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Vol. XXII No. 8 © Copyright 2012 The Rhinoceros Times Greensboro, North Carolina www.rhinotimes.com Thursday, February 23, 2012

Council Talking Trash, Giving Away City Cash

Judge Considers Nuclear Option

Frequent Fights, Ferndale Frets

by paul C. ClarkStaff Writer

by SCott D. yoStCounty eDitor

Republican President Pro Tem of the North Carolina Senate Phil Berger, who was the primary force last July in passing the redistricting bill that reduced the Guilford County Board of Commissioners from 11 commissioners to nine, has

been arguing that there’s nothing wrong with the redistricting legislation. However, US District Court Middle District of North Carolina Judge William Osteen Jr. begs to differ.

Osteen held court on the issue

Jack Clodfelter, 7, used most of the snow in his yard to capture a snowman in a private moment on Presidents Day. It doesn’t hurt that his parents, Becky and Jim, are professional artists and had a snow day as well.

Photo by Elaine Hammer

It looks like a snowman assembly line. The snow Monday didn’t last long, but this crowd off Lafayette Avenue made the most of it – sledding for as long as possible and then working with what snow was left.

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The City Council met on Tuesday, Feb. 21 from 5:30 until almost midnight. There was lots of work done and lots of chatter. What is unusual is

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by john hammereDitor

The Greensboro City Council handed out more money and continued its rapid move to the left at its regular meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 21 in the Council Chambers.

economic incentives are one thing, but this City Council agreed to hand over $200,000 to a group that wants to open a

Mexican restaurant in downtown Greensboro off South elm Street. already this year the council has awarded $100,000 for a grocery store.

it would appear the only criteria for getting money out of the council run by Mayor Robbie Perkins is you have to ask for it. Who knows, in the coming months the Perkins’ council may decide to hand over tax dollars to people who haven’t asked yet, but that the council thinks may ask at

some point in the future. The council also narrowly

passed a motion to prohibit people with permits to carry concealed weapons from having those weapons in city parks that have playgrounds, pools or athletic facilities.

each member of the council also appointed a member of a task force to make a recommendation on solid waste disposal.

Councilmember Trudy Wade




all is not well at Ferndale Middle School in High Point.

Since the beginning of February, there have been at least six fights at the school, a 14-year-old student was charged

with having a pellet gun on school grounds, and the middle school has at least temporarily lost its longtime baseball coach and physical education teacher, Kenny angel.

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Is Script Already Written For Arts Center?by john hammer

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The Performing arts Committee, much to the surprise of some of its members, is really the Downtown Performing arts Committee.

The 80-or-so member committee was set up to look into building a performing arts center in Greensboro to replace War Memorial auditorium at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex.

at the Jan. 24 City Council retreat where this was discussed, Mayor Robbie Perkins said there would have to be two tracks: one for the downtown and one for the Coliseum, but there is only one track.

if you are skeptical that committees appointed by the City Council actually do

anything, this one is for you. The committee is scheduled to give its report to the City Council on June 19. However, the last day the City Council can notify the Local Government Commission of its intention to put bonds on the ballot in November is June 19. So the City Council is going to hear the report and then instantly make a decision.

in addition, the council will have to take action by May 15 and have a public hearing by June 5 in order to meet the requirements to put the proposed $30 million bond on the ballot. So the decision will have to be made at least a month before the committee presents its recommendations to the council.

Former City Councilmember and Performing arts Committee member Florence Gatten, at the first meeting of the committee on Thursday, Feb. 16, asked when the committee would consider building the performing arts center at the Coliseum. Ross Harris, who is the paid consultant hired to run the committee, answered, “The charge is to look at the downtown.”

So the talk about two tracks and making sure that the bond is worded so that it can be built either place was just talk.

Gatten also questioned getting buy-in from the public when, because of the timeline, the council is going to have to make the decision before it gets the report

from the committee.There are some more signs that the

Performing arts Committee is a set-up job. One of its subcommittees is to determine the economic feasibility of a downtown performing arts center and another is to work on the programming. another subcommittee is working on how to sell the idea to the voters.

it is a safe bet that the committee is going to recommend that the City Council put a $30 million bond on the November ballot to build a performing arts center downtown, and maybe the committee to sell the idea to the people will figure out how to make it seem like it was not a forgone conclusion.

noted, and it was confirmed by interim City Manager Denise Turner Roth, that since the decision to appoint the solid waste disposal task force was announced, Republic Services was no longer willing to negotiate a six month contract renewal for solid waste disposal but would only consider a 15 year contract renewal. Republic Services currently disposes of Greensboro’s garbage in the Uwharrie landfill near Mount Gilead, North Carolina, a little over 70 miles south

Council(Continued from page 1) of Greensboro.

Wade said Republic expressed concern that the city was considering yet another request for proposals instead of a sole contract with Republic.

Wade said that because White Street Landfill was off the table, Republic could increase its fee from a proposed $11 a ton to $50 a ton, since Greensboro had no other option for disposing of its garbage.

Councilmember Yvonne Johnson said, “i’m not for paying Republic those ridiculous

figures. We can get somebody else to do it. D.H. Griffin might be interested in doing it for one.”

Wade said that the landfill in Rockingham County had hit some problems with runoff and an airport, and would not be opening anytime soon. She also said that at the site in Randolph County, that had seemed so promising for a long term solution, they had discovered Native american relics that would greatly slow down the permitting process. Wade added that some of the neighbors of the proposed Randolph County landfill had contacted the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, which is the group that beat Greensboro in court time after time last year and kept the White Street Landfill from being used to dispose of Greensboro’s garbage.

The White Street Landfill has been the city’s fallback plan. When the decision was made not to expand White Street, and to build a transfer station, the city was warned by those in the industry that White Street had to remain permitted and a viable option to keep the waste management companies from raising their rates through the roof.

Perkins has announced that White Street

is off the table. Republic owns the available landfills in this area, and being the only game in town can charge whatever it wants. The city’s garbage has to be put in a landfill somewhere, every weekday.

What Wade said is something the city now has to worry about. What if Republic simply lets the contract run out and then it can charge the city on a day-by-day basis whatever it wants? The only current option is to sign a 15 year contract and lock the city into shipping its garbage 70 miles away for 15 years with the cost ever increasing as the cost of fuel increases, and at whatever landfill fee Republic decides it wants to charge. The city lost all negotiating power when Perkins said White Street was off the table.

it appears this council wants to follow the last council and spend an inordinate amount of time discussing the landfill and getting nowhere.

Greensboro also learned a little about negotiating with the Guilford County Board of Commissioners. in other words, Greensboro once more caved in to the Guilford County commissioners and gave


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County policy works on a wing and a prayerby SCott D. yoStCounty eDitor

in the wake of a US Fourth Circuit Court of appeals ruling last year, and a mid-January decision this year of the US Supreme Court not to consider an appeal of that ruling, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners is reviewing its policy of having a prayer before meetings. and there’s a possibility that the longstanding practice of opening commissioners meetings with a prayer by an area minister could be halted and the prayer be replaced by a moment of silence.

The decision to scrutinize Guilford County’s prayer policy is the result of a lawsuit that originated in a neighboring county – the 2007 case of Joyner v. Forsyth County.

in that lawsuit, two women, Janet Joyner and Constance Lynn Blackmon, on Dec. 17, 2007, attended a Forsyth County Board of Commissioners meeting and the two stated afterward that they felt very uncomfortable because the preacher’s opening prayer at that meeting contained many references highly specific to Christianity.

For instance, the preacher ended the prayer with “Your Son Jesus’ name, amen.” The Dec. 17 prayer also contained references to “the cross of Calvary,” the “virgin birth” and the “Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ” among other Christian-specific references.

The two women, with the help of the NC american Civil Liberties Union (aCLU), brought a lawsuit against Forsyth County, claiming the prayer had made them uncomfortable and also that the Forsyth Board of Commissioners had a history – as well as an ongoing practice – of allowing Christian prayers at commissioners meetings to the exclusion of prayers of other faiths.

Though Joyner and Blackmon won the case, it was appealed, and last year the Fourth Circuit Court agreed that the Forsyth commissioners’ practice of Christian-only prayer at meetings was unconstitutional.

after the win by Joyner and Blackmon last year in the Fourth Circuit Court of appeals, the ruling was appealed to the US Supreme Court and, on Tuesday, Jan. 17, the Supreme Court announced it wouldn’t hear the case, which left the Fourth Circuit Court decision in effect.

That ruling has legal implications for the way boards of commissioners, city councils and other public bodies conduct prayer at their meetings.

Guilford County attorney Mark Payne said he’s made Guilford County officials aware of the Fourth Circuit Court’s decision and its implications, and Payne said he expects Guilford County will make certain that it is conducting prayers at meetings in accordance with the law.

“i’ve told them we need to have that conversation,” Payne said.

Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Skip alston said the board plans to discuss the matter soon, and he also said it’s not clear yet whether the county will continue to have prayers at all in the future.

When asked if the Guilford County commissioners might replace the opening prayer with a moment of silence, alston said, “it’s possible.”

The county’s examination of its prayer policy, and the consideration of a moment of silence instead, would follow a move made by Greensboro’s new mayor, Robbie Perkins, who did away with prayer at City Council meetings that Mayor Bill Knight had instigated. Now, instead, the Greensboro City Council observes a moment of silence at the start of every meeting.

Payne said that, even before the Supreme Court decided not to hear the appeal of the Joyner case last month, Guilford County has been very conscious of its prayer policy and the county has implemented legal safeguards.

For instance, Payne said, Guilford County has strengthened the wording of the letter that it sends to every clergy person who’s scheduled to give the prayer at meetings. The new letter stresses the need for all prayers to be kept non-sectarian, and Payne said that same directive is also reinforced prior to the meetings when county staff briefs those about to give prayers.

The letter sent to all of those chosen to give the prayer at commissioners meetings states: “Your words will help serve to solemnize the weighty task of governance, a cherished tradition in american politics which we are committed to preserving. Out of respect for the diverse beliefs held by our community, we respectfully request that you do not use the invocation to advance a particular religious faith, sect, or tenant of belief over another.”

Payne mentioned something else that he considers to be an added layer of legal protection for the county – albeit a thin one. Payne pointed out that, technically, the Guilford County commissioners don’t have a prayer during their meetings – instead, they have a prayer before each meeting, and then the meeting starts.

Prior to November 2009, the agendas for Guilford County Board of Commissioners meetings listed the “welcome” and “call to order” first; then came the “invocation.”

However, in late 2009, the board switched the order, and, since then, the agenda has listed the invocation first, with the meeting’s welcome immediately following.

Guilford County Clerk to the Board effie Varitimidis said that when Guilford County staff selects people to give prayers at meetings, staff casts a wide net and asks religious leaders from a diverse pool of faiths.

anyone who’s been to a few commissioners meetings knows they do a good job of that: The county has had Buddhists, Unitarians, Baptist preachers, Jewish rabbis, and some others who offer prayers that are so ambiguous and pantheistic it’s unclear what religion they represent, if any at all.

“We try to be diverse as a result of the lawsuit in Winston,” Varitimidis said.

One of the key considerations in Joyner v. Forsyth County was that the Forsyth board excluded all non-Christian faiths.

Varitimidis said the Guilford County commissioners have had an eye on the Fourth Circuit Court ruling, and she said that, based on some preliminary discussions, there may be a feeling that the board would be better off if the county ends up with a moment of silence.

“it’s just cleaner,” she said.Forsyth County attorney Davida

Martin said the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners has now, in light of the ruling, changed its prayer policy – but the board hasn’t done away with prayer at meetings. Now the commissioners conduct all the prayer themselves.

according to assistant Davidson County attorney Mike Newby, in his county the board does it the same way.

“The commissioners do the prayer,” Newbie said of the Davidson County commissioners.

That’s one way of controlling the content of the prayer, and it’s an option Guilford County may consider as well.

in Guilford County, even though those leading the prayer are admonished not to use sectarian prayers, in the end there’s no controlling what they say, and, though there’s a great deal of compliance with the county’s request to keep the prayers non-sectarian, every now and then a minister or other religious leader will bring in specific references to his or her religion.

if Guilford County does decide to use in-house talent to conduct the prayers, it will be in pretty good shape. On rare occasions, when a minister has failed to make it to meetings, the commissioners have offered the prayer and done a good job. also filling in when needed has been Guilford County Tax Director Ben Chavis, who’s an ordained Church of God minister. in the past, Chavis has done an exceptionally good job of giving the prayer at meetings.

Mike Meno, communications manager for the NC aCLU, said that many local governments in and outside the state are either revaluating their prayer policy or have already changed their practice especially in light of the Supreme Court decision last month not to hear the appeal.

“This is now settled,” Meno said.The NC aCLU has also contacted the

NC attorney General’s Office expressing concern over the sectarian and Christian-dominated nature of prayer at NC General assembly meetings.


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Council Considers Reinstalling Primary

Council Not Jazzed By Coltrane Figures


ever since the High Point City Council, with the help of the North Carolina General assembly, eliminated primaries for City Council seats and changed High Point municipal elections to even-numbered years, some councilmembers have groused about the system.

The idea behind the switch was to increase voter turnout for High Point City Council elections, which was then hovering around 10 percent. That worked, but has also created two undesirable side effects: Councilmembers can be elected with only a small plurality of votes when several candidates are running for one seat, giving them a weak mandate, and less-than-serious candidates aren’t weeded out of the process by a primary.

a 2000 referendum also changed the terms of councilmembers from four years to two years – something voters like, but councilmembers dislike because of the frequency and cost of having to defend their seats.

Despite all the grumbling, and although the City Council is now considering changing High Point’s voting system back to what it was a decade ago, there seems to be no groundswell of support for the change among the councilmembers.

Members of the City Council, including

High Point Mayor Becky Smothers, now have concurrent two-year terms, all elected on even-numbered years, when national elections are held, rather than on odd-number years, when almost all other North Carolina municipalities have their elections.

The possible term changes being considered by the City Council are four-year concurrent terms with elections every four years, and four-year staggered terms with elections every two years. Possible changes to election methods being considered include an election followed by a runoff, and a nonpartisan primary.

Under the election-and-runoff system, candidates winning a majority vote in the first election would be elected. For the two at-large seats, any candidate getting a majority of votes would be elected, with the next-highest vote getter winning the other seat. in the absence of a majority vote, the next-highest vote getters could call a runoff. The first election would be held four weeks prior to election Day and the runoff would be held on election Day, which is actually the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

Under the nonpartisan primary system, a primary would be held, if necessary, to narrow the field to two candidates for ward seats and mayor, and to four candidates for the two at-large seats. The primary would

be held in October on the fourth Tuesday before election Day and the election would be held on state election Day.

