagon's refusal. Is Obama itching for a public black versus white fight, that the media will eat up, in hopes of driving race-hate voters to the polls?  

Is Gay lobby telling truth about economic impact of redefining marriage?

The Gay Marriage movement is
based in a lie. No one is preventing
homosexuals from marrying. The gay
lobby just wants to refined it, with
government sanctioning.  

The Williams Institute said: “extending marriage to same-sex couples in South Carolina would generate an estimated $25.2 million in spending to the state economy.”

Media, including WVOC Radio, which once billed itself as Columbia's Conservative Voice, is reporting the numbers without any questions. The Free Times, radical leftwing newspaper, is hailing the raw Williams report as a God-send upon which to base all Gay decisions.

Do you believe The Williams Institute numbers, without any suspicious? And do you believe gay couple wanting to marry will go out and spend millions on weddings just because the government redefines marriage? If gay couples want to buy a big wedding, there is NOTHING stopping them now. A redefinition of marriage if love - not politics - is the impetus. 

The Williams Institute is a part of the leftist homosexual propaganda lobby, bent on overturning law affecting and public policy.

How in the world can people who told us Hope and Change would save the country, and solar/ wind are current viable options, be so bold about all this money from the un-holy grail of redefining marriage? Considering the track record of the ultra-left, do you believe anything they tell you?

So much of their “research” always supports their agenda and liberal causes.

According to the 2010 U.S. Census, The Williams Institute said “7,214 homosexual couples live in South Carolina.” That means approximately 15,000 homosexuals. The Williams Institute said half, or 3,607, would marry.

To assume half will marry, is a grand stretch.

By definition, homosexuals are non-conventional. It seems a bit unlikely such non-traditional people would choose the sanctity of marriage for their lifestyle.

The Williams Institute is obviously non-objective, and pushing its cause. And the media is eagerly gobbling up the “data.” But a windfall from gay marriage is just not a feasible premise if common sense is applied to what we know.  And I'd bet on practical knowledge and experience over The Williams Institute. 

Biden prevents elderly SC woman from seeing doctor about serious condition!

And the Democrats accuse the GOP of a War on Women? 

The media is silent about
Democrat Sheheen's refusal
to be seen with Biden. 

The Daily Caller reports: 

A South Carolina man is furious after he says road closures for Vice President Joe Biden’s daylong campaign trip to Columbia on Tuesday prevented his sick mother from being able to get to her doctor.

Link: Biden visit for elite Democrats costs elderly woman important doctor's visit

“It wasn’t an emergency, but it was important,” the man, a resident of downtown Columbia, said in an interview with The Daily Caller of his mother’s appointment. “She’s not well.”

“As far as a son taking care of a very old and very ill mother, it was infuriating to the point of making me frantic,” he said.

On a normal day, the man said, it would only take about seven minutes to drive from his mother’s house to the hospital where her appointment was scheduled. But the woman missed her appointment after her son tried driving down five different roads, but found each of them blocked by police.

“We missed it,” the man said of the appointment. “We gave up after about 40 minutes and came home.”

“It was absurd,” he said by phone.

Biden and his wife, Jill, flew to Columbia for the day on Tuesday for several events.

The man said his mother is suffering from a “severe auto-immune disease.” She was going to see her doctor to discuss recent tests. “It was a big deal,” the son said.

Is MARK of the Beast manifesting in the radical Homosexual Movement?

Christians persecuted by homosexual politician!!!

THIS SHOULD HORRIFY ALL CHRISTIANS!!!...and freedom-loving, justice-minded Americans. 

The Bible warns of false
religions. 

"The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or the city’s first openly lesbian mayor. And those ministers who fail to comply could be held in contempt of court."....

Is the MARK of the DEVIL manifesting in the Homosexual Movement?

And if you are a non-Christian, pro-gay advocate, do you condone this police-state tactic of intimidation by the Gay Mayor  of Houston?
The IRS targets Conservatives. The NSA is spying on reporters. Ebola is terrifying the culture, because we have no faith in our dishonest government. Our economy is in a shambles, as was the economy of 1930s Germany when the NAZIs were elected. And there is blatant persecution by sinister forces against Christian ministers.
What is it going to take for GOOD and DECENT Americans, who built this country to the status of GREAT, to wake up and begin an overwhelming movement to drowned out the radical, aggressive, offensive, and freedom-hating agents of hate, chaos and destruction? 

Biden to run for president? Sheheen a NO-Show!

Vice President Joe Biden was in Columbia Tuesday.

The gaffe-prone VP said: “GOP doesn't do what it says.”

The quote appeared in The State newspaper as a headline to their story on Biden's visit. 

This outgha be good
reading. 

The charge by Biden begs the IMMEDIATE response: "The Democrat Party does what it says...and that's why the country is in such a mess."

The State newspaper says hundreds of South Carolina voters showed up to see Biden, but who DID NOT show, is more telling.

Vincent Sheheen, the representative of Biden's Democrat Party, who is running for governor was nowhere to be seen as his party's high-profile standard-bearer was trotted out for all to see.

Sheheen has been warmer to President Jefferson Davis than he has anyone in President Obama's administration. 

Biden told the faithful that “it's crucial to support Democrats if they value financial success and the ability to advance.”

