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(1414, 1, '2016-04-07 19:01:51', '2016-04-07 19:01:51', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient ''cover'' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">City Manager Charles Nichol''s meme, <em>''If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years''</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don''t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it''s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its ''Needs Assessment''. While it''s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about ''needs''</strong>, it''s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange''s recent ''<span style="color: #0000ff;">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</span>'' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren''t any ''<em>talks''</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. This is a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\n<strong>No amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.</strong>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">LE ARTICLE:</span>\r\n<p class="entry-title"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Tour aids in new City Hall talks</span></strong></p>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">Though he refrained from opining on the Laurinburg City Council’s City Hall situation, Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams presented his case for additional space to Mayor Matthew Block.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">Williams and Assistant Chief Cliff Sessoms walked through the department with Block, City Manager Charles Nichols, and City Council member Dee Hammond on Friday morning to point out areas where its physical facilities could stand to be improved.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">“I would say we have space needs in personnel and evidence and files. We’ve grown since I came aboard in ‘94,” said Williams. “We’ve been juggling things around over here; we just don’t complain because our job is to get out in the community and fight crime.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">The city council is currently exploring the feasibility of a new municipal building to house the police department and city hall, based in part on a 2013 space needs study indicating thee need for 22,000 square feet to house various city departments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">“There’s a need for something to be done, with safety, security, space and all that tied in,” Nichols said. “If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years. The chief’s not lobbying for a brand spanking new building; I haven’t heard that from myself or any of the staff. It’s just knowing from everybody’s day to day operations.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">Between the current municipal building, which was dedicated in 1958, and the W. Charles Barrett administration building next door, the city has 15,000 square feet available.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">Issues in the police department highlighted on Friday varied from the electrical — with several adaptations in place to avoid blown fuses and circuit breakers that trip when multiple appliances are connected — to a shortage of space to allow for the convenient separation of juvenile and adult offenders.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">With a 45-member police department, the four-man gang unit is housed in a single small office and the canine officer is relegated to a miniature desk in the corner of the conference room.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">Williams also pointed out that evidence, which in some cases must be kept indefinitely, is stored offsite and in several locations throughout the department including detectives’ offices.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">“We have no choice. We’ve got to keep it up here,” said Williams. “Just like with the evidence from the crime scene … when the innocence projects come up, they want to review all pertinent evidence in the case.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">The police department cannot be kept completely secure as the open door that connects it with the city tax and finance departments cannot be locked in accordance with fire code. Restroom facilities in the police department are available to other city employees as well as the public, also posing a security risk.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">“They have gone through light and water and we never knew they were there,” said Sessoms. “We have found people wandering the halls.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">Block, who when campaigning was outspoken in opposing the city hall proposal, questioned whether or not the issues raised justify the expense of a new facility.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">“With the state of the city and its finances, is it critically necessary or can we make do?” he said.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">“These are all very valid issues, but it’s not like the police department’s doubling in size with people falling all over each other. Nothing’s really changed in the last five or 10 years to say this building is absolutely inadequate for our needs.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">Last month, the city council authorized staff to begin negotiating a contract with Edifice, Inc. of Charlotte so that council can consider the actual costs involved with building a new city hall.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">“We still don’t even know if we can finance this through the Local Government Commission, we don’t know how much it’s going to cost,” Hammond said. “We don’t know if we can borrow the money. There’s still a lot of things to look at there, but we’ve got to make the decision if we want to go that far with it.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">_ _ _ _ _</span>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">END OF LE ARTICLE</span>\r\n\r\nSources:\r\n\r\nLaurinburg Exchange (Link: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks)\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1415, 1, '2016-04-07 19:14:07', '2016-04-07 19:14:07', '(PIC)''Healthy, Wealthy and Wise'' as the old saying goes. Without good health, the rest doesn''t really matter. Scotland County''s 2nd to last placing in the latest State rankings is but one more sign that we''re headed in the wrong direction and change is needed.\r\n\r\nAre more government funded consumer education programs the answer? Should government pass more rules? Do we need additional government regulation?\r\n\r\nThe fact is Good Health largely depends upon decisions we as individuals make each day. Today, healthy lifestyle choices are only a few keystrokes away, as the Internet is filled with great information, articles and tips on how to live healthier, longer and for less money.\r\n\r\nFirst, we must desire to become healthy, then we must put a realistic plan into place.\r\n\r\nBetween the time the captain (of an ocean going oil tanker) orders the helmsman to change course and the desired change is achieved, the ship has traveled at least six miles. If calamity is to be avoided, the captain must think ahead, have a plan and implement it.\r\n\r\nIt''s no different for us. If we desire positive lifestyle change, but don''t think ahead, don''t have a plan or implement it haphazardly, too fast or not at all, we''re going to fail.\r\n\r\nObesity is the number one cause (behind smoking) of many of life''s most debilitating and catastrophic ailments. fortunately, our weight is almost 100% dependent upon the number of calories we take in each day, versus the number of calories we expend. If we take in more than we expend, we will gain weight, if the same, we will maintain our weight, if less, we will lose weight.\r\n\r\nIf we are slightly overweight it may take just a couple of months to reach the goal, but if we are obese or morbidly obese, it could take a year or more.\r\n\r\nDiets, especially fad diets, aren''t successful over time. Lost pounds tend to come right back, often with a vengeance. A healthy dietary plan is needed to permanently shed extra pounds and keep them off.\r\n\r\nOnly 21% of shoppers read <strong>ingredient labels</strong> before purchasing grocery items. Sugars (of any kind), including high fructose sweeteners, are believed to be the single most important factor leading to obesity and diabetes, and are suspected of promoting the growth and spread of cancer.\r\n\r\nIt''s not just about our sugar intake from outside sources either, many foods such as pastas turn into sugars during the digestive process.\r\n\r\nDiet sodas and other ''diet'' foods don''t help either, as our body continues to crave the energy it needs until satisfied. Some evidence even suggests that ingredients commonly found in many ''diet'' products could be responsible for the explosion we''re seeing in Pancreatic Cancer, which is largely fatal within months of diagnoses.\r\n\r\nVisit our <span style="color: #0000ff;">Healthy Living</span> section to learn more and follow the latest trends and breakthroughs. There''s never been a better time to be alive, and it''s never been easier to enjoy good health.    <span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1416, 1, '2016-04-07 19:19:48', '2016-04-07 19:19:48', '(PIC)''Healthy, Wealthy and Wise'' as the old saying goes. Without good health, the rest doesn''t really matter. Scotland County''s 2nd to last placing in the latest State rankings is but one more sign that we''re headed in the wrong direction and change is needed.\r\n\r\nAre more government funded consumer education programs the answer? Should government pass more rules? Do we need additional government regulation?\r\n\r\nThe fact is Good Health largely depends upon decisions we as individuals make each day. Today, healthy lifestyle choices are only a few keystrokes away, as the Internet is filled with great information, articles and tips on how to live healthier, longer and for less money.\r\n\r\nFirst, we must desire to become healthy, then we must put a realistic plan into place.\r\n\r\nBetween the time the captain (of an ocean going oil tanker) orders the helmsman to change course and the desired change is achieved, the ship has traveled at least six miles. If calamity is to be avoided, the captain must think ahead, have a plan and implement it.\r\n\r\nIt''s no different for us. If we desire positive lifestyle change, but don''t think ahead, don''t have a plan or implement it haphazardly, too fast or not at all, we''re going to fail.\r\n\r\nObesity is the number one cause (behind smoking) of many of life''s most debilitating and catastrophic ailments. Fortunately, our weight is almost 100% dependent upon the number of calories we take in each day, versus the number of calories we expend. If we take in more than we expend, we will gain weight, if the same, we will maintain our weight, if less, we will lose weight.\r\n\r\nIf we are slightly overweight it may take just a couple of months to reach the goal, but if we are obese or morbidly obese, it could take a year or more.\r\n\r\nDiets, especially fad diets, aren''t successful over time. Lost pounds tend to come right back, often with a vengeance. A healthy dietary plan is needed to permanently shed extra pounds and keep them off.\r\n\r\nOnly 21% of shoppers read <strong>ingredient labels</strong> before purchasing grocery items. Sugars (of any kind), including high fructose sweeteners, are believed to be the single most important factor leading to obesity and diabetes, and are suspected of promoting the growth and spread of cancer.\r\n\r\nIt''s not just about our sugar intake from outside sources either, many foods such as pastas turn into sugars during the digestive process.\r\n\r\nDiet sodas and other ''diet'' foods don''t help either, as our body continues to crave the energy it needs until satisfied. Some evidence even suggests that ingredients commonly found in many ''diet'' products could be responsible for the explosion we''re seeing in Pancreatic Cancer, which is largely fatal within months of diagnoses.\r\n\r\nVisit our <span style="color: #0000ff;">Healthy Living</span> section to learn more and follow the latest trends and breakthroughs. There''s never been a better time to be alive, and it''s never been easier to enjoy good health.    <span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1417, 3, '2016-04-07 19:31:34', '2016-04-07 19:31:34', '(PIC)Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient ''cover'' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">City Manager Charles Nichol''s meme, <em>''If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years''</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don''t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it''s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its ''Needs Assessment''. While it''s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about ''needs''</strong>, it''s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange''s recent ''<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks" target="_blank">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</a></span>'' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren''t any ''<em>talks''</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. This is a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\n<strong>No amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Mayor & Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1387-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 19:31:34', '2016-04-07 19:31:34', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1387-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1418, 1, '2016-04-07 19:32:15', '2016-04-07 19:32:15', '(PIC)''Healthy, Wealthy and Wise'' as the old saying goes. Without good health, the rest doesn''t really matter. Scotland County''s 2nd to last placing in the State''s latest Health rankings is but one more sign that we''re headed in the wrong direction and change is needed.\r\n\r\nAre more government funded consumer education programs the answer? Should government pass more rules? Do we need additional government regulation?\r\n\r\nThe fact is Good Health largely depends upon decisions we as individuals make each day. Healthy lifestyle choices are only a few keystrokes away, as the Internet is filled with great information, articles and tips on how to live healthier, longer and for less money.\r\n\r\nBetween the time the captain (of an ocean going oil tanker) orders the helmsman to change course and the desired change is achieved, the ship will have traveled at least six miles. If calamity is to be avoided, the captain must think ahead, have a plan and implement it.\r\n\r\nIt''s no different for us. We must first desire to become healthy, then we must develop a realistic plan and implement it. Lastly, we must give it time to succeed.\r\n\r\nObesity is the number two cause (behind smoking) of many of life''s most debilitating and catastrophic ailments. Fortunately, our weight is almost 100% dependent upon the number of calories we take in each day, versus the number of calories we expend. If we take in more than we expend, we will gain weight, if the same, we will maintain our weight, if less, we will lose weight.\r\n\r\nIf we are slightly overweight our plan may take just a couple of months to reach its goal, but if we are obese or morbidly obese, it could take a year or more. Slow and steady will get the job done.\r\n\r\nDiets, especially fad diets, are rarely successful. Lost pounds tend to come right back, often with a vengeance. A healthy dietary plan will shed those extra pounds and keep them off.\r\n\r\nOnly 21% of shoppers read <strong>ingredient labels</strong> before purchasing grocery items. Sugars (of any kind), including high fructose sweeteners, are believed to be the single most important factor leading to obesity and diabetes, and are suspected of promoting the growth and spread of cancer.\r\n\r\nIt''s not just about our sugar intake from outside sources either, many foods such as pastas turn into sugars during the digestive process.\r\n\r\nDiet sodas and other ''diet'' foods don''t help either, as our body continues to crave the energy it needs until satisfied. Some evidence even suggests that ingredients commonly found in many ''diet'' products could be responsible for the explosion we''re seeing in Pancreatic Cancer, which is largely fatal within months of diagnoses.\r\n\r\nVisit our <span style="color: #0000ff;">Healthy Living</span> section to learn more and follow the latest trends and breakthroughs. There''s never been a better time to be alive, and it''s never been easier to enjoy good health.    <span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1419, 3, '2016-04-07 19:58:23', '2016-04-07 19:58:23', '', 'Block & Williams', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'block-williams', '', '', '2016-04-07 19:58:23', '2016-04-07 19:58:23', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Block-Williams.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(1420, 3, '2016-04-07 19:58:58', '2016-04-07 19:58:58', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1419 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Block-Williams-300x242.jpg" alt="Block &amp; Williams" width="300" height="242" />Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient ''cover'' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">City Manager Charles Nichol''s meme, <em>''If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years''</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don''t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it''s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its ''Needs Assessment''. While it''s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about ''needs''</strong>, it''s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange''s recent ''<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks" target="_blank">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</a></span>'' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren''t any ''<em>talks''</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. This is a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\n<strong>No amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Mayor & Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1387-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 19:58:58', '2016-04-07 19:58:58', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1387-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1421, 3, '2016-04-07 20:00:59', '2016-04-07 20:00:59', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1419 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Block-Williams-300x242.jpg" alt="Block &amp; Williams" width="300" height="242" />Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient ''cover'' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">City Manager Charles Nichol''s meme, <em>''If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years''</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don''t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it''s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its ''Needs Assessment''. While it''s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about ''needs''</strong>, it''s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange''s recent ''<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks" target="_blank">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</a></span>'' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren''t any ''<em>talks''</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. This is a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\n<strong>No amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'Mayor & Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1387-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 20:00:59', '2016-04-07 20:00:59', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1387-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1422, 3, '2016-04-07 20:05:32', '2016-04-07 20:05:32', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1419 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Block-Williams-300x242.jpg" alt="Block &amp; Williams" width="300" height="242" />Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient ''cover'' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">City Manager Charles Nichol''s meme, <em>''If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years''</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don''t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it''s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its ''Needs Assessment''. While it''s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about ''needs''</strong>, it''s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange''s recent ''<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks" target="_blank">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</a></span>'' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren''t any ''<em>talks''</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. This is a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\n<strong>No amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank">Scotland County’s New School</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-mired-in-depression-part-1/" target="_blank">Scotland County Mired in Depression (Part 1)</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'Mayor & Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1387-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 20:05:32', '2016-04-07 20:05:32', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1387-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1423, 3, '2016-04-07 20:06:32', '2016-04-07 20:06:32', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1419 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Block-Williams-300x242.jpg" alt="Block &amp; Williams" width="300" height="242" />Mayor Matt Block and Police Chief Darwin Williams recent publicity stroll through Laurinburg City Hall appears designed to ensure sufficient ''cover'' is in place prior to shifting gears in favor of the new $5.5 million City Hall/Police Complex.