The often impressive or alarming appearing swings in the New York stock exchange must be kept in perspective. In the long run, the market has made steady advances. Recently closing at over 17,000, it was on this date 42 years ago that the Dow Jones Industrial Average first topped the 1,000 level. Developed by Charles Henry Dow, the index was first published in 1896 with a mark of 40.94. For decades, the index contained mostly stocks in the manufacturing sector. Today, its components reflect a more diverse economy. In 1990, 157 million shares were traded on an average day. Now, that figure is 670 million shares. To help Americans pick their stocks and mutual funds, there are some 15,500 investment advising establishments in the U.S., employing nearly 96,000 people. Profile America is in its 18th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Saturday, November 15th. Many pioneering men and women are being honored as National American Indian Heritage Month continues. One of them is Susan La Flesche, an Omaha Indian from Nebraska, who aspired to become a doctor. Her ambition led her to enroll at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Not only did she graduate in 1889, but did so at the head of her class, becoming the first female American Indian physician. Dr. La Flesche returned home to Nebraska, where she married, raised a family, and built the first Indian hospital in the state. Among adult American Indians and Alaska Natives, over 79 percent have a high school diploma or equivalent. About 14 percent have earned at least a bachelor’s degree in college. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at www.census.gov.
Sunday, November 16th. This month in 1883, the ancestor of today’s familiar U.S. time zones first appeared at the initiative of the American Railway Association. A schoolteacher named Charles Dowd is credited with first proposing the notion of time zones as early as 1863, in order to rationalize railroad timetables, there being 80 time standards then in use by localities. There was wide but incomplete acceptance of the railway association’s zones, and the adjusted zones were not made law until 1918. In 1884, delegates from 25 nations met in Washington, D.C. and established a standard system of 24 time zones around the world. Making timepieces is about a $600 million a year business for 121 establishments in the U.S., employing some 2,400 people. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau online at <www.census.gov>.
FRONT PAGE NEWS…….Another MURDERER gets a Plea Deal in Vance Co Court & was sentenced to there10-13 years….w/good behavior & time served he’ll be eligible 4 release within 6-7 yrs. No wonder they don’t mind killing other human beings!!!!
District 9 Judicial System is a JOKE!!!!
Is your loved one’s life worth more than 6-8 years?
SHAME on the DA’s Office for even offering a plea!!!!
WOW…..I see VCS made the headline today in the Daily Dispatch as well. When will the citizens of Vance demand more from the Board of Education and the Administration at NVHS as well as other schools in the district? I think it will take someone having to sue VCS for not providing FAPE which is a Federal Mandate!!! SMH!!!! The plot thickens…….one of the ladies quoted in the paper is an atty. in Henderson so I’m assuming she knows a little about FAPE and the LAW!!!
From what I read in today’s Dispatch the local school system suffers a bad report which reflects back to each families lack of respect for their children.
Our schools are supposed to teach education.
Families are responsible to teach respect to their children with no ‘quarter’ given.
Redit….you are correct but mom can’t teach her kids while she’s either sitting @ BINGO or one of the many internet cafes!!!! They expect the govt. 2 take care of there kids while teachers try to teach em right from wrong!!! Tie in gov’t. subsidies w/parental involvement & then maybe changes will occur!!
We should find a better way to get contraceptives to sexually active teens and young adults we have to many single parents out there who are costly to society .Our sex education is in this country is failing when some of our teens believe you cannot get pregnant if you have sexual intercourse while standing up
HEADLINES..the COUNTY CROOK got the charge of stealing the bank bag DISMISSED in good ole Vance Co. Court on Thursday!!! Why didn’t she ask for a change of venue on this charge? WOW!!!!
This entire situation stinks to high Heaven–taxpayers-we’ve been had.
One of the great needs in the whole world is better birth control, contraceptives, and planned parenting. The greatest obstacle to that is found, as in many things, in religious teaching. The Catholic Church and other religions oppose birth control, contraceptives and early abortions. With almost 10 billion people in the world and that about to expand horribly, the great need is to help women control their own reproductive choices. Indeed, Vance County would and could benefit from that effort as well. But money and resources have to be invested in that effort.
I cant believe Rick Brand was ever a Presbyterian minister with chilling comments like that but it is a statement in perfect keeping with socialist doctrine that reflects no value for human life. “Vance Co would and could benefit from that effort as well.” Really??!!!!! Who does he think shouldn’t be born here and who should suffer from an early abortion? What women does he want to “control” as far as their reproductive choices? Please respond, Mr. Brand!