Were the City Council to make any changes to its election system, it would also have to decide whether or not to leave elections on even-numbered years or request that the General assembly change them back to odd-numbered years.

according to High Point City attorney Fred Baggett, any of the changes under consideration could be accomplished by the City Council approving an ordinance to modify the city charter – except for changing the election year, which would require a local act of the General assembly, something that state Rep. John Faircloth, who was a High Point councilmember before being elected to represent District 61 in 2010, said is unlikely to happen in this year’s short session of the state legislature.

Faircloth, as a councilmember, supported moving the election back to odd-numbered years and reinstating the primary. He said that having elections on even-numbered years had improved voter turnout, but that the problem of councilmembers being elected by slim pluralities hadn’t been addressed – and if the primaries weren’t reinstated, should be fixed, probably by going to the 40-percent voting threshold that other cities and statewide races use. That would require a runoff election when no candidate gets at least 40 percent of the votes cast.

among current councilmembers, unsurprisingly, immediate politics may play more of a role in the decision than long-term considerations as to what’s best for the city.

Councilmember Bernita Sims, who wants to run for mayor and says she is close to making a decision on whether or not to run this year, supports the current, no-primary voting system, which works in her favor. The lack of a primary means that Sims would probably face a split white

and Republican vote – Sims is black and a Democrat – giving her a better chance.

Of the options for change presented by Baggett, Sims this week said she supported “none of the above.”

“i am not in favor of even at this point considering any of that,” Sims said. “i think we have not gone through enough election cycles to see if what we did works. and if you look at it on its face, we wanted greater voter turnout, and that happened. i think the decision we made is working the way we wanted it to.”

Sims said the turnout for the last election was 33 or 34 percent of the voting-age population.

Smothers, if she runs again for mayor, would benefit from having a primary, which would weed out candidates who could split the coalition that has kept her in office for all but four years since 1992. She has referred to the current no-primary, even-year system as “crazy.”

ironically, Baggett, acting alone, proposed that, if the City Council adopted staggered four-year terms, at the next election after 2012, some councilmembers would be elected for four-year terms and some for two-year terms. Beginning in the next election afterward, all seats would have four-year terms.

Baggett said the process for making any of the changes to the election system, except for moving elections to odd-numbered years, would be for the City Council to adopt a resolution of intent to modify the charter, hold a public hearing within 45 days of passing the resolution, then adopt an ordinance making the changes within 60 days of the public hearing.

Baggett also said the City Council could call a referendum on the changes, or one could be forced by voters by getting a petition signed by 10 percent of registered voters, or 5,000 voters, whichever is less.


High Point City Councilmember Bernita Sims on Monday, Feb. 20 presented the City Council with a list of the John Coltrane international Jazz and Blues Festival’s funding sources and expenses, prepared by the High Point CPa firm Odom & Co. LLP.

Sims provided the list in part because of criticism of the City Council giving the festival $32,000 for marketing and advertising.

The “statement of revenue and expenses” – it’s not an audit, as the CPa firm’s cover letter makes clear – shows that the festival was paid for primarily by donations and is

far from becoming self-supporting.Odom & Co. did not verify any of the

figures in the report. The firm’s directors wrote, “We have not audited or reviewed the accompanied financial statement,” and later in the cover letter made clear they did not certify that the revenue or expenses were accurate.

in other words, the firm checked the math on the figures it was provided but has no idea what money was taken in or spent.

Sims came to the City Council on May 2, 2011, and told the other councilmembers that, despite relative success in raising


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BJ’s Bed & Breakfast Soon Open For Guestsby SCott D. yoStCounty eDitor

after over a decade of pleading for a new jail – and after years of selling the idea to the county’s voters, followed by more years of planning and construction oversight – Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes is about to finally have his dream come true: in a few short weeks the sheriff will be handed the keys to the brand new giant jail he’s been pining for since last century.

in May 2008, voters approved $115 million in bond money for a new jail and, on Nov. 9, 2009, the county broke ground on the 400,000-square-foot structure. in March, the job will finally be complete.

early last year, Barnes stated that he might get the keys to the jail in his hand by the end of 2011. But Barnes said this week it will be mid-March before he gets those keys, but he added quickly that the contract with Dallas-based Balfour Beatty Construction didn’t call for the jail to be finished until June 1, 2012. These days Barnes is constantly reminding everyone that the project is “ahead of schedule and under budget.”

Barnes said Balfour Beatty is putting the finishing touches on the jail, and he said that state jail inspectors must give their final approval, but aside from that, Barnes said, the new jail is good to go.

“There are a few different things we’re waiting for the state to do,” he said.

Barnes said that nothing major happened to move the completion of the jail from the end of the year to March of this year. He said it was an optimistic timeline initially and that there were some unexpected issues that arose – for instance, the floors in part of the jail had to be redone because the way the concrete was poured initially did not create floors that were up to the Sheriff’s Department’s standards. also, there have been other minor glitches that have made the jail come in closer to on schedule than ahead of schedule.

The sheriff said he anticipates no problems in the remaining weeks before the job is complete. He said the construction has gone surprisingly well over the past three years, and he added that, once it is turned over to his department in March, his officers will train in the jail for about two months. Then, sometime in May, detention officers will transfer the 500 or so inmates in the existing Guilford County jail into the new eight-story jail, designed to hold up to 1,032 inmates.

an underground tunnel has been built from the old downtown Greensboro jail to the new jail, and, when the inmate transfer occurs, Barnes said, all the activity will be underground, so the public won’t get to see long lines of inmates shuffling down the street from one jail to another with gun-toting deputies keeping a watchful eye.

Jimmy anderson, Balfour Beatty’s project manager for the new jail, said that, for a job of this magnitude, there have been an extremely small number of accidents.

“We’ve had about 15 incidents of folks who have had to go to the clinic – stitches and minor stuff,” anderson said.

“We’ve only had one unfortunate person go to the hospital; he broke his ankle,” he added.

anderson said aside from that there were some minor scrapes and bruises that one can expect on any construction job.

“it happens,” he said. “We’ve had over a million man hours of labor, and i think our safety record has been phenomenal.”

Over the course of the project, Balfour Beatty has used a pool of about 1,600 construction workers. at peak times over the last three years, the company used between 300 and 315 workers. The average number of workers in the life of the project has been roughly 150 a day. in the final stages, there have been about 100 workers at the site each day.

Now, in the last weeks, workers are putting on the final touches – painting the walls and finishing surfaces – as well as making sure all the mechanical systems are working correctly.

anderson said there have been some surprises along the way – for instance when construction began in 2009, his crew soon

ran into one of the wettest, coldest winters on record.

He also said that, when Balfour Beatty began digging, the workers found a pond that was once in front of Blandwood Mansion at one time home to former NC Gov. John Motley Morehead. Workers also came across the remnants of a former corner gas station.

The last time the county built a jail was the High Point jail, which opened in 1990, and that experience was a total nightmare – with huge delays and expensive cost overruns.

at the start of the talks on building the new Greensboro jail, there was a great deal of debate among the county commissioners on whether the county should use the construction manager at risk method – employing an outside construction management firm that would handle all aspects of the construction and administrative aspects of the job for the county – or if it should try to manage the construction with existing county staff.

The Guilford County commissioners voted to use the construction manager at risk method. at that time, former Guilford County Property Management Director David Grantham was constantly stressing the need to use a company with jail building experience because it’s a highly specialized operation.

an extensive selection process then led (Continued on page 31)


Schools May Boost Club Requirements


Leaders of booster clubs wanting to raise money for their schools during the 2012-2013 school year may have to jump through some hoops to do so.

Guilford County Board of education attorney Jill Wilson told the school board in December 2011 that principals and parents have complained about problems with booster clubs and other parent groups.

The net result of the December discussion was that the school board asked its Governance Committee, which writes school board policies and procedures, to come up with a policy to make booster clubs more formal. The clubs’ officers will have to sign booster club agreements every year and will have to clear all fundraising through school principals.

The proposed booster club rules, if the school board approves them, are an effort to avoid the kinds of problems that occurred at Northern Guilford High School in 2009, where Northern boys basketball coach Stan Kowalewski was the centerpiece of an athletics scandal.

at the time, Wilson accused Kowalewski of misusing money from a bank account set up for his team by paying a host of personal expenses, including paying his wife’s gynecologist. Kowalewski has since been charged by the US Securities and exchange Commission (SeC) of using, for personal expenses, millions of dollars from hedge funds he managed until the SeC froze the money.

Wilson said the trouble at Northern two years ago is one driving factor behind the school board’s current consideration of tightening booster club rules.

She said, “Obviously, Coach K having his own bank account and paying his wife’s gyno bills has something to do with this.”

Under the proposed rules, coaches would be expressly forbidden from participating in or receiving money from booster clubs. Directors of booster clubs would have to sign the annual “booster club” agreements under which they would have to inform principals in advance of any fundraising


Board Still Leery of Free Millis Money



Supporters of Millis Road elementary School have an uphill battle on their hands in trying to give Guilford County Schools $1.5 million to construct and furnish a new building at the school that would be a combination gym, assembly space and four-classroom expansion.

it’s not that the gift, which most organizations would pocket quickly with lavish thanks, would be entirely unwelcome by the Guilford County Board of education – it’s that the school board – which is a machine for turning simple, good ideas into complex, unworkable ones – has entangled the proposal in so many policy issues that it may never escape.

The first thing Guilford County Schools does when perplexed by a new idea is to form a committee to deal with it, or not – and that’s just what the school board did at its Jan. 21 retreat. The committee, named, with all the snappiness only educators or corporations can muster, The Guilford County Board of education Donated Funds for Construction Committee, has met twice, most recently on Thursday, Feb. 16, when several representatives of the group proposing the building faced school board members, Guilford County Schools Chief Operations Officer andy LaRowe

and school board attorney Jill Wilson.The purpose of the meeting was to find

solutions to the problems raised by a group just walking up and proposing to give the school system $1.5 million – operating costs, equity issues between schools, liability, making sure the resulting building would be up to code – but it merely seemed to generate more issues.

Wilson said the school system’s issues with the proposal fall into three categories – real estate issues, donation issues and cooperative issues.

The real estate issues include water, sewer and power, insurance, warranties, construction bonds, design costs and, above all, liability – as Wilson said, if the roof caves in 10 years from now, who is responsible? Since that has happened at schools the school board has built, it’s not an idle question.

But the school and the steering committee proposing the building agree that Guilford County Schools would own the building and contract for its construction.

“The real estate related issues would go away if you’re the contractor,” Wilson told the school board members. “i think all these issues point to the simplest thing is that you get the money.”

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Shorts Films, Oscars and Anti-OscarsBY ORSON SCOTT CaRD

Uncle Orson Reviews Everything

The academy awards are on this Sunday night, and once again our guests prepare their ballots. We mark the films that we wish would win, and the ones we predict will win.

One of the hardest categories to outguess is that of short films. Two groups of five are nominated: animated short films and live-action short films.

i’m not sure that actually watching the short films will help you in making predictions – but it will certainly allow you to find your preferences. Right now, the Carousel is showing the DVD of each category, as one of 200 theaters nationwide providing this service.

Animated Short Filmsit’s well worth the time and money,

though i do have good news and bad news about the animated shorts.

The good news is that in addition to the nominees, there are four honorable mentions.

The bad news is that three of the four honorable mentions are much, much more entertaining than three of the five nominees.

a sad little mental illness afflicts those who nominate in the animated short film

category. it’s disnephobia – the utter terror that these nominators might be caught liking a film that tells a clear and entertaining story.

apparently, among animators it is very cool to profess to enjoy films in which the technique of animation looks as primitive and unpleasant as possible, and in which no story of any interest to a human audience can be discerned.

instead, the nominated films are generally of the sort that no one likes, but about which boring people can say pseudo-profound things, leading their listeners to hard liquor or quick departure.

The two most dreadful nominees come from Canada – a coincidence i’m sure, since the Canadians i’ve known (including my Canada-born grandfather) love a good story as much as any american.

One is called Wild Life, and it pretends to tell the story of an englishman who goes to alberta in 1909, where either nothing happens or something does, but the audience could not possibly care.

The other Canadian entry, Dimanche (Sunday), is from Quebec, so it is in French, when it bothers with any language. it is a tale of a little boy who likes putting coins on the track to be flattened by passing trains. With a drawing style that is blocky

and exaggerated to no point, the film shows us how very dull Sundays are in Quebec.

even finding that a bear’s head on the wall of his grandparents’ house is still attached to the body of the living bear outside does not add interest to the story, since, when the bear breaks free, it runs in front of the train and either is crushed by it or not – apparently it would be cheating to let us see; or worse, it was merely a figment of the boy’s imagination.

From these two films i learned: Life in Canada is unrelentingly depressing, and all the people in Canada who know how to draw apparently already live in the United States where all the animators who like to tell entertaining stories are employed.

But these two dull films, if they do not kill you outright, are easily forgotten once you’ve seen the others, all of which are entertaining. However, you can be sure that one of the two Canadian films – probably Wild Life, because it is the dullest – will win.

i enjoyed The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, which gave a bibliophile like me a chance to revel in the sight of winged books with personalities and projects to accomplish. The story has no point, but at least it shows us well-drawn, interesting things that we haven’t seen before. Come to think of it, this might win. even academy voters have to be awake to vote.

A Morning Stroll tracks us through three generations of street life. Someone out for a walk sees a chicken turn a corner, go up a front stoop, peck on a door and get admitted. The first time is in the 1950s, and the style of animation reflects the era. The second time is today, with cellphones and other paraphernalia dominating.

The third time is post-apocalyptic, and let’s just say that it is simultaneously funny and nauseating.

The most entertaining of the animated nominees is La Luna – from Pixar, which means it cannot win. a boy is out in a boat with two men; they climb a ladder to the moon and there sweep up a litter of small golden stars. This brief summary cannot tell you the sheer pleasure of watching brilliant animators at work, telling a story of gentle whimsy and pure delight.

But the non-nominees in the theatrical reel really shine. OK, three of them shine. Skylight is a mockumentary about penguins getting killed by the hole in the ozone layer. it is the funniest animated film i’ve seen in a long time, and not just because it takes on the sacred cow of eco-puritanism.

Amazonia is a perverse frog-eat-bug story about nature cute in tooth and claw in the rain forest. But the highlight, for me, was Nullarbor, an australian road-rage, nicotine-craving extravaganza whose highlight is the moment when the “hero” pukes up a cigarette he just swallowed and

contemplates picking the butt out of the nauseating mess sliding down the window in order to finish smoking it.

Live-action Short FilmsThere were no extras on the DVD of

live-action shorts, mostly because live-action is so much cheaper to make than animated films. Therefore, live-action shorts can be much longer than they need to be. all of them are quite watchable; three of them are brilliant.

Pentecost is three good jokes strung together. First, a bored altar boy in an irish church accidentally startles a priest into falling over backward; he is punished by his father and the fathers as if he had done it on purpose. So he is grounded from football, until he has a chance at redemption. i’m not telling you the best bits, except to say that, at the end, i was disappointed: all this buildup, and that’s all we get?

