Mark Hames

Journalist | Photographer | Videographer
North Laurel Studio, 40 years in journalism, Charlotte Observer 1989-2016

[Mark Hames @n_laurelstudio]

@LakotaMan1 Well said!

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@BritishRoyaltea Amen! She AND Harry brought this on themselves.

[Patrick Dexter @patrickdextervc]

Auld Lang Syne on the cello with my dog. Happy New Year from Ireland!

[Voted 4 Trump 🇺🇸 God Bless America! Ultra MAGA @ooscsouthoc]

@cnnbrk If they want to watch their cities burn, let them!

[Mark Hames @n_laurelstudio]

@skoolz @EdKrassen @skoolz Idiot fascist.

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@GingerGail72 Your ass must be jealous of all the shit coming out of your mouth!

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@thelazyamerican @cnnbrk It's probably his fault along with Elon Musk. But at least Musk now acknowledges what a psychopath Trump has always been.

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@wirecutter I have been using Bitvae for 2 years. Best value. Only charge when replacing brush. Noise, please, concentrate on brushing. For about $20, just buy a new one when you need brushesds!

[Mark Hames @n_laurelstudio]

@tbatten1 Lot of homeless in Lincolnton. There is a shelter, two meals a day. Rumor for past couple years is that Gaston County dumps a lot of its homeless in Lincolnton.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: A Medal of Honor recipient torches Donald Trump for his vile claim that the Presidential Medal of Freedom he gave to one of his donors is "actually much better" than the Medal of Honor.

Colonel Jack Jacobs didn't pull any punches here...

"I can't believe we have to have this conversation but here we are. I guess what I want to ask you is, do the — do your peers, do the men and women — do veterans, do the men and women of the military understand that Donald Trump not only doesn't respect them, but really does see them as suckers and losers?" Nicolle Wallace asked Jacobs during an appearance on MSNBC.

"Well, many do, but many don't," replied Jacobs. "Despite the fact that Donald Trump is one of the most inept public speakers I've heard, and I'm an old person, so I've heard a great number of public speakers, and you often don't know what it is he's saying, not convinced that he knows what it is he's saying. He drifted off in castigating people who have served and sacrificed and can't tell the difference between the Medal of Freedom and the Medal of Honor."

Jacobs then slammed Trump as a "man who, as you said, denigrated people who served and sacrificed so that he can enjoy the freedom that he enjoys now."

"And if it weren't for these people, he wouldn't be in the position where he could — and all of us wouldn't be in the position — where we can enjoy freedom," he continued. "This is also the guy who managed to avoid serving because of a really deleterious heel spur on his foot."

"All that notwithstanding, the problem in this regard is that Donald Trump does not understand some of the things which in history have described how we get to a position where we can have freedom," Jacobs went on. "That is through the service and sacrifice of others."

"I'm reminded of the observation of Hillel, that first-century Hebrew scholar who wrote 'If I am only for myself, what am I?'" Jacobs said. "Well, if you're only for yourself, you're probably Donald Trump."

"Or the observation, almost as poignantly, of John Stewart Mill, who wrote about war," he continued. "Trump ought to like him, because he was something of an individualist and a libertarian, who wrote that 'a man for whom nothing is more important than his own safety is a miserable creature, who is made free and kept free by better men than he.'"

Indeed and well said. Trump is a miserable creature who has zero respect for our military veterans, no love for our country, and nothing but contempt for our values.

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[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

For those who haven't yet imagined the death of American democracy, we imagined it for you. Watch here.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Largest daily point drops in DOW history:

2020-03-16 −2,997.10 TRUMP
2020-03-12 −2,352.06 TRUMP
2020-03-09 −2,013.76 TRUMP
2020-06-11 -1,861.82 TRUMP
2020-03-11 −1,464.94 TRUMP
2020-03-18 −1,338.46 TRUMP
2020-02-27 −1,190.95 TRUMP
2018-02-05 −1,175.21 TRUMP
2018-02-08 −1,032.89 TRUMP
2020-02-24 −1,031.61 TRUMP
2020-04-01 −973.65 TRUMP
2020-03-05 −969.58 TRUMP
2020-03-27 −915.39 TRUMP
2020-02-25 −879.44 TRUMP
2020-02-25 −879.44 TRUMP
2018-10-10 −831.83 TRUMP
2019-08-14 −800.49 TRUMP
2018-12-04 −799.36 TRUMP
2020-03-03 -785.91 TRUMP

At least Trump is #1 at something.

[Mark Hames @n_laurelstudio]

@1pcornwell As long as you drive!

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@maryna_oleksina If you don't like the photographers, just stop buying the publications that use the photos.

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@strait_vibinn If you mix it you don't deserve to own it.

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@sara__pequeno Claude Sitton would not have been as nice.

[Mira Sorvino @MiraSorvino]

I want to leave Matthew Perry’s own words here as the way we remember him. There will never be another like him- he lit up so many hearts in so many ways. Godspeed to Paradise!

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@MrSnuffles9 @GarandThumb1 Form 1......leaves a fair amount of unburned powder in it....

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@MrSnuffles9 @GarandThumb1 Form 1

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@MrSnuffles9 @GarandThumb1 Good to see another short 50 Beowulf. Mine's a 7 inch built like a Honey Badger. A 12-inch suppressor takes a lotta bang out.