The RoanokeSlant
This file is a US personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.comFriday, July 31, 2020
I Salute VMI
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VMI
produces outstanding officers for the US army without prejudice or
deference to the origins of the Confederacy.
Clearly the
statutes and symbols of the Confederacy have Not undermined in any way the
commitment of VMI officers to their duty to protect and defend the Constitution
of the USA.
I served
with and under many VMI Army Officers and honor their service to duty, honor
and country.
I agree
with the Commandants’ decision to preserve the heritage of the Institution
going forward.
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VMI will
not remove Confederate statues or rename buildings
School's
superintendent announced the decision on Wednesday
“We do not
currently intend to remove any VMI statues or rename any VMI buildings. Rather,
in the future we will emphasize recognition of leaders from the Institute’s
second century.We will place unvarnished context on the value and lessons to be
learned from the Institute’s rich heritage, while being mindful of the nation’s
challenges and sensitivities to being fair and inclusive to all. Nevertheless,
this and other issues related to the Plan will be discussed in the September
Board of Visitors meeting.”
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Roanoke’s Mayor Lea And General Lee
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Roanoke Activists’ Goals – Really!
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How can so
few people with so limited and warped views of what is best for the community receive so
much attention and deference?
What has
gone wrong with our community priority systems?
How can the
Local PravdaMedia promote these people and their tripe?
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Roanoke activists reveal their 7
improvement goals for city leaders --- REALLY?
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The group,
led by TD of No Justice No Peace Roanoke and BL of the Southwest Virginia Poor
People’s Campaign, outlined its seven benchmarks for Roanoke’s leaders.
In order,
they are:
1. Decreasing the budget of the Roanoke
Police Department
2. Decreasing the budget of the Roanoke
City Jail and the Roanoke County Sheriff’s Office
3. Removing school resource officers and
the Drug Awareness Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program from Roanoke City
Public Schools
4. Decriminalizing drug use
5. Decriminalizing theft and statue
removal
6. Re-training police to be more
community-oriented
7. Investing in underfunded communities
The event overlooked
the ‘End Racism Now’ mural on Campbell
Avenue, which was painted earlier this month.
TD criticized the mural as a symbolic gesture when organizational action is
needed.
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Roanoke’s BLM Mural
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Murdering Trump Deplorables
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Milwaukee police release photos of suspect in
Trump supporter's shooting death
(may have to copy-paste link into
browser to view fox article)
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“Milwaukee police have released photos of a suspect in the
shooting death last week of a Rastafarian community fixture who was
a supporter of President Trump.
Trammell
was shot and killed in front of signs he had put in a storefront window
expressing his support for Trump’s reelection.”
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Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have Not yet arrived for the funeral service.
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Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have Not yet arrived for the funeral service.
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MVP Pipeline Advances
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How can so
called environmentalist so love the blacktop Blue Ridge Parkway and the blacktop so
called GreenWays?
Are they
color-challenged or what?
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The
underground MVP pipeline, invisible to the Blue Ridge Parkway riders and hikers, will
now tunnel under that blacktop strip on the Blue Ridge.
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Other then
massive waste of time, money and resources, what have the obstructionists
achieved with their complicit Obama-Judges?
Oh right –
by leaving long stretches of the excavation open to the weather – there has
been seepage, weepage, erosion and major landowner inconvenience for an extra
two unpleasant years for all involved.
Congratulations
Obstructers – here’s your sign!
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Mountain Valley to receive new permit to cross Blue Ridge Parkway
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Mountain Valley Pipeline Hard To Find In 2025
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Thursday, July 30, 2020
Virginia Riots—They’re Protests Stupid!
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The editors
of the Richmond Dispatch have caved to the Deplorable Trumpers and turned
against Virginia’s
BlackFace Gov. Northam!
They penned
a major blasphemous expose demanding that Virginia’s
so called leaders do something about the ongoing riots in Richmond.