Raju is the probable winner, and i think it’s worth it. a German couple come to india to adopt a child from an orphanage, to which they pay an enormous fee. But when the boy disappears on the first morning together, the distraught father makes a dreadful discovery, first about the boy, and then about his wife. Unforgettable.

The Shore is a loquacious, rambling Northern irish story about an irishman’s return after decades in america, where he runs into the fiancee he jilted, who went on to marry his crippled best friend. Unfortunately, everything important in the plot is conveyed by dragged-out explanations by the american to the daughter he brought along with him. Meanwhile, most of the time in this long, long “short” is spent setting up one sight gag: a horse-against-cripple chase scene on a tidal flat.

Good performances can’t make up for tedious writing. But it’s watchable. Entertainment Weekly thinks that this one will win. What a shame if it does – but it has a recognizable actor in it, and most of the academy voters are actors, so there you go.

Tuba Atlantic really is about a tuba. Well, it’s really about the old Norwegian who finds out he has six days to live – a degree of precision so absurd that it sets the tone for the entire delightful film. a young girl comes to be his angel of Death – his companion till he croaks. Their relationship is delightful, as is his struggle to the death with the local seagulls. This would have been my favorite, were it not for:

Time Freak is actually short, but it uses every second wisely. a sort of Groundhog Day with obsessive-compulsive disorder. There’s two americans with a time machine. i’m not going to tell you any more than that, because anything i say will spoil it.


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Oscar Picks – Best PictureLet’s begin by saying that this wasn’t

a particularly good year for movies in general.

Second, let me assure you that, as usual, the nominees are high on pretention and sanctimoniousness, while the most entertaining films are generally ignored.

Naturally, high-adventure films are ignored, even though this year saw the best-ever entries in three franchises: Mission: Impossible, Sherlock Holmes and Planet of the Apes. in my opinion, Rise of the Planet of the Apes was one of the best movies of the year. But of course it was

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not nominated.Hanna was a terrific, original thriller

that was completely ignored. Get the DVD and you’ll see what i mean.

But confining myself to the movies that were actually nominated, two stand out as being fine popular entertainment and Oscar-bait. The Help might be seen as yet another White Liberals Save the Black People from evil Southerners, except that the writing and performances were unusually good.

The irony is that to the degree this movie reflects reality, it shows that the darkest days of segregation were clearly over, for the funny reveal that made Octavia

Spencer the likely Supporting Actress winner would have led to lynchings, not mere three-stooges bluster.

Ordinarily, the combination of white civil rights heroes and copious ridicule of bigoted Southerners (nobody sees the irony of bigoted non-Southern filmmakers incapable of seeing past stereotypes) would make The Help a lock for the Oscar.

instead, there’s a decent chance that a truly original, unsmug film might walk away with the gold: The Artist, a black-and-white silent film about silent films that is funny, artistically brilliant, smart and genuine. Of this list of nominees, it’s the only one with a chance of winning that

will, in my opinion, stand the test of time.The other nominees are a mixed lot

indeed. Hugo is a movie about a depressed, under-appreciated director, made by a self-celebrating, over-appreciated director – all under the false pretenses of making a children’s movie. What a miserable bait and switch.

Midnight in Paris was a shock because (a) it was both watchable and by Woody allen, and (b) it was a pretty good time travel movie by a non-sci-fi director.

The Descendants was a shock because it was a generally entertaining movie by the same writer-director who brought



And Yost’s Winner For Worst Best Picture Is ...

by SCott D. yoStCounty eDitor

Well, Sunday, Feb. 26 is the big Oscar night celebration, and everyone is talking about movies right now – so i thought it might be fun in this week’s column to look back through history and – at a time when everyone else is talking about the best picture award – i wanted to look at the worst best pictures.

That is, i thought it would be fun to take a stroll back down movie lane and find the top five absolute worst movies that have won best picture awards.

Now, don’t get me wrong, some terrific movies, of course, have won the Oscar for best picture over the years. For instance, i loved American Beauty and i thought Kevin Spacey was fantastic in that, and it won for best film in 1999, and i could list a lot of other great movies that have won best picture as well.

But i’m just saying, if you look closely at it in hindsight, there have been a surprising number of absolute stinkers that have won the Oscar for best picture – which is remarkable when you think about it, since it’s supposed to be the best picture, and every year there are about 500 films to choose from, so you would think that best picture would always go to a fairly decent picture – but no.

When i first set out to write a column on the worst best picture winners, and i started looking back over the years, i was alarmed to find that i might very well have to change it to a top 10 list of worst best pictures instead, because there were a lot of real stinkers that had won best picture. However, in the end, i worked hard to limit myself to five, but i can tell you it wasn’t easy.

i started to realize that movies are like anything else: Some things seem really great at the time, but then you look back later, and you’re like, “What in the world was i thinking?” You know how before you get married you think, “Hey, this person is just perfect – it’s amazing,” but then, after you’ve been married awhile, you look back, and you’re like, what was i thinking?

Or remember, in the early ’80s, how leg warmers were all the craze and they were really stupid but you couldn’t see it because you were still basking in the afterglow of Flashdance because Jennifer Beals had managed to pull off leg warmers really well and that made you think that you could.

But, as they say, hindsight is always 50-50, and that applies to movies as well as to marriages and leg warmers.

i will also say that i learned a lot of fascinating movie facts by looking into the past best picture winners. For instance, very few people realize an X-rated movie once won best picture.

That’s a good trivia question to ask someone, by the way, if you want to stump them: What X-rated movie won a best picture?

and, in the last 30 years, only one comedy has won the award. also, only one best picture in history has been nominated for every single category in which it was eligible.

There’s something else interesting that i found out: in the history of the academy awards, only one movie directed by a woman has ever won best picture.

another thing i learned was that only one martial arts movie has ever been nominated for best picture – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. i don’t like that film at all because to me it’s basically just a bunch of people flying around nonsensically in the air doing summersaults and other crazy things. Crouching Tiger didn’t win that year, however, so it can’t make it on my list of worst best picture winners – but it makes my point that there are a lot of bad pictures that get nominated even if they didn’t win.

and when i went through all the winners and nominations going back to 1928 when they began giving out the award, i began to realize other things as well – like the fact that the academy is extremely american-centric. in fact, in the entire history of the Oscars, not one single foreign-language film has ever won the prestigious best picture award – though foreign films have done surprisingly well in the best foreign-language picture category.

also, as a general point, before i give you my list, i agree that it’s hard to rate movies because rating movies is so highly subjective, whether you’re talking about best picture winners or not. One woman in our office who has a degree from a prestigious ivy League school thinks Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day is one of the best movies ever – it’s one of her absolute favorites – but, to me, i like that movie OK, but i find parts of it kind of repetitive.

and i know a lot of people who love Memento, which came out about 10 years ago. in fact, Memento has a rating of 8.6 out of 10 stars on internet Movie Database – one of the highest scores of any movie ever. But, if you ask me, the whole movie is just absolutely incomprehensible.

i’ve watched Memento five times now because i keep thinking that maybe i can figure out what’s going on, but then i finally just gave up. i don’t understand it at all, and,


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Good evening. i have some financially disconcerting information for the property owners in Guilford County and the City of Greensboro. The many businesses along Lee Street and the houses in the Glenwood community that are being bought by UNCG for campus expansion will be removed from the tax rolls when they become state-owned property. Guess who will make up for the loss of millions of dollars in future taxes? You. a few people are profiting handsomely from this sprawling expansion, but the rest of you will pay the difference. Why can’t UNCG build up on the land they have? Thank you.

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and if i see another foul-mouthed know-it-all teenager who turns out to be charming and good after all, i’m going to puke. it’s just a gimmick. in the real world, foul-mouthed know-it-all teenagers who treat their parents with open contempt are, in fact, every bit as stupid as they act. These movies are really attempts by filmmakers to look cool to teenagers who terrify them – usually their own. it doesn’t work.

Life is short. i didn’t see War Horse because the puppetry that made the play kind of cool was replaced by real horses, which made this another improbable horse movie. i didn’t see Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close because life is short and i’d rather play videogames.

Moneyball i meant to see, and will see before the Oscar broadcast; people i trust enjoyed it very much.

Which brings me to The Tree of Life, which doesn’t belong on this list because it’s too good, too true, too deep to be considered as a peer of any other movie in recent memory.

i know. i’m the guy who despises pretentious artiness and hails good, plain storytelling.

But The Tree of Life is not pretentious. Director-writer Terence Malick was not even making a movie. He was filming a childhood; he was staging a redemption.

To achieve his aim he could not use the standard tropes of the movie industry. The three-act structure or any other rules had no place in what he was doing.

if you sit down to watch The Tree of Life expecting to see “a movie,” you will be disappointed – and perhaps perplexed or even outraged.

it’s like Moby-Dick, in that you have to be old enough to understand what’s really going on, and patient enough to accept the sometimes glacial forward movement of story, the constant (seeming) digression,

Uncle Orson(Continued from page 11) the sometimes perplexing images.

i’m old enough. To me, this movie is childhood filmed; it is the most perfect portrait of a family that i’ve ever seen. Malick hates nobody in this film; even the troubling father is loved by this movie, though Malick faces his flaws head on. The mother is idealized and dreamlike, but the movie is also unsparing of her ineffectualness.

it is possible to pay close attention and yet miss the fact that the movie is built around the unshown death (in war) of the second son; it is told from the point of view of the older son, it is actually about the older son (played with unusual restraint as an adult by Sean Penn), and yet the heart of the movie is the beautiful middle boy.

in the process of telling this family’s story, with a degree of intimacy, realism and perfection no movie has ever achieved before, Malick also includes the creation of the world, evolution and a vision of the afterlife that is the first nonsilly metaphor of judgment, redemption and reconciliation i’ve ever seen.

Other filmmakers have forayed into some of this territory; most of them missed entirely.

i am not recommending that you see this movie. i don’t think it will win. it will never be a popular hit.

But i will never forget it. i will watch it again and again. it is a highwater mark of filmmaking.

Not like Citizen Kane, a vanity project that has sucked the film industry into Orson Welles’ self-hype. People keep telling me that it’s The Greatest because it was “so innovative.” Really? The main innovation was Welles’ unfailing ability to take all credit to himself; in fact it is shallow, untruthful, unfair and badly overacted by Welles himself.

Malick is not self-promoting here. He is not even self-indulgent. He is the genius Welles pretended to be. Welles was never capable of anything like this; he wouldn’t have known where to begin.

in future years, people will look back and say that whatever movie won this year, it should have been The Tree of Life. But that’s not really true. The Tree of Life is sui

generis. it cannot be compared. an Oscar would demean it. it’s not a “movie.”

Animated FeatureLet’s get real here. Not one of the

nominees this year would have been competitive last year, when only three films were nominated.

What is the academy thinking, when last year Despicable Me and Tangled were not even nominated, while this year there are five nominees.

everybody says Rango is going to win. What a nauseating idea. This incoherent, boring, cliche-ridden mess will be an Oscar winner? it won’t be the first time.

Overrated Best Picture WinnersEntertainment Weekly of Feb. 14, 2012,

ran a feature called “The Most Overrated Best Picture Winners,” in which a cooler-than-anybody reviewer decided what should have won, and didn’t, in several past years.

i knew the writer was an idiot when he derided How Green Was My Valley for daring to win over the tedious Citizen Kane (see above).

Then the silly conformist quotient went up even higher when EW picked Dr. Strangelove over My Fair Lady. if only those silly academy voters had known how cool the pretentious Kubrick would seem to pseudo-intellectuals in 2012, compared to the genuine intellectual George Bernard Shaw and the brilliant Lerner and Loewe.

it doesn’t help that EW then disdained two films on my all-time greatest list: Gandhi and A Man for All Seasons. The only really negative things they can bring

to bear on these two films is that they’re long and boring. Hmmm. They aren’t boring to people who actually understand the ideas being developed or the people whose biographies are being given.

But then i realized: True heroes who stand against the powers that be are so embarrassing to intellectuals today, since they themselves never aspire to do anything but conform to the opinions of other certified intellectuals.

i can’t disagree with them about The Last Emperor – beautifully filmed as it is, it was up against Broadcast News and Moonstruck, both of which are still compulsively watchable; but please remember, O EW, that Last Emperor won for precisely the reasons that you would hand the victory to Citizen Kane and Dr. Strangelove – it made the Oscar voters feel smart to prefer it to more accessible films.

i’d agree that Out of Africa was an empty choice in 1985 – until EW reminded me that it was up against Prizzi’s Honor and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Oh, wait – EW doesn’t tell us the other two nominees that year: The Color Purple and Witness. and it was Prizzi and Spider Woman that EW thought should have won? They would have been even less comprehensible winners than Out of Africa.

EW thinks Shakespeare in Love shouldn’t have won – and i agree that it’s really just a bit of period fluff. But that makes it harmless indeed compared to EW’s shoulda-won nominee, Saving Private Ryan. But maybe EW never read William Goldman’s completely-convincing destruction of Stephen Spielberg’s utterly fake treatment


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Local Movie ScheduleFriday, February 24 - Thursday, March 1

a/perture cinema311 West Fourth St., Winston-Salem, NC • (336) 722-8148A Dangerous Method (R) F-Sa 5:30 and 10:15. Su 5:00. M-Th 5:30.Artist (The) (PG13) F 3:00 and 8:00 . Sa 12:30, 3:00 and 8:00. Su 12:30 and 2:45. M-Tu 8:00. W 3:00 and 8:00. Th 8:00.Pariah (R) F 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 and 10:30. Sa 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 and 10:30. Su 1:00, 3:15 and 5:15. M-Tu 6:00 and 8:30. W 3:30, 6:00 and 8:30. Th 6:00 and 8:30.

Brassfield Cinema 102101 New Garden Road, GBO • (800) 326-3264, ext. 1204Act of Valor (R) F-Su 12:15PM 2:40PM 5:05PM 7:30PM 9:55PM. M-Th 2:40PM 5:05PM 7:30PM.Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (PG13) F-Su 12:25.Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (3D) (PG13) F-Su 2:45PM 5:05PM 7:25PM 9:45PM. M-Th 2:45PM 5:05PM 7:25PM.Gone (PG13) F-Su 12:35PM 2:55PM 5:15PM 7:35PM 10:00PM. M-Th 2:55PM 5:15PM 7:35PM.Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) F-Su 12:05.Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (3D) (PG) F-Su 2:25PM 4:45PM 7:05PM 9:35PM. M-Th 2:25PM 4:45PM 7:05PM.Red Tails (PG13) F-Su 1:30PM 4:20PM 7:10PM 10:00PM. M-Th 1:30PM 4:20PM 7:10PM.Safe House (R) F-Su 1:35PM 4:30PM 7:15PM 10:05PM. M-Th 1:35PM 4:30PM 7:15PM.This Means War (PG13) F-Su 12:30PM 3:05PM 5:25PM 7:50PM 10:10PM. M-Th 3:05PM 5:25PM 7:50PM.Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG13) F-Su 12:00PM 2:35PM 5:10PM 7:45PM 10:20PM. M-Th 2:35PM 5:10PM 7:45PM.Vow (The) (PG13) F-Su 12:10PM 2:50PM 5:20PM 7:50PM 10:15PM. M-Th 2:50PM 5:20PM 7:50PM.Woman in Black (PG13) F 12:20PM 2:40PM 5:00PM 7:20PM 9:40PM. Sa 7:20PM 9:40PM. Su 12:20PM 2:40PM 5:00PM 7:20PM 9:40PM. M 2:40PM 5:00PM 7:20PM . Tu 2:40PM 5:00PM . W-Th 2:40PM 5:00PM 7:20PM.