\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">City Manager Charles Nichol''s meme, <em>''If it’s not now, it’s going to be in five years or 10 years''</em>, is disingenuous and just plain wrong. If things don''t change, Laurinburg is only going to need a tiny office in <em>5 or ten years</em>, as it''s presently headed toward becoming a pastoral ghost town. Businesses are closing, those who can are selling out and fleeing, trying to outrun a tidal wave of violent crime.</span>\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nThis entire City Hall rumpus only got wings and started flying after the City commissioned its ''Needs Assessment''. While it''s great to have a list of needs, <strong>this is not and has never been about ''needs''</strong>, it''s about what Laurinburg can afford, or in this case, <strong>cannot afford</strong>.\r\n\r\nThe Exchange''s recent ''<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4588/tour-aids-in-new-city-hall-talks" target="_blank">Tour Aids in new City Hall talks</a></span>'' looks like thinly disguised propaganda seeking to move the new City Hall/Police Complex project forward one more notch.\r\n\r\nThe fact is, there aren''t any ''<em>talks''</em> going on. City Council has done everything possible to cut off public dialogue. This is a one way street. The only <em>talking</em> is between the City and itself.\r\n\r\n<strong>No amount of propaganda, hoodwinking or financial razzmatazz is going to make this dog hunt.</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-to-build-new-school/" target="_blank">Scotland County’s New School</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/scotland-county-mired-in-depression-part-1/" target="_blank">Scotland County Mired in Depression (Part 1)</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'Mayor & Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1387-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-07 20:06:32', '2016-04-07 20:06:32', '', 1387, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1387-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1424, 3, '2016-04-08 13:21:45', '2016-04-08 13:21:45', '(PIC)\r\n\r\nThe City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their "gender identity". The State Legislature responded by passing the ''Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act'', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That''s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl''s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a ''Global Operations Center'' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal''s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal''s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to ''punish'' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill" target="_blank">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal''s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable," further stating that the "new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the Williams Institute (LINK: http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf), only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when NWO pedophelia is already rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn''t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty to construct a police state that destroys our nation, way of life and enslaves us.\r\n\r\nHere''s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don''t need your stinkin'' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf" target="_blank">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law" target="_blank">The New American</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1425, 3, '2016-04-08 13:23:09', '2016-04-08 13:23:09', '(PIC)\r\n\r\nThe City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their "gender identity". The State Legislature responded by passing the ''Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act'', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That''s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl''s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a ''Global Operations Center'' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal''s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal''s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to ''punish'' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill" target="_blank">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal''s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable," further stating that the "new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf" target="_blank">Williams Institute</a></span> (LINK: http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf), only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when NWO pedophelia is already rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn''t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty to construct a police state that destroys our nation, way of life and enslaves us.\r\n\r\nHere''s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don''t need your stinkin'' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf" target="_blank">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law" target="_blank">The New American</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1426, 3, '2016-04-08 13:26:22', '2016-04-08 13:26:22', '(PIC)\r\n\r\nThe City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their "gender identity". The State Legislature responded by passing the ''Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act'', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That''s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl''s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a ''Global Operations Center'' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal''s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal''s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to ''punish'' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill" target="_blank">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal''s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable," further stating that the "new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf" target="_blank">Williams Institute</a></span>, only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls'' restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when NWO pedophilia is already rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want them to have access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn''t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty to construct a police state that destroys our nation and way of life, and enslaves us.\r\n\r\nHere''s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don''t need your stinkin'' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf" target="_blank">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law" target="_blank">The New American</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1427, 3, '2016-04-08 13:44:43', '2016-04-08 13:44:43', '', 'no-paypal', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'no-paypal', '', '', '2016-04-08 13:44:43', '2016-04-08 13:44:43', '', 1392, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/no-paypal.png', 0, 'attachment', 'image/png', 0),
(1428, 3, '2016-04-08 13:45:11', '2016-04-08 13:45:11', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1427 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/no-paypal-300x156.png" alt="no-paypal" width="300" height="156" />The City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their "gender identity". The State Legislature responded by passing the ''Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act'', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That''s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl''s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a ''Global Operations Center'' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal''s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal''s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to ''punish'' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill" target="_blank">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal''s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable," further stating that the "new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf" target="_blank">Williams Institute</a></span>, only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls'' restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when NWO pedophilia is already rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want them to have access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn''t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty to construct a police state that destroys our nation and way of life, and enslaves us.\r\n\r\nHere''s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don''t need your stinkin'' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf" target="_blank">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law" target="_blank">The New American</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1429, 3, '2016-04-08 13:47:43', '2016-04-08 13:47:43', '<img class=" wp-image-1427 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/no-paypal-300x156.png" alt="no-paypal" width="279" height="145" />The City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their "gender identity". The State Legislature responded by passing the ''Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act'', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That''s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl''s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a ''Global Operations Center'' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal''s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal''s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to ''punish'' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill" target="_blank">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal''s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable," further stating that the "new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf" target="_blank">Williams Institute</a></span>, only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls'' restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when NWO pedophilia is already rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want them to have access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn''t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty to construct a police state that destroys our nation and way of life, and enslaves us.\r\n\r\nHere''s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don''t need your stinkin'' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf" target="_blank">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law" target="_blank">The New American</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/facebook-seeks-trump-assassination/" target="_blank">Facebook Supports Trump Assassination</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank">Who’s Spying on You?</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1431, 3, '2016-04-08 13:53:29', '2016-04-08 13:53:29', '<img class=" wp-image-1427 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/no-paypal-300x156.png" alt="no-paypal" width="279" height="145" />The City of Charlotte recently passed an ordinance allowing individuals to select the restroom of their "gender identity". The State Legislature responded by passing the ''Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act'', which not only overturned the Charlotte ordinance, but protects the right of all North Carolinians to use a restroom without having their privacy invaded by a person of the opposite sex. That''s right, North Carolina will not allow men to use the same restroom and locker facilities as your teenage (or younger) daughter.\r\n\r\nNew World Order (NWO) ruling elites reacted by launching an assault aimed at bullying state officials into capitulating and rescinding this legislation.\r\n\r\nPayPal, whose service purportedly is to provide a secure method of payment for goods and services purchased online, has as its mission allowing men into women’s and little girl''s restrooms, and women into men’s restrooms.\r\n\r\nPayPal now threatens to cancel plans to open a ''Global Operations Center'' in Charlotte, stating that passage of the law is “discriminatory” against transgenders (people claiming to have a “mismatch” between their sexual identity and their biological sex). PayPal''s move could cost the city and the state about 400 jobs.\r\n\r\nPrior to PayPal''s full court press, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo barred all “non-essential state travel” to North Carolina and was joined in that decision by the mayors of Seattle and San Francisco. Additional support to ''punish'' North Carolina, and other states (like <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22920-mississippi-governor-signs-religious-liberty-bill" target="_blank">Mississippi</a></span>) implementing similar laws, comes from other bullies Google, Apple, American Airlines and even the NBA. More than 100 companies have banded together in protest of this law.\r\n\r\nPayPal''s CEO, Dan Schulman, voices his ignorance of basic human rights in stating that becoming “an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable," further stating that the "new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture.”\r\n\r\nWait a minute, Dan. According to the <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf" target="_blank">Williams Institute</a></span>, only 0.3 percent of the population identify as other than their birth gender, less than one percent. So, Dan, for the sake of less than 1% of the population, you are willing to grant grown men access to little girls'' restrooms and locker facilities across the nation when <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtstlx96s8M" target="_blank">NWO pedophilia</a></span> is already rampant and growing throughout our country? They already have access to our little boys and now you want them to have access to our girls?\r\n\r\nPaul Stam, NC State Representative (R), defended the law: “The law did not change the policy on discrimination an appreciable extent between two weeks ago and today. What [transgendered people are] really complaining about is that we have not become like the 17 other states that have put in special rights for them,” Stam said. “We’re trying to protect the reasonable expectations of privacy of 99.9 percent of our citizens, who think when they’re going into a restroom or a changing room or a locker room, that they will be private.”\r\n\r\nBut this isn''t really about the rights of transgenders, who have the same rights as the rest of us. This is really part of a much bigger picture and meant to keep us distracted and off balance while the really dirty work gets done behind the scenes. Those in power are doing everything possible to keep us entertained and distracted while they trash our freedom and liberty to construct a police state that destroys our nation and way of life, and enslaves us.\r\n\r\nHere''s a message for you Dan, and those of your ilk: We don''t need your stinkin'' progressive New World Order agenda infecting our or any other state.\r\n\r\nTake your money to New York, San Francisco and Seattle. Build your Global Operations Center and utopian nightmare there.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gates-How-Many-People-LGBT-Apr-2011.pdf" target="_blank">Williams Institute</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22923-paypal-latest-to-punish-north-carolina-for-restroom-privacy-law" target="_blank">The New American</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/facebook-seeks-trump-assassination/" target="_blank">Facebook Supports Trump Assassination</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1433, 1, '2016-04-08 01:00:36', '2016-04-08 05:00:36', '<img class=" wp-image-1436 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg" alt="hormones-matter-to-all-of-us" width="288" height="221" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it''s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'hormones-matter-for-all-of-us', '', '', '2019-03-12 13:35:12', '2019-03-12 17:35:12', '', 0, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/?p=1433', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(1437, 3, '2016-04-08 14:19:36', '2016-04-08 14:19:36', '<img class=" wp-image-1436 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg" alt="hormones-matter-to-all-of-us" width="288" height="221" />(PIC)<span style="color: #0000ff;">Dieter - Start Here, don''t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;"><a href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 14:19:36', '2016-04-08 14:19:36', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1438, 3, '2016-04-08 14:29:53', '2016-04-08 14:29:53', '<img class=" wp-image-1436 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg" alt="hormones-matter-to-all-of-us" width="288" height="221" />\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to keep it functioning at optimal levels. <span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it''s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the in case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do" target="_blank">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n<center></center><address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 14:29:53', '2016-04-08 14:29:53', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(1439, 3, '2016-04-08 14:32:02', '2016-04-08 14:32:02', '<img class=" wp-image-1436 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg" alt="hormones-matter-to-all-of-us" width="288" height="221" />\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to keep it functioning at optimal levels. <span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it''s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the in case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do" target="_blank">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 14:32:02', '2016-04-08 14:32:02', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1440, 3, '2016-04-08 14:37:36', '2016-04-08 14:37:36', '<img class=" wp-image-1436 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg" alt="hormones-matter-to-all-of-us" width="288" height="221" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it''s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do" target="_blank">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 14:37:36', '2016-04-08 14:37:36', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1450, 1, '2018-09-18 01:00:46', '2018-09-18 05:00:46', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1822 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bpa-in-canned-goods-300x221.jpg" alt="bpa-in-canned-goods" width="300" height="221" />Bisphenol A or BPA is found in many everyday items we use. In addition to being suspected of causing cancer, it''s an estrogen mimicker which can cause the early onset of puberty in girls and feminization of males.\r\n\r\nNegative publicity has caused some manufacturers to eliminate BPA from products like baby feeding bottles and teething rings, but it remains in most plastics and canned goods, where it''s used to coat the inside of cans.\r\n\r\nManufacturers don''t want consumers to become frightened, so they''re lobbying to prevent labeling requirements that would disclose the presence of BPA.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>To tell or not to tell. That is the dilemma and heated debate which is occurring in California over Bisphenol A (BPA) in some of the canned food products sold at grocery stores. The regulators are concerned that wording on the label is too scary.  They claim to be worried that poor customers won’t buy canned food anymore.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/california-to-delay-bpa-warnings-on-canned-foods-because-regulator-says-label-is-too-scary.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Activist Post</a></span>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/extend-life-save-planet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Extend Your Life &amp; Save the Planet!</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/hormones-matter-for-all-of-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hormones Matter for All of Us</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/avoid-knee-replacement-and-pain/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Avoid Knee Replacement and P</span>ain</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'BPA in Canned Goods', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'bpa-in-canned-goods', '', '', '2019-03-12 13:34:14', '2019-03-12 17:34:14', '', 0, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/?p=1450', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1451, 3, '2016-04-08 16:06:46', '2016-04-08 16:06:46', 'http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/', 'DRAFT - Jobs flee Scotland County, America', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1450-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 16:06:46', '2016-04-08 16:06:46', '', 1450, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1450-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1452, 3, '2016-04-29 14:21:36', '2016-04-29 18:21:36', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1822 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/bpa-in-canned-goods-300x221.jpg" alt="bpa-in-canned-goods" width="300" height="221" />Bisphenol A or BPA is found in many everyday items we use. In addition to being suspected of causing cancer, it''s an estrogen mimicker which can cause the early onset of puberty in girls and feminization of males.