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That's the greeting that's now mandated
to the employees of the state government of South Carolina by its governor
Nikki Haley:
Haley said the change will boost the morale of state workers, remind them they work for the callers on the other end of the line and help her sell the state to employers.
“It’s part of who I am,” Haley said. “As hokey as some people may think it is, I’m selling South Carolina as this great, new, positive state that everybody needs to look at.”
Among the state agencies that are part of Haley’s Cabinet is the state’s prison system. Others include commerce, education, public safety and health.
Will that work to improve the morale of callers and those that answer the phones? Or is it just plain silly? What do YOU think the greetings should be?
There comes a point in everyone’s lives that you have to admit there are things you just can’t do. I’m going out on a limb here to say that Melvin Roberts’s un-doable thing is going outside, ever. Monday, the South Carolina man was attempting to cover his lawnmower as a shower moved in; he woke up in an ambulance after his neighbors found him unconscious on his lawn.
Roberts suffered burns and blisters on his legs and feet — mild scrapes compared to the last strike, in 2007, which put him in a wheelchair for more than a year.
That bolt hit while he was outside covering up his chickens.
“I went to cover my chickens up, and I believe it was clear,” he told the station. “But when I woke up, I was all bloody and burned and confused and had my little chickens lying with their feet up.”
All the strikes have forced Roberts to quit his job as a heavy equipment operator. He said he will finally think twice before heading out in stormy weather.
“I ain’t saying be afraid of it, but I’m going to have to learn to give it a little respect,” he said.
The human lightning rod thinks that all the strikes might be cosmic punishment for being something of a heartbreaking chick magnet.
“I’ve been married five times and I’ve been hit by lightning five times,” he said. “(My wife) says this is the sixth time. I’m not leaving my wife, so I’m going to have to try to do something different.”
Link | Image: IRO/TV
How do you save your house from foreclosure? Play the lotto of course. Well, at least that was the technique that worked for one South Carolina man. The winning ticket brought him a top prize of $400,000.
Officials with the South Carolina Education Lottery say the man, who moved to South Carolina from New Jersey six years ago, was unemployed and about to lose his home before his ticket matched the winning numbers.
When the Democratic primary race was announced last month, the party’s first choice, a retired judge that ran an agressive campaign with a huge war chest, lost to an unknown man.
And thus began a fascinating tale that is still unfolding today:
The South Carolina Democratic party was sent into a tailspin from which it is still recovering. Where did this Alvin Greene come from? He had never run for public office and had no experience of political campaigning. He doesn’t own a computer and uses the one at the local library. He didn’t have a website through which to marshal his troops. Come to think of it, he didn’t have any troops. He had no mobile phone or donors, though he did print flyers. His name recognition among South Carolinians was close to zero.
So what happened?
Questions began to be asked, conspiracy theories cooked. The leading Democratic congressman in the state, Jim Clyburn, came up with the idea that Greene must have been planted into the race by the Republicans to destroy the Democrats’ chances of winning the election proper in November. Others likened Greene to Forrest Gump and questioned his mental stability. To cap it all, it was discovered that he was facing criminal charges for allegedly having shown pornography to a female college student. Local and national newspapers had a field day. He was dubbed the "mystery man" and the "Manning-churian candidate". The banner headline in a local paper perfectly captured the mood: "Who the hell is Alvin Greene?"
Whoever he is, Alvin has got some … erhm, unusual ideas on how to get people jobs:
"Another thing we can do for jobs is make toys of me, especially for the holidays. Little dolls. Me. Like maybe little action dolls. Me in an army uniform, air force uniform, and me in my suit. They can make toys of me and my vehicle, especially for the holidays and Christmas for the kids. That’s something that would create jobs. So you see I think out of the box like that. It’s not something a typical person would bring up. That’s something that could happen, that makes sense. It’s not a joke."
Ed Pilkington has more on the enigmatic Democratic nominee for South Carolina’s upcoming Senate election: Link (Photo: Sabree Hill)
These folks in South Carolina have another innovative use for heavy equipment. You don’t need a lake and a boat to go skiing! -via Buzzfeed
First amendment rights can all just f— off! Or at least, that’s what one South Carolina senator thinks. State Senator Robert Ford has recently filed a bill to outlaw profanity statewide.
If you do say or write a profane word, the act could be punishable by five years in jail or a $5,000 fine.
View the Bill Via WeirdStuffNews
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