As North Myrtle Beach continues to clean up after the fire, I thought I’d pull an NMB picture from the archives. Here’s North Myrtle Beach about to get some rain in late summer, 2004.
North Myrtle Beach, Summer 2004 - 1024x768. Click to enlarge.
Archive for April, 2009
Rain on the way
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Crystal Gayle on toast!
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009A Spartanburg woman has made a piece of cheese toast that bears an uncanny resemblance to country music legend Crystal Gayle.
The likeness is amazing!
As the woman noted…
“I know there’s a lot of people who believe there’s some […] reason for it being there,” said Lowe, who lives on Lake Bowen. “I just don’t know, but I could never eat it.”
Yes, country music is rather popular here in South Carolina. What other reason would there be for country music legends to start appearing on toast?
Okay, okay … so the woman actually thought the toast looked like some religious character. But you can’t tell me that isn’t Crystal Gayle immortalized in cheese!
Tax day!
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009Today’s the day citizens are supposed to mail off their tax forms. And in honor of that day, here are some interesting links:
Kevin Drum has a in interesting post about who’s really getting “soaked” by our tax structure: “How to think about taxes” Hint: It’s probably not who you think.
Closer to home, we have lots of articles about “tax protesters” coming out of the woodwork to protest that … the federal government requires money to operate!
“What works in America is always and has always been freedom,” DeMint said. “The only way we’re going to stop our…spending is to do these (rallies) all over the country as long as it takes to take back our government.”
Or, we could have simply not rushed into Iraq. But I digress… How does DeMint think we should control spending?
DeMint urged support for proposals such as school-choice and private health care over reforms that give government greater control.
… by giving tax money away to unaccountable private schools and pouring money into the impenetrable bureaucratic hell of private insurance companies, of course! That’s true freedom! Makes about as much sense as anything else tax protesters say, I suppose.
The “FairTax” folks are also getting in on the act:
Advocates of the FairTax also will rally at the Township Auditorium this evening. The FairTax would replace federal income taxes with a 30 percent (23 percent when included in the price) sales tax on services and sales of new goods.
Why this gets any traction in South Carolina (aside from the crazy truck guys) is beyond me. We already tried swapping out property taxes for increased sales taxes in this state. Now we have higher sales taxes and the state budget is still screwed.
Last but not least, here’s Indigo Journal’s open thread on the tax protests – with a few pictures: [Tax protesters open thread]
Happy tax day!
Conservative performance art
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009There are some folks out there who wonder how we in South Carolina managed to elect officials that want to play crazy, stupid games with the federal stimulus package, the state budget, and our underfunded state services.
Let me introduce you to conservatism, South Carolina style:
Conservative performance art, right side. Click to enlarge.
What it says:
DEMS DRIVE BUY MEDIA
LARGEST TERRORIST
GROUP IN AMERICA
OBAMA INSANE – THEIR
LEADER – CHILDREN ARE
A PUNISHMENT – ABORT
OUR GOVERNMENT IS A DEN
OF SELFSERVING LIARS
THIEVES – SELLING OUT
HARD WORKING TAX
PAYERS TO ENRICH THEM
SELVES & FRIENDS
And on the other side …
Cnservative performance art, left side. Click to enlarge
It says:
OUT WITH THE OLD CROOKS
IN WITH THE NEW CROOKS
CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE
IN BILLION GIVEN TO
CONGRESS FROM GROUPS
THAT GOT BAIL OUT MONEY
And there you have it! South Carolina’s conservative values – as articulated by the “crazy truck guy”.