Under Obama-Biden rule, family households have had an income decline of 10 percent, on top of higher prices for gas, energy, healthcare and food. Food banks are closing doors, and companies going bankrupt. 

In startling news to non-Democrats, Biden said “he might mount a third presidential bid in 2016,” according to The State newspaper.

The State's story was posted by Meg Kinnard of the AP. She did not mention Sheheen's high-profile absence.

Kinnard did say: “The appearance was billed as a get-out-the-vote rally. It featured several prominent South Carolina Democrats, including U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn.”

Kinnard also fawned over the goofy VP, trying to endear him the SC voters.

She said: “Throughout his tenure as vice president, Biden has continued to carefully cultivate ties to key states, including South Carolina, where he would have to seek support should he decide to run in 2016.”

I wonder who Biden's first campaign staff hire might be in the Palmetto State, when he throws his hat in the ring.

Let's hope he does. Can you imagine Jokey Joe and Ratchet Hillary going at it. You have to laugh just thinking about that match-up in a Democrat Party Primary.  

Gamecock Nation bicker over defense's failure

SC's D was a disaster at Kentucky. 

Among most fandoms, when failure occurs, there is the tendency to lay blame. This is not a trivial or meaningless pursuit. The most-productive way to truly correct a problem is to to accurately identify it. But the root of the failure is often the cause for debate. 

Gamecock fans are arguing over if it is coaches or players responsible for the Gamecocks' collapse on defense. Some are even blaming Head Coach Steve Spurrier, who is at least guilty of omission, by letting it get to the level of incompetence it is. But he trusted his coaches, I'm sure.

Like all discussions, you have fans who want the most-efficient, and quickest remedy, so the team can get on track. And you have the soft-peddling, politically correct set, who seem to always be off the mark, and making excuses, in hopes of being seen as open-minded and fair.

Here re some of the posts dealing with the subject on Gamecock Central: the fans site Gamecock Central.

Anti-DC Lorenzo Ward:

Post 1: We pay Whammy (Ward) $750,000/year (not chump change by any standard), and he takes this season off? What was he thinking? More to the point: what in the he#!! has he been doing? I know what he has NOT been doing.
His solution to the current dilemmas on the 'D'? Sitting up in the press box for a better view of the situation. SOS's response?
"If he thinks he can see better (from the press box) that's fine, BUT WE HAVE TO GET GUYS FLYING TO THE BALL AND TACKLING, GETTING GUYS DOWN RIGHT WHEN WE HIT THEM" . . . and THAT Bubbas and Bubettes is a QUOTE!
Me thinks the HBC ain't totally convinced that 'Whammy's Plan' is gonna get the job done. Me thinks Whammy wants to get as far from SOS on game day as his job description will allow!

Post 2: unassailable logic. Ward recruits a bunch of projects, guys that can't get in because of academics and waits until all the veterans graduate before getting new defensive backs but he's not responsible for the current roster? Alright. Who's responsible?

Post 3: I'm not laying off coach ward or anyone else on the staff. there is no excuse whatsoever for what has happened on defense. we are one of the worst defenses in the country. it may be the worst carolina defense i have ever seen. there were a couple under brad scott that may have been worse. but not by much. i am p!$$#d off about it too.

Lorenzo Ward apologists:

Post 1: Spurrier is just as responsible for the defensive problems as Ward. We screwed the pooch on recruiting for a couple of years, and now we have a talent/experience drop off at certain positions.
Ward has been a good coordinator here, and I highly doubt he is "taking the year off."
Not sure how anyone can say that with any honesty.

Post 2: I've seen Ward make adjustments before. It's not like he is not capable or didn't want to. I've watched Ward adjust time and time again. I've also seen his previous two defenses get better as the year progressed.
Up until the Kentucky wildcat formation, our defense was improving every week. Kentucky couldn't get anything done with their QB or their spread formation. Once they got into the wildcat, they ran all over us. Ward says that it should've been an easy fix if the correct information was relayed to him.
So, while I will not give him a pass, I can certainly understand what happened. What I would like to know is why assistants up in the box couldn't tell Ward what was going on.

Is ethics reform a peoples' concern or for the media and Democrats?

Jay Lucas, acting speaker
should realize the media will
try to manipulate him to help
Democrats. . 

Acting S.C. House Speaker Jay Lucas is pushing for ethics reform and quickly. Lucas just got the job from the indicted Bobby Harrell.
Seems like the current ethics system worked in the prosecution of Harrell, without reform. 

People are without jobs, and kids have no food. Harvest Hope Food Bank has had to cut service and layoff staff. Demand for the basic necessities of life are at a high demand, with resources more limited.  

But the media, and the Democrats are constantly hammering Gov. Nikki Haley, claiming ethics violations. They never really prove anything, but it's a way to attack her.

The Democrats, and their media, can use ethics to attack the people they cannot beat at the ballot box. Should Lucas waste time on ethics, right out of the box?

Lucas is already showing a tendency to be led by the media. That's not a good sign for the would-be House Speaker.

All legislators should be honest.

Writing new laws to ensnare Republicans will do NOTHING for families suffering in this miserable Obama economy.

And making up more ways to indict legislators is not going to make them more moral. Elect good people, and let them do their job.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2014/10/11/3739322_the-buzz-acting-sc-house-leader.html?sp=/99/132/312/169/1084/&rh=1#storylink=cpy