\n\nNegative publicity has caused some manufacturers to eliminate BPA from products like baby feeding bottles and teething rings, but it remains in most plastics and canned goods, where it''s used to coat the inside of cans.\n\nManufacturers don''t want consumers to become frightened, so they''re lobbying to prevent labeling requirements that would disclose the presence of BPA.\n<blockquote>"<em>To tell or not to tell. That is the dilemma and heated debate which is occurring in California over Bisphenol A (BPA) in some of the canned food products sold at grocery stores. The regulators are concerned that wording on the label is too scary.  They claim to be worried that poor customers won’t buy canned food anymore.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\n&nbsp;\n\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\n<a href="http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/california-to-delay-bpa-warnings-on-canned-foods-because-regulator-says-label-is-too-scary.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000;">Activist Post</span></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/extend-life-save-planet/" target="_blank">Extend Your Life &amp; Save the Planet!</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\n&nbsp;\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\n\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'BPA in Canned Goods', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1450-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-04-29 14:21:36', '2016-04-29 18:21:36', '', 1450, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1450-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1453, 3, '2016-04-08 16:09:09', '2016-04-08 16:09:09', '(PIC)<span style="color: #0000ff;">Dieter - Start Here, don''t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Jobs Flee Scotland County, America', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1450-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 16:09:09', '2016-04-08 16:09:09', '', 1450, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1450-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1454, 3, '2016-04-08 16:23:46', '2016-04-08 16:23:46', '(PIC)<span style="color: #0000ff;">Dieter - Start Here, don''t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>To tell or not to tell. That is the dilemma and heated debate which is occurring in California over Bisphenol A (BPA) in some of the canned food products sold at grocery stores. The regulators are concerned that wording on the label is too scary.  They claim to be worried that poor customers won’t buy canned food anymore.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/california-to-delay-bpa-warnings-on-canned-foods-because-regulator-says-label-is-too-scary.html\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - BPA in Cans', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1450-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 16:23:46', '2016-04-08 16:23:46', '', 1450, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1450-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1455, 1, '2016-04-08 17:05:11', '2016-04-08 17:05:11', '<img class=" wp-image-1436 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg" alt="hormones-matter-to-all-of-us" width="288" height="221" />\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it''s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do" target="_blank">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 17:05:11', '2016-04-08 17:05:11', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1456, 1, '2016-04-08 17:38:04', '2016-04-08 17:38:04', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the ''shell game''. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It''s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <strong><em>Property Tax Reduction</em></strong>. Wow, that sounds like Great News for stressed property owners, but is it?\r\n\r\nSorry, but this is just one more version of the same old shell game. Property Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could go down, but if <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> continues to rise, property owners will continue to come out on the losing end.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are plunging in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations continue to rise, causing annual property tax bills to just keep going up. This shell game is as old as the hills.\r\n\r\nThe other game that continues to be play on county residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite the fact that you paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when you originally purchased that personal property, Scotland County requires you to continue paying a tax year after year for as long as you own it.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price in more ways than one. Burdensome Taxation discourages new business and household formation and dampens existing business and household enthusiasm to replace obsolete or worn out equipment.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way business and residents will ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it''s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us guessing. There is no free lunch.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">County </span><span class="kLink">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County Considers Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 17:38:04', '2016-04-08 17:38:04', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1457, 1, '2016-04-08 17:48:57', '2016-04-08 17:48:57', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the ''shell game''. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It''s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <strong><em>Property Tax Reduction</em></strong>. Wow, that sounds like Great News for stressed property owners, but is it?\r\n\r\nSorry, but this looks like just another version of the same old shell game. Property Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could go down, but if <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> continue to rise, property owners will still come out on the losing end.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are plunging in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations continue to rise, causing actual property tax bills to keep going up. This is the same old pig, with new lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that continues to be played on county residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite the fact that you paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when originally purchasing that personal property, Scotland County requires you to continue paying a tax year after year for as long as you own it.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price, as Burdensome Taxation discourages new business and household formation, while dampening enthusiasm for existing enterprises to replace obsolete or worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we''ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it''s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us guessing. There simply is no free lunch.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">County </span><span class="kLink">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County Considers Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 17:48:57', '2016-04-08 17:48:57', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1458, 1, '2016-04-08 17:50:54', '2016-04-08 17:50:54', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the ''shell game''. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It''s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <strong><em>Property Tax Reduction</em></strong>. Wow, that sounds like Great News for stressed property owners, but is it?\r\n\r\nSorry, but this looks like just another version of the same old shell game. Property Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could indeed be lowered, but if <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> continue to rise, property owners still come out on the losing end.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are plunging in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations continue to rise, causing actual property tax bills to keep going up. This is the same old pig, with new lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that continues to be played on county residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite the fact that you paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when originally purchasing that personal property, Scotland County requires you to continue paying a tax year after year for as long as you own it.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price, as Burdensome Taxation discourages new business and household formation, while dampening enthusiasm for existing enterprises to replace obsolete or worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we''ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it''s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us guessing. There simply is no free lunch.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">County </span><span class="kLink">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County Considers Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 17:50:54', '2016-04-08 17:50:54', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1459, 1, '2016-04-08 18:03:16', '2016-04-08 18:03:16', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the ''shell game''. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It''s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <strong><em>Property Tax Reduction</em></strong>. That sounds like Great News for stressed property owners, but is it?\r\n\r\nProperty Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could indeed be lowered, but if <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> continue to rise, property owners still come out on the losing end. Despite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are plunging in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations continue to rise, causing property tax bills to keep going up. This looks like the same old pig, but with new lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that continues to be played on county residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite having paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when first purchasing personal property, Scotland County demands a tax be paid year after year for as long as you own it.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price, as Burdensome Taxation discourages new business and household formation, while dampening enthusiasm for existing enterprises to replace obsolete or worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we''ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it''s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us guessing. There simply is no free lunch.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">County </span><span class="kLink">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County to Consider Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:03:16', '2016-04-08 18:03:16', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1460, 1, '2016-04-08 18:41:12', '2016-04-08 18:41:12', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the ''shell game''. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It''s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <strong><em>Property Tax Reduction</em></strong>. That sounds like Great News, especially for stressed property owners, but is it?\r\n\r\nProperty Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could indeed be lowered, but if <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> continue to rise, property owners still come out on the losing end. Despite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are plunging in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations continue to rise, causing property tax bills to keep going up. This looks like the same old pig, but with new lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that continues to be played on county residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite having paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when first purchasing personal property, Scotland County demands a tax be paid year after year for as long as you own it.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price, as Burdensome Taxation discourages new business and household formation, while dampening enthusiasm for existing enterprises to replace obsolete or worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we''ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it''s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us guessing. There simply is no free lunch.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">County </span><span class="kLink">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County to Consider Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:41:12', '2016-04-08 18:41:12', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1461, 1, '2016-04-08 18:46:59', '2016-04-08 18:46:59', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the ''shell game''. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It''s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <strong><em>Property Tax Reduction</em></strong>. That sounds like Great News, but is it?\r\n\r\nProperty Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could indeed be lowered, but if <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> continue to rise, property owners still come out on the losing end. Despite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are declining in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations continue to rise, causing property tax bills to go up. It''s the same old pig, but with new lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that continues to be played on county residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite having paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when first purchasing personal property, Scotland County demands a tax be paid year after year for as long as you own it.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price, as burdensome taxation discourages new business and household formation, while it dampens enthusiasm for existing enterprises to replace obsolete or worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we''ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it''s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us guessing. There simply is no free lunch.\r\n\r\n"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">County </span><span class="kLink">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span>\r\n\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County to Consider Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:46:59', '2016-04-08 18:46:59', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(1462, 3, '2016-04-08 18:51:09', '2016-04-08 18:51:09', '<img class=" wp-image-1436 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg" alt="hormones-matter-to-all-of-us" width="288" height="221" />\n\n&nbsp;\n\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\n</span>\n\nWhile it''s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\n<blockquote>"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\n\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do" target="_blank">Hormone.Org</a></span>\n\n<center></center>&nbsp;\n\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\n&nbsp;\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\n\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\n\n&nbsp;', 'DRAFT - Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:51:09', '2016-04-08 18:51:09', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1463, 3, '2016-04-08 18:51:58', '2016-04-08 18:51:58', '<img class=" wp-image-1436 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg" alt="hormones-matter-to-all-of-us" width="288" height="221" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it''s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do" target="_blank">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:51:58', '2016-04-08 18:51:58', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1464, 3, '2016-04-08 18:54:41', '2016-04-08 18:54:41', '<img class=" wp-image-1436 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg" alt="hormones-matter-to-all-of-us" width="288" height="221" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it''s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do" target="_blank">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:54:41', '2016-04-08 18:54:41', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1465, 3, '2016-04-08 18:55:47', '2016-04-08 18:55:47', '<img class=" wp-image-1436 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/hormones-matter-to-all-of-us-300x230.jpg" alt="hormones-matter-to-all-of-us" width="288" height="221" />\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHormones, produced by glands and organs in our bodies, are the chemical messengers that carry the information needed by your body to survive and keep it functioning at optimal levels, controlling most major bodily functions, from simple basic needs like hunger to complex systems like reproduction, and even emotions and mood.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nWhile it''s easy to think that more would be better when taking hormone supplements, that is not the case. In fact, you could unknowingly be causing damage.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>Hormones direct such vital functions as growth, reproduction, and metabolism. While hormonal imbalances get blamed for health problems from mood swings to weight gain to depression, some people intentionally increase their levels of certain hormones using supplements, to build muscle strength and restore lost youthfulness, for example.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.forksoverknives.com/hormones-matter-three-ways-mess" target="_blank">Forks Over Knives</a></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.hormone.org/hormones-and-health/what-do-hormones-do" target="_blank">Hormone.Org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<center></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Hormones Matter for All of Us', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1433-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:55:47', '2016-04-08 18:55:47', '', 1433, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1433-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1466, 1, '2016-04-08 18:57:31', '2016-04-08 18:57:31', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the ''shell game''. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It''s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <strong><em>Property Tax Reduction</em></strong>. That sounds like great news, but is it?\r\n\r\nProperty Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could indeed be lowered, but as long as <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> keep rising, property owners still come out on the losing end. Despite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are declining in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations, as determined by the county Assessor, continue to rise, causing property tax bills to go up. It''s the same old pig, but with new lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that''s being played on county residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite having already paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when first purchasing personal property, Scotland County demands a tax each year for as long as you own the item.\r\n\r\nThere is no free lunch, and County residents have paid a heavy price. Burdensome taxation discourages new business and household formation and discourages existing enterprises from investment, including the replacement of obsolete and worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we''ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it''s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us guessing.\r\n\r\n"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">County </span><span class="kLink">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span>\r\n\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County to Consider Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 18:57:31', '2016-04-08 18:57:31', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1468, 1, '2016-04-08 19:03:55', '2016-04-08 19:03:55', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the ''shell game''. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It''s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><em>Property Tax Rate Reduction</em></strong></span>. Sounds like great news, but is it?