What’s
wrong with these pen-pushers – there aren’t any riots in Virginia – these are peaceful protests –
they only look, sound and smell like riots! (that's the duck test isn't it?) Talk about
foolish risk-taking – what now if the ‘protesters’ turn on the Richmond
Dispatch?; after all -- they're running out of statutes! Time to DeFund the Cops
anyone?
Did these
editors Not watch the Congressional Barr so-called-hearing Tuesday? Do they not understand that these Anarchists are
being supported and empowered at the very highest levels of the Democrat Party?
Just shut-up
already until Nov 4th – then it will all go away; provided that Biden wins -- if not -- this is just the beginning!
In the meantime talk to the editors of the Roanoke Times -- they clearly got the memo you apparently didn't get!
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17 arrested
overnight in Richmond; police swarm Monroe Park
prior to Sunday night march
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Virginia newspaper calls out local leaders after Richmond riots: 'Enough is enough'
An
editorial in the Richmond Times-Dispatch urged elected officials to 'show some
leadership'
(may have to copy-paste link into
browser to view fox article)
“What is
the end game to these protests? The violence seems to escalate daily, not just
in Virginia’s
capital city but across the country,” it said, adding that “the absence of
leadership at all levels of government has compounded these circumstances.”
“We’ve
normalized too many behaviors that make Richmond
— and the United States
— a less safe and prosperous place to live,” the editorial continued.
“Individuals
are desecrating property and being absolved of any wrongdoing,” The Richmond
Times-Dispatch editorial said. “Banks and businesses are boarded up and,
locally, a critical public economic engine — VCU — incurred $100,000 in damage
to its Monroe Park campus in a matter of hours.”
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The
editorial referenced elected officials including Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney,
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, Richmond City Council members, the Virginia
General Assembly and the White House, saying the “public still is looking to”
them “for a way forward,” adding that “the solution won’t be found in a press
conference, a tweet or staying silent.”
The piece
went on to ask, “When will Stoney and City Council members acknowledge that
putting down riots to protect lives and property is a very real function of
their elected positions?”
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Roanoke Violence And The Fools Disparage
The Police
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Anarchists' Blind Hate Desecrates The Norwegian
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Crazed with
Hate and Mob Power the current batch of Today’s LeftWing anarchists running amuck
looking for symbols to destroy.
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Madison Protesters Condemned
For Toppling Statue Of Anti-Slavery Activist
(Heg was Decorated Civil War Union
Officer, KIA)
“tearing
down the statue of abolitionist Hans Christian Heg, smashing windows at the
state house and assaulting a state senator”
“Heg’s
statue was beheaded and thrown into a lake after being rolled through the
city.”
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USA Col. Hans Christian Heg (1829-1863)
Wisconsin Union Civil War Officer
Heg “legally”
migrated to the United States
from Norway
as a child in 1840
Col Heg was
killed in combat on September 19, 1863,
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Will be
interesting to see if any public condemnation by the Liberal-Norwegian-Americans in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Seattle.
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Radical Violent
Mobs, supposedly motivated by a collective guilt movement that's gone off the
rails:
Embraced
and empowered by AntiAmerican Democrats:
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Obama’s
'1984' Garden of Democracy
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Looking For
Symbols To Destroy
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We may have
found the reason rioters destroyed the statue of USA Col Heg.
The idiots
can’t tell a US Flag from a Norwegian Flag from a Confederate Flag.
Michigan inn removes Norwegian flag as
residents falsely believe it's the Confederate flag
https://www.foxnews.com/us/michigan-inn-removes-norwegian-flag-as-residents-falsely-believe-its-the-confederate-flag-report-
Cops Had It With AntiCop Democrats
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Over 100
Police Agencies Pull Out Of Agreements To Guard DNC Convention
“More than
100 law enforcement agencies have reportedly pulled out of security agreements
to send personnel to help with security at the Democratic National Convention
next month in part because they are concerned about recent efforts to limit law
enforcement’s use of tear gas and pepper spray in responding to violent riots.