Until we have better sex education we will i continue a lot more single mother sand illegitimate children.See post 5
It’s obvious in Vance County, as with any poor county, the benefits of womens expanded reproductive choices and education. Teenage pregnancy is actively being worked on reducing the rate in Vance County. There are many ways to conquer that.
Here’s a topic that seems to be all over the Cable Networks…..the events surrounding Michael Brown and the cop who killed him w/o so much as being indicted by the Grand Jury. I heard a lawyer say that a prosecutor could indict a Ham Sandwich but evidently the prosecutor in that district didn’t seem to want the officer to be indicted….thus the data dump as they called it. He gave the Grand Jury all the info. in the case & didn’t guide them in any way/shape/or form. Very clear that he didn’t want the officer to be indicted.
With the $$ that was spent….why not go ahead and charge him and let the Jury decide. At least your bias toward the situation and reputation for being “too close” to the Ferguson Police Dept.
I pray that the Brown Family will get there day in Court and they will be paid a substantial amount of $$$ for a wrongful death lawsuit that Parks/Crump will file but it won’t bring Michael Brown back. That’s the problem w/POLICE in general…….they know they have something called “qualified immunity” and can basically due whatever they want to whomever they want to do it to w/o retribution. Shame on rogue POLICE…….and yes they’re around…..in Henderson, Oxford, Warrenton, and any other location that you can name. That’s a fact that can’t be disputed!!!!
Also, kudos to the Editor of the Daily Dispatch who thought as I did that VCS Drop-Out Prevention Counselor who made the comments that “this is an educational institution and not a Police Station”. Last time I checked the High Schools in VCS pay a nice hourly rate to members of the Sheriff’s Dept. and HPD to work at the schools on there days off w/pay in the range of $25 an hour. If a student is caught w/marijuana in school Mr. Holloman…..why wouldn’t you expect them to be charged and thus arrested? That was a very foolish statement and I think the parents of kids at NVHS are owed an apology by you for the idiotic comment. Certainly you’re not that foolish to think they shouldn’t be arrested for breaking the LAW? If so……therein lies one of the many problems at NVHS!!!!!
If you have kids at NVHS….DEMAND a DRUG FREE CAMPUS and DEMAND that the SRO’s that are being paid(as well as a security guard) do there jobs….even if it involves having to do a couple of arrests that will lead to paperwork having to be completed. WOW……where does VCS get these guys from?
Research shows that students will try to reach whatever goals and/or whatever expectation you have in place for them(especially if they think you care about them)…..but be careful…..students BS meter is usually spot-on and they can tell if the adult is doing things b/c they care or doing things in order to con’t to receive a check!!!!!
I say Superintendent Gregory needs to address these issues in an open forum and offer some suggestions and/or solutions!!!!
Deception you are spot on! Parents and teachers should be camping out on Graham Avenue until the Superintendent faces facts and gets busy. The statement by Holloman is beyond stupid. Enforce the LAW guys.
Dagny,
Mr. Brand is a retired pastor of one of the many Christian religions. Why do you think his comment is socialistic? Seems to me that when the State, government, establishes laws to enforce religious doctrine on marriage and reproduction society is well into socialism, even your dreaded nemesis communism.
Where is the “leader” of VCS and what are his thoughts about the goings on at NVHS? Parents w/children in that school are demanding some LEADERSHIP…..if he can’t offer any…then it may be time for him to go as well. What about the Principal? Haven’t heard any comments from him either. The only person commenting on the issue was the Drop-Out Prevention guy Hollomon and he would have been better to not have said anything at all w/the comments he made. Where is the lady over on Graham Ave. w/the cushy job as Public Information Officer? Why isn’t she commenting for everyone so that comments like the one Holloman said don’t get out and get ridiculed b/c it was an absolute JOKE what he said.
When you start holding the leadership of NVHS and VCS accountable then maybe you will see some significant changes in VCS…..until then you will con’t to get what you’re getting. A Drop-Out Prevention person who goes on record and says “We can’t arrest everyone we catch w/marijuana b/c we are an educational institution; not a Sheriff’s Dept”!!! Thanks for letting the weed dealers at NVHS and the weed smokers at NVHS know that they have a good possibility of not even getting charged should they get unlucky enough to get caught with the marijuana!!!!
SMH…….VCS needs some fresh new ideas and it needs to come from someone who doesn’t OWE anyone in the area ANYTHING. That way he/she can come in and Clean House if need be and not feel as if he/she has offended anyone’s cousin,sister,brother,nephew,niece,etc. Until then….you will con’t to be at the bottom of every MAJOR statistical category related to education!!! Who’s willing to demand such CHANGE? It seems like the group that gathered at NVHS a couple weeks ago is a good starting point but time will tell if it falls by the wayside or is swept under the rug!!!