Carmike 184822 Koger Blvd., Greensboro • (336) 851-0094Act of Valor (R) F-Th 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 10:00.Artist (The) (PG13) F-Th 1:20, 3:45, 6:30, 9:00.Chronicle (PG13) F-Th 12:50, 3:05, 5:25, 7:40, 9:55.Contraband (R) F-Th 2:00, 4:40, 7:00, 9:25.Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (PG13) F-Th 12:50.Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (3D) (PG13) F-Th 4:05, 6:50, 9:40.

Wanderlust (R) F-Sa 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:25 11:30. Su-Th 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:25.War Horse (PG13) F-Sa 11:40, 2:30, 5:20, 8:10 11:00. Su 11:40, 2:30, 5:20. M-Th 11:40, 2:30, 5:20, 8:10.We Bought A Zoo (PG) F-Th 2:20, 4:50, 9:45.

Countryside Cinema631 N Main St., Kernersville • (336) 993-8200Act of Valor (R) F 4:45, 7:00, 9:15. Sa-Su 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00. M-Th 5:30, 7:30.Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) F 5:00, 7:00. Sa-Su 2:00, 4:00, 7:00. M-Th 5:30.Safe House (R) F-Su 9:00. M-Th 7:30.This Means War (PG13) F 5:00, 7:00, 9:00. Sa-Su 2:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:00. M-Th 5:30, 7:30.Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG13) F 4:45, 7:00, 9:15. Sa-Su 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00. M-Th 5:30, 7:30.

Marketplace Cinemas2095 Peters Creek Parkway, W-S • (336) 725-4646Adventures of Tintin (PG) F 7:00, 9:20. Sa-Su 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20. M-Th 7:00.Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) F 7:15, 9:20. Sa-Su 1:30, 4:00, 7:15, 9:20. M-Th 7:00.Joyful Noise (PG13) F 7:15, 9:30. Sa 1:30, 4:00, 7:15, 9:30. M-Th 7:00.Muppets (The) (PG) F 7:00, 9:20. Sa-Su 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20. M-Th 7:00.Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG13) F 7:00, 9:30. Sa-Su 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30. M-Th 7:00.We Bought A Zoo (PG) F 7:00, 9:20. Sa-Su 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20. M-Th 7:00.

Sedgefield Crossing Cinemas4631 High Point Road, Greensboro • (336) 292-7469Adventures of Tintin (PG) F 7:00, 9:20. Sa 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20. Su 1:15, 4:00, 7:00. M-Th 7:00.Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (G) F 6:45, 9:00. Sa 1:15, 3:40, 6:45, 9:00.Joyful Noise (PG13) F 7:00, 9:30. Sa 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30. Su 1:15, 4:00, 7:00. M-Th 7:00.Muppets (The) (PG) F 6:45, 9:00. Sa 1:15, 3:40, 6:45, 9:00. Su 1:15, 3:40, 6:45. M-Th 7:00.Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG13) F 7:00, 9:30. Sa 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30. Su 1:15, 4:00, 7:00. M-Th 7:00.Tower Heist (PG13) F 7:15, 9:30. Sa 1:15, 4:00, 7:15, 9:30. Su 1:15, 4:00, 7:15. M-Th 7:00.We Bought A Zoo (PG) F 6:45, 9:20. Sa 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20. Su 1:15, 4:00, 6:45. M-Th 7:00.

Gone (PG13) F-Th 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50.Grey (The) (R) F-Th 1:05, 4:10, 6:55, 9:45.Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) F-Th 1:15, 9:15.Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (3D) (PG) F-Th 3:45, 6:40.Joyful Noise (PG13) F-Th 12:45, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30.Red Tails (PG13) F-Th 12:50, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40.Safe House (R) F-Th 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55.Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace (3D) (PG) F-Th 12:45, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05.This Means War (PG13) F-Th 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45.Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG13) F-Th 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50.Underworld Awakening (R) F-Th 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00.Vow (The) (PG13) F-Th 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:40.Wanderlust (R) F-Th 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:35.Woman in Black (PG13) F-Th 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30.

Carousel Cinema1305 Battleground Ave., Greensboro • (336) 230-1620

Albert Nobbs (R) F-Th 12:10, 7:20.Artist (The) (PG13) F-Sa 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:25 11:30. Su-Th 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:25.Big Miracle (PG) F-Th 2:30, 5:00, 10:15.Chronicle (PG13) F-Sa 11:40, 1:30, 3:20, 5:10, 7:00, 9:00 11:00. Su-Th 11:40, 1:30, 3:20, 5:10, 7:00, 9:00.Descendants (The) (R) F-Sa 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 11:40. Su-Th 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20.Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (PG13) F-Th 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00.Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (Unrated) F-Th 9:35.Grey (The) (R) F-Th 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10.Hugo (3D) (PG) F-Sa 12:00, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:30 . Su 12:00, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, . M-Th 12:00, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:30 .Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (3D) (PG) F-Sa 11:45, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45, 9:45 11:45. Su-Th 11:45, 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45, 9:45.Loosies (PG13) F-Sa 12:05, 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 11:25. Su-Th 12:05, 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30.Oscar Shorts 2012 - Animated (Unrated) F-Th 12:10, 4:35.Oscar Shorts 2012 - Live Action (Unrated) F-Th 2:15, 7:05.Secret World of Arrietty (G) F-Sa 12:05, 2:05, 4:05, 6:05, 8:05, 10:05 12:00. Su-Th 12:05, 2:05, 4:05, 6:05, 8:05, 10:05.This Means War (PG13) F-Sa 1:00, 3:05, 5:10, 7:15, 9:20 11:25. Su-Th 1:00, 3:05, 5:10, 7:15, 9:20.Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (R) F-Th 12:00, 7:30.Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG13) F-Th 12:00, 12:40, 2:20, 3:00, 4:40, 5:20, 7:00, 7:40, 9:20, 10:00, , 11:40. Su-Th 12:00, 12:40, 2:20, 3:00, 4:40, 5:20, 7:00, 7:40, 9:20, 10:00.

Thursday, February 23, 2012The Rhinoceros Times Greensboro Page 25

Letters to the EditorTwo sides of meeting

Dear Editor,Because exaggeration always sells

more advertising than statements that more closely reflect reality, i understand your claim that the Zoning Commission hearing on the Greater Kirkwood Community NCO was a “smack down.” You assert that the “big” question was to send a strong message to City Council that this NCO is a bad idea. That is not what happened at the meeting i attended. Yet you and i attended the same meeting.

Those of us on the pro-NCO side of the argument believe the zoning commissioners came very reluctantly to their conclusion that they could not approve the boundaries because they faced a neighborhood divided by two groups with differing world views. if that were not the case, i think that Commissioner Kinser would have said something much stronger than “i just think it needs more work.”

What is or is not “traditional Kirkwood” is beside the point. We organized the “Greater” Kirkwood Community neighborhood association specifically to describe an area that extends beyond old Kirkwood. We organized in response to the attempt to put a Walgreen Drug at Lawndale and Cornwallis, directly across from Kerr Drug at one of the most problematic intersections in the city.

Opposition to the Walgreen’s proposal extended far beyond Lawndale Drive. if

you worry about what you consider to be the interference of a group of neighbors proposing protective rezoning, we worry about a group motivated solely by their return on investment proposing incompatible development.

Our efforts were prompted by fear of what our neighborhood might become if there were no additional constraints on future infill development. The fear of NCO opponents seems to be that someone will restrict you from doing what you like with your property regardless of the effect upon adjacent homes. That strikes me as a position close to “cross your fingers and hope for the best.” in your block section we received NCO support from 81 percent of property owners. i’ll bet your neighbors hope that no one will buy your house and clear-cut your beautifully wooded lot. We are both motivated by fear of what the future could hold for our neighborhood. Those on either side of this issue are looking at it from two different directions.

it’s true that Jennifer Fountain, a real estate attorney who works with Marc isaacson’s law firm, was the only person from “traditional Kirkwood” to speak to the Zoning Commission. Her law firm also represented the Walgreen’s developers, so they have the perspective of their professional interests. Ten residents of “traditional Kirkwood” have served on our board as we were developing the NCO. Four

people from that area currently serve. Ten of the 14 homeowners who live on Jennifer’s own block signed the NCO petition.

Property owners who didn’t know the NCO was in the works weren’t reading their mail. For two years we went to great lengths to get people in the neighborhood to take an interest and participate in the discussions. We sent out bulletins to our listserv about the NCO and posted details on our website. in addition, the city mailed cards to all property owners on six occasions announcing public meetings. Tom Hall and Jennifer Fountain are on that listserv. Jennifer acknowledged coming to one of the early NCO meetings. You have attended, were given an opportunity to speak and have written about your opposition to the concept. None of this took place in secret.

Lee Porter, a non-resident owner of a house in the neighborhood, like the other 134 non-resident owners we could identify and reach, received a letter from me along with a copy of the proposed NCO standards. He, or someone in his company, read the letter and signed the petition as “opposed,” and mailed it back, but he never called or emailed me to discuss his concerns. His was one of only two signatures i received in opposition. in his block section, 68 percent of the residents signed the NCO petition. We ultimately received 370 signatures in favor of the NCO.

Were we given enough information from

the City Planning Department about possible ramifications for non-conforming structures? The Zoning Commission thought not. This was their real “big question.” That issue does need, as Commissioner Kinser said, “more work.” The NCO does need to specify that all homes and garages in the neighborhood can be replaced with new construction in their current location if they are destroyed by fire, tornado or other disaster, including homes that are grandfathered under the NCO. The permission to replace should automatically make the grandfathered property insurable.

Only the City Council can insert amending language to eliminate non-conformity as an issue. They apparently have the power to “grandfather” in perpetuity all nonconforming homes. The process of presenting an NCO before the Planning Board (which just last month reported our NCO out favorably), the Zoning Commission and the City Council, is to allow just this sort of complex issue to be resolved by people with varying forms of expertise. That the Zoning Commission is charged only with considering boundaries reflects the wisdom of having different bodies look at a complex issue from different angles. Now the City Council can hear from both sides and see what can be done to address all our concerns.Anna Fesmire


Thursday, February 23, 2012 The Rhinoceros Times GreensboroPage 26

New political partyDear Editor,

Suppose that you went to vote for president and found out that you only had two choices: the left-wing candidate and the right-wing candidate. Wouldn’t you want another choice, or would you vote for the lesser of two evils?

Suppose that your two choices were Stalin and Hitler. The lesser of two evils would still be evil.

i have never been a fan of the two-party system because i want as many choices as possible. i want a political party that avoids the extremes of far left socialism and far right capitalism. i want a party that will try to decrease the size and power of government. i want a political party that didn’t have anything to do with supporting dictators, denying women equal rights, slavery, segregation, the terrible treatment of american indians, human experimentation, etc. i want more rights and less government.

Since the two-party system isn’t for me, i am going to try to create an online political party. The Radical Centrist Party should be online soon.

if you are interested in my views you can read my recommended political party platform at www.radicalcentristparty.info. We are looking for candidates now.Chuck Mann

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Sad, blind clownsDear Editor,

Cluckin’ in the barnyardCacklin’ like a foolScratchin’ ‘round for chickenfeed,i’m just an Obama tool.

Crowin’ loud from dawn til duskabout the “one per-centers”While “King Hussein” urges me on;He and Nancy are my mentors.

Occupyin’ everywhere,Tryin’ to tear things down.Never would i realizei’m just a sad, blind clown.

Gimmie all your stuff, i say,(Though i’ve done nothing much to earn it)a free house and support check too,Or i’ll find a bank and burn it.

Of course, it’s our “Big Brother’s” jobto prop me up in life,‘cause ya know i’m just too delicateto endure work’s stress ‘n strife.

So i’ll just occupy (angrily)While parroting the liberal lineand all of you right-wing workin’ stiffsWill keep me up just fine.

Tom Elder

Necessary self-interestDear Editor,

Since nature does not provide man with an automatic form of survival, since man has to support his own life by his own effort, any philosophical view that states that concern with one’s own interests is somehow nefarious does not square up with life’s realities. Can we agree on that foundational principle?

Self-interest is a human trait that is necessary for the sustenance of life any being with a sense of “self” must, by definition, be self-ish. Without the inner desire to protect “the self,” the result is demise. Of course, we now live in a social structure where each individual does not simply fend for himself. Once nature and society evolved to a place beyond a single individual’s capacity to meet all of his own survival needs (efficiently), it became clear that division of labor was a better organization of proficiencies. Groups of individuals joined forces to provide goods or services and then traded amongst others who began to provide other specialty

services. This is good business. a good business, a successful business, is also “selfish.”

Businesses, being extensions of individuals, are destined to operate within the same natural boundaries that define humanity; they operate under the dictate that survival requires devising a system of self-interest, a system that promotes growth and overcomes weakness. it is a false notion that a business can operate with altruism as its sole foundation. any business leader that touts this is a fraud. Look at the CeO’s salary/benefits package; look at the firm’s accounting records. a business profit and chief executive compensation model exists – trust me.

if a business grows to a level of success where altruism is an outgrowth, then that is to be applauded. But as a society with laws and regulations (and as a people who are judgmental), we should never lose sight of the inherent fact that a business is bound by the same natural law that binds all humanity. Self-interest is prima facie.Debra McCusker

of World War ii. (Film reviewers don’t actually read essays that contradict the received wisdom, apparently.)