Milwaukee
Police Chief Alfonso Morales was ordered last month to change the department’s
policies to ban the use of tear gas and pepper spray.”
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“Democrat
Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN) suggested that police were a “cancer” during a rant last
month”
“The
Minneapolis Police Department is rotten to the root, and so when we dismantle
it, we get rid of that cancer, and we allow for something beautiful to rise,
and that reimagining allows us to figure out what public safety looks like for
us,” Omar said.
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Congressional
Democrats Embrace Anarchists
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Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Congressional Democrats Embrace Anarchists Abuse Barr
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Attorney
General William Barr testifies before House Judiciary Committee 7-28-2020
Actually Barr was not allowed to ‘testify’ -- a cabal of nasty Democrats harangued Barr and the American people with pure political venom for the entire so called 'hearing'.
AG Barr was
compelled to be subjected to some of the most AntiAmerican rhetoric that has be
spewed in a US Congressional Hearing
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'Concerned for the country': AG Barr
rips Dems' refusal to condemn Portland
violence
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/28/william-barr-calls-out-democrats-refusal-condemn-p/
Atorney
General William
P. Barr at a raucous House hearing Tuesday confronted Democrats over their
refusal to condemn the violence engulfing Portland, Oregon, and other American cities.
Mr. Barr
repeatedly urged Democrats to denounce the attacks at the Mark O. Hatfield
Federal Courthouse in downtown Portland, where
rioters have injured federal officers with fireworks and have attempted to burn
down the building.
“What makes
me concerned for the country is this is the first time in my memory the leaders
of one of our great two political parties, the Democratic Party, are not coming
out and condemning mob violence and the attack on federal courts,” Mr. Barr told
lawmakers in his debut appearance before the House Judiciary Committee that
oversees his department.
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“Why can’t
we just say violence against federal courts has to stop,” he said. “Can we hear
something like that?”
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The Democrat Congressional Response: The Sound of Silence
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The Democrat Congressional Response: The Sound of Silence
YouTube Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
(1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ukmjBSQY-c -
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WSJ:
5-16-2020: Swamp creatures heap abuse on Barr for exposing abuse at the
Justice Department.
In the
Bible, we are told that the truth will set us free. In the Beltway, we find
that the truth-tellers get hammered.
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Musings on
Today’s LeftWing US Civil War
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Obama’s
'1984' Garden of Democracy
-Musings on Today’s LeftWing US Civil War
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WSJ: A Weekend of Urban Anarchy
These were
not peaceful protests, despite what many in the media claim.
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WSJ: Why Do Democrats Defend Disorder?
My party
always stood for principled dissent, not lawless chaos.
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We are now experiencing a real Civil War (Urban Warfare) in cities from Coast to Coast.
The war of
1860 to 1865 was actually a ‘War Between the States’; the only ‘civil war’ was
in ‘Bleeding Kansas’.
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The US
Radical LeftWing is waging Civil War within US Cities under the guise of
‘Systemic US Racism’ and other like Ills and Flaws.
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Clearly the
street insurrectionists are not focused on fixing race issues. These anarchists are focused on extreme violence and
Urban Warfare as the means to destroy our current society and economic and
political structures.
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Their focus
on Anti-Gun and AntiPolice tactics and rhetoric is a major step in
stripping-away The People’s physical security (Thin Blue Line) making everyone
afraid and subject to intimidation including the police.
Clearly the Democrat Mayors and Governors have already capitulated.
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Sadly the
Democrats, in their psychotic focus on ‘getting Trump’, have decided to support
and enable these insurrectionists as a means to ‘get Trump’ and gain power
again for Obama, Schumer and Pelosi.
Their
gamble is to win the election and then use these violent forces to purge the
Reasonable and Responsible Democrats from power and influence and secure the
AOC-LeftWing element in charge of the DNC.
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The current
focus on Susan Rice as Biden’s VP would ensure the role of Obama as the
King-Maker-Breaker and GodFather.