\r\n\r\nProperty Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could indeed be lowered, but as long as <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> keep rising, property owners still come out on the losing end.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are declining in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations, as determined by the County Assessor, continue to rise, causing property tax bills to go up. It''s the same old pig, but with different lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that''s being played on County residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite having already paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when first purchasing personal property, Scotland County demands a tax each year for as long as you own the item.\r\n\r\nThere is no free lunch, County residents pay a heavy price, as Burdensome Taxation discourages new business and household formation and discourages existing enterprises from further investment, including replacement of obsolete and worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we''ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it''s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us off balance.\r\n\r\n"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">County </span><span class="kLink">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span>\r\n\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County to Consider Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 19:03:55', '2016-04-08 19:03:55', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1469, 3, '2016-04-08 19:24:42', '2016-04-08 19:24:42', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1473 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/edward-snowden-300x182.jpg" alt="edward-snowden" width="300" height="182" />Many, including us, believe Edward Snowden to be a true American Hero. Others think Ed is a traitor who should be executed, or at the very least imprisoned for life.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\n</span>\n\nHow are Americans to remain a free people and govern ourselves responsibly if ''We the People'' are uninformed, especially regarding what our government is doing to us and on our behalf?\n\nIs government secrecy, supposedly in the name of National Security, destroying our nation?\n<blockquote>"<em>There''s a very real difference between allegiance to country–allegiance to people–than allegiance to state, which is what nationalism today is really more about</em>," says Edward Snowden.</blockquote>\nHere''s a video interview between Liberty Forum''s Nick Gillespie and Edward Snowden. You decide.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o8pkUTav0mk?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>&nbsp;\n\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Source:</strong></em></span>\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://freestateproject.org/blogs/snowden-speaks-free-state-projects-liberty-forum-libertarian-nh" target="_blank">FreeStateProject.org</a></span>\n\n<address> </address><address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-fights-paypals-corporate-bullying/" target="_blank">NC Fights PayPal’s Corporate Bullying</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\n\n&nbsp;\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\n&nbsp;\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\n\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\n\n&nbsp;', 'DONE - Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1129-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 19:24:42', '2016-04-08 19:24:42', '', 1129, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1129-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1470, 3, '2016-04-08 19:07:41', '2016-04-08 19:07:41', '(PIC)Many, including us, believe Edward Snowden to be a true American Hero. Others think Ed is a traitor who should be executed, or at the very least imprisoned for life.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nHow are Americans to remain a free people and govern ourselves responsibly if ''We the People'' are uninformed, especially regarding what our government is doing to us and on our behalf?\r\n\r\nIs government secrecy, supposedly in the name of National Security, destroying our nation?\r\n<blockquote>"<em>There''s a very real difference between allegiance to country–allegiance to people–than allegiance to state, which is what nationalism today is really more about</em>," says Edward Snowden.</blockquote>\r\nHere''s a video interview between Liberty Forum''s Nick Gillespie and Edward Snowden. You decide.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o8pkUTav0mk?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center><address> </address><address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'DONE - Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1129-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 19:07:41', '2016-04-08 19:07:41', '', 1129, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1129-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1471, 1, '2016-04-08 19:08:29', '2016-04-08 19:08:29', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the ''shell game''. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It''s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><em>Property Tax Rate Reduction</em></strong></span>. Sounds like great news, but is it?\r\n\r\nProperty Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could indeed be lowered, but as long as <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> keep rising, property owners still come out on the losing end.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are declining in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations, as determined by the County Assessor, continue to rise, causing property tax bills to go up. It''s the same old pig, but with different lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that''s being played on County residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite having already paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when first acquiring personal property, Scotland County levies a tax each year for as long as you own the item.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price, as Burdensome Taxation discourages new business and household formation and discourages existing enterprises from further investment, including replacement of obsolete and worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we''ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it''s only a question of which shell game they use to keep us off balance.\r\n\r\n"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">County </span><span class="kLink">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span>\r\n\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County to Consider Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 19:08:29', '2016-04-08 19:08:29', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1472, 1, '2016-04-08 19:12:33', '2016-04-08 19:12:33', '(PIC)Experienced carnival operators know how to play the ''shell game''. No matter how hard you try, or how many times you play, you never win. It''s no different when government sets out to separate you from your hard earned money.\r\n\r\nScotland County Manager Kevin Patterson says he plans to present the Board of Commissioners with options for a <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><em>Property Tax Rate Reduction</em></strong></span>. Sounds like great news, but is it?\r\n\r\nProperty Tax <strong>Rates</strong> could indeed be lowered, but as long as <strong>Assessed Valuations</strong> keep rising, property owners still come out on the losing end.\r\n\r\nDespite the fact that <strong>real</strong> property values are declining in Scotland County (try selling your property and see what happens), Assessed Valuations, as determined by the County Assessor, continue to rise, causing property tax bills to go up. It''s the same old pig, but with different lipstick.\r\n\r\nThe other game that''s being played on County residents is the <strong>Personal Property Tax</strong>. Despite having already paid a hefty Sales, Use or Excise Tax when first acquiring personal property, Scotland County levies a tax each year for as long as you own the item.\r\n\r\nCounty residents pay a heavy price, in more ways than one. Burdensome Taxation discourages new business and household formation and discourages existing enterprises from further investment, including replacement of obsolete and worn out items.\r\n\r\n<strong>The only way we''ll ever experience a real tax reduction is if the County actually spends less money</strong>. Until then, it''s only a question of which shell game County officials use to keep us off balance.\r\n\r\n"<em>Still in the early stages of developing the budget for the county’s 2016-2017 fiscal year, <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">County </span><span class="kLink">Manager</span></span></a> Kevin Patterson said on Monday that he plans to present the Scotland County Board of <a id="KonaLink1" class="kLink" href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate#"><span style="color: #595959;"><span class="kLink">Commissioners</span></span></a> with options for a property tax rate reduction.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span>\r\n\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/news/4229/scotland-county-may-reduce-tax-rate\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - County to Consider Tax Rate Reduction', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1126-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 19:12:33', '2016-04-08 19:12:33', '', 1126, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1126-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1473, 3, '2016-04-08 19:17:37', '2016-04-08 19:17:37', '', 'edward-snowden', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'edward-snowden', '', '', '2016-04-08 19:17:37', '2016-04-08 19:17:37', '', 1129, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/edward-snowden.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(1474, 3, '2016-04-08 19:19:30', '2016-04-08 19:19:30', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1473 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/edward-snowden-300x182.jpg" alt="edward-snowden" width="300" height="182" />Many, including us, believe Edward Snowden to be a true American Hero. Others think Ed is a traitor who should be executed, or at the very least imprisoned for life.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nHow are Americans to remain a free people and govern ourselves responsibly if ''We the People'' are uninformed, especially regarding what our government is doing to us and on our behalf?\r\n\r\nIs government secrecy, supposedly in the name of National Security, destroying our nation?\r\n<blockquote>"<em>There''s a very real difference between allegiance to country–allegiance to people–than allegiance to state, which is what nationalism today is really more about</em>," says Edward Snowden.</blockquote>\r\nHere''s a video interview between Liberty Forum''s Nick Gillespie and Edward Snowden. You decide.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o8pkUTav0mk?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<address> </address><address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'DONE - Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1129-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 19:19:30', '2016-04-08 19:19:30', '', 1129, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1129-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1475, 1, '2016-04-08 19:23:30', '2016-04-08 19:23:30', '(PIC)We''ve all heard rumors and charges of election fraud since Al Gore lost to George W. Bush after a vote recount in Florida. Such concerns have only grown since then.\r\n\r\nIs this really going on on a much larger scale than most of us think? How could such massive fraud be taking place right under our noses? You''ll have a much better understanding after watching the video.\r\n\r\nNotes fro YouTube:\r\n\r\nHow the Diebold electronic voting machines can be rigged, and how the presidential candidates of each party are not chosen by popular vote but by party leaders / delegates is discussed.\r\n\r\nAlso discussed is the fact so many so-called Christians in the United States are deceived by judeo-christian-(zionist) dogma and why judeo-christian is an oxymoron.\r\n\r\nUntil more so-called professing christians are willing to accept the truth of what Scripture teaches about the "Chosen Ones," and until 2 Chronicles 7:14 is followed, conditions in the United States (and Caucasian Europe) are not going to change for the better, but in fact, will continue to deteriorate.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fR32oH7jx6o?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Election Fraud - American Style (VIDEO)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1137-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 19:23:30', '2016-04-08 19:23:30', '', 1137, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1137-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1476, 3, '2016-04-08 19:23:31', '2016-04-08 19:23:31', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1473 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/edward-snowden-300x182.jpg" alt="edward-snowden" width="300" height="182" />Many, including us, believe Edward Snowden to be a true American Hero. Others think Ed is a traitor who should be executed, or at the very least imprisoned for life.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nHow are Americans to remain a free people and govern ourselves responsibly if ''We the People'' are uninformed, especially regarding what our government is doing to us and on our behalf?\r\n\r\nIs government secrecy, supposedly in the name of National Security, destroying our nation?\r\n<blockquote>"<em>There''s a very real difference between allegiance to country–allegiance to people–than allegiance to state, which is what nationalism today is really more about</em>," says Edward Snowden.</blockquote>\r\nHere''s a video interview between Liberty Forum''s Nick Gillespie and Edward Snowden. You decide.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o8pkUTav0mk?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Source:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://freestateproject.org/blogs/snowden-speaks-free-state-projects-liberty-forum-libertarian-nh" target="_blank">FreeStateProject.org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<address> </address><address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-fights-paypals-corporate-bullying/" target="_blank">NC Fights PayPal’s Corporate Bullying</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank">Who’s Spying on You?</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'DONE - Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1129-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 19:23:31', '2016-04-08 19:23:31', '', 1129, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1129-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1477, 3, '2016-04-08 19:24:45', '2016-04-08 19:24:45', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1473 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/edward-snowden-300x182.jpg" alt="edward-snowden" width="300" height="182" />Many, including us, believe Edward Snowden to be a true American Hero. Others think Ed is a traitor who should be executed, or at the very least imprisoned for life.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nHow are Americans to remain a free people and govern ourselves responsibly if ''We the People'' are uninformed, especially regarding what our government is doing to us and on our behalf?\r\n\r\nIs government secrecy, supposedly in the name of National Security, destroying our nation?\r\n<blockquote>"<em>There''s a very real difference between allegiance to country–allegiance to people–than allegiance to state, which is what nationalism today is really more about</em>," says Edward Snowden.</blockquote>\r\nHere''s a video interview between Liberty Forum''s Nick Gillespie and Edward Snowden. You decide.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o8pkUTav0mk?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Source:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://freestateproject.org/blogs/snowden-speaks-free-state-projects-liberty-forum-libertarian-nh" target="_blank">FreeStateProject.org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<address> </address><address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-fights-paypals-corporate-bullying/" target="_blank">NC Fights PayPal’s Corporate Bullying</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'DONE - Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1129-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 19:24:45', '2016-04-08 19:24:45', '', 1129, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1129-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(1478, 3, '2016-04-08 19:25:21', '2016-04-08 19:25:21', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1473 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/edward-snowden-300x182.jpg" alt="edward-snowden" width="300" height="182" />Many, including us, believe Edward Snowden to be a true American Hero. Others think Ed is a traitor who should be executed, or at the very least imprisoned for life.<span style="color: #0000ff;">\r\n</span>\r\n\r\nHow are Americans to remain a free people and govern ourselves responsibly if ''We the People'' are uninformed, especially regarding what our government is doing to us and on our behalf?\r\n\r\nIs government secrecy, supposedly in the name of National Security, destroying our nation?\r\n<blockquote>"<em>There''s a very real difference between allegiance to country–allegiance to people–than allegiance to state, which is what nationalism today is really more about</em>," says Edward Snowden.</blockquote>\r\nHere''s a video interview between Liberty Forum''s Nick Gillespie and Edward Snowden. You decide.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o8pkUTav0mk?rel=0" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center>&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Source:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://freestateproject.org/blogs/snowden-speaks-free-state-projects-liberty-forum-libertarian-nh" target="_blank">FreeStateProject.org</a></span>\r\n\r\n<address> </address><address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/nc-fights-paypals-corporate-bullying/" target="_blank">NC Fights PayPal’s Corporate Bullying</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/who-is-spying-on-you/" target="_blank">Who’s Spying on You?</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;', 'Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1129-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 19:25:21', '2016-04-08 19:25:21', '', 1129, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1129-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1479, 1, '2016-04-08 15:27:08', '2016-04-08 19:27:08', '(PIC)Rumors of election fraud have been flying ever since Al Gore lost to George W. Bush following a vote recount in Florida. Such concerns have only grown since then and with a major election this November, this issue is only going to heat up.\r\n\r\nIs massive election fraud really going on right under our noses? You''ll have a much better understanding after watching the video.\r\n\r\nNotes fro YouTube:\r\n\r\nHow the Diebold electronic voting machines can be rigged, and how the presidential candidates of each party are not chosen by popular vote but by party leaders / delegates is discussed.\r\n\r\nAlso discussed is the fact so many so-called Christians in the United States are deceived by judeo-christian-(zionist) dogma and why judeo-christian is an oxymoron.\r\n\r\nUntil more so-called professing christians are willing to accept the truth of what Scripture teaches about the "Chosen Ones," and until 2 Chronicles 7:14 is followed, conditions in the United States (and Caucasian Europe) are not going to change for the better, but in fact, will continue to deteriorate.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fR32oH7jx6o?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Election Fraud - American Style (VIDEO)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1137-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 15:27:08', '2016-04-08 19:27:08', '', 1137, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1137-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1480, 1, '2016-04-08 15:30:12', '2016-04-08 19:30:12', '(PIC)Rumors of major election fraud have been flying ever since Al Gore lost to George W. Bush following a vote recount in Florida. Such concerns have only grown since then and with a major election headed our way this November and a dramatic increase in the use of electronic voting machines and mail-in ballots, things are only going to heat up.\r\n\r\nIs massive election fraud going on right under our noses? You''ll have a much better understanding after watching the video.\r\n\r\nNotes fro YouTube:\r\n\r\nHow the Diebold electronic voting machines can be rigged, and how the presidential candidates of each party are not chosen by popular vote but by party leaders / delegates is discussed.\r\n\r\nAlso discussed is the fact so many so-called Christians in the United States are deceived by judeo-christian-(zionist) dogma and why judeo-christian is an oxymoron.