Pilot of Embraer Jet Had Survied Crash At Same Airport Before

Health Decisions (Durham, NC) CEO Michael Rosenberg was reportedly at the controls of the Embraer Phenom 100 as it crashed into a Gaithersburg subdivision killing all aboard as well as a mother and her two small children on the ground.Rosenburg had survived a crash at the same airport in 2010. The Montgomery County Airpark is located in Gaithersburg, MD, a Washington DC suburb.In the 2010 crash Rosenburg walk away from the accident that destroyed...

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You Want An Indictment?

How about you indict black culture, hateful rap lyrics that promote killing cops, fathers who abandon their sons and brag about how many baby's mommas they have to support.Why don't you indict a nation that accepts African Americans short comings and gives them welfare over justice and equality. Indict Sharpton and Jackson who scream for equality while they drive their Mercedes and fly in their private jets to create more hate.Indict a mindset...

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Media Hype is killing Mike Brown and Eric Garner

"Hands - Up, Don't - Shoot" is a myth perpetuated by mainstream media. Mike Brown did not have his hands up.The myth continues with Eric Garner's "chokehold death" again perpetuated by MSM. A recent CNN piece on the Eric Garner grand jury decision, starts by saying "Eric Garner initially has his hands up" which is utter bull shit, unless you count wild gesturing as holding your hands up.  Garner died as police tried to arrest him, but his death...

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CMUD To Raise Rates Again

No real surprise here, Charlotte's Utility Department is a crazy mess of inefficiency.An example is as close as your last water bill. Date my meter was supposedly read was October 28, 2014. That reading was for water used as far back as September 30th. The date the bill was prepared was November 11, 2014, the date yours truly received the bill November 22, 2014 and the date the bill is due? December 9, 2014. More than a month after the meter was read and more than 2 months after the last reading.But it gets worse! I'm on auto...

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Charlotte Fire Department's Crystal Eschert Fired Over A Facebook PostOr Was She?

Oh what a tangled web, WCNC uncovered:CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Charlotte's city manager has ordered an independent third party investigation into the firing of a former Charlotte Fire Department employee, who says she's a whistleblower.Crystal Eschert was a fire investigator who complained the air quality and working conditions in the arson task force building on North Graham Street were unhealthy.But City Manager Ron Carlee says Eschert broke the rules with an inflammatory Facebook posting on her private account and her firing appears to be justified.The...

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First Daughters Attire In The Spotlight Nothing New

The attention first daughters Sasha and Malia get over their lack of ceremonial decorum as the father pardons a couple of turkeys, is not surprising or new. This sort of uproar has been going on at the White House for decades.Democrats were aghast when the Ford White House released a series of photos showing then teen daughter Susan Ford washing her car at the White House complete with barely there shorts and bare feet. By the way - The GOP...

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So Long Cactus

I'm going to miss the "Cactus" call sign. US Airways adopted Cactus with the merger of America West, who used the western symbol to avoid confusion with American.Next year the US Airways logo will join these iconic logos of aviation past.(counter clockwise from the top).US AirwaysPiedmontAlleghenyOzarkTrans CaribbeanReno AirAir CalMohawkLake CentralPSAAmerica WestTWAAnd so it goes....

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CMPD Stingray

Nice uproar among Charlotte City Council members over privacy concerns because CMPD has deployed StingRay cell phone tracking devices. But what remains really shocking are the council members who claim they don't remember voting to approve the purchase. Dig a little deeper and you'll find that Raleigh and Durham spent considerably less to aquire the contraption and used a Federal grant to pay for it. CMPD's appetite for new spiffy stuff is boundless....

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Cedar's Pick and Pans Election 2014

Tomorrow the Nation will go to the polls to cast votes that will make a difference in our lives, in some cases just for 2 years in others for 6 and still others forever. Choose wisely America.United States Senate - Hagen - Tillis Most see this race as a