First, we have the latest in the Edwardian saga. The sex tape isn't in Orange County. As if there is only one copy, and the Feds aren't popping popcorn.
I remained stunned that this ditzoid woman (1) made the thing in the first place and (2) left it behind for someone to find.
Then we have the unravelling of former Governor Sleazely's lies.
The Governor (aka "Nick Danger", spelled backwards) maintained a private e-mail account that he used to conduct state business, and then ordered that the e-mails be deleted so they would not become public.
E-mails to government officials are public record in North Carolina (just like IRS 990's are).
The N.C. Attorney General's office is representing the former Governor in this matter.
So, in effect, We-the-People of North Carolina are PAYING for our chief legal eagle (that would be Roy Cooper) to defend our former Governor for breaking the law.
Just as we are apparently paying Roy/his minions to turn a blind eye when "non-profit" executives literally spit the mission & obligations they have to state & Federal programs, swindle/blackball/defame a good physician, and lie repeatedly under Oath.
And here's the kicker that REALLY pisses me off . . . and OBTW it's JUST TYPICAL of the low-ball tactics that liars and cheats (like . . . I don't know . . . Randolph Hospital's Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin) use to defame and discredit those who tell the truth:
Sleazely dictated the slam of a North Carolina DHHS public information officer after ordering that she be fired following a series of stories in The N&O about his administration's mismanagement of the state's mental health system.
The state's mental health system having gone straight to hell on his watch.
It's one of the oldest tricks in the book. The unfortunate underling was telling the truth. So the Governor's only option was to hurl the character slams . . . slams designed to destroy her reputation/credibility, and make her un-employable.
The public information officer, Debbie Crane (yes, as opposed to any of the progressive truth-seekers and fact-checkers in our local blogosphere, I blogged about her when it happened), feels "vindicated" by these revelations, saying . . .
Being called a liar by Mike Easley is a badge of honor.
Meanwhile, some of her colleagues who knew better . . . the spineless weasels who did Sleazely's bidding (now being deposed) . . . are still employed by the state . . . but may shortly need lawyers themselves.
Of course, I know how Crane feels.
It reminds me of Jim Kinlaw and company in Asheboro: All the "right people" living in their mill town vacuum (how's that alcohol referendum working out for you in terms of decreasing unemployment and saving the town, boys?) . . . winking and nodding and covering Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin's over-rated, way-over-paid, lying butts . . . because it was in the "best financial interests" of Randolph Hospital (yours too - if the Pediatric competitor is gone) to just go along and get along.
Mary was "a little wacky", you see . . . she wasn't "a team player" (I actually find comfort in the fact that that's the best they could do).
Yeah well, at least she didn't roll over and go back to sleep and let a newborn baby die . . . or abort her own child. And she fordamnedsure would not have just stood by deaf, dumb and blind while someone did to you what was done to her.
You can keep your *&^%$#@! team, Jimbo.
Being dissed by the spineless, amoral medical crew in Asheboro is a badge of honor.
Ditto for the Drs. of Cultural Diversity and Roaches and Very Bad Smells in our blogosphere.
Sometimes you have to consider the source.
I close this post with a quote that a number of people have sent me over the years:
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Debbie Crane might well feel as did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
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