\r\n\r\nUntil more so-called professing christians are willing to accept the truth of what Scripture teaches about the "Chosen Ones," and until 2 Chronicles 7:14 is followed, conditions in the United States (and Caucasian Europe) are not going to change for the better, but in fact, will continue to deteriorate.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fR32oH7jx6o?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Election Fraud - American Style (VIDEO)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1137-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 15:30:12', '2016-04-08 19:30:12', '', 1137, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1137-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1481, 1, '2016-04-08 15:31:22', '2016-04-08 19:31:22', '(PIC)Rumors of major election fraud have been flying ever since Al Gore lost to George W. Bush following a vote recount in Florida. Such concerns have grown since then and with a major election headed our way this November and a dramatic increase in the use of electronic voting machines and mail-in ballots, things are only going to heat up.\r\n\r\nIs massive election fraud going on right under our noses? You''ll have a much better understanding after watching the video.\r\n\r\nNotes fro YouTube:\r\n\r\nHow the Diebold electronic voting machines can be rigged, and how the presidential candidates of each party are not chosen by popular vote but by party leaders / delegates is discussed.\r\n\r\nAlso discussed is the fact so many so-called Christians in the United States are deceived by judeo-christian-(zionist) dogma and why judeo-christian is an oxymoron.\r\n\r\nUntil more so-called professing christians are willing to accept the truth of what Scripture teaches about the "Chosen Ones," and until 2 Chronicles 7:14 is followed, conditions in the United States (and Caucasian Europe) are not going to change for the better, but in fact, will continue to deteriorate.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fR32oH7jx6o?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Election Fraud - American Style (VIDEO)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1137-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 15:31:22', '2016-04-08 19:31:22', '', 1137, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1137-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1482, 1, '2016-04-08 15:50:50', '2016-04-08 19:50:50', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg" alt="we-support-our-police" width="300" height="198" />\r\n\r\nTo be sure, there are plenty of bad guys and Law Enforcement stands between them and us.\r\n\r\nTheir service is greatly appreciated and in exchange they are well compensated.\r\n\r\nThe Police are our employees. They work for us. They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of sign at Jerry''s Deli)</span> Why does local law enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to post signs of support?\r\n\r\nIs it because the Internet is full of videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and even killing innocent citizens?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs use powerful, often unlawful devices like <span style="color: #0000ff;">''Stingrays''</span> to collect private information and data on <strong>each and every one of us, </strong>regardless of whether we are suspected of committing a crime?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> as they go about their business, in a supposed effort to clamp down on crime?\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <span style="color: #0000ff;">stolen</span> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">seized</span>, often without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing. In contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police.</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect us?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy? Are LEOs allowing themselves to become mafia style enforcers, making sure we don''t forget who’s really in charge?\r\n\r\nLEOs are often former military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important and fundamental differences as well.\r\n\r\nThose drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> over the seeming anarchy that individual freedom and self expression can engender. This preference works well in a military setting, but can make it difficult when trying to achieve the <em>right balance</em> required to maintain a <em>free</em> and <em>open</em> society. LEOs must walk a fine line. This has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not ensure laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutiona</em>l. <em><strong>T</strong><strong><em>h</em>ere are two things you don’t want to see being made, sausage and politics</strong></em>.\r\n\r\nDid you know most legislation isn''t written by legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of wealthy families and large corporations? Many Legislators routinely vote for Bills they''ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we as voters don''t insist that our Legislators give them a clear and lawful set of directions to follow?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local Law Enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funds to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear, sophisticated surveillance technology and the latest in <em>crowd control</em> (to quell free speech and the right to petition government for grievances). It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Law Enforcement and Soldiers going off to war.\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and LEOs with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great, until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <strong><em>on and off</em></strong> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <strong><em>edit footage</em></strong> to make sure videos fit the narrative they want told.\r\n\r\nWe’ve attended community programs sponsored by our Sheriff’s Department, and quite frankly, came away very disappointed. There appears to be little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s County Sheriff is expected to play if we are to successfully battle crime, while remaining a free people in an open society.\r\n\r\nDeputies appear more interested in manipulating public opinion than doing the hard work necessary to address long festering issues.\r\n\r\nLocal Law Enforcement is taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars to buy the latest gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment. In exchange they agree to share information obtained with Federal agencies that could not legally acquire such information themselves. While this may appear harmless on the surface, <strong>it''s<em> extremely short </em><em>it''s </em></strong><em><strong>sighted and potentially very dangerous. </strong></em>By the time we discover the dangers, it may be too late. <em><strong>\r\n</strong></em>\r\n\r\nLocal law enforcement exists to serve and protect us, not roll out the red carpet for Washington DC schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nNumerous attempts were made to contact both Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding these issues. No response was received.\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. 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(1483, 1, '2016-04-08 15:51:28', '2016-04-08 19:51:28', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg" alt="we-support-our-police" width="300" height="198" />\r\n\r\nTo be sure, there are plenty of bad guys and Law Enforcement stands between them and us.\r\n\r\nTheir service is greatly appreciated and in exchange they are well compensated.\r\n\r\nThe Police are our employees. They work for us. They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of sign at Jerry''s Deli)</span> Why does local law enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to post signs of support?\r\n\r\nIs it because the Internet is full of videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and even killing innocent citizens?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs use powerful, often unlawful devices like <span style="color: #0000ff;">''Stingrays''</span> to collect private information and data on <strong>each and every one of us, </strong>regardless of whether we are suspected of committing a crime?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> as they go about their business, in a supposed effort to clamp down on crime?\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <span style="color: #0000ff;">stolen</span> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">seized</span>, often without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing. In contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police.</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect us?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy? Are LEOs allowing themselves to become mafia style enforcers, making sure we don''t forget who’s really in charge?\r\n\r\nLEOs are often former military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important and fundamental differences as well.\r\n\r\nThose drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> over the seeming anarchy that individual freedom and self expression can engender. This preference works well in a military setting, but can make it difficult when trying to achieve the <em>right balance</em> required to maintain a <em>free</em> and <em>open</em> society. LEOs must walk a fine line. This has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not ensure laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutiona</em>l. <em><strong>T</strong><strong><em>h</em>ere are two things you don’t want to see being made, sausage and politics</strong></em>.\r\n\r\nDid you know most legislation isn''t written by legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of wealthy families and large corporations? Many Legislators routinely vote for Bills they''ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we as voters don''t insist that our Legislators give them a clear and lawful set of directions to follow?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local Law Enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funds to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear, sophisticated surveillance technology and the latest in <em>crowd control</em> (to quell free speech and the right to petition government for grievances). It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Law Enforcement and Soldiers going off to war.\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and LEOs with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great, until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <strong><em>on and off</em></strong> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <strong><em>edit footage</em></strong> to make sure videos fit the narrative they want told.\r\n\r\nWe’ve attended community programs sponsored by our Sheriff’s Department, and quite frankly, came away very disappointed. There appears to be little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s County Sheriff is expected to play if we are to successfully battle crime, while remaining a free people in an open society.\r\n\r\nDeputies appear more interested in manipulating public opinion than doing the hard work necessary to address long festering issues.\r\n\r\nLocal Law Enforcement is taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars to buy the latest gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment. In exchange they agree to share information obtained with Federal agencies that could not legally acquire such information themselves. While this may appear harmless on the surface, <strong>it''s<em> extremely short </em><em>it''s </em></strong><em><strong>sighted and potentially very dangerous. </strong></em>By the time we discover the dangers, it may be too late. <em><strong>\r\n</strong></em>\r\n\r\nLocal law enforcement exists to serve and protect us, not roll out the red carpet for Washington DC schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nNumerous attempts were made to contact both Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding these issues. No response was received.\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Do Police Need a Cheer Leading Squad?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1258-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 15:51:28', '2016-04-08 19:51:28', '', 1258, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1258-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1484, 1, '2016-04-08 15:59:49', '2016-04-08 19:59:49', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg" alt="we-support-our-police" width="300" height="198" />\r\n\r\nTo be sure, there are plenty of bad guys and Law Enforcement stands between them and us.\r\n\r\nTheir service is greatly appreciated and in exchange they are well compensated.\r\n\r\nThe Police are our employees. They work for us. They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of sign at Jerry''s Deli)</span> Why does local law enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to post signs of support?\r\n\r\nIs it because the Internet is full of videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and even killing innocent citizens?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs use powerful, often unlawful means like <span style="color: #0000ff;">''Stingrays''</span> to collect private information and data on <strong>each and every citizen, </strong>regardless of whether we are suspected of criminal activity?\r\n\r\nIs it because LEOs routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> going about their business, in a supposed effort to clamp down on crime?\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <span style="color: #0000ff;">stolen</span> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">seized</span>, often without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing. In contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police.</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect us?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy? Are LEOs allowing themselves to become mafia style enforcers, making sure we don''t forget who’s really in charge?\r\n\r\nLEOs are often former military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important and fundamental differences as well.\r\n\r\nThose drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> over the seeming anarchy that individual freedom and self expression can engender. This preference works well in a military setting, but can make it difficult when trying to achieve the <em>right balance</em> required to maintain a <strong><em>free</em> and <em>open</em></strong> society. LEOs must walk a fine line. This has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not ensure laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutiona</em>l. <em><strong>T</strong><strong><em>h</em>ere are two things you don’t want to see being made, sausage and politics</strong></em>.\r\n\r\nDid you know most legislation isn''t even written by legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of wealthy families and large corporations? Many Legislators routinely vote for Bills they''ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we as voters don''t insist that our Legislators give them a clear and lawful set of directions to follow?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local Law Enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funds to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear, sophisticated surveillance technology and the latest in <em>crowd control</em> (should it become necessary to quell free speech and the right to petition government). It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Law Enforcement and Soldiers going off to war.\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and LEOs with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great, until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <strong><em>on and off</em></strong> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <strong><em>edit footage</em></strong> to make sure videos fit the narrative they want told.\r\n\r\nWe’ve attended community programs sponsored by our County Sheriff’s Department, and quite frankly, came away disappointed. There''s little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s County Sheriff is expected to play if we are to successfully battle crime, while remaining a free people in an open society. Deputies appear more interested in manipulating public opinion than doing the hard work necessary to address long festering issues.\r\n\r\nLocal Law Enforcement is taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars to buy the latest gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment. In exchange they agree to share information obtained with Federal agencies that could <strong>not legally</strong> acquire such information themselves. While this may appear harmless on the surface, <strong>it''s<em> extremely short </em></strong><em><strong>and potentially very dangerous. </strong></em>By the time we discover the  all to real dangers, it could be too late. <em><strong>\r\n</strong></em>\r\n\r\nLocal law enforcement exists to serve and protect us, not roll out the red carpet for Washington DC schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nNumerous attempts were made to contact both Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding these issues. No response was received.\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Do Police Need a Cheer Leading Squad?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1258-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-08 15:59:49', '2016-04-08 19:59:49', '', 1258, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1258-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1485, 3, '2016-04-09 01:00:22', '2016-04-09 05:00:22', '<p><img class="wp-image-1507 size-medium alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director-242x300.png" alt="" width="242" height="300" />Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.</p>\r\n<p>With a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.</p>\r\n<p>Turning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs. The time has come to actually ''create'' jobs.</p>\r\n<p>Employers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and today we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.</p>\r\n<p>Every city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling, the pie is shrinking at the very time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.</p>\r\n<p>Add to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving, ever changing target. Technology is advancing at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will only continue to escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.</p>\r\n<p>We''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug here in Scotland County and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.</p>\r\n<p>We wish Mark Ward the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see not only a real effort, but real results.</p>\r\n<p>It doesn''t take any special skill or talent to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When corporations are done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next. Economic development entities that play this game are engaged in a <strong>race to the bottom</strong> and nothing more. Past Scotland County ED directors have tried this and failed.</p>\r\n<p>We expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We''ve got enough shell games going already. We also expect an open, transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites working behind closed doors, hiding from those who pay the bills.</p>\r\n<p><em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em></p>\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">email</a></span>.</address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/privacy-surveillance-spying-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)</a></span></address>\r\n<address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/mayor-police-chief-poised-to-shift-gears/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mayor &amp; Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears</a></span></address>\r\n<address> </address>\r\n<address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>\r\n<p>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em></p>\r\n<p><em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em></p>', 'Ward Named Scotland County Economic Development Director', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'ward-named-economic-development-director', '', '', '2019-03-19 15:11:27', '2019-03-19 19:11:27', '', 0, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/?p=1485', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1487, 3, '2016-04-09 11:30:45', '2016-04-09 15:30:45', '(PIC)<span style="color: #0000ff;">Dieter - Start Here, don''t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', '', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1485-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-09 11:30:45', '2016-04-09 15:30:45', '', 1485, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1485-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1488, 3, '2016-04-09 11:32:44', '2016-04-09 15:32:44', '(PIC)<span style="color: #0000ff;">Dieter - Start Here, don''t forget to do SEO below.