OGmommaD

Outer Banks wife, momma, and lover of all things OBX.

[OGmommaD @mdl3kerlin]

@bud33345 Widespread flooding as the rivers overflowed after the storm too. Closed 95 and parts of 64 for weeks. Lumberton was bad. Usually OBX has flooding from the blow but that storm created standing water for a week in places that had never been flooded.

[Viva Frei @thevivafrei]

I am reading through Brian Cole Jr.’s “confession”.

I thought it was going to be bad for the FBI.

It’s beyond bad. It’s literally your wildest nightmares.

Straight out of House of Cards-level abuse.

The worst scene you can imagine of FBI corruption on steroids. A caricature of the Hollywood villainizing of FBI/federal abuse.

I can’t even reduce the number of highlights to show how disgusting this is.

This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

And this is what the FBI is relying on for the so “confession”.

[Rising serpent 🇺🇸 @rising_serpent]

The problem is deeper than anyone realizes.
Each position is entirely funded by the American taxpayer, through the center for Medicare and Medicaid.
Nearly 2,000 American medical students could not get a residency.
Do you know of any other country in the world that allows foreigners to be hired over their own citizens for taxpayer paid jobs?

[OGmommaD @mdl3kerlin]

@goneers That is definitely not a trip for the weak. There’s a narrow window and rogue waves. Glad it turned out good. It’s not easy on a good day - depending on the ruts and how soft the sand is. Not to mention the other drivers.

[OGmommaD @mdl3kerlin]

@burner_dubs @goneers Yes one way in and one way out of Carova and that’s driving the beach.

[OGmommaD @mdl3kerlin]

@goneers We were in Duck last night and it was a beautiful sunset after a few days of gloom. The beaches are beat up but pretty typical storm for us.

[OGmommaD @mdl3kerlin]

@bud33345 I’m more concerned that the source is AOL 😆

[OGmommaD @mdl3kerlin]

@goneers I hate this for ya. We’ve had the most beautiful summer.

[Tim Anderson @AssocAnderson]

Arlington’s Commonwealth’s Attorney testified that her office has a DUI policy specifically for DACA recipients. In a small number of cases, prosecutors have considered changing a DUI to a different first-degree misdemeanor so the defendant can renew DACA status. (We don’t have first-degree misdemeanors - they are called Class 1 misdemeanors - surprised an elected prosecutor doesn’t know that).

She says the defendant is still held accountable and the original DUI charge remains visible. But DACA status is a factor in the plea resolution, one that an American citizen charged with the same offense cannot invoke.

Should immigration status affect which crime appears on a defendant’s record?

Source: Dehghani-Tafti deposition, p. 89, lines 6–22.

[OGmommaD @mdl3kerlin]

@gerardskippy @goneers You cannot see wild horses in Southern Shores 🤣 a piebald deer is more likely.

[OGmommaD @mdl3kerlin]

@goneers Dockside North Seafood Market
Closes at 6

[OGmommaD @mdl3kerlin]

@goneers Oh guuurl we are getting some weather. I hope they aren’t hunkered down and you get to see some of them! OBX in the wind and rain is still wonderful!

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

We all know a Macklemore and we don’t shame them nearly enough. You know the type. They see others as ladders instead of humans. They ask how they can use you, instead of how they can be a friend to you. He never cared about Ed.

Ed was a ladder he could climb with a platform he could pervert. Ed is collateral damage but people like Macklemore don’t care, even if the cause they pretend to support is something like Gaza. They only care about the benefits they receive from throwing their "friend" under the bus. I doubt Macklemore even cares about Gaza. Not sure someone so backwards is capable of real care. It’s just the cause his Antifa brain says he needs to talk about to please and grow his cult because he knows that his audience are rabid leftists now.

Stealing Ed’s non political platform, which is large because he just entertains everyone instead of preaching politics at them, just to make it about YOUR politics is all anyone needs to know to see who you are. Run from these "friends" at the first sign that this is who they are… and make no mistake, people like this exist on all political sides.

[🇺🇸SassySouthernPatriot🇺🇸 @SassySouthern2U]

The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation is Reynolds tobacco money.

It was created in 1936 by R.J. Reynolds’s children as a memorial to their brother Zachary Smith Reynolds. The fortune still flows from family trusts.

That money now funds groups working to change North Carolina policy and “power structures.”

ZSR’s own framework is not neutral charity language.

They fund “State-Level Systemic Change” to change “policies, power structures and other root causes” in four buckets:

• Advancing public education
• Environment
• Social and economic justice
• Strengthening democracy

https://t.co/OtZG8cMohY

Look at who gets the checks. Recent ZSR systemic-change lists include:

Democracy NC
Blueprint NC
NC Justice Center
Southern Coalition for Social Justice
Southern Vision Alliance
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic
Pro-Choice NC Foundation
Equality NC Foundation
Lillian’s List Foundation
Common Cause Education Fund
You Can Vote
Legal Aid of NC
Working Films Wilmington

Those are not mystery names.