Maybe The Social Network should have beaten The King’s Speech last year, but in the long run, The Social Network may turn out to be ephemeral, a snapshot of egocentric puffery, “geniuses” who invented the pogo stick for computers; when Facebook passes away, so will any interest in The Social Network. While the human dilemmas explored by The King’s Speech are not likely to fade.

and when EW claims that Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf should have beaten A Man for All Seasons, they reveal their ignorance: While edward albee’s play is one of the great american dramas of all time, the film adaptation was elizabeth Taylor’s worst acting job – a notable achievement, really, in a career that included her horrible performance in Zefferelli’s dull Taming of the Shrew. in both, Taylor proved herself utterly without comprehension of characters who are written to be witty, and which she played as screamers utterly without intelligence.

if EW can’t tell that elizabeth Taylor had zero understanding of one of the most intriguing female characters in all of dramatic literature, and prefers her performance to the nuanced, deep work of Paul Scofield, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, John Hurt, Corin Redgrave, Wendy Hiller and Susannah York, on a powerful script by Robert Bolt, well ...

it just proves that Entertainment Weekly is about fads and trends, without a speck of understanding about the arts they comment on. elizabeth Taylor, an actress? Not in

Uncle Orson(Continued from page 15) those roles, baby.

i’ll tell you some Oscar years where the wrong film won – but most of the time, the film that should have won wasn’t even nominated. Do you realize that in 2000, the year that the historically-idiotic Gladiator won, Cast Away wasn’t even nominated? Nor was Almost Famous. But Traffic and Erin Brockovich were nominated. Go figure.

Nothing wrong with A Beautiful Mind in 2001 – except they completely misunderstood game theory, and once you get the gimmick, there’s nothing there to reward rewatching. That year the astonishingly good Gosford Park was nominated – Robert altman at his best, with brilliant performances from top to bottom of the cast.

and when the shallow, all-sizzle-no-steak Chicago won in 2002, let’s forgive the academy – the alternatives were Gangs of New York, the Pianist, the middle Lord of the Rings installment and the execrable The Hours. it was a bad year, kids; Chicago won by default.

Need i go on? When assessing past winners, remember that the Oscars are artifacts of their time; they are not only in competition with other films of that year, but also they are being voted on by the voters of that year. To second-guess them after the fact is time-snobbery – and i’m as guilty, in my own way, as the EW writers are.

in the end, the Oscars aren’t about what stands the test of time. The voting takes place when the films are all too new – the Oscars are about the moment, not the ages. So criticizing past Oscar choices is like saying, after the fact, what a general

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frankly, to me, it’s like the whole movie is backwards.

Magnolia is another movie that other people like but that left me mystified. it was fine until the end: Out of nowhere, large toads start raining down from the sky. (SPOiLeR aLeRT!) What the heck is that? Toads don’t rain from the sky. it makes no sense whatsoever.

Now, neither Groundhog Day, nor Memento, nor Magnolia won for best picture, but even when it comes to best picture winners that were giant hits, the movies can be really uneven.

Like, when it comes to Titanic, which did win for best picture, i enjoyed the first eight hours, and then, the next four hours i thought were kind of slow, but, then, the last five hours, when the ship was sinking, i thought were more exciting.

if you haven’t seen the movie, Kate Winslet is this woman who falls in love with a 12-year-old boy. i always say i think it would have been more believable if she had adopted him instead of wanting to get with him if you know what i mean.

also, i think that, at the end, there was plenty of room for both of them on the plank floating in the water, so there was no need for him to stay in the water and die. (SPOiLeR aLeRT!)

Five years before Titanic, in 1994, Forrest Gump beat out two movies much better than it: it beat Pulp Fiction and

Yost(Continued from page 12) Shawshank Redemption. i have no idea

how Pulp Fiction doesn’t win best picture that year (or just about any year for that matter), and Shawshank should clearly have beat out Forrest Gump.

Shawshank Redemption, by the way, which is based on a Stephen King story, is the best example we have of how a movie can be much better than the book that it’s based on.

Like i said, there were a lot of movies i had to cut in order to limit it to five.

Driving Miss Daisy (1989), for instance, amazingly didn’t make the list. (OK, now they’re in the car, now he’s putting on the brakes, now he’s taking a left. Wow, i wonder if he will take a right next?)

and Terms of Endearment (1983) didn’t make the list either, even though it is the chick flick that started all chick flicks – Fried Green Tomatoes, Steel Magnolias, Beaches, The Divine Secrets of the Traveling Pants and on and on. You know, they are all movies where four feisty women are good friends and one of them is dying of something and her death brings the other three closer together. Terms of Endearment is extremely sappy and it makes normal overacting look as subtle as a Buddhist tea ceremony.

anyway, with all that said, could we have the envelope please, and now, with no further to do the worst top five films ever to win a best picture award.

Oh, and a drum roll please, and the

fifth worst movie ever to win an academy award for the worst best picture is …

A Beautiful Mind (2001). if i saw this movie on a plane, i’d walk out. if you’d told me before 2001 that a movie about a math geek directed by Opie Taylor would ever even be in the running for best picture, you’d have laughed at my face till the chickens came home.

if i want to see someone do equations on a blackboard i’ll save my money and just go to a math class at UNCG and sit in there all day. i haven’t looked to see what films this movie beat out that year, but, just to pick one off the top of my head, i can’t imagine why it beat out Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, 2001.

Out of Africa (1985). Now, this beat out the other nominees that year: The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi’s Honor and Witness. (i did at one time think that Kelly McGillis was hot, but it turns out in retrospect that her shoulders are freakishly broad.)

Out of Africa, interminably, is like nine hours long with Redford and Streep doing highly unconvincing accents the whole long time.

What’s amazing about the 1985 Oscar for best picture, which of course went to films released in 1984, is how many great movies came out that year that weren’t even nominated.

Look at that sad list of best picture nominees – Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, etc. You would think from that list that no good movies came out that year, but the truth is that 1984 was one of the best years ever for movies, and many other movies should have won rather than the stinker that did.

There were easily a dozen movies that came out in 1984 far better than any of these nominated, and certainly better than the cure-for-insomnia winner with Redford and Streep.

Just to get started, this same year, The Terminator (perhaps the greatest motion picture of all time) and the original Nightmare on Elm Street, another near perfect movie, didn’t even get nominated.

Gremlins.Splash.Ghostbusters. (Who you gonna call?)

Not even a nominee. How can that be? (“Why worry? each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.”)

Oh, and other great films that year that got snubbed by the Oscars: Beverly Hills Cop, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Karate Kid (“Wax on, wax off!”), Purple Rain, Police Academy, Footloose, Romancing the Stone, Sixteen Candles … i could go on but you get the idea. Which would you rather watch again, Ghostbusters or Out of Africa? i thought so.


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Hed hereObama’s Tourism Initiative: Easy

Come, Not So Easy Go (a CJ parody)

By Macon LearyTravel Correspondent

ORLANDOPresident Barack Obama recently

unveiled a new strategy to increase international travel and tourism to the United States. “I want America to be the top tourist destination in the world,” he said to a group of invited guests at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando on Jan. 19.

“In 2010, nearly 60 million inter-national visitors helped the tourism industry generate over $134 billion. Tourism is the No. 1 service industry that we export. And that means jobs,” he said.

But a second component, the traveler retention program — still be-ing crafted by his administration — may not be very popular with jet-set-ting American travelers.

Exporting travel services is the technical term economists use to de-

scribe spending by foreign visitors while in the United States.

According to the U. S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, every additional 65 international visitors to the United States will generate enough exports (travel services) to support one addi-tional travel and tourism-related job for one year.

The president said that he would announce other travel initiatives later this year, but declined to take ques-tions from reporters.

Phase OneThe tourist initiative started

two years ago when Obama signed the Travel Promotion Act, a bill that launched a new nonprofit organization named Brand USA. Its job is to pro-mote America as a travel destination for the rest of the world .

“Brand USA will execute a dy-namic marketing program that will include, but not be limited to, a global advertising campaign, earned media and public relations strategies, a robust social media outreach plan, promo-tional incentive campaigns, trade show

and sales missions, and educational campaigns about U. S. entry policies,” Brand USA Outreach Coordinator Mi-chelle Sohn told Carolina Journal.

“The average overseas visitor to the U. S. spends $4,000 per trip, and it takes just 35 new overseas visitors to support one new U. S. job for one year,” she said.

When CJ pointed out that the 35 visitors per job estimate differed from the President’s 64 visitors per job, she said, “You’re getting picky. My impact numbers are better than his, but we all know tourism is good.”

No taxpayer dollars are used to fund Brand USA. Half of the pro-gram’s $200 million annual budget will be funded from the private sector. The remainder will come from a $14 fee on visitors traveling to the United States.

Phase TwoPhase Two involves a traveler

retention initiative that would discour-age Americans from traveling outside the country. Federal economists say that traveler retention has the same economic effect as travel exporting.

The Bureau of Economic Analy-sis estimates that for every additional 65 United States travelers that can be discouraged from traveling outside the country, the economy will create one additional travel and tourism-related job, or perhaps a job in another sector, for one year.

Sources told CJ that the Obama administration plans to implement traveler retention through several in-centive programs. The first would be a $250 fee that would be added to the ticket price of every international flight or cruise made by a U. S. citizen.

Cruise goers who stop at multi-ple ports of call would pay the fee each time their vessel crosses into a new na-tion’s waters.

The second program involves stiff duties on souvenirs brought back by U.S. citizens traveling abroad. U.S. Customs officials would search the luggage of every returning traveler and assess a fee equal to 200 percent of the purchase price of souvenirs. Souvenirs brought in without a receipt would be confiscated.

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should have done in a battle. Now we know Joe Hooker should have had better information about back roads in the battle of Chancellorsville, but his troop deployments weren’t stupid, he was simply up against Stonewall Jackson.

Similarly, now we know Million Dollar Baby is faked-up schmaltz, a glorification of euthanasia; but it could have been worse. it was up against The Aviator and Sideways, which, if they had won, would make the academy look even stupider today. Yes, the other nominees, Ray and Finding Neverland, are definitely better movies. But they didn’t pack the emotional punch – just as Citizen Kane didn’t move people the way How Green Was My Valley did.

Still doesn’t. Citizen Kane is only useful

because the symbolism and artiness are so juvenile and pathetically easy to decode that any idiot can feel like an intellectual, without noticing that it’s all in service of a shallow little soap opera.

See how easy it is to be mean to dead filmmakers? What is Orson Welles going to do to me now? Too late for him to steal writing credits from me, the way he stole them from other writers who worked with him. (Hitchcock did it too, so maybe it’s standard operating procedure.) Unbelievable that any writer could ever call Welles a genius. Rather, he put his knife in the back of adequate talents and used their work to call himself a genius. Theft plus hype equals an enduring Hollywood reputation.

Happy Oscar parties, friends!

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Which is more or less what the group is proposing – the irony being that, having already considered most of the construction issues the school board is raising, the group has already bypassed at least the early stages of the school board’s byzantine construction-planning process, getting architect Bruce Cantrell to create conceptual drawings for the building, getting cost estimates from Kirkland Construction of High Point and factoring in water, sewer, electricity, drainage ponds and most of the other things the school board assumed it hadn’t.

The members of the project’s steering committee who were present – Cantrell,

Stacey Ofsanko and amber elliott – mostly sat quietly while the committee debated. But Ofsanko later said that the entire construction budget for the multipurpose building, based on Kirkland Construction’s estimates, would be $1.2 million – substantially less, although she didn’t say so, than it takes Guilford County Schools to build any building larger than a toolshed.

a construction estimate is not a construction bid, of course, and there are unexpected contingencies that can arise in any construction project. But Ofsanko said the steering committee had considered not only the utilities and grading and drainage ponds but moving mobile classrooms

already on the site. Visitors to Millis Road elementary School are now faced with a bank of mobile classrooms when they enter the campus; the steering committee wants to move the mobile classrooms to the side – in some cases no more than 25 feet – so that the new building will be on high ground and will be the first thing that visitors see.

Here’s where you run into something fishy in the prices that Guilford County Schools pays, or at least quotes, for moving mobile classrooms. in numerous meetings, that cost has been cited as $60,000 to unhook the mobile classroom’s utilities, move it to a new foundation and reconnect utilities.

That sounds staggeringly high – and

has been easy to mentally write off only by assuming that price represents moving a mobile classroom, which is basically a double-wide trailer, from one end of the county to the other. But Ofsanko said she was told by Guilford County Schools that it would cost $50,000 to $60,000 per mobile classroom to move them the few yards down the hill at Millis Road.

Ofsanko said, “There was a number thrown out by the school system that was quite a bit more than we were getting. Kirkland quoted the steering committee $6,000 to $8,000 for each of the eight units, or $48,000 to $50,000 for the lot.”

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for the third time on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 22, in Courtroom 1 of the L. Richardson Preyer Federal Courthouse in downtown Greensboro.

at that Wednesday hearing, Osteen did not make a ruling but said he would hold court again on Thursday, Feb, 23. He said that he was inclined to remedy the problems by calling for eight district races and one at-large race for the Board of Commissioners this year.

That solution is not popular with five sitting commissioners who would have their current four-year terms – which are not set to expire until 2014 – cut by two years. Osteen also said the General assembly, which is scheduled to meet again in May, could weigh in on the matter and decide to do something else.

Osteen said that, given the fact that the election cycle for this year had already begun, he knew that everyone was eager for some sort of resolution.

“Time is of the essence,” Osteen said.Commissioner Bill Bencini, who’s a

commissioner whose time would be cut short, said he feels he has a right to serve out his term.

“it would infringe on the rights of the people who elected me,” Bencini said.

Osteen said at the hearing that he knew that cutting terms short and holding elections for every seat on the new Board of Commissioners has some drawbacks, but he added that other remedies would also create issues.

The first real indication that Osteen saw a major problem with the legislation was on Friday, Feb. 17, when Osteen surprised many of the 30 or so onlookers in the courtroom by issuing an injunction ordering the Guilford County Board of elections to stop filing candidate names for this year’s county commissioners races.

in that decision, Osteen sided with anita earls, an attorney with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice who’s representing the plaintiffs: the Greensboro branch of the NaaCP and two citizens who claim they would be negatively affected by

Judge(Continued from page 1) the redistricting plan adopted by the North

Carolina General assembly.The defendants in the case are the State

of North Carolina and the Guilford County Board of elections. The three attorneys defending the state and the elections board are Susan Nichols, from the NC attorney General’s Office and Raleigh attorney Tom Farr, representing the State of North Carolina; and Guilford County attorney Mark Payne, representing the Guilford County Board of elections.

The state maintained that, while any potential remedy was being worked out, no harm would come from county elections officials being allowed to continue to take the names of potential candidates and collect their filing fees.

earls disagreed. “Filing period is the beginning of the

election process,” she said. She argued that allowing filing to

continue in commissioners races could lead to “severe harm.” She said that an election under the General assembly’s redistricting plan might lead to a Board of Commissioners that enacts decisions on taxes and new laws without all residents being represented.

“Those things might not be able to be undone,” earls said.

Osteen ruled that there could be irreparable harm in keeping the filing period open, and he ordered a temporary injunction against allowing commissioner candidates in Guilford County to file.

in the redistricting plan for Guilford County that was adopted by the legislature last year, the process to downsize the Board of Commissioners, and establish new district lines, left the new District 6 with no commissioner to represent it. That district covers parts of northwest High Point, western Guilford County and west Greensboro.

Three other districts in Guilford County this year would also not have held an election under the plan adopted by the legislature last July. However, under the original plan, those other districts would have at least one sitting commissioner residing in the district until an election for those districts in 2014.