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Some Susan Rice Reflections:
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Susan Rice
Writes Bazaar CYA Memo To File On Trump’s Inauguration Day --- KickOff the coup
d etat
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Susan Rice
Says Obama’s Security Failures Are “The White Guys” Fault
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Susan loved
Bergdahl
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Roanoke Record Hot Or Maybe Not
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Weather
Journal: 90s streak nears end
“Tuesday
marked four consecutive weeks, 28 days, in which Roanoke has reached or exceeded the 90-degree
mark each and every day. On Thursday, the 23rd day of the streak, it became the
longest streak of 90-plus high temperatures on record, dating back to 1912, for
the Star City, topping the 22-day streak from
June 23 to July 14 of 1966.”
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Roanoke Virginia is in a prolonged July heat wave
with much of the month being recorded at 90 and above at the NOAA instruments at ROA airport.
This heat
wave has been described as breaking the record of consecutive 90-degree days
set back in 1966.
This begs
the question, how does a measurement of 90-degrees at ROA today relate to a
90-degree reading back in 1966?
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The EPA and
other entities have established that ground-level measuring stations in locations
that have grown from rural and suburban sites to major high density sites require
‘corrections’ to the readings due to ‘Heat Island’ effects.
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In a Heat
Island, the area is warmed by both the sun and man-made equipment and the heat
is retained day-to-day by man-made infrastructure. This results in artificially increased
temperatures compared to the same area when it was undeveloped; in this case
the differences between 2020 and 1966 at ROA.
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This
continuous retained heat is the subject of the EPA’s focus on “Heat Islands’
resulting
from the accumulation of black-top and concrete surfaces, buildings, vehicles
and energy consuming equipment in an area.
The EPA document
indicates potential ‘heat island’ temperature range ‘corrections’ of:
“1.8–5.4°F
warmer than its surroundings and on a clear, calm night, the temperature
difference can be as much as 22°F .”
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The EPA
document
outlines an
approach to quantify the ‘heat island’ effect; this apparently has Not been
done for ROA, therefore we do Not know what the appropriate corrections should
be relative to 1966.
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Looking at
the ROA area that now includes the 1000 acre complex, the major black-top runways
and tarmacs, buildings, vehicles and equipment; and the adjacent I-81 and
Valley View Mall; clearly ROA now represents a major “Heat Island” compared to
1966.
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Novices’
cannot quantify the ‘corrections’ that should be applied in order to make
declarations about temperature ‘Records’, however one can question the methods
used by those who are making ‘Record Declarations’ (NOAA) and ask that the work be
done to determine the ‘Heat Island Corrections’ to ensure data integrity and
fair comparisons.
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A nonEPA view
of ‘heat island’ effects can be found at:
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020
USA: Love It or Leave It
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Mike Ditka
Says People Who Don’t ‘Respect’ The National Anthem Should ‘Get The Hell Out
Of’ America
“If you
can’t respect our national anthem, get the hell out of the country. That’s the
way I feel. Of course, I’m old fashioned. So, I’m only going to say what I
feel. I think there’s a way you protest and there’s a way you don’t protest,”
the former Chicago
Bears coach told
TMZ during a recent interview.
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Americans
didn't kneel to British tyranny, Nazi fascism, or Soviet communism.
We won't kneel for a collective guilt movement that's gone off the rails.
We won't kneel for a collective guilt movement that's gone off the rails.
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The
Kneeling Hypocrisy
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Taking A
Knee With Respect And Reverence
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Thomas Jefferson Dining Alone
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John F. Kennedy held a
dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at
that time.
He made this statement:
"This is perhaps
the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White
House, with the exception of when
Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
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PravdaMedia: What Crimes?
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Darn those
Cops and Trump’s Federal Forces
If not for
them – everything would be fine
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Obama’s
'1984' Garden of Democracy
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-Sunday, July 26, 2020
Roanoke Times Journalists Help-Needed-Ad
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The sad
reality is that the Roanoke Times has descended into very hard times!
