Posts tagged with ‘north carolina’

Proposal would have Christianity established as the state religion of North Carolina. Because fuck the Constitution.

North Carolina has mostly been a red state for a while, but our state politics have mainly been held in check by a balance of the two major parties. This last election cycle saw Republicans get the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature, leading to some pretty dumb shit going down in NC. The latest example is a proposal that would establish Christianity as the state religion, despite a well-known separation of church and state in the US constitution.

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Rural NC church stalks man after he rescued a gay church member from their grasp. That’s some crazy Red State shit right there.

After a man saved a gay man from being abused by a church in Rutherfordton, North Carolina, the church turned on him. He’s accusing the Word of Faith Fellowship Church of sending its members to stalk and harass him.

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The Escapist Expo is in Durham, NC this weekend

This fall The Escapist is launching the first Escapist Expo, a premier consumer convention centered around games culture! The Expo will unite fans of videogames, tabletop games, science fiction, fantasy, comics, music and more in a celebration of everything great in multi-media escapism.

http://www.escapistexpo.com/

NC considers making sea rise illegal. That’ll show that stupid ocean who’s boss

As if my home state of North Carolina has embarrassed itself enough lately, twenty coastal counties have been pushing legislation through the state senate that ignores science, so they can measure sea level rise in the coming decades on their own terms, but not to exceed eight inches total.

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The last time NC amended their constitution to redefine marriage, it was to prevent interracial marriage

It was disappointing last night to see my home state of North Carolina vote in favor of a wide-reaching amendment that not only enshrines a ban on gay marriage in the state constitution, but doesn’t allow any civil unions or domestic partnerships at all, even for straight couples.

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Four hundred year old map may offer clues to the fate of the Lost Colony

Having lived most of my life in North Carolina, I heard a lot about the Lost Colony growing up, but there had never been any new information past the mysterious word “CROATOAN” carved in a tree stump. It was thought that this meant the settlers had tried to get to the island of Croatoan (now Hatteras) to the south, but it was a dead end. Now, a 425 year old map may shed some new light on the fate of this early colony.

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MySpace photos of two teenage girls that stabbed a NC cabbie to death

Investigators say two 16-year-old girls have been arrested and charged with murder in the 2011 slaying of a North Carolina cab driver. According to CBS affiliate WBTV, Consandra Tyree and Emily Starnes are also charged with robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery in the death of Adam Williams, who investigators say was stabbed to death after picking up passengers from a Hickory restaurant.

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Chapel Hill NC will be the first US town to ban all cellphone use while driving, even hands-free earpieces or in-car Bluetooth

When the law goes into effect on June 1st, Chapel Hill, North Carolina won’t be the first in the country by far to ban cellphones while driving, but it is the first to ban any sort of cellphone use at all— including hands-free headsets and earpieces and in-car Bluetooth phones.

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Cops find NC inmate with a 10 inch revolver in his ass. Fortunately for him, it wasn’t loaded

A not-so-intelligent man arrested this week in North Carolina appears to have stashed a 10” long .38 barrel revolver in his rectum, according to police, who reported that the unloaded weapon was not discovered until after the suspect had been booked into a cell in the county jail.

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Clerk knocks out armed robber, forces him to clean up his own blood while they wait for police

When a guy came in at closing time to We Buy Gold in Hendersonville, North Carolina, he ended up in a world of hurt when the store clerk first knocked him out cold with a punch and then forced the robber to clean up his own blood while they both waited for police.

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Anonymous’ OpCartel links North Carolina DA to Mexican drug cartel

Above: A fucking idiot

Even though Anonymous’ OpCartel didn’t go down in full, since the person that was being held captive by the Zetas drug cartel was released, some Anonymous members have kept the thing going, with a district attorney in North Carolina being named as participating with the Zetas and a non-anonymous Texas man coming out publicly against the cartel, who now says he’s being stalked. No shit, genius.

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