On Feb. 2, earls filed the lawsuit on behalf of her clients and she followed that with a request for a temporary restraining order on candidate filing.

Osteen first heard the arguments in the case on Monday, Feb. 13, but he issued no ruling at that time.

at the Friday, Feb. 17 hearing, Osteen made it clear that he had substantial concerns over the redistricting plan, though he said repeatedly that he was reluctant to entertain any possible remedies at that time. He said a remedy for the deficiencies in the plan would ideally be implemented by the General assembly, which originated it – not by the federal court.

However, he acknowledged at that time that the General assembly might not be inclined to change the legislation in a timely manner.

Osteen determined that it was likely that the redistricting plan violated the 14th amendment’s equal Protection Clause because, if the plan were to go into effect, some individuals would have more representation than others on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners.

On Friday, Feb. 10 – the Friday before

the first hearing – the state began floating a simple but radical solution: Make every single seat on the board – all eight districts and the at-large seat called for in the legislation – up for election this year.

The Guilford County commissioners didn’t see that possibility coming.

State law makes it clear that no redistricting action by a board of commissioners can cut short the terms of sitting commissioners; and, in state history, an elected official having his or her time in office cut short due to redistricting is all but unheard of.

However, the state created the counties, and the state can do whatever it wants with them and with their representatives.

There has been a great deal of conversation both in and out of court about possible, less intrusive solutions to the District 6 issue. Payne and others suggested switching the election years for Districts 6 and District 7. That would give District 6 a representative on the board starting in 2012 and it would also mean that District 7 wouldn’t have two commissioners on the board.

in the Friday, Feb. 17 hearing, Osteen asked earls if typical redistricting moves



Shakespeare in Love (1999). This somehow beat out Saving Private Ryan. How in the world did that happen? There is nothing about Shakespeare in Love that i didn’t absolutely hate. This is like a chick flick in the Middle ages, and all i remember about it are very effeminate men riding around in tights on horses saying things like, “Thou hast smitten me with thy fetching glance which is as pureth as the stream which runeth througheth the mountaineth.” i mean, who talks like that? No one i know.

also, this movie has Ben affleck (star of Gigli, Jersey Girl and Reindeer Games) doing a Shakespearian accent. i think i’ve made my point.

Oh, and by the way, you know how earlier i said that only one comedy has won best picture in the last 30 years, well, this is it – Shakespeare in Love.

Which leads me to my main question: This is a comedy? Who knew? How do you figure that? There’s not a single laugh in it.

The English Patient (1997). Now, this movie almost made number one on my list because it so, so horrible. This is a monstrosity of a movie. Quite honestly, if Seinfeld hadn’t already done such a good job of pointing out what a terrible movie this is, i would spend a lot more time abusing it here.

and coming in as the very worst best picture of all time is …

Chariots of Fire (1981). Now, first of all, i have nothing against

movies about gays, not that there’s anything wrong with that. But i do have two words for this movie: Bo and ring. This is perhaps the most boring movie of all time, and i’m

Yost(Continued from page 27) including all movies in that statement – not

just best picture winners. So it’s especially egregious that this movie, which won an Oscar, is so boring.

a girl back then made me see it, and the whole time i was like, “Uh, all they do is run along the beach, i don’t get it. Why don’t they do something? This is a movie – they’re supposed to do something interesting. Why are we here?”

anyway, amazingly, this somehow beat out Raiders of the Lost Ark, one of the best pictures of all times, a movie in which a bunch of stuff does happen – it has snakes and planes and fistfights and gunfights and more. But in Chariots of Fire, nothing happens. There’s not even a chariot that catches fire.

But the critics loved it. aBC News said you’ll be “riveted” and “You’ll cheer like crazy.”

But i wasn’t and i didn’t, and the only thing i remember is that they’re running along the beach to that dull repetitive music.

and what’s the huge dramatic moment in the movie? The big climax? Oh no, he won’t run on Sundays! Big deal, who cares?

Do you know that in england, at Cambridge every year, they hold a Chariots of Fire race for charity. it’s one of Cambridge’s largest annual charity events. They race through the streets on a 1.7-mile course.

Now, take a wild guess what day of the week that Chariots of Fire charity race is? Right, it’s on Sunday. i couldn’t make this stuff up if i tried.

i just want to scream at the english people: “What!? Did you not see the movie!? Did you miss the point entirely?”

Think about it: even if that guy the movie was based on was alive, and he wanted to run in the race that was based on him – he couldn’t be in it because it’s on Sunday.

OK, so that’s your list of the worst best picture movies. and by the way, i haven’t forgotten about you: i have the answers to those questions i asked earlier.

The movie that was nominated for every award it was eligible for was Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which was nominated for 13 awards in 1967, and won five of them despite the obvious misspelling in the name.

The only movie to win best picture directed by a woman? The Hurt Locker, which won in 2010. another example of a great movie that won the award.

also, the only X-rated picture to win for best picture? Well, it was Midnight Cowboy of course, which won the Oscar in 1969.

OK, that’s it – enjoy the Oscars and, until next week, i’ll see you at the movies but the balcony is closed …

corporate donations, the festival didn’t have the money it needed for marketing and advertising. Sims asked the City Council to pony up $32,000 from the High Point Downtown improvement Fund, a $50,000 pot of money the Guilford County Board of Commissioners provides High Point for downtown improvement. The county provides similar money to Greensboro.

The festival was rated an artistic success, but it has been far from clear that it was a financial one. The money the City Council provided at Sims’ request was paid hurriedly, with few strings attached, and Sims until Monday had given the City Council only vague accountings of the finances of the Friends of John Coltrane inc., the 501(c)3 nonprofit group that launched and ran the festival.

Some councilmembers had criticized the casual way in which the group was given the $32,000 and called for an accounting of how it was spent.

after the festival, the Friends of John Coltrane paid the City of High Point back only $5,000 of the $32,000. Sims said the group needed the remainder to use as seed money for next year’s festival, rather than coming back to the City Council for more next year.

according to the statement, the Friends of John Coltrane took in $223,566, including $160,396 in grants and donations, and spent $200,499, leaving it with $23,067 in excess revenue.

according to the statement, the nonprofit’s revenue from Sept. 1, 2010 to Nov. 30, 2011 included an $80,000 donation from the Hayden Harman Foundation of Burlington; the $32,000 provided by the City Council, which is listed as a donation; a $24,000 grant from the High Point Convention and Visitors Bureau; a $10,000 donation from the Cemala Foundation; $8,110 in other donations; and $10,686 in unspecified in-

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according to the statement, the festival itself took in $63,169, including $54,593 in net ticket sales, $4,243 in vendor fees, $4,124 in parking fees and $3,340 in beverage sales.

The festival apparently took a bath on merchandise sales. The statement lists $8,046 in merchandise costs but only $4,915 in merchandise sales, for a loss of $3,131.

Of the $200,499 in expenses, the largest amount, about $84,000, went to musicians’ fees and expenses, followed by about $50,000 in advertising costs, $27,000 in production expenses, and amounts for insurance, park rental, promotional expenses, tents, catering and security – and an otherwise unexplained line item of $8,000 for “public expenses.”

Councilmember Latimer alexander asked what the public expenses line item represented. Sims replied, “i have no idea, but i’ll ask the question.”

High Point City Manager Strib Boynton said that the Hayden Harmon Foundation is not expected to be involved at the $80,000 level they were last year. Sims said, “They will be, but probably not at the level they were last year.”

either way, that will leave the Friends of John Coltrane with a major hole in its budget if it plans to hold a September 2012 festival.

High Point Mayor Becky Smothers asked whether or not the nonprofit had considered holding the festival every other year to allow time for fundraising.

“We thought about it and decided it’s not in the best interest of the festival,” Sims said. “Out of sight, out of mind.”

Sims said the nonprofit is already arranging bands for September’s festival, and is attempting to make the musical acts more diverse, including acts that would attract the Hispanic population of High Point.

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improvement Fund is listed by the CPas as a donation, even the tally of grants and donations is reduced by $5,000 for the money paid back to it by the Friends of John Coltrane.

The discussion at the May 2, 2011 meeting was short enough that almost no one, including the councilmembers, remembered with any certainty whether the money was a gift or a loan. Several councilmembers later deluged City Clerk Lisa Vierling with requests for copies of the May 2 meeting minutes.

Those minutes show that Sims asked merely for “an appropriation” of $32,000 – a grant – and that alexander, not Sims, turned that request into a motion, which Councilmember Foster Douglas seconded. Councilmembers a.B. Henley and Chris Whitley questioned the expenditure. Henley questioned the funding mechanism.

Sims, however, also said that under certain conditions the nonprofit “has no problem with going ahead and refunding those dollars back to the city.”

at Monday’s meeting, prompted by Smothers, Sims said the group will raise what it can before coming back to the city to ask for more money for the 2012 festival.

Smothers said, “i think the real issue is whether you’re going to pay back the money the city advanced.”

Smothers said there are two issues to be determined – whether or not the nonprofit is required to pay back the money it was given last year, and whether or not there will be money allocated for the festival next year.

The Coltrane Festival is the latest in a series of efforts by the City of High Point to capitalize on its most famous emigrant.

Coltrane, one of the all-time jazz greats, was born in Hamlet, North Carolina, and moved to High Point at the age of 3, attending Leonard Street School (now the High Point police headquarters) and William Penn High School, now Penn-Griffin School for the arts, from which he graduated in 1943, leaving shortly afterward. The city bought his childhood home on Underhill Street in 2006 and installed an 8-foot statue of him next to city hall the same year.

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didn’t often create this same type of representation problem, generating these same types of legal objections.

earls responded that, in some cases, there have been minor temporary representation issues for voters that were forced by the consequences of the district line changes. However, she said, in this case, there was no reason for it.

“in this case it was avoidable,” earls said.

She added that this was a more substantial disenfranchisement of voters than one gets in the usual redistricting cases, and she said this situation warranted legal action because it was so egregious and there would be a two-year period in which some citizens had absolutely no representation.

“it’s a bigger incursion on your right to vote,” she said. “The total lack of representation on a governing body – that’s about the most severe you can imagine.”

Several weeks ago, Payne was asked if having 43,000 people with no representative on the board for a two-year period – what the plaintiffs are alleging – was a difference in kind or a difference in magnitude when compared to a typical redistricting. He responded, “That’s a good question.”

Other parts of the legislation adopted by the General assembly have also made some parties very unhappy – for instance, the original plan adopted last July calls for no

Judge(Continued from page 28) at-large race in Guilford County until 2014.

That’s caused a great deal of consternation for Commissioner John Parks in particular. Parks is a sitting commissioner, elected at large nine years ago, and he would like to continue as an at-large commissioner after this year.

Berger told The Rhinoceros Times recently that, until the redistricting plan came under widespread debate last month, he was under the impression that Guilford County would have an at-large representative on the board from 2012 to 2014; but Berger said he realized recently that he was mistaken in that belief.

Some of the problems unique to Guilford County’s redistricting case seem to have resulted from the fact that the board will be reduced in size. in the past, when a board of commissioners in the state has changed its size, it has grown.

Todd McGee, the communications director for the NC association of County Commissioners, said Guilford County may be the first board of commissioners in the state to get smaller. Plenty of boards have increased in size over the years, but no one can ever remember one going down in size.

“i don’t know of any other boards that have shrank,” McGee said.

also complicating the process for Guilford County is the fact that the election years for Guilford County commissioners are staggered. if all of the seats had come up for election this year, it would have been

simpler for the General assembly to put the new board in place while maintaining representative equality. That’s one reason the plan to elect all nine seats this year has some appeal.

Osteen said he thought the problems with the adopted plan seemed to be inadvertent.

“i’m not finding that there was anything intentional,” he said.

Guilford County Board of elections Director George Gilbert said his elections office has the ability to adjust to court orders, but he said that Monday, March 19 was a key date for the Guilford County Board of elections because that’s when, by law, the office begins sending out the first absentee ballots, which go to military voters stationed overseas.

District 62 state Rep. John Blust said one thing that would help avoid this type of problem in the future is if boards of commissioners across the state went to two-year terms rather that four-year terms.

“i’ve always thought the commissioners should have two year terms,” Blust said.

He said members of the NC House and

the NC Senate were elected to two-year terms, as were members of the Greensboro City Council and many other representatives in local and state government. He also said that two-year terms make elected representatives more accountable to the citizens, and he added that he felt the Board of Commissioners could benefit greatly by having commissioners who served for two years rather than four.

Blust added that, while he presented a plan for a smaller Guilford County Board of Commissioners, the plan that was ultimately approved was a far cry from his plan. Blust said that the legislation came back to the NC state House from the state Senate for an up or down vote at the very end of the session – so, in a matter of hours, he had to either vote for the plan or against it. No changes were possible, he said.

according to Blust, that vote took place right before state legislators were scheduled to go home, and Blust said legislators from other parts of the state certainly were in no mind to hang around in Raleigh to fix issues that pertained only to Guilford County.

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the county to select Balfour Beatty.Sheriff’s Department Major Debbie

Montgomery has overseen many aspects of the jail’s construction and she’s also been busy hiring all the new detention officers. The Sheriff’s Department was granted 89 additional detention officers in the 2011-2012 budget in order to staff the new jail.

“all new positions have been filled,” Montgomery said this week.

Deputies are now taking tours and becoming familiar with the new jail, but the real training will take place in March, april and May, when the Sheriff’s Department has full run of the building with no construction workers in the way.

Of the eight floors, the first two will be used for administrative and support

BJ(Continued from page 7) functions and floors three through eight will

house inmates and be opened as needed. With furnishings, moving cost and

everything else added in, the total price tag of the new jail is expected to come in right around $100 million.

it’s expected to cost the county an additional $2 million to renovate the old jail in downtown Greensboro. Guilford County is planning to use that jail to house federal inmates, and perhaps at some point inmates from other counties in the state. When the county began planning the new jail in 2008, Barnes and others argued that the old jail would need to be renovated to hold Guilford County inmates. However, the dire predictions of giant increases in the county’s inmate population never came true and, now, with the opening of the new jail,

Guilford County will have more jail space than it knows what to do with.

Barnes said that, in years to come, Guilford County may need to use the old jail to house Guilford County inmates. However, in the meantime, he said, the plan is to use the county’s extra jail space to generate revenue since there’s a shortage of jail space in many counties in North Carolina, and since federal authorities have a constant appetite for renting jail space.

Barnes said he’s very pleased with the new jail but he still thinks it would have been better if the county had chosen to build the facility halfway between Greensboro and High Point, though he said the county’s legal community never liked that option.

“it would be inconvenient for the lawyers,” Barnes said.

Barnes said he’s planning a big fundraiser at which people pay to sleep in the jail and get the “full inmate treatment.”

