The bigoted and homophobic population of North Carolina voters and religious fundamentalist nutjobs will be able to vote in favor of a totally unnecessary amendment to the NC Constitution which will further discriminate against unmarried couples, and couples legally married in other states, and possibly disrupt many NC families, when they go to the polls this primary season. Since there are so many bigoted homophobic religious fundamentalist whackos in NC, the ballot question is very likely to pass and take effect immediately unless enough informed people who love equality and want fewer laws which regulate individual behavior get motivated enough to go to the polls and vote against this horrible amendment.

The amendment appears as a result of Session Law 2011-409, which began as Senate Bill 514, with the title “Defense of Marriage”. The name of the bill is very inappropriate and misleading.  A vote in favor of the amendment would actually attack rather than defend marriage. It attacks the marriages of certain people legally married in other states, by failing to recognize their marriage as legal, and would also prevent marriages between people who love each other but are out of luck if they want to live in this state. It is very much like the Jim Crow laws which prevented interracial marriage. Again, the politicians are trying to trick everyone by titling bills which do the opposite, such as Clean Air Act actually enabled more air pollution and should have been called the Dirty Air Act, and the Patriot Act actually should have been called the Act to Repeal the Bill of Rights and the 4th Amendment.

You can click here to see the wording of the entire bill, and you can even see if your elected representatives voted for or against it.

Prove to the politicians you are smarter than they give you credit for. Vote Against the Amendment.

The governor of North Carolina declared a state of emergency in North Carolina. At least 23 known deaths have been reported so far. Many neighborhood were destroyed when the central and east areas of NC was slammed by more than 60 tornadoes in a wide area from Fayetteville to Sanford to Raleigh, WIlson, Dunn, Benson, and as far east as Bertie.

Raleigh – Below normal rainfall has again thrust parts of central North Carolina into severe drought, and water resources officials are encouraging communities to prepare should dry conditions persist.

“At this point, public water supplies are fine in North Carolina,” said Woody Yonts, chairman of the N.C. Drought Management Advisory Council. “But if dry conditions continue to occur, widespread impacts could quickly surface in the next few months as the temperatures begin to gradually increase and the growing season begins.”

Forty-five counties are experiencing drought in North Carolina, according to Thursday’s federal drought map. Of those, 27 Piedmont counties are in severe drought, the second worst level in the four-category system used to measure drought. Thursday marks the first time since September that any part of the Tar Heel State has
experienced severe drought.
The drought map can be seen at ncdrought.org

The introduction of severe drought is based on impacts to streamflows and the flow of rain water into reservoirs – two main factors used to determine drought categories. A lack of significant rainfall in recent months has resulted in below normal groundwater levels and streamflows and less water than needed to replenish reservoirs in parts of North Carolina.

To extend available water supplies and maintain lake levels, many reservoir managers in North Carolina are only allowing minimum releases of water. It’s unusual to take such action to maintain lake levels during the winter when rainfall typically recharges North Carolina’s reservoirs, state water resources officials said.

In addition to the areas experiencing drought, 38 mountain and eastern counties are abnormally dry, according to Thursday’s drought map. Abnormally dry is not a drought category, but means drought could emerge without adequate rainfall.