Your kids deserve better!!!!!
Word is the meeting scheduled for tomorrow night at Northern Vance re parent concerns has been cancelled–can anyone out there shed light on this?
Are the board members trying to quell concern?
Yes, Michael. Sadly this country is already immersed in socialism and communism should be dreaded if you know history and the MILLIONS of people that have died in the last 100 years because of it. Mr. Brand blames CATHOLIC religious teachings for opposing birth control, contraceptives and early abortions?! He says Vance Co would benefit if more people “control their reproductive choices”. Is he saying everyone in Vance Co or only some in Vance Co? It could easily be taken as a vile, racist statement and he won’t clarify who he means. But he is a democrat and everyone knows they could never be racist…I found his post disturbing especially because it is democrat social policies that have caused the breakdown of the family and the govt becoming the new father in the family. My Mother was Presbyterian and she would never believe that a former minister would say something like that.
As I mentioned there are now 10 Billion people in the world. That number is growing rapidly. The resources of this world cannot sustain that kind of growth if all 10 billion people want to live like the average citizen of the U.S. Vance County has suffered with the highest teen pregnancy rate in the state. Both those who work around the world in population control and those who work with teenagers and women in Vance County reported that woman are very receptive and eager to receive information about how to manage their reproductive choices. Women in developing countries do not want to have 10, 12, 13 babies and have half of them die. They will eagerly accept various options for preventing pregnancies. They choose to use these methods. One of the major obstacles to share this information with women is the Roman Catholic Church. Other religions also frequently have positions which prohibit the use of contraceptives. In Vance County the people who try to prevent STD’s and teen pregnancies will tell you that condoms work. The problem is that they are prevented from sharing that reality with those who need the information because of the position of many religious groups. There is no effort to sterilize anyone. This is education so those that desire to be responsible can make good choices. As a person of faith, it does not seem to me to be loving to prevent a woman from deciding about her reproductive choices. Making it illegal for her to decide not to have a child and then not helping her care for the child you have forced her to have. Single mothers on minimum wages, unequal pay, no child care, and you cut her welfare benefits. From my faith position that is not loving or just. I am sorry that I would embarrass your mother, Mr. Dagny.
Mr. Brand you have offered a real adult level conversation on this blog. How refreshing. One of a parent’s most difficult conversations with their children is about sex. I agree that Catholic and most non-catholic religious doctrine has not and does not aid a parent’s conversation on sex and reproduction. Also, parents who ignore the real impact of hormones on their child’s thinking further suppress that necessary parent to child conversation. Using the government to impose Christian religious doctrine is another impediment to sex and reproductive education. Having sex is as natural as breathing. The knowledge for preventing the spread of STDs and undesired pregnancies must be taught; just as you must be taught how to breathe when swimming.
Thank you for continuing this conversation.
Thank you Mr. Bobbitt. You also raise a major part of this issue. The pledges of abstinence until marriage are wonderful concept and goal. But the “impact of hormones” is such that it appears, as far as I can know by reading studies in the papers, that the number of young people who can keep them is very small. The idea that school should only teach abstinence limits the effectiveness of the programs to reduce teen pregnancies. It would seem to me that it would be much wiser to give our young five or six different options than to think that telling them that abstinence is the only choice. Your focus of the role of parents is also the most fundamental of all.
I’m really not getting Dangy’s points in his complain about Mr. Brands statements. Please explain how saying everyone in Vance County needs reproductive control options is racist? Also, Dagny hasn’t said what his thoughts on education, contraceptive, or other reproductive options should be available in Vance County and what his idea of helping the teenage pregnancy rate.
I agree totally with Rick .We need to move forward on sex education now .
Teenagers should practice abstinence and that is what we are teaching our son. We will never tell him to have sex that causes pregnancy with an underage girl because of the negative emotional consequences that will also be inflicted, especially on the girl . Birth control is readily and cheaply available to everyone in society but when people are rewarded financially by the government to have illegitimate children, all the free birth control in the world will never be used. Mr. Brand can’t have it both ways, he is opposed to the number of people in the world and he mostly blames Catholics and religious people (this from a former Minister?),(never Muslims by name because that could be dangerous to him), and yet he supports the liberal policies that create the dependent people he wants to rid the world of. “There is no effort to sterilize anyone”, is another chilling comment by Mr. Brand above. Again, who decides who will be sterilized, Rick? Who decides who will be put to death because they are old and a financial drain on “the system”. Would you please wake up people and understand how horrible statements like this are, and mostly how hypocritical ! Anon3, read about the sterilization and birth control that is practiced today in Communist countries like China, and this is what Rick and Michael think would be good for our country and county. Take away the government financed incentive to have children outside of marriage, this is what is destroying American families, not a lack of birth control!