When he was asked why someone would pay for that experience when he or she could get the same treatment by, say, taking a rock and smashing in a car window and then being seen stealing items out of that car when police arrive, Barnes said that, unlike someone who enters the new jail for a smash-and-grab arrest, those who are part of the charity event will be able to leave of their own free will.

Barnes has promised that the napkins at the grand opening party will be inscribed with “BJ’s Bed & Breakfast,” a name that was selected by The Rhinoceros Times, which held a jail-naming contest for the new facility.

Guilford County exactly what it wanted, to the detriment of the people of Greensboro, who also happen to be residents of Guilford County.

in June 2010, the City of Greensboro informed Guilford County that it wanted to dissolve the city and county joint water and sewer contract – which had been in existence since 1968 – and divide the money in the joint water and sewer fund.

at this meeting on Feb. 21, 2012, Roth informed the council that the city was still unsure about exactly how much money was in the fund.

Councilmember Zack Matheny asked if the city had found out what had happened to the interest on the $25 million in the fund. Roth explained that since exactly what to do with the interest was not specified in the contract, the county had used much of it. Matheny noted that the county had used the interest to help balance its books but the city hadn’t gotten a dime.

in these negotiations, Guilford County wanted the city to pay for some water and sewer projects that the county had agreed to build, but that the city had not agreed to do. in one of the few areas of agreement, Guilford County Manager Brenda Jones Fox

Council(Continued from page 2) agreed that the city was under no obligation

to fund the projects. However, the city, in the negotiations, agreed to fund some smaller projects that would cost a few hundred thousand dollars each, and the Forest Oaks estates project, but not the Lynwood Lakes project, which was the most expensive on the list. The city was under no obligation to fund any of these projects.

So the city made a generous offer to fund Forest Oaks estates and use the rest of the money to extend water and sewer service to about 9,000 acres along the i-85/i-40 corridor in eastern Guilford County. This is land that will not be annexed by Greensboro in the foreseeable future, so extending water and sewer into this area will help the county’s tax base but not the city’s. in short, the county has far more to gain from this project than the city, but the county held the city up for more money and insisted that the Lynwood Lakes project also be paid for out of the water and sewer fund money.

Wade pointed out that the city would be getting $16.7 million for the eastern Guilford County project, and according to Roth the city would only get $11.5 million back from the county if it didn’t agree to Lynwood Lakes. But what nobody mentioned is that the county had told the city that there was

$25 million in the fund. So if the city didn’t agree to fund any projects it would receive $12.5 million, if that is indeed the correct figure.

The deal goes back to Guilford County now, and Perkins noted that the city was going to agree to Lynwood Lakes but that the county had to agree to accept the figures provided by the outside auditor, agree to commit the remaining money (about $16.7 million) in the joint fund to the eastern Guilford County project, and reach an agreement with the city on future development policies.

That last one is a real sticking point. The City Council is expecting the city staff to negotiate a new contract with Guilford County, represented by Fox, and after over 20 months Fox is still refusing to tell the city exactly how much is in the account.

Councilmembers Nancy Vaughan, Nancy Hoffmann and Johnson all congratulated themselves on successfully negotiating this deal with the county. So far the county has taken millions of dollars from the city for its own use and the City Council thinks this is something to celebrate.

Matheny said, “i’m probably not as euphoric about this split. We voted in January with the same type of plan. Because

we thought we had an agreement, per that agreement the indication was the county was ready to go forward.”

Matheny added, “When we voted on this in January, it was a done deal. Robbie, you told me it was.” He added that he didn’t feel the City Council was getting the respect it deserved from Guilford County.

What is amazing is that anyone could think this is a good deal for Greensboro. For over a year the county has kept $12.5 million that by law belongs to the City of Greensboro, and would not even tell Greensboro how much money was in the account until last November. This is cooperation? Now that the county has admitted to an approximate figure in the account, the county wants to spend about $9 million on projects that will benefit Guilford County but not Greensboro, and the City Council is agreeing and calling it a victory.

The motion to move forward with the deal offered by the county passed on a 9-to-0 vote.

By an 8-to-1 vote, with Wade voting no, the City Council agreed to loan Greensboro Parking Group LLC $200,000 to build a Mexican restaurant, parking lot and outdoor venue in an area just west of South elm


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Street and just south of the railroad tracks. according to the deal presented to the council, a private bank has agreed to loan the group $1.47 million for the project if the city ponies up $200,000. The project will create restaurant and parking lot attendant jobs. The $200,000 will be loaned at 2.5 percent for a 20 year term.

One interesting aspect of the project is that the property appraised at $1 million, but the tax value is $318,000. in this economy, for the tax value to be one-third of the appraised value should raise some questions.

Wade questioned whether it was wise to loan a group money that couldn’t get a bank loan unless the city participated.

The council voted 5 to 4 to prohibit concealed weapons by those with valid permits from being carried in parks with playgrounds, swimming pools and athletic facilities. Councilmembers Dianne Bellamy-Small, Matheny, Vaughan and Wade voted against the ordinance. Since it only passed by a 5-to-4 majority, the ordinance will have to come back for a second vote. if it passes a second time it will become law.

The vote – one of the few close votes of this council – indicates the hard-core Perkinettes who are going to spend two years voting for whatever Perkins wants.

Council(Continued from page 31) Those who voted in favor of the motion

were Perkins and Councilmembers Marikay abuzuaiter, Jim Kee, Hoffmann and Johnson. You might expect to find Bellamy-Small in this group, but Bellamy-Small has shown some independence in this term.

Wade said the ordinance being presented was not specific enough and that the city was required to have a list of the facilities where those with concealed carry permits were prohibited from carrying their weapons. Wade suggested that if someone with a concealed carry permit were near a playground walking a dog and the dog got loose, they would be expected to take their gun off and put it down somewhere before they went in the park after their dog or they would be in violation of the law.

Vaughan asked, “Why are we criminalizing people who have a concealed carry permit?” She said that if the ordinance passed it would make playgrounds, “Just a place for criminals to bring their guns.”

Matheny question the enforceability of the law. He suggested that if someone had to use their concealed carry weapon in a park that first, “we give them a badge for heroism and then we give them a $100 fine.”

Parks and Recreation Director Greg Jackson said that security in parks was provided with surveillance cameras. Wade

noted that if a woman was being raped in a park a surveillance camera was not going to provide much protection.

The city entered into a long discussion about awarding the bid for the South elm Street Redevelopment project because it was awarded to South elm Development Group LLC, and the principals of the group are Bob isner and Bob Chapman, who are both white.

The neighborhood wanted a black group to get the project, and several speakers spoke against the city awarding contracts to white contractors. Guilford County Board of education member Deena Hayes read a lengthy story about a black man who, in 1914, was forced to move out of his new house because it was on the white side of the street. according to Hayes, this incident, which happened 98 years ago, is reflected in awarding the redevelopment contract to white developers.

No one suggested that isner and Chapman weren’t qualified, or even that they were not the most qualified. it was simply the color of their skin that Hayes and other opponents objected to.

The council also met in closed session, and when they came back to the open meeting, passed a motion to agree to settle with Jean Jackson, a Parks and Recreation

Department employee who sued the city for discrimination for $25,000. The motion passed 9 to 0.

This was interim City attorney Tom Pollard’s last meeting, but the council did not name a new interim city attorney.

i would like to make a comment about the Guilford County school board refusing to sell the land to expand the Miracle League in High Point. Shame on you, school board. How can you morally deny special needs children the right to have a place where they feel normal? There’s something very wrong when you have lost sight entirely of your purpose. This is a moral decision, not a business decision. and if we judge you on the way you manage our property in Guilford County, we would have never spent $400,000 tearing down a building we could have sold for $1.4 million. We all need to call and back ed Price in this great Miracle League. Children from all over the county come to play on this field, and the school board needs to apologize and give him some land. Thank you.

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cost of ongoing operations, naming issues if donors want the building or its rooms named after themselves, and making sure that money solicited for the building be accounted for properly.

Ofsanko said the group has met with approximately 10 donors, and plans to meet with 30 or so. She said the group has, so far, been more interested in getting ideas from donors as to how the donations should work than in actually raising money, at least until the issues are worked out to the school system’s satisfaction.

“Our goal is to keep any administrative overhead to about 5 percent or 6 percent of the total goal,” she said. “almost all of it goes directly to the project.”

Wilson’s third category of issues she called “cooperative intergovernmental

Leery(Continued from page 28) issues,” which she said include negotiating

with towns so that facilities can be used for town leagues – such as making a gym 20 feet wider than needed for an elementary school so it can be used for an adult league, and making sure leagues understand that alcohol sales are forbidden on school properties.

“We’ve dealt with all those issues before,” she said. “We’ve built pools before, we’ve built tracks before ... we know how to do it.”

The plan to build such a building with private donations began five years ago, during conversations between parents and Millis Road Principal Russell Harper.

The school plans to raise $500,000 in one donation for the building’s exterior; $250,000 in two donations for the gym/auditorium fixtures; $100,000 in two donations for a physical education

building and scoreboard; $50,000 for each classroom; $25,000 for a “wall of champions,” and $10,000 for a brick “path to success,” probably a sidewalk with donor names, as “Path to Success” is the name of the school’s nine-step plan to fund and construct the building.

The greatest concern raised by Guilford County School Superintendent Mo Green and school board members is equity – not having wealthy school communities outbuild poorer ones. Green, as part of his strategic plan for the school system, has committed to having a baseline of school buildings and supplies that will be provided to all schools. Privately built school buildings could create an uneven playing field.

Guilford County Schools Chief of Staff Nora Carr called the equity issue “the most fundamental one.”

But Millis Road, although it is located in relatively wealthy Jamestown, has a racially diverse student body and is not a fancy school, although it is a well-performing one.

Millis Road elementary School opened in the fall of 1961, and its construction is typical of the period. Since then, its only major addition, a decade ago, was a wing of classrooms for kindergarten students.

Ofsanko said Millis Road’s facilities are scant compared to those of newer schools.

“Our question to the school system and the school board is, if not this, what are you going to propose?” she said. “i doubt bond referendums will pass in the future like they have in the past. “When it comes to the equity issue, we don’t have a gym. We don’t have an auditorium. We don’t have things other schools have.”

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1420 Grantham, High Pt. Incred space, lots of charm, updates. 2 FP–LR, den. Lrg mstr w/sep updated bath, lrg walk-in closet. Open kit w/huge pantry, tiled fl oor opens to spac dining area. Beautiful privacy-fenced bkyrd, brick patio. New furnace, ext paint near High Pt U. $129,900. Melissa Greer, Prudential Yost & Little 337-5233

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1827 Johnson St, E. Executive Park. Priced below tax value for immediate occupancy! Lovely renovated 2bd/1.1ba townhome, fi nished sunroom, fenced patio. All bdrms up w/full bath, half bath down. All painted w/neutral colors, upgraded fi xtures. Off Eastchester and Johnson Street, near shops, downtown. Complex playground, pool. Perfect furniture market rental! Seller will consider lease to own. $58,000. Robbin Smith, Allen Tate, 336-451-5885

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772 Stafford Park. Like new 4bd/2.5ba, 2 story, 2 car garage. Open kit to 2 story family rm, FP, ML mstr, laminate wd fl rs, more. $199,900. Jamie Harrelson, Prudential Carolinas Realty, 336-889-9192. Sta772

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Romney is just the opposite. Romney is accustomed to wearing expensive suits and ties. You look at him at one of the debates and he appears to be perfectly at home. He’s comfortable, he knows which pocket his pen is in, where his note cards are and that his tie is the perfect length. He is at home with himself.

Put Romney in a sport coat and open collared shirt and he looks like a man who

showed up at a party where everyone else was in Hawaiian shirts and shorts and he was the only one wearing a tie, so he took it off and stuffed it in his pocket. except you can’t imagine Romney stuffing anything in his pocket. So in this scenario, he took his tie off and gave it to his driver to carefully hang on the emergency tie rack in his car.

Romney in blue jeans just looks silly. Whether you liked or hated President George Walker Bush, he wore blue jeans like he was

from Texas and had worn them before.The old saying, “You can dress him up but

you can’t take him out” applies to Romney if you change one word: “You can dress him down but you can’t take him out.” Romney should wear suits and ties everywhere he goes. if he wants to look casual, he can loosen the knot of his tie, unbutton his collar and pull his tie down half an inch. if he does that he looks like Romney relaxing; otherwise he looks silly.

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efforts using school names.The policy would require booster clubs

to have tax iD numbered bank accounts and to be registered as 501(c) nonprofit organizations under the federal tax code.

By July 1 each year, every booster club would have to petition Guilford County Schools for recognition, signing a booster club agreement, filing a copy of its bylaws and charter, a list of its officers, and the name of the bank in which it keeps its account and the tax iD number.

Wilson said the requirements would assure that there would be a formal organization behind a booster club, “instead of someone running it through their personal checkbook.”

Officers of the booster club would have to ask the principal in advance to approve fundraising activities to make sure that they are aligned with the goals of Guilford County Schools. Booster clubs would be prohibited from requiring students to participate in fundraising activities.

“all donations from the booster club,

whether material or monetary, must be approved by the principal,” the proposed policy states. “Donations must be received through the school or the Booster Club; coaches cannot accept donations themselves. The principal should accept donations that are in support of GCS goals and do not lead to inequity, especially as it relates to Title iX.”

Title iX is the section of the federal education act that requires girls’ and boys’ sports facilities at schools to be equivalent.

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The series of events has caused such unrest among Ferndale parents that they will meet in the school’s auditorium at 6 p.m., Monday, Feb. 27 to discuss the problems with administrators and school board members.

The anger among some parents began after there were four fights at Ferndale on Feb. 2 and Feb. 3 – two between male students on Feb 2 and two between female students on Feb. 3. according to Guilford County Schools Western Region Superintendent angelo Kidd, there have been two fights at the school since, one during school hours and one at an after-hours dance.

according to a High Point Police Department incident report, a .177 caliber pellet/BB gun was seized, and the 14-year-old who had the pellet gun was charged on Feb. 2.

Ferndale parent Brian Hall, an organizer of the meeting scheduled for Monday, said the pellet gun was found in a backpack, and that he was less worried about it than about the fights. He said, “Still, it’s not the kind of thing you like to hear about any student carrying to school.”

State law exempts BB guns from the definition of firearms, which a student must be suspended for a year for possessing

Parents said that, after baseball tryouts on Monday, Feb. 13 and Tuesday, Feb. 14, angel – a teacher and coach at Ferndale for 25 years – stopped coming to school because of a dispute over baseball tryouts that parents took to the school administration, Kidd and Guilford County Schools athletic Director Leigh Hebbard.