\r\n</span>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - New Economic Development Director', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1485-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-09 11:32:44', '2016-04-09 15:32:44', '', 1485, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1485-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(1492, 1, '2016-04-09 11:57:52', '2016-04-09 15:57:52', '(PIC)Rumors of major election fraud have been flying ever since Al Gore lost to George W. Bush following a vote recount in Florida. Such concerns have grown since then and with a major election headed our way this November and a dramatic increase in the use of electronic voting machines, mail-in ballots and questionable caucus procedures, things are only going to heat up.\r\n\r\nThe recent Wisconsin GOP caucuses, which handed a victory to the struggling Ted Cruz campaign, is now the subject of serious charges of Fraud.\r\n\r\nHere are 2 videos that offer plenty of food for thought.\r\n\r\nNotes fro YouTube:\r\n\r\nHow the Diebold electronic voting machines can be rigged, and how the presidential candidates of each party are not chosen by popular vote but by party leaders / delegates is discussed.\r\n\r\nAlso discussed is the fact so many so-called Christians in the United States are deceived by judeo-christian-(zionist) dogma and why judeo-christian is an oxymoron.\r\n\r\nUntil more so-called professing christians are willing to accept the truth of what Scripture teaches about the "Chosen Ones," and until 2 Chronicles 7:14 is followed, conditions in the United States (and Caucasian Europe) are not going to change for the better, but in fact, will continue to deteriorate.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<center><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fR32oH7jx6o?rel=0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Election Fraud - American Style (VIDEO)', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1137-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-09 11:57:52', '2016-04-09 15:57:52', '', 1137, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1137-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1493, 1, '2016-04-11 10:14:20', '2016-04-11 14:14:20', '<img class="wp-image-1507 size-medium alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director-242x300.png" alt="" width="242" height="300" />Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.\n\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\n\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs. The time has come to actually ''create'' jobs.\n\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and today we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.\n\nEvery city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling, the pie is shrinking at the very time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.\n\nAdd to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving, ever changing target. Technology is advancing at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will only continue to escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\n\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug here in Scotland County and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\n\nWe wish Mark Ward the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see not only a real effort, but real results.\n\nIt doesn''t take any special skill or talent to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When corporations are done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next. Economic development entities that play this game are engaged in a <strong>race to the bottom</strong> and nothing more. Past Scotland County ED directors have tried this and failed.\n\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We''ve got enough shell games going already. We also expect an open, transparent directorship. 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(1495, 1, '2016-04-09 12:49:48', '2016-04-09 16:49:48', '(PIC)Local resident Mark Ward has been named Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward who presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch, is an area native and graduate of UMC.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have to date eluded previous directors, helping our severely depressed economy to recover. It''s not going to be easy, nor can we expect quick results. It''s a deep hole and it going to take some real shoveling to fill it in.\r\n\r\nThe entire world economy is changing, almost at the speed of light, as new technologies sweep existing paradigms aside. This isn''t going to just be about bringing new industries into our county. Industry and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America.\r\n\r\nWe, and America must now learn to compete on a global basis and quite frankly, with our County''s extremely deficient demographics in education, health and job skills, it''s going to be an uphill battle. Every other city, county, state and nation are essentially trying to do the same. Unfortunately for us, others are in a better position to effectively compete in not just today''s competitive and challenging environment, but the even more challenging one that''s on the way.\r\n\r\nThis is a moving target, and if we''re going to have a shot at the prize, we''re going to have to learn to compete. It''s going to take some real effort on the part of all of us and there are no guarantees.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. This is how we support our website and efforts to bring you the news and information we believe are important to our viewers. Thank you for your support.</address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - Economic Development Director Hired', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1485-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-09 12:49:48', '2016-04-09 16:49:48', '', 1485, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1485-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1496, 1, '2016-04-09 13:15:08', '2016-04-09 17:15:08', '(PIC)Local resident Mark Ward has been named Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch, is an area native and graduate of UMC.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and tremendous depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around is no small job and Mark''s challenge isn''t just about trying to attract new business and industry. The jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America.\r\n\r\nWe''re going to have to learn how to successfully compete on a global scale, and given our County''s extremely deficient demographics when it comes to education, health and job skills, it''s going to be an uphill battle. Add to this a high crime rate and burdensome taxation and... well you get the picture.\r\n\r\nIt''s also important to remember that virtually every other city, county, state and nation is also trying to attract business, industry and jobs. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling. The pie is getting smaller at the same time there are more and more mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge, the fact that today''s economy is a moving target. Technology is advancing almost at the speed of light. Existing paradigms are being swept into the ditch, and trend is only going to escalate.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re even going to even have a shot at being players in tomorrow''s world. It''s not going to be easy, nor can we expect quick results. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug and it going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it. We wish Mark the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1497, 1, '2016-04-09 13:25:47', '2016-04-09 17:25:47', '(PIC)Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch, is an area native and graduate of UNC.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be a small job. It won''t be like the old days, which as difficult as they were, involved attracting new business and industry. Employer and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America.\r\n\r\nWe''re competing on a global scale, and given Scotland County''s extremely negative demographics when it comes to education, health and job skills, it''s going to be an uphill battle. A a high and growing crime rate and burdensome taxation aren''t going to make the job any easier either.\r\n\r\nEvery other city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is presently struggling. The pie is shrinking at the same time there are more and more mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a moving target. Technology is advancing almost at the speed of light and existing paradigms are being swept into the ditch. This trend is only going to escalate. This is no time to be standing around with hands in pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re even going to have a shot at being players in tomorrow''s world. It''s not going to be easy, nor can we expect quick results. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug and it going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it. We wish Mark the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1498, 1, '2016-04-09 13:30:40', '2016-04-09 17:30:40', '(PIC)Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch, is an area native and graduate of UNC.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be a small job. It won''t be like the old days, which as difficult as they were, essently involved attracting new business and industry. Others like Charlotte-Mecklenburg have learned the hard way that you can get them to come with the right incentives, but you can''t make them stay. When they''re done feeding at the taxpayer''s trough, they move on to greener pastures, despite what the contract says.  Employers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America.\r\n\r\nWe''re competing on a global scale, and given Scotland County''s extremely negative demographics when it comes to education, health and job skills, it''s going to be an uphill battle. A a high and growing crime rate and burdensome taxation aren''t going to make the job any easier either.\r\n\r\nEvery other city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is presently struggling. The pie is shrinking at the same time there are more and more mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a moving target. Technology is advancing almost at the speed of light and existing paradigms are being swept into the ditch. This trend is only going to escalate. This is no time to be standing around with hands in pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re even going to have a shot at being players in tomorrow''s world. It''s not going to be easy, nor can we expect quick results. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug and it going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it. We wish Mark the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1499, 1, '2016-04-09 14:16:28', '2016-04-09 18:16:28', '(PIC)Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch, is an area native and graduate of UNC.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded the others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs.\r\n\r\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America. We''re competing on a global scale, and given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle. A a high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation aren''t going to make the job any easier.\r\n\r\nEvery other city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is presently struggling. The pie is shrinking at the same time there are more and more mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving target. Technology is advancing almost at the speed of light and existing paradigms are being swept into the ditch. This trend is only going to escalate. This is no time to be standing around with both hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re even going to have a shot at being players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\r\n\r\nWe wish Mark the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect not to see a continuation of the past. It doesn''t take any special skill to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg.\r\n\r\nThey''ve learned the hard way that, given the right amount of incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When they''re done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they move on to the next.\r\n\r\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to another. In addition, we expect an open transparent Directorship, not just another highly paid parasite hiding behind the facade of government.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1500, 1, '2016-04-09 14:26:59', '2016-04-09 18:26:59', '(PIC)Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. Mark is an area native and UNC graduate.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs.\r\n\r\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle. A a high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation aren''t going to make the job any easier.\r\n\r\nEvery other city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is presently struggling. The pie is shrinking at the same time there are more mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge, the fact that today''s economy is one fast moving target. Technology is advancing almost at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This development is not stable, but escalating. It''s no time to be standing around with both hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\r\n\r\nWe wish Mark the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see a genuine effort. It doesn''t take any special skill to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right amount of incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When they''re done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next.\r\n\r\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We also expect an open transparent Directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites hiding within the facade of government.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1501, 1, '2016-04-09 14:33:49', '2016-04-09 18:33:49', '(PIC)Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs.\r\n\r\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.\r\n\r\nEvery other city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling. The pie is shrinking at the same time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge, the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving target. Technology is advancing almost at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will not only continue, it will escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with both hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\r\n\r\nWe wish Mark the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see a genuine effort.\r\n\r\nIt doesn''t take any special skill to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When they''re done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next.\r\n\r\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We also expect an open transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites hiding behind the facade of government.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1502, 1, '2016-04-09 14:35:00', '2016-04-09 18:35:00', '(PIC)Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs.\r\n\r\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.\r\n\r\nEvery other city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling. The pie is shrinking at the same time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge, the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving target. Technology is advancing almost at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will not only continue, it will escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with both hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\r\n\r\nWe wish Mark the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see a genuine effort.\r\n\r\nIt doesn''t take any special skill to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When they''re done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next.\r\n\r\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We also expect an open transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites hiding behind the facade of government.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1503, 3, '2016-04-09 14:38:23', '2016-04-09 18:38:23', '(PIC)Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs.\r\n\r\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.\r\n\r\nEvery other city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling. The pie is shrinking at the same time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge, the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving target. Technology is advancing almost at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will not only continue, it will escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with both hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\r\n\r\nWe wish Mark the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see a genuine effort.\r\n\r\nIt doesn''t take any special skill to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When they''re done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next.\r\n\r\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We also expect an open transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites hiding behind the facade of government.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1504, 3, '2016-04-09 14:42:41', '2016-04-09 18:42:41', '(PIC)Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs.\r\n\r\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.\r\n\r\nEvery other city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling. The pie is shrinking at the same time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving target. Technology is advancing almost at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will not only continue, it will escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with both hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\r\n\r\nWe wish Mark the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see a genuine effort.\r\n\r\nIt doesn''t take any special skill to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When they''re done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next.\r\n\r\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We also expect an open transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites hiding behind the facade of government.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em>\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4639/ward-to-lead-economic-push" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Laurinburg Exchange</span></a>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> 123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">ALL LINKS - Change to Blue</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1505, 1, '2016-04-09 14:56:06', '2016-04-09 18:56:06', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg" alt="we-support-our-police" width="300" height="198" />\r\n\r\nTo be sure, there are plenty of bad guys and Law Enforcement stands between them and us.\r\n\r\nTheir service is greatly appreciated and in exchange they are well compensated.\r\n\r\nThe Police are our employees. They work for us. They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of sign at Jerry''s Deli)</span> Does local law enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to post signs of support?\r\n\r\nYes, the Internet is brimming with videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and killing innocent citizens.\r\n\r\nSure, LEOs are use powerful, often unlawful means like <span style="color: #0000ff;">''Stingrays''</span> to collect private information and data on <strong>each and every citizen, </strong>regardless of whether we are suspected of criminal activity.\r\n\r\nOf course, LEOs routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> going about their business, in a supposed effort to clamp down on crime.\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <span style="color: #0000ff;">stolen</span> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">seized</span>, often without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing. In contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police. </strong>It''s become so blatant that many Departments build it right into their budgets. Yes, they know in advance just how much they plan on stealing next year.<strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect us?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy. All too many are becoming mafia style enforcers, making sure we don''t forget who’s really in charge?\r\n\r\nLEOs are often ex military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important and fundamental differences as well.\r\n\r\nThose drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> over the seeming anarchy that individual freedom and self expression can engender. This preference works well in a military setting, but can make it difficult when trying to achieve the <em>right balance</em> required to maintain a <strong><em>free</em> and <em>open</em></strong> society. LEOs must walk a fine line. Theirs has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not ensure laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutiona</em>l.\r\n\r\nMost legislation isn''t even written by the legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of wealthy families and large corporations. Many legislators routinely vote for Bills they''ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we don''t give them clear and lawful directions?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local law enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funds to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear, sophisticated surveillance technology and the latest crowd control tools. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Law Enforcement and Soldiers going off to war. This poses a systemic threat to our nation\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and LEOs with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great, until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <strong><em>on and off</em></strong> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <strong><em>edit footage</em></strong> to make sure videos fit the narrative they want told.\r\n\r\nWe’ve attended community programs sponsored by our County Sheriff’s Department, and quite frankly, came away disappointed. There''s little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s County Sheriff is expected to play if we are to successfully battle crime, while remaining a free people in an open society. Deputies appear more interested in manipulating public opinion than doing the hard work necessary to address long festering issues.\r\n\r\nLocal Law Enforcement is taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars to buy the latest gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment. In exchange they agree to share information obtained with Federal agencies that could <strong>not legally</strong> acquire such information themselves. While this may appear harmless on the surface, <strong>it''s<em> extremely short </em></strong><em><strong>and potentially very dangerous. </strong></em>By the time we discover the  all to real dangers, it could be too late. <em><strong>\r\n</strong></em>\r\n\r\nLocal law enforcement exists to serve and protect us, not roll out the red carpet for Washington DC schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nNumerous attempts were made to contact both Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding these issues. 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(1507, 3, '2016-04-09 15:08:01', '2016-04-09 19:08:01', '', 'mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', 'mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director', '', '', '2016-04-09 15:08:01', '2016-04-09 19:08:01', '', 1485, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director.png', 0, 'attachment', 'image/png', 0),
