Comments on: Some Love For Pippi

By: rick

rick — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:36:13 +0000

What problem has the liberal masses ever fixed? I know they’ve reached deep into my pockets to come up with funding to pay for failed policies for the past 56 years. Lets examine a few, welfare, AFDC, medicare, social security, do we need to continue? And since we’re pulling scabs….Somalia(cut and run), Bosnia(change sides), Iran(Jimmy’s moment in the Sun)….All the liberals have ever accomplished is to cut and run when faced with adversity. Continue to whine and snivel, someday you’ll figure out that we’re a republic based on personal freedom and owe others what we as individuals feel we owe. Thats why when disasters like Iowa and Katrina occur, while the Governor and Mayor sacrificed their populace to the storm, the rest of America dug deep in their pockets, climbed into their trucks and helped out. All the while the Liberal Governor and Mayor sat on the sidewalk crying its all the Feds fault. Go ahead and whine….Ya ain’t say’n shit of value.

By: Dixie

Dixie — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:20:15 +0000

Why is it that liberals are always expected to come up with solutions to problems that Republicans create? Republicans love to preach personal responsibility. That should probably start at home instead of expecting others to clean up the mess. I’m jsut sayin.

By: Believe It Not (a.k.a. Sic Willie's Stalker)

Believe It Not (a.k.a. Sic Willie's Stalker) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:39:37 +0000

sic(k) willie claims he beat the mainstream press by over an hour.

Wow! Yawn!

All that means is a politically motivated low country pimp called some politically motivated midlands pimp before the papers could print the story. sic(k) willie, readers know what you’re doing. You pimp stories and claim to break news. All you really break is wind.

Then you violated the man’s Constitutional rights and a Court order by posting the audio of his phone calls. Maybe we need to do an FOI for the tapes of your phone calls from your last few arrests.

Fair. Balance.

BIN News Editorial Staff
Flair and Balance

By: Jane Jones

Jane Jones — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:25:59 +0000

There has to be a better method of acquiring a magistrate. Ours lays in his office on his couch, watching television, while smoking……nice appearance for a county office, good ole boy. But guess what….he doesn’t answer to county officials….only our local senator who just appointed a new assistant magistrate….a fine fellow who was thrown out of the country club for peeing in public! It doesn’t get any better

By: CL

CL — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:58:53 +0000

FITS,

Don’t confuse the method for choosing SC magistrates with the method for choosing SC judges. The magistrate process you describe is more like the federal system than SC’s system for choosing judges. The president defers to a state’s senators on most federal judge nominations. Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings, depending on which party had the presidency, picked SC’s federal judges for years.

In SC, anyone wishing to be a judge declares their own candidacy is screened by the merit selection committee (“MSC”), which evaluates the candidates and recommends up to three qualified candidates for every opening. Then the legislature picks from those three.

I don’t necessarily oppose the federal system, but it is likely to make the process at least somewhat more political. The governor would have the power to make purely political nominations, and the senate can only vote yes or no. Under the current system, no politician can limit the candidate pool to just their friends, and the MSC can, in theory, only put through the three most qualified candidates. This is something of a check on cronyism.

By: StupidShouldHurtMore (SSHM)

StupidShouldHurtMore (SSHM) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:55:51 +0000

#4 . . .

Please,

The only thing right about wrongstockings is her poor choice in socks. Reminds me of The Cat In The Hat . . .

- SSHM

By: fitsnews

fitsnews — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:31:45 +0000

CL-

We’re not recommending public election. In fact, we think SC should follow the federal model and allow the chief executive to make these appointments subject to the advice and consent of the State Senate.

-FITSNews

By: rick

rick — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:26:06 +0000

How can being owned by the local politician equate to competency? Politicians are not elected due to their sterling educational qualities. Time has shown that their ability to think through problems and refine solutions that address the issue in a real honest way that is good for their given state has been disproved on a regular basis. The average politician is elected not for any quality other than their ability to B/S the largest group of voters.

By: CL

CL — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:15:37 +0000

You obviously don’t like how judges are selected in SC, but what is your solution? Popular elections? I have worked under such a system in NC, and the “quality” of judges is even worse than SC. In many counties, a lawyer’s only qualification for the office is being friends with the party boss. The judges rotate in and out of office so frequently that there is absolutely no consistency in the opinions they hand down. As a result, the Court of Appeals has contradicted itself on virtually every legal issue.

There is no perfect way to pick judges (or politicians), but I think ours is the least flawed. At least there is some sort of meritocracy in place where you tend to only advance up to the next court by being seen as competent.

By: Toyota Kawesaki

Toyota Kawesaki — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:01:28 +0000

Cindi has written 2 good articles this one and her article about the Trojan Horse.Of course yall wont admit that because of all the farts you suck up from SCrahG.BTW is that Pippi or daves daughter Wendy?