Dagny I do not think Rick said any about sterilizing anyone so there is no need for a sterilizing czar to pick who is to be sterilizes
Mr. Dagny wants to have this horrible “straw man” to argue against, this demon of sterilization which he seems determined to focus on when I said clearly that that was not needed or wanted. I have focused on the Roman Catholic position because it is the most consistent and world wide opponent to good birth control teachings. There are Muslims and Evangelical Christians who oppose any approach but abstinence. I believe that where good health care is available and jobs are available and the standard of living goes up, the birth rate in almost every country has gone down.
Over population in most places leads to the destruction of the environment which has a way of impacting climate change which threatens all of us. As I see it, one of the saddest developments in our society today is the political refusal to listen to the scientists around the world. Even the Pentagon has published reports of the tremendous impact on military operations that climate change is causing.
I have never mentioned the killing of the elderly. I do think that we can begin to lower the population around the world by better sex education and available birth control pills and devices.
I am most confused. He’d use his time better curbing his backing of more and more low income housing in his position on zoning board, in my opinion.
Dagny, how wise you are to instruct your son to avoid impregnating underage girls because of the “… negative emotional consequences it inflict[s] on the underage girl”. You seem to assume that an age appropriate woman does not experience emotional consequences of a pregnancy especially an unintended pregnancy. In the real world a woman or ‘underage girl’ will live her entire life knowing the outcome of a pregnancy regardless of that outcome.
Only abstinences “… is readily and cheaply available to everyone in society”. All other methods of birth control, the lowly aspirin between the knees or a condom, have a cost and their use requires preparation and planning.
The Roman Catholic church, the foundation for most of the western world’s Christian religions, has for centuries been opposed to any and all means of birth control.
I know of no “… [US] government financed incentive to have children [inside or] outside of marriage …” Maybe in the fancy world of Ana Rand such programs exist; in the US there is no such program.
Elmwood, See comment 19, “There is no effort to sterilize anyone.” Under Obamacare, get prepared for health care czars who will decide who lives and dies, who is worthy enough for heart surgery to live a few more years, and who should be sacrificed for the “common good” – the individual be darned. Comments like Mr. Brand made about sterilization make me wonder if someone isn’t genetically perfect, will they be allowed to reproduce, or be sterilized? Who will play God and make those decisions?
Michael, really, it is intellectually dishonest to say that our govt doesn’t financially reward people for not working and having children they can’t afford. If you would read the scary book, you would know that such a program would NEVER exist in Ayn Rand’s world.
I speak from experience about the negative emotional consequences to underage girls and was answering what my views were on controlling the teen pregnancy rate. Only teaching abstinence and removing the govt paid financial incentive to have children will solve the problem and of course not every teen will comply. Where do you start to let morality slide with children, do you let them smoke and drink while they are having the teen sex you gave them a condom to use?
Birth control is readily and cheaply available to everyone in society but that isn’t helping the problem of illegitimate births, which is the break down of the family unit – the real root of societal problems. It is a matter of choice for the individual and many choose not to work and have children they can’t afford, because they can collect a check from the US govt, who has taken the money from producing tax payers.
For Rick Brand to blame the world and Vance Counties problems on not enough money being spent on birth control, that religion is keeping women from taking birth control and that women should “control” their reproductive choices, is a bizarre statement right out of a communist playbook. It suggests a superiority of himself over other people in society, other people that maybe shouldn’t have been born because they are a “problem”. Isn’t that racism and isn’t that anti God?
Ms Tagget: “Under Obamacare, get prepared for health care czars who will decide who lives and dies, who is worthy enough for heart surgery to live a few more years, and who should be sacrificed for the common good’…'” OK you’ve pulled out the old discredited “Death Panels” canard. I suggest you get some new material.
After that, you don’t have much to say. “Only teaching abstinence…will solve the problem…” My teen years were long ago, but I think I can safely say that’s a ridiculous statement.
And of course you can’t leave without calling everyone who isn’t you a commie and/or anti-god.. A small nasty world you live in. I think I’ll stay over here on the fun side of the planet.
Rev. Brand…Stop immediately rewarding out of wedlock children with government benefits and see how fast the birth rate decreases. I am sure you will get the old Dem crying towel out and moan, “Oh. what about the innocent children?” I have heard this since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. If you do not believe this has become an industry in Vance County, ask some in the know who will tell you about the mothers pimping their daughters who get pregnant and get a larger check.