They are the main progressive policy, voting, legal, and cultural groups in the state.
ZSR announcement:

https://t.co/wRp1mucGGN

This is how the money works:

Old tobacco wealth → family foundation → general operating grants → groups that lobby, litigate, register voters, run films, and pressure the General Assembly and local governments.

Most of the big awards are unrestricted, multi-year operating support.

That is the most useful kind of money for political and advocacy work.

ZSR is not the R.J. Reynolds company. It is the family foundation built from that fortune.

The company’s old business was cigarettes. The foundation’s current business is funding the progressive infrastructure in North Carolina.

Those are two different things. Both are documented.

Read the grant lists yourself.
ZSR current partners: https://t.co/wEjTTF8nx1

990s and grant databases list the same organizations year after year.

Tobacco fortune. Progressive grantees. Public receipts.

[OGmommaD @mdl3kerlin]

@bud33345 I watched an IG video that they changed the preservative they used and it changed the taste and crispness.

[Brian Balfour @BrianBalfourNC]

Reminder that Wake Co. schools received nearly half a Billion dollars in Fed Covid relief, a good portion of which was supposed to go to HVAC upgrades.

Spoiler: it didn't
#ncpol
https://t.co/M2SMvDvHrC

[OGmommaD @mdl3kerlin]

@klemorali @MargoinWNC Thank God you have the freedom to move…

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

We had a good thing, Canada.

A quiet arrangement.

You kept watch up north, didn’t make noise, didn’t screw around.

We covered the heavy lifting.

You backed us up, built a few ships, some icebreakers, flew the flag at NATO, pretended to be a country that gave a damn. We saluted your officers and let you slide when things got bloody.

We asked for help and you sent 26,000 to places like Korea while we sent 1.1 million. We suffered more deaths than your total deployed forces and that was ok because you were nice and you had to remain focused on keeping the north defended.

Now look at you.

Your navy’s a joke, less combat power than a drug cartel with Zodiac boats.

Your GDP’s circling the drain, and instead of fixing it, you’re too busy playing dress-up at climate conferences and pretending that TikTok diplomacy will stop a hypersonic missile. You have 3 rusty submarines in commission and a few at the Edmonton Mall plus a few small frigates. You have more generals and Admiral than working tanks. You spend less per GDP on defense than Albania or Slovakia.

You won’t spend.
You won’t build.
You won’t fight.

You have the longest arctic shoreline in the world but most of your unimpressive “icebreaker” fleet are small patrol craft that would be crushed in heavy ice.

You are a Pacific Nation but couldn’t defend your selves from the Chinese fishing fleet let alone their Coast Guard or Navy.

But you’ll sure as hell talk.

Talk about “shared values” while you freeload off the defense umbrella we pay for. Talk about “peacekeeping” while China cuts your undersea cables and Russia maps your Arctic. Talk about how important your role is in NATO knowing full well your only authority is the billets, joint exercises and training we give you,

You think this continent defends itself?

You think because you’re polite and bilingual and serve maple syrup at the G7, you get a pass?

You think getting angry about memes will protect you from ismalocommies already inside the gate?

That someone else, USA, will show up when it gets hot in the Arctic or North Pacific?

Not gonna happen because we don’t have a single icebreaker that hasn’t suffered a catastrophic loss and no longer have a fleet capable of evacuating our bases in the Pacific let alone defending your coast.

You had a good thing.
You could’ve been useful.
You chose to be a burden.
And when the day comes, and it will come, don’t expect a call back.

We’re done babysitting the unarmed.

You had two jobs. Two. Stop the spread of Communism by nodding along with our anti-marxist rhetoric and defending your own coast. You have failed miserably at both.

And now you’re no longer even nice. You roll over to china and waive fentanyl through our border while booing the American flag and banning our products.

Then when we call out the truth you start pulling on our sympathy strings with posts talking about what great allies you were in WW2 and Korea.

I love and admire all you lost and all Canadians who served but that was a long time ago and I absolutely zero respect for today’s Royal Canadian “navy” or your politicians.

We had a great thing going Canada and paid you trillions in sweetheart deals like NAFTA, open borders and all our best intel vis five eyes.

All you had to do was be nice, not elect commies and patrol your own coast in return. You blew it.

[OGmommaD @mdl3kerlin]

@mattvanswol Dumbest thing NC did was change the law from 16 to 18. It was a deterrence for teens that knew they’d go to adult jail. It kept teens from coming down from VA Beach to commit crimes in OBX. Now they get released to their parents.

[Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas]

I don’t think these women understand how the Lindsay Clancy case is impacting the way men see women…