(1508, 3, '2016-04-09 15:08:17', '2016-04-09 19:08:17', '<img class="wp-image-1507 size-medium alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director-242x300.png" alt="" width="242" height="300" />Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs.\r\n\r\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.\r\n\r\nEvery other city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling. The pie is shrinking at the same time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving target. Technology is advancing almost at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will not only continue, it will escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with both hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\r\n\r\nWe wish Mark the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see a genuine effort.\r\n\r\nIt doesn''t take any special skill to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When they''re done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next.\r\n\r\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We also expect an open transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites hiding behind the facade of government.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1509, 1, '2016-04-09 15:09:42', '2016-04-09 19:09:42', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg" alt="we-support-our-police" width="300" height="198" />\r\n\r\nTo be sure, there are plenty of bad guys and Law Enforcement stands between them and us.\r\n\r\nTheir service is greatly appreciated and in exchange they are well compensated.\r\n\r\nThe Police are our employees. They work for us. They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of sign at Jerry''s Deli)</span> Does local law enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to post signs of support?\r\n\r\nYes, the Internet is brimming with videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and killing innocent citizens.\r\n\r\nSure, LEOs are use powerful, often unlawful means like <span style="color: #0000ff;">''Stingrays''</span> to collect private information and data on <strong>each and every citizen, </strong>regardless of whether we are suspected of criminal activity.\r\n\r\nOf course, LEOs routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> going about their business, in a supposed effort to clamp down on crime.\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <span style="color: #0000ff;">stolen</span> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">seized</span>, often without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing. In contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police. </strong>It''s become so blatant that many Departments build it right into their budgets. Yes, they know in advance just how much they plan on stealing next year.<strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect us?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy. All too many are becoming mafia style enforcers, making sure we don''t forget who’s really in charge.\r\n\r\nLEOs are often ex military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important and fundamental differences as well.\r\n\r\nThose drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> over the seeming anarchy that individual freedom and self expression can engender. While this preference works well in a military setting, it can make things difficult when trying to achieve the <em>right balance</em> necessary to ensure a <strong><em>free</em> and <em>open</em></strong> society. LEOs must walk a fine line. Theirs has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not ensure laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutiona</em>l.\r\n\r\nMost legislation isn''t even written by the legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of large corporations. Many legislators routinely vote for Bills they''ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we don''t give them clear and lawful directions?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local law enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funds to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear, sophisticated surveillance technology and the latest in crowd control. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Law Enforcement and Soldiers going off to war. This poses a systemic threat to our nation.\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and officers with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great, until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <strong><em>on and off</em></strong> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <strong><em>edit footage</em></strong> to make sure videos fit the narrative they want told.\r\n\r\nWe’ve attended community programs sponsored by our County Sheriff’s Department, and quite frankly, came away disappointed. There appears to be little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s County Sheriff is expected to play if we are to successfully battle crime, while remaining a free people in an open society. Deputies appear more interested in manipulating public opinion than doing the hard work needed to address long festering issues.\r\n\r\nLocal Law Enforcement is among those taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars, buying the latest gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment. In exchange they agree to share information (fusion centers) with Federal agencies that could <strong>not legally</strong> acquire such information by themselves. This may appear harmless on the surface, but <strong>it''s<em> extremely short </em></strong><em><strong>and potentially very dangerous. </strong></em>By the time we discover the all too real dangers, it could be too late. Once a Police State is firmly established, there''s no going back.<em><strong>\r\n</strong></em>\r\n\r\nLocal law enforcement exists to serve and protect us, not roll out the red carpet for Washington D.C.''s schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nNumerous attempts were made to engage Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding these issues. No response was received.\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - Do Police Need a Cheer Leading Squad?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1258-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-09 15:09:42', '2016-04-09 19:09:42', '', 1258, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1258-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1510, 3, '2016-04-09 15:11:22', '2016-04-09 19:11:22', '<img class="wp-image-1507 size-medium alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director-242x300.png" alt="" width="242" height="300" />Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs.\r\n\r\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.\r\n\r\nEvery other city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling. The pie is shrinking at the same time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving target. Technology is advancing almost at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will not only continue, it will escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with both hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\r\n\r\nWe wish Mark the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see a genuine effort.\r\n\r\nIt doesn''t take any special skill to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When they''re done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next.\r\n\r\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We also expect an open transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites hiding behind the facade of government.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/privacy-surveillance-spying-video/" target="_blank">Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/mayor-police-chief-poised-to-shift-gears/" target="_blank">Mayor &amp; Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1511, 1, '2016-04-09 15:23:08', '2016-04-09 19:23:08', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg" alt="we-support-our-police" width="300" height="198" />\r\n\r\nTo be sure, there are plenty of bad guys and Law Enforcement stands between them and us.\r\n\r\nTheir service is greatly appreciated and in exchange they are well compensated.\r\n\r\nThe Police are our employees. They work for us. They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of sign at Jerry''s Deli)</span> Why does local law enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to post signs of support?\r\n\r\nYes, the Internet is brimming with videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and killing innocent citizens.\r\n\r\nSure, LEOs use powerful, often unlawful means like <span style="color: #0000ff;">''Stingrays''</span> to collect private information and data on <strong>each and every citizen, </strong>regardless of whether we are suspected of criminal activity.\r\n\r\nLEOs routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> going about their business, in a supposed effort to clamp down on crime.\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <span style="color: #0000ff;">stolen</span> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">seized</span>, often without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing.\r\n\r\nIn contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police. </strong>It''s become so blatant that many Departments build such theft right into their budgets so they know in advance just how much they expect to steal next year.<strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect us?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy. Are police unwittingly becoming mafia style enforcers, making sure we don''t forget who’s really in charge.\r\n\r\nLEOs are often ex military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important and fundamental differences as well.\r\n\r\nThose drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> over the seeming anarchy that <strong>individual freedom</strong> and self expression can engender. While this preference works well in a military setting, it can make things difficult when trying to achieve the <em>right balance</em> necessary to ensure a <strong><em>free</em> and <em>open</em></strong> society. LEOs must walk a fine line. Theirs has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not ensure laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutiona</em>l.\r\n\r\nMost legislation isn''t even written by the legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of large corporations. Many legislators routinely vote for Bills they''ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we don''t give them clear and lawful directions?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local law enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funded grants to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear, sophisticated surveillance technology and the latest in crowd control. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Law Enforcement and Soldiers going off to war. <strong>This poses a systemic threat to our nation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and officers with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great, until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <strong><em>on and off</em></strong> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <strong><em>edit footage</em></strong> to make sure videos fit the narrative they want told.\r\n\r\nWe’ve attended community programs sponsored by Local Law Enforcement, and quite frankly, came away disappointed. There appears to be little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s policing is expected to play if we are to successfully battle crime, while remaining a free people in an open society. Officers appear more interested in manipulating the public rather than doing the hard work needed to address real crime.\r\n\r\nOur Local Law Enforcement is among those taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars to acquire the latest gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment. In exchange they agree to share information through ''fusion centers'' with Federal agencies that could <strong>not legally</strong> acquire such information otherwise. This seemingly innocent exchange <strong>is<em> extremely short sighted </em></strong><em><strong>and potentially very dangerous. </strong></em>By the time we discover the all too real dangers, it could be too late. Once a nationwide Police State is firmly established, there won''t be any going back.<em><strong>\r\n</strong></em>\r\n\r\nLocal law enforcement exists to serve and protect us, not roll out the red carpet for Washington D.C.''s schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nNumerous attempts were made to engage Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding these issues. No response was received.\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1512, 1, '2016-04-09 15:33:35', '2016-04-09 19:33:35', '<img class="size-medium wp-image-1021 alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/we-support-our-police-300x198.jpg" alt="we-support-our-police" width="300" height="198" />\r\n\r\nTo be sure, there are plenty of bad guys and Law Enforcement stands between them and us.\r\n\r\nTheir service is greatly appreciated and in exchange they are well compensated.\r\n\r\nThe Police are our employees. They work for us. They are paid with our tax dollars.\r\n\r\n<strong>Americans are not required to obey laws that are unlawful or unconstitutional, nor is Law Enforcement empowered to enforce laws that defy the Constitution.</strong>\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of sign at Jerry''s Deli)</span> Why does local law enforcement now feel it needs a cheer leading squad to post signs of support?\r\n\r\nYes, the Internet is brimming with videos showing Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) harassing, abusing, pepper spraying, tasing, beating, robbing, arresting, shooting and killing innocent citizens.\r\n\r\nSure, LEOs use powerful, often unlawful means like <span style="color: #0000ff;">''Stingrays''</span> to collect private information and data on <strong>each and every citizen, </strong>regardless of whether they are suspected of criminal activity.\r\n\r\nOf course, LEOs routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">stop citizens (grandma says No at DUI checkpoint)</span> going about their business, in a supposed effort to prevent crime.\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(Pic of Cop shaking person upside down)</span> FBI statistics disclose that in 2014 alone $4.5 billion was <span style="color: #0000ff;">stolen</span> from the American people. Homes, cars, business assets and cash are being routinely <span style="color: #0000ff;">seized</span>, without any charges filed or even the pretense of illegality or wrongdoing.\r\n\r\nIn contrast, the FBI states that only $3.5 billion was lost due to actual burglaries. <strong>That’s right; according to our own FBI, the vast majority of thefts are being committed not by burglars, but by Police. </strong>It''s become so blatant that many Departments now build such theft right into the budgets so they know in advance how much to steal next year.<strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\nIs it any wonder Americans increasing view Police as dangerous predators? Should honest, God fearing citizens be forced to cower before those paid to serve and protect us?\r\n\r\nPolice recruits are increasingly trained to view the American people as The Enemy. Are police unwittingly becoming mafia style enforcers, making sure we don''t forget who’s really in charge?\r\n\r\nLEOs are often ex military, and while there are valuable synergies between the two, there are important and fundamental differences as well.\r\n\r\nThose drawn to military and law enforcement careers often express a strong preference for <strong><em>order</em></strong> over the seeming anarchy that <strong>individual freedom</strong> and self expression can engender. This preference works well in a military setting, but can make things difficult when trying to achieve the <em>right balance</em> necessary to ensure a <strong><em>free</em> and <em>open</em></strong> society. LEOs must walk a fine line. Theirs has never been an easy mission.\r\n\r\nAs if to spray gasoline on an already blazing fire, Legislators pass tons of laws each year, most of which are neither well thought out, needed or desirable. The legislative process does not in any way ensure laws are <em>just, lawful or constitutiona</em>l.\r\n\r\nMost legislation isn''t even written by the legislators we elect, but rather by professional lobbyists in the employ of large corporations. Many legislators routinely vote for Bills they''ve never seen, let alone read.\r\n\r\n<strong>Legislative abuse places an enormous burden upon LEOs </strong>who take a solemn oath to enforce the laws and defend the Constitution. How can LEOs defend that which millions of Americans have sacrificed, fought and died to preserve if we don''t give them clear and lawful directions?\r\n\r\nTo make matters worse, Washington DC now showers state and local law enforcement with virtually unlimited taxpayer funded grants to acquire gnarly war wagons, military style combat gear, sophisticated surveillance technology and the latest in crowd control. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Law Enforcement and Soldiers going off to war. <strong>This poses a systemic threat to our nation.</strong>\r\n\r\nDepartments are equipping vehicles with Dash Cams and officers with Body Cams in a stated effort to reign in rogue behavior, supposedly introducing transparency and accountability. This sounds great, until you realize that Officers are able to selectively turn cameras <strong><em>on and off</em></strong> to suit their needs, and despite claims to the contrary, can and do <strong><em>edit footage</em></strong> to make sure videos fit the narrative they want told.\r\n\r\nWe’ve attended community programs sponsored by Local Law Enforcement, and quite frankly, came away disappointed. There appears to be little understanding and even less interest regarding the role today’s policing is expected to play if we are to successfully battle crime, while remaining a free people in an open society. Officers appear more interested in manipulating the public rather than doing the hard work needed to address real crime.\r\n\r\nOur Local Law Enforcement is among those taking hard earned federal taxpayer dollars to acquire the latest gadgets, gear and surveillance equipment. In exchange they agree to share (fusion centers) information with Federal agencies that could <strong>not legally</strong> acquire such information otherwise. This seemingly innocent exchange <strong>is<em> extremely short sighted </em></strong><em><strong>and potentially very dangerous. </strong></em>By the time we discover the all too real dangers, it could be too late. Once a nationwide Police State is firmly established, there won''t be any going back.<em><strong>\r\n</strong></em>\r\n\r\nLocal law enforcement exists to serve and protect us, not roll out the red carpet for Washington D.C.''s schemers, scammers, kleptocrats, plutocrats and psychopaths.