I know why Dems love the current system. Look at all the new votes they get on an 18 year cycle.
Publius is there space on your side the planet?
Royal Rooter, what government program rewards out of wedlock births? Key word is reward such as a prize for running the fastest 100 yard dash. You and Dagny make this claim yet neither name the government program. Please be specific with your answer so I can verify your facts. Does this program reward only out of wedlock births or all births?
WIC Services 53 % of all the children born in the United States according to Wikepedia—now that is a whopping number–in or out of wedlock for government assistance.
Prudence beat me to my answer, Mr. Bobbitt. The WIC program is surely one of the most expensive federal programs for children. In addition, the state and federal government provides several types of free childcare and health care and the most used and abused program is the one generally referred to as Aid To Dependent Children. The more children you have, the larger the check. Check the stats in Vance County. See how many women getting these checks are single mothers. My point is…stop these programs for unwed mothers and you will see births go down.
Sorry rr, the program you call Aid To Dependent Children (I assume you meant Aid to Families with Dependent Children) was phased out in 1996 and replaced with Temporary Aid to Needy Families. TANF has work requirements and life-long limits in participation. The Clinton-Gingrich welfare compromise has seriously decreased “welfare” as we knew it.
I’m not saying there is no abuse of the system, but it would serve the common good if a few miscreants were allowed to cheat and benefits allowed to flow to the needy.
OrWhy don’t you bloggers who are “Holier than thou” get this angry and carry on dialogue(however stupid it may seem) about the goings on @ a local High School in Henderson(NVHS)? Are you so dumb that you have forgotten that children are OUR FUTURE? You prune drinking morons need to funnel your anger & demand for cha
nge closer to your backdoor!! The same pot dealers & kids urinating in the library may by chance run into you @ WalMart or Food Lion……then what?
Why not DEMAND the Bof E do there jobs? Even if you dont have kids in school now it still can come to your backdoor and fester!!!!
Or arr you just too cowardly to do what’s right? For all you BIBLE toters……ever heard that “it takes a village to raise a child”…..not the village idiots!!! Spineless!!!!
Prove me wrong!!!
“DEMAND the Bof E do there jobs”…obviously someone didn’t do THEIR jobs with you, Deception. It seems to me you’re at our back doors, festering! Your name calling says more about you than us.
ZEP…..its hard for me to type w/these lil’ keyboards but I will say this…..your post(#37) proves my point exactly…….you are too eager to pick on a word that was used inappropriately than to go face these pot dealers in the parking lot…..or in NVHS case….the bathroom!!!
Sleep well…….my advice to you would be that since you know so much about the English language that you go to NVHS and help those students understand the difference between Media Center/Library and Rest Room/Bath Room!!!!
Get your shopping done in the daytime honey!!
I don’t need YOUR advice, Deception. I know ignorance when I see it. Oh, yes, I do shop after dark and haven’t been mugged yet.
C’mon zep……can’t you get anymore friends to VOTE on my posts? I only need 1-2 more so that the posts will be “hidden”………..I can lead you BLOG SUPER HEROS to the water….but I can’t make you drink it!!!! BTW……..glad to know you’re big & bad enough not to be afraid to shop at night. I would say you’ve been lucky b/c if you carry yourself in person the way you do “behind the keyboard” I’m pretty sure you would have a TARGET on your back…….even while shopping at your local Wally World.
Regardless if you believe or like what I post……really don’t care………good luck on getting that mentoring position at NVHS…..they always are in need of someone of your BIG,BRAVE,HOLIER THAN THOU attitude!!!
Gotten love Henderson……..even it’s residents who leave you wondering what happened to them and why?
Be safe………..in case you don’t have a television or hadn’t heard……Protesters at a mall within 1 hour of Henderson & Oxford were arrested last night for doing the Devil’s Work…..are you smart enough to know exactly how far they will go? Even as intelligent as I am…….I don’t!!!!
P.S. Call 1 more of your Super Hero Bloggers and get me a couple more votes!!!
I don’t have any influence at all on other bloggers and wouldn’t use it if I did. You get what you deserve if people vote down your posts. I actually find you to be the salt of the earth…sure to sting any wounds. We all need reminding that there are cruel people out there, and I don’t mean the misguided thugs. As for my safety, I fear not. Fear attracts that which is feared. The target is not on my back; a smile greets all who see me. As for “HOLIER THAN THOU”, I’d say that’s your bag.
You smile? Wow……maybe that’s what makes those looking for trouble decide to go the other way! You are sour……like old milk……enjoy your Christmas and try to make a New Year’s Resolution to be less critical of others……even those smarter than you!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!