NC Renegades

Health officials in both Alamance and Guilford counties said Wednesday that they are monitoring seven people who recently traveled to West Africa for possible symptoms of Ebola.

Officials said the individuals are not exhibiting symptoms, had no known contact with any Ebola patients and did not work in a health care facility. Their genders, ages, names, locations and specific places of travel were not released.

“This is active monitoring, and the individuals’ only risk is that they traveled from an affected country,” Alamance County Health Department director Stacie R. Turpin Saunders said in a statement about five people her county is monitoring.

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NC: 5 people monitored for Ebola in Alamance County

After campaigning as a bloc, the four Democrats who defeated incumbent Republicans in Tuesday’s election said Wednesday that they plan to continue working as a unit when they join the Wake County Board of Commissioners next month.

Democrats Sig Hutchinson, Matt Calabria, Jessica Holmes and John Burns defeated commissioners Joe Bryan, Phil Matthews, Rich Gianni and Paul Coble, respectively, putting all seven seats in the hands of a single party for the first time in recent memory.

Hutchinson and Calabria said Wednesday that their first order of business is to sit down with the Wake County Board of Education. Relations between the two boards have been frosty in recent years as they bickered over education spending and control of school construction and maintenance.

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It appears that I was able to escape just in time.

David DeGerolamo

Derrick Palmer was the Republican candidate for sheriff in Cherokee County, NC. Fortunately for Cherokee County, good did overcome true evil. Mr. Figueroa received 29% of the vote.

David DeGerolamo

The Mint has reportedly sold through over 2 million ounces in less than 2 hours!

It appears that the $15.50 level was the line that broke the camel’s back regarding physical inventories, as physical demand has simply EXPLODED on this morning’s futures dip below $15.20. 

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h/t Tom R

The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.  The standing army is only an arm of the standing government.
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This American government, – what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity?
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.  The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.
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All voting is a sort of gaming, like chequers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions …
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Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it.  It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail.  A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.  There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
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Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them …?  Men generally under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them.  … it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil.  It makes it worse.
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If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth, – certainly the machine will wear out. … but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.  Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.  … any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one already.
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Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.  A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; … the State never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses.  It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength.  I was not born to be forced.

That government is best which governs not at all.
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“Resistance to Civil Government” (“Civil Disobedience”)
an essay by Henry David Thoreau
first published in 1849.

Credit to Blue’s Blog

Barack Obama is constantly hyping a “manufacturing resurgence” in America, but the numbers don’t lie.  In September, our manufactured goods trade deficit with the rest of the world soared to a new all-time record high of 69.16 billion dollars.  For the year, we are nearly 12 percent ahead of last year’s record pace.

When we buy far more things than we sell, we get poorer as a nation.

How do you think that we ever got into a position of owing China more than a trillion dollars?

We just kept buying far more from them than they bought from us, and their money just kept piling up.  Now it has gotten to the point where our politicians literally beg them to lend our money back to us.  They are the head and we are the tail.

And we did this to ourselves.

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The “people” have spoken and the Republican Party has regained control of the Senate and kept the House of Representatives. I am curious:

1. What did you vote for? There was no GOP platform in this election other than stop Obama.

2. What will you do when a flurry of executive orders come in retaliation from your pResident?

3. What do you want to happen in the next two years?

Maybe it is time for people to stop reading other people’s opinions, seriously think about the real issues and start sentient discussions about our future.

David DeGerolamo

More from Ivy Mike

h/t WRSA

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Congratulations to the Republican Party for regaining control of the Senate.

How long will we wait to see what executive orders the pResident will sign?

Does the McConnell/Boehner tag team inspire confidence for the future? Since the GOP platform was to run against the Obama agenda, does that mean Obamacare will be repealed? Will the pResident be held accountable for his illegal actions? Will Hillary be held accountable for Benghazi? Will Eric Holder be held accountable for Fast & Furious, intimidation in the Trayvon Martin case, contempt of Congress or supporting his “people” instead of the rule of law?

Get ready for a mass migration of illegal aliens via executive order into our country. But then again, as the world’s economy collapses, at least the price of gas is dropping.

David DeGerolamo

… to restore a Republic.