\r\n\r\nNumerous attempts were made to engage Laurinburg Police Chief Darwin Williams and Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey regarding these issues. No response was received.\r\n\r\n<address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1515, 1, '2016-04-11 09:52:51', '2016-04-11 13:52:51', '<img class="wp-image-1507 size-medium alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director-242x300.png" alt="" width="242" height="300" />Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs.\r\n\r\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.\r\n\r\nEvery other city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling, the pie is shrinking at the same time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving, ever changing target. Technology is advancing at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will only continue to escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug here in Scotland County and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\r\n\r\nWe wish Mark the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see not only a genuine effort, but results.\r\n\r\nIt doesn''t take any special skill or talent to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When corporations are done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next. This game is a race to the bottom and nothing more. Past directors have tried this and failed.\r\n\r\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We also expect an open transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites hiding behind the facade of government.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/privacy-surveillance-spying-video/" target="_blank">Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/mayor-police-chief-poised-to-shift-gears/" target="_blank">Mayor &amp; Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1516, 1, '2016-04-11 10:01:07', '2016-04-11 14:01:07', '<img class="wp-image-1507 size-medium alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director-242x300.png" alt="" width="242" height="300" />Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs.\r\n\r\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and today we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.\r\n\r\nEvery city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling, the pie is shrinking at the same time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving, ever changing target. Technology is advancing at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will only continue to escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug here in Scotland County and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\r\n\r\nWe wish Mark Ward the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see not only a real effort, but real results.\r\n\r\nIt doesn''t take any special skill or talent to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When corporations are done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next. Economic development entities that play this game are engaged in a race to the bottom and nothing more. Past Scotland County ED directors have tried this and failed.\r\n\r\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We got enough shell games going already. We also expect an open, transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites hiding behind the facade of government.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/privacy-surveillance-spying-video/" target="_blank">Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/mayor-police-chief-poised-to-shift-gears/" target="_blank">Mayor &amp; Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1517, 1, '2016-04-11 10:04:57', '2016-04-11 14:04:57', '<img class="wp-image-1507 size-medium alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director-242x300.png" alt="" width="242" height="300" />Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs.\r\n\r\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and today we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.\r\n\r\nEvery city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling, the pie is shrinking at the same time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving, ever changing target. Technology is advancing at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will only continue to escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug here in Scotland County and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\r\n\r\nWe wish Mark Ward the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see not only a real effort, but real results.\r\n\r\nIt doesn''t take any special skill or talent to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When corporations are done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next. Economic development entities that play this game are engaged in a race to the bottom and nothing more. Past Scotland County ED directors have tried this and failed.\r\n\r\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We''ve got enough shell games going already. We also expect an open, transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites hiding from those who pay the bills.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/privacy-surveillance-spying-video/" target="_blank">Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/mayor-police-chief-poised-to-shift-gears/" target="_blank">Mayor &amp; Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1518, 1, '2016-04-11 10:10:18', '2016-04-11 14:10:18', '<img class="wp-image-1507 size-medium alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director-242x300.png" alt="" width="242" height="300" />Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs. The time has come to ''create'' jobs.\r\n\r\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and today we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.\r\n\r\nEvery city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling, the pie is shrinking at the very time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving, ever changing target. Technology is advancing at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will only continue to escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug here in Scotland County and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\r\n\r\nWe wish Mark Ward the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see not only a real effort, but real results.\r\n\r\nIt doesn''t take any special skill or talent to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When corporations are done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next. Economic development entities that play this game are engaged in a <strong>race to the bottom</strong> and nothing more. Past Scotland County ED directors have tried this and failed.\r\n\r\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We''ve got enough shell games going already. We also expect an open, transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites hiding behind closed doors from those who pay the bills.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/privacy-surveillance-spying-video/" target="_blank">Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/mayor-police-chief-poised-to-shift-gears/" target="_blank">Mayor &amp; Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1519, 1, '2016-04-11 10:14:26', '2016-04-11 14:14:26', '<img class="wp-image-1507 size-medium alignleft" src="http://carolinacrossroads.news/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mark-ward-scotland-county-economic-development-director-242x300.png" alt="" width="242" height="300" />Local resident Mark Ward has been appointed Director of the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation. Ward presently serves as Vice President of First Bank''s Laurinburg Branch. He''s an area native and UNC graduate.\r\n\r\nWith a strong background in Finance and depth of local experience, Ward can be expected to demonstrate results that have eluded others.\r\n\r\nTurning our severely depressed economy around isn''t going to be fast or easy, nor will it be like the old days, which as difficult as they were,  pretty much involved attracting new business and industry using taxpayer funds to essentially ''buy'' jobs. The time has come to actually ''create'' jobs.\r\n\r\nEmployers and jobs haven''t just fled Scotland County, they''ve fled America and today we''re competing on a global scale. Given Scotland County''s extremely negative education, health and job skill  demographics, it''s going to be an uphill battle every step of the way. Our high and growing crime rate and burdensome level of taxation won''t make the job any easier.\r\n\r\nEvery city, county, state and nation is trying to attract business, industry and jobs too. The competition is fierce, and to make matters worse, the global economy is struggling, the pie is shrinking at the very time there are a growing number of mouths to feed.\r\n\r\nAdd to this already formidable challenge the fact that today''s economy is a fast moving, ever changing target. Technology is advancing at the speed of light, sweeping existing paradigms into the ditch. This trend will only continue to escalate. It''s no time to be standing around with hands in your pockets. It''s eat or be eaten.\r\n\r\nWe''ve got a lot of work ahead of us if we''re to even have a shot at becoming players in tomorrow''s world. It''s a deep hole we''ve dug here in Scotland County and it''s going to take some real shoveling to fill it in, lay a foundation and build upon it.\r\n\r\nWe wish Mark Ward the very best and offer our genuine spirit of cooperation and support. In exchange, we expect to see not only a real effort, but real results.\r\n\r\nIt doesn''t take any special skill or talent to ''buy'' jobs using taxpayer money, just ask Charlotte-Mecklenburg. They''ve learned the hard way that, given the right incentives, you can get them to come, you just can''t make them stay, no matter what the ''contract'' says. When corporations are done feeding at one taxpayer trough, they quickly move on to the next. Economic development entities that play this game are engaged in a <strong>race to the bottom</strong> and nothing more. Past Scotland County ED directors have tried this and failed.\r\n\r\nWe expect the jobs, when they come, to be real jobs, not taxpayer money changing hands from one pocket to the other. We''ve got enough shell games going already. We also expect an open, transparent directorship. Scotland County doesn''t need any more highly paid parasites working behind closed doors, hiding from those who pay the bills.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>It''s time to get moving!</strong></em>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank">email</a></span>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/open-honest-transparent-city-council-needed/" target="_blank">Open, Honest, Transparent City Council Needed</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/privacy-surveillance-spying-video/" target="_blank">Privacy, Surveillance, Spying (VIDEO)</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/mayor-police-chief-poised-to-shift-gears/" target="_blank">Mayor &amp; Police Chief Poised to Shift Gears</a></span></address><address> </address><address>Affiliate Disclosure: Some links on this page may be affiliate links which, if used to purchase products, would yield a small commission to CarolinaCrossroads.News. 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(1520, 1, '2016-04-11 10:23:15', '2016-04-11 14:23:15', '(PIC)''Healthy, Wealthy and Wise'' as the old saying goes. Without good health, the rest doesn''t really matter. Scotland County''s 2nd to last placing in the State''s latest Health rankings is but one more sign that we''re headed in the wrong direction and change is needed.\r\n\r\nAre more government funded consumer education programs the answer? Should government pass more rules? Do we need additional government regulation?\r\n\r\nThe fact is Good Health largely depends upon decisions we as individuals make each day. Healthy lifestyle choices are only a few keystrokes away, as the Internet is filled with great information, articles and tips on how to live healthier, longer and for less money.\r\n\r\nBetween the time the captain (of an ocean going oil tanker) orders the helmsman to change course and the desired change is achieved, the ship will have traveled at least six miles. If calamity is to be avoided, the captain must think ahead, have a plan and implement it.\r\n\r\nIt''s no different for us. We must first desire to become healthy, then we must develop a realistic plan and implement it. Lastly, we must give it time to succeed.\r\n\r\nObesity is the number two cause (behind smoking) of many of life''s most debilitating and catastrophic ailments. Fortunately, our weight is almost 100% dependent upon the number of calories we take in each day, versus the number of calories we expend. If we take in more than we expend, we will gain weight, if the same, we will maintain our weight, if less, we will lose weight.\r\n\r\nIf we are slightly overweight our plan may take just a couple of months to reach its goal, but if we are obese or morbidly obese, it could take a year or more.\r\n\r\nDiets, especially fad diets, are rarely successful. Lost pounds tend to come right back, often with a vengeance. A healthy dietary plan will shed those extra pounds and keep them off. Slow and steady gets the job done.\r\n\r\nOnly 21% of shoppers read <strong>ingredient labels</strong> before purchasing grocery items. Sugars, including high fructose sweeteners, are believed to be the single most important factor leading to obesity and diabetes, and are suspected of promoting the growth and spread of cancer.\r\n\r\nIt''s not just about our sugar intake from outside sources either, many foods such as pastas turn into sugars during the digestive process.\r\n\r\nDiet sodas and other ''diet'' foods don''t help either, as our body continues to crave the energy it needs until satisfied. Some evidence even suggests that ingredients commonly found in many ''diet'' products could be responsible for the explosion we''re seeing in Pancreatic Cancer, which is largely fatal within months of diagnoses.\r\n\r\nVisit our <span style="color: #0000ff;">Healthy Living</span> section to learn more and follow the latest trends and breakthroughs. There''s never been a better time to be alive, and it''s never been easier to enjoy good health.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>123</em>" <a href="http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Read more...</span></a></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://laurinburgexchange.com/top-stories/4533/report-scotland-county-health-ranking-at-99th\r\n\r\n<center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or support (at) carolinacrossroads (dot) news</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></address><address><a title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. 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(1521, 1, '2016-04-11 10:39:35', '2016-04-11 14:39:35', '(PIC)Bisphenol A or BPA is found in many everyday items we use. It''s not only suspected of causing cancer, but produces estrogen within the body which can result in side effects such as the early onset of puberty in girls and feminization of males.\r\n\r\nNegative publicity has caused some manufacturers to eliminate BPA from products like baby feeding bottles and teething rings, but it remains in items like canned goods, where it''s used to coat the inside of cans.\r\n\r\nManufacturers don''t want consumers to become frightened, so they lobby to prevent labeling requirements that would cause them to identify items containing or contaminated with BPA.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>To tell or not to tell. That is the dilemma and heated debate which is occurring in California over Bisphenol A (BPA) in some of the canned food products sold at grocery stores. The regulators are concerned that wording on the label is too scary.  They claim to be worried that poor customers won’t buy canned food anymore.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/california-to-delay-bpa-warnings-on-canned-foods-because-regulator-says-label-is-too-scary.html\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DRAFT - BPA in Cans', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1450-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-11 10:39:35', '2016-04-11 14:39:35', '', 1450, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1450-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1533, 1, '2016-04-11 10:44:37', '2016-04-11 14:44:37', '(PIC)Bisphenol A or BPA is found in many everyday items we use. In addition to being suspected of causing cancer, it produces estrogen which can result in side effects such as the early onset of puberty in girls and feminization of males.\r\n\r\nNegative publicity has caused some manufacturers to eliminate BPA from products like baby feeding bottles and teething rings, but it remains in most plastics and canned goods, where it''s used to coat the inside of cans.\r\n\r\nManufacturers don''t want consumers to become frightened, so they''re lobbying to prevent labeling requirements that would disclose the presence of BPA.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>To tell or not to tell. That is the dilemma and heated debate which is occurring in California over Bisphenol A (BPA) in some of the canned food products sold at grocery stores. The regulators are concerned that wording on the label is too scary.  They claim to be worried that poor customers won’t buy canned food anymore.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/california-to-delay-bpa-warnings-on-canned-foods-because-regulator-says-label-is-too-scary.html\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - BPA in Cans', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1450-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-11 10:44:37', '2016-04-11 14:44:37', '', 1450, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1450-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1534, 1, '2016-04-11 10:50:19', '2016-04-11 14:50:19', '(PIC)Bisphenol A or BPA is found in many everyday items we use. In addition to being suspected of causing cancer, it produces estrogen which can result in side effects such as the early onset of puberty in girls and feminization of males.\r\n\r\nNegative publicity has caused some manufacturers to eliminate BPA from products like baby feeding bottles and teething rings, but it remains in most plastics and canned goods, where it''s used to coat the inside of cans.\r\n\r\nManufacturers don''t want consumers to become frightened, so they''re lobbying to prevent labeling requirements that would disclose the presence of BPA.\r\n<blockquote>"<em>To tell or not to tell. That is the dilemma and heated debate which is occurring in California over Bisphenol A (BPA) in some of the canned food products sold at grocery stores. The regulators are concerned that wording on the label is too scary.  They claim to be worried that poor customers won’t buy canned food anymore.</em>" <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/29/the-undeniable-reasons-why-civil-war-is-near/" target="_blank">Read more...</a></span></blockquote>\r\nThis article: http://www.activistpost.com/2016/03/california-to-delay-bpa-warnings-on-canned-foods-because-regulator-says-label-is-too-scary.html\r\n\r\n<span style="color: #333333;"><em><strong>Sources:</strong></em></span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n<span style="color: #ff0000;">123</span>\r\n\r\n<center></center><center>*** EMBED VIDEO HERE ***</center><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">HIDE: Author box and Related Posts on side --&gt;</span></strong>\r\n\r\n<address>You reach Carolina Crossroads News at (888) 472-7555 or send us an <a href="http://carolinacrossroads.news/contact-us/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">email</span></a>.</address><address> </address><address>Related Articles:</address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-have-enough-to-survive- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retirement/" target="_blank">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/baby-boomers- reinvent-to-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt;retire/">123</a></span></address><address><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" title="123" href="http://restlessboomers.com/will-you-work-until-you- drop/">123</a></span></address><address> </address>[polldaddy rating="8361352"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px; color: #de030b;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans- serif;">We''d love to hear your questions or comments below. Thank you.</span></span></strong></em></p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</p>\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Fair Use Notice: This website post may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for news reporting, educational and other limited purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the US Copyright Law.</span></span></em>\r\n\r\n<em><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">CarolinaCrossroads.News (‘CCN’) has no control over and does not endorse any external Internet site that contains links to or references CCN.</span></span></em>', 'DONE - BPA in Canned Goods', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1450-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-04-11 10:50:19', '2016-04-11 14:50:19', '', 1450, 'http://carolinacrossroads.news/1450-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