Ferndale(Continued from page 8) That angered some parents, who said angel

had been railroaded.Some details are missing, but the general

picture of what happened during the Great Ferndale Baseball Brouhaha of 2012 is clear enough. after angel filled the slots on the team, some parents complained that he had held invitation-only tryouts before the official tryouts. Other parents rushed to angel’s defense, saying the charges were merely sour grapes from parents whose kids didn’t make the team. Some of his supporters said that any baseball being played before tryouts was pick-up ball, not a tryout.

according to the North Carolina High School athletic association, baseball coaches may practice before tryouts with up to eight players on the field and have it counted as off-season skill development. More than eight players is counted as off-season practice and is a rule violation. There is no state middle school athletic association, and middle school sports violations are usually handled within school systems, but the same rules presumably apply to middle schools.

in any case, parents said that baseball practices scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 16 and Friday, Feb. 17 were canceled, and angel has not been at school since. By some accounts, baseball tryouts were held again with other supervision under orders from Guilford County Schools administrators.

Kidd confirmed the six fights, although he would not comment on angel’s status, which he said was a personnel matter, or the baseball tryouts. He said, “i’m just hearing they’re having some issues with getting baseball started.”

it is unlikely that Kidd would not have known about the baseball fracas, as he is the supervisor of Ferndale Principal angela Jackson, and, indirectly, angel; and parents said that the incident had been reported all the way up the administrative chain to the athletic director.

Hall said Monday’s meeting will focus on four issues: leadership, safety, discipline and academic achievement. Throughout a long conversation with Hall, he was very positive about Ferndale and its administration, saying he merely wanted to see the school improved.

Hall said he had promised the administration that the meeting would be much more than a forum for complaints. He said, “The purpose of the forum is to make Ferndale a better place to go to school.”

although Kidd said that on Feb. 2 and Feb. 3 there were four fights, Hall said that students reported as many as 12, and that the fights were one cause of the meeting. Hall said he doesn’t expect all students at a middle school to behave perfectly.

“We do want to make sure that repeat offenders are punished accordingly,” he said. “if they’re disrupting school, we want to make sure that they’re getting punished to the full amount available to the Ferndale administration and Guilford County Schools and the school board. it’s not just a principal issue and not just a teacher issue. We want the administration to know they have our blessing to do whatever they have to do with any kind of fight. We want an end to the fighting.”

Kidd praised Jackson, who is in her second year as principal. He said, “She

was a very successful principal at a middle school in Florida that also had an international Baccalaureate program, and had moved the school up in grades in a very short time.”

Hall said parents’ opinions of Jackson are more mixed.

“We would like to hope that Ms. Jackson is the right person to take us into the rest of this year and next year,” he said. “So far she has been responsive. i have confidence in her, but some other parents have expressed concerns with Ms. Jackson.”

Hall said he heard the baseball-tryout story secondhand, but praised angel.

“That topic to me would seem to fall under the leadership category,” he said. “it seems we’ve got a leadership issue. if Johnny doesn’t make the baseball team, i would expect parents to have a talk with the coach. There are ways to go about those things. Coach angel’s record speaks for itself. He’s provided services to the kids of the community for literally decades.”

Hall said he expects 50 or 100 parents to come to Monday’s meeting. He said he hopes it will not be confrontational, and that parents will have to shoulder much of the burden of improving Ferndale. He said that Ferndale PTa meetings are often sparsely attended, and called the school’s teachers, “as good a core group of teachers as i’ve ever seen.”

angel, Jackson and Hebbard did not return calls for comment.

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that Fat Tuesday is, in many countries, the biggest holiday of the year, but not a single member of the City Council mentioned Mardi Gras, or that Lent would begin the next day on ash Wednesday.

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The story of the preschool girl who was forced to eat chicken nuggets because her school didn’t think a homemade turkey sandwich was healthy has gone national. The Carolina Journal, which is inserted

Rumors(Continued from page 1) the first week of every month in The Rhino

Times, broke the story. it’s a sign of how bad our schools are and how overreaching, and also a sign of how the liberal bias of the media affects the news we receive. The Carolina Journal breaks big stories on a regular basis and has the mainstream media tagging along behind when the story becomes too big to ignore – like the multitude of articles that the Carolina Journal ran about the corruption in the easley administration. eventually the rest of the media was forced to follow their lead

because even the most liberal media outlet cannot ignore it when the former governor is convicted of a felony.

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i know many of you folks think that we have almost a week left in February. Our office manager evidently bought our calendars at a discount store because they all list February as having 29 days and i’m sure last year it only had 28. But whether it is 28 or 29, for those of us in the weekly newspaper business February is over and it’s quite a shock. The month just got here,

brought us a bunch of flowers and a little snow and now it’s gone. i’m going to have to check some other calendars around town to find out exactly when March starts.

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Dudley High School, Class of ‘72 is planning its 40th reunion July 20-22. Class members who don’t want to be left out may send address information to P. O. Box 5818, Greensboro, NC 27435; or call 861-8625, or 574-0140. You may also send an email to [email protected].

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Yes, the Obama administration won’t allow prayer in public, because of the separation of church and state, but he’s trying to cram that there birth control down the church’s throat. What’s the difference? i mean, talk about double standards. The Democrats have double standards all the way around. Thank you. Bye.

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i wish someone would tell me, what does the government of this country and Bev Perdue, governor of North Carolina, think they are, and who do they think they are

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kidding? They get on television, and they will tell about, oh, we got 150 jobs coming. it’s going to hire 150 people. The next day some bottling company says, well, we’re going to lay off 3,000 or whatever number. They’re wasting their time. But get on there and brag about all these jobs that’s coming to town. Get everybody all thinking they might get a job. Then, the next day, some company comes up they’re going to lay off this one, that one, and this many. it’s all a joke. They think we’re fools. and that’s how they try to treat us.

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Yes, this call is concerning the double

murder in Rockingham County last week. i wonder why the press is not questioning why it took over 20 minutes for the first responder to arrive at the scene. Other reports said the daughter was already attacked, too, was on the phone for 20 minutes before anybody ever got to her. She explained to them that the attackers had gone. So, there is no need for a first responder and police at that stage. But 20 minutes? Maybe the two people that died may could have survived had they gotten help sooner. Thank you.

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Yes, Steely Dan Fan, ma’am. Holler out

to Blue-eyed Devil. You know, i sure was glad to hear that Skip ain’t going to run for reelection. But that don’t mean he ain’t going to have his hands in that cookie jar, i’ll guarantee you. all right. Bye.

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Good evening. i hope you will, please, print the following two comments i would like to make to all Rhino readers to consider before this election Day in November. They are as follows. One, if Obama wins, you lose. and, two, Obama is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Think long and hard about that between now and November. Thank you.

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By John Hammerit would appear that President Barack

Hussein Obama either doesn’t want to serve another term in the White House or he has seriously misjudged the power of the Roman Catholic Church.

Considering how much Michelle Obama seems to like having a Boeing 747 at her disposal it is hard to believe that President Obama is ready to retire. it seems much more likely that he has been reading his own press releases and believes he is the most powerful man who ever lived.

The Roman Catholic Church has been for years a sleeping giant in american politics. Most Catholics voted for Obama despite the fact that he is vehemently in favor, not just of abortion but of the far more heinous and indefensible partial birth abortion. The Catholic Church made some rumblings about not supporting politicians who supported abortion, but it was not much of an effort.

Now it appears the beast has been awoken and the Catholic Church seems to be ready to flex its muscles. Won’t it be fascinating if the Catholic Church uses its power to get a Mormon elected president?

Roman Catholics who went to Mass Sunday in the Diocese of Charlotte were read a strongly worded letter from the Most Reverend Peter Jugis, the bishop of Charlotte, about the decision by President Obama to require mandatory contraception services be provided in all health care plans. Jugis notes that a compromise was offered but states, “Unfortunately, the compromise does not address the fundamental concern of conscience protection and religious liberty that the original regulations threaten.”

Bishop Jugis also states that even the Diocese of Charlotte itself as an employer would not qualify for the narrowly defined exemption, and the diocese, which is self-insured, would have to pay for the services that are mandated, including “coverage of sterilization, and contraception, including some abortifacients.” The abortifacients referred to are better known as morning-after pills.

The letter also states, “The lack of clear conscience protection for key stakeholders is unacceptable and must be corrected.”

a similar letter was written by the Most Reverend Michael Burbridge, the bishop of Raleigh, to Catholics in the eastern half of North Carolina. North Carolina’s two bishops joined Catholic bishops across the country in opposing this action by Obama, which denies Catholics the fundamental freedom to practice their religion.

Some in Obama’s inner circle tried to talk him out of taking this action. it appears that is most likely the reason that former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley resigned. at the time of his resignation no real reason was given for the move except Daley said he wanted to get back to Chicago.

Now it appears that Daley lost this battle and resigned or was asked to resign as a result. it is being reported at townhall.com that Obama didn’t listen to Daley and Vice

President Joe Biden, but instead took the advice of Planned Parenthood CeO Cecile Richards, who was joined by White House advisors including Valerie Jarrett and Pete Rouse in supporting forcing their beliefs about birth control on everyone including the Roman Catholic Church.

it is hard to see what Obama stands to gain from taking on the Catholic Church in an election year. One explanation is that Obama is not very religious. He wasn’t raised in a religious family and it doesn’t appear he has ever bothered to learn much about religion. it is possible that Obama has no idea what clout the Catholic Church has. One thing should be certain, the Catholic Church is not going to change its beliefs or teachings to fit the needs of Obama.

if Obama relents and allows a religious exemption, what has he gained? The Catholic bishops will remember that he put them through this whole mess, and fighting the government is not easy for anyone, even the Catholic Church.

if he doesn’t relent, certainly some accommodation will be made by Congress or the courts for the Catholic Church, and Obama loses to everyone except the hardcore anti-religious in this country, who support Obama already.

Politically it appears to be a poor move, but no doubt the mainstream media will spin it so it looks like the Catholic Church is trying to deny birth control to thousands of non-Catholics and Obama is just trying to protect a person’s right to buy a condom.

Revising the bill would not deny contraception to anyone. it just would not require the Catholic Church or others who believe things like the morning-after abortion pill are wrong, to pay for them.

The Declaration of independence says that all men have the right to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” it doesn’t say – and free contraceptive care. The idea that all women have a right to free contraceptive care is absurd.

The mainstream media continues to misreport the disagreement over the payroll tax cut, which was handled beautifully by the White House.

Obama got the Republicans to vote against extending a payroll tax cut, because the vote would only extend it two months. it is an incredibly stupid way to do business, but Obama knew he had the press on his side and they would not present it as stupid but as Obama being in favor of the tax cut and the Republicans being against it, which is exactly what the mainstream media did.

But Republicans were only against that particular tax cut because it lasted two months. The Republicans were in favor of a one year tax cut, not a two month tax cut. Corporations budget by quarters not by months. even a three month extension would have made more sense. But it was brilliantly handled because the press is still talking about the Republicans voting against the payroll tax cut.

The mainstream media is going to do

everything in its power to help Obama, but the health care deal is going to be much harder to spin, particularly for Catholics. and if Obama doesn’t get a majority of the Catholic vote in November, he loses. Catholics make up about one quarter of the electorate, and in 2008 Obama received about 54 percent of Catholic votes, which gave him a 9 point spread over Sen. John McCain. So if you’re talking about 9 percent of 25 percent of the vote, that’s a sizable number.

Unless Obama changes his tack drastically between now and the election – and it will have to be drastic – the Catholic Bishops are going to continue to speak out against him, and even Catholics who use birth control see the wrong in requiring their bishop to pay for it.

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The first lady of the United States doesn’t have a real job. each first lady gets to invent their job, and most choose a cause and spend time promoting it. it would appear that First Lady Michelle Obama has two causes: one is child nutrition and the other is taking really nice vacations. it would be interesting to see what her vacation schedule looked like before her husband was elected president, because it certainly appears that she is making up for lost time. Michelle Obama and her daughters were skiing in aspen last weekend. For federal employees it was a long weekend but, my gosh, it seems like the Obamas just got back from Hawaii, and before that they were at Martha’s Vineyard.

Michelle Obama apparently makes no attempt to cut costs on these trips. She flies in one huge government jet and the president follows in air Force One. President Obama didn’t go skiing.

But this is a nice thought if you’re not a fan of the Obamas. Barack Hussein Obama will not be president forever, and when he is no longer president he’ll make a lot of money, but it is unlikely he will make enough for the Obamas to have two 747s they can fly around the world in. She might even have to fly commercial.

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it would be easy to be mad at someone if there was any evidence that anyone was in charge of the Republican Party, but the evidence is overwhelming that no one is in charge. it has always appeared that the Democratic Party had some folks calling the shots; whether it does or not it certainly doesn’t appear as disorganized as the Republican Party.

Take a look at what the Republican Party is putting forward as potential presidential candidates and it would appear that the GOP has been infiltrated by the enemy, who have searched high and low to find the least electable candidates available. if that is the case these infiltrators probably have to leave meetings occasionally to go to another room and laugh privately, because they become overcome with the hilarity of the Republicans choosing between Mitt

Romney and Rick Santorum.One thing right off the bat, neither

Romney nor Santorum has held office in years. Romney won one term as governor of Massachusetts and didn’t run for reelection in 2006. in 2006 Santorum lost his race for a third term in the Senate by a larger margin than any Republican senator ever. He was a two term incumbent, which is an enormous advantage, and he lost his seat by 18 points. He only received 41 percent of the vote. it was an embarrassing defeat, but understandable when you look at his record in the Senate. He said during that campaign that he only spent about one month a year in Pennsylvania. How can you represent people in Congress if you never see them?

in 2004 Santorum endorsed Sen. arlen Specter in his race over far more conservative challenger Pat Toomey. it was proof that Santorum was just in Washington playing politics.

More proof is that Santorum now lives in Virginia, works as a lobbyist and in 2010 made over $1 million. if he had gone back to Pennsylvania, where he claimed he lived, and worked as an attorney, he probably would have had a difficult time making that kind of money. But it would have indicated that he really had been representing the people of Pennsylvania.

So Santorum is a man who couldn’t win reelection to the Senate, in part because the voters didn’t believe he had been honest with them in his endorsement of Specter, who became a Democrat during the term that Santorum helped him win.

Specter, by the way, invented the “magic bullet” theory to explain how President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally could have both been wounded by the same bullet.

Romney won a term as governor of Massachusetts in 2002 but didn’t even try to get reelected in 2006. Romney also lost a campaign for senator to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1994. So Romney’s political career consists of losing to Kennedy and winning one term as governor. He also ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 but got wiped out by McCain.

Both Santorum and Romney lack charisma. in Romney’s case he has the opposite of whatever charisma is. He doesn’t do well with people but he has learned to handle a television debate.

Santorum comes across as so sanctimonious it makes me want to disagree with him, even though i agree with him on most of the issues.

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Take a regular guy who wears blue jeans to work every day and put him in a nice suit for a wedding or a funeral and he looks out of place. One reason is that he feels out of place. The tie is too tight, the coat too restrictive, and doggone it those green socks looked blue in the light in the bedroom.



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