Sad because
the Roanoke and New River Valleys
need and deserve a good local paper and it’s in the best interests of
Democracy.
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The
Obama-Recession, The Chinese Plague and the migration of news from print to TV
and web has taken a toll on all the print media.
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Unfortunately
the RT chose years ago to pander to 50% of its potential readers and to
purposely alienate the other 50%! What
other business does that?
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Clearly the
owners and managers and editors of the RT chose to join the PravdaMedia and
become a propaganda outlet for the DNC – and they continue to do so, with
vigor, today!
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The RT is
now in a place dominated by ultra-liberal political operatives and messages
sown into the Virginia
political fabric by tens of millions of NYC Bloomberg, Soros and Left-Wing PAC
money and the DC Swamp.
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The further
the RT wanders away from their founder’s ( Mr. Claytor’s) commitments to
fairness – the deeper the financial swamp becomes.
First
editorial, Nov 30, 1886, by Mr. Claytor, first owner and editor of the Roanoke
Times outlines the paper’s philosophy including:
• It has no pets to reward and no enemies to put down.
• It will endeavor to be truthful.
• It is the mouthpiece of no order, corporation, party nor clique.
• To the fostering of our infant manufactories, to the development of our mineral resources and the cultivation of our fertile fields, must we direct our best efforts if we would make this Southern land of ours blossom as the rose.
• It has no pets to reward and no enemies to put down.
• It will endeavor to be truthful.
• It is the mouthpiece of no order, corporation, party nor clique.
• To the fostering of our infant manufactories, to the development of our mineral resources and the cultivation of our fertile fields, must we direct our best efforts if we would make this Southern land of ours blossom as the rose.
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Like Thelma
and Louise and Tanya’s country song says:
“It’s a
little too late to do the RIGHT thing now”
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Claytor Not
Happy With Today’s Roanoke Times
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Worthy OnLine National News Source
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Worthy OnLine
National News Source
To help Off-Set the PravdaMedia left-wing tsunami
To help Off-Set the PravdaMedia left-wing tsunami
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Bongino
Report
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Christiansburg Obama-Judge Denigrates State Police
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Roanoke
Times, 7-26-2020, Pg Va 1: MVP protesters have their day in court
“A
protester’s 'unintentional kick' to a Virginia
state trooper”--- (Really!!!)
“Judge
Randal Duncan convicted her of the misdemeanor and imposed a $150 fine.” – (Really!!!)
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Kicking a
Virginia State Trooper who is exercising his duties as the representative of
the Virginia Judicial System results in a $150 fine!!!!
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What would
the fine be if a Virginia
resident gave this Obama-Judge a good well-deserved kick in the butt next time they meet on
the street?
I'm old -- can't raise my foot that high ---- Asking for a friend!
I'm old -- can't raise my foot that high ---- Asking for a friend!
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AntiFa Rioters Shoot Each Other
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Violent Anarchists
shooting each other – one might call this a ‘friendly fire’ incident – except –
there’s nothing ‘friendly’ about the violent anarchists waging urban warfare
upon our cities, people and police.
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Louisville protests descend into chaos when
armed protester accidentally shoots members of his group, injuring 3
Three
people were injured in Baxter
Square Park,
police said.
(may have
to copy-paste link into browser to view fox article)
“Gunshots
erupted during a planned protest in Louisville, Ky., Saturday and three members of
the heavily armed Black militia group, the “Not F---ing Around Coalition”
(NFAC), were injured by shots fired from one of their own member's guns,
police told Fox News.”
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Portland
Rioters Obama’s Gardeners Of Democracy – Really?
Vandals,
Marxists, Antifa lay siege to Portland,
while Dems decry federal intervention
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Obama’s
'1984' Garden of Democracy
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Seattle Police Chief Sends Simple
Message To Businesses During Riots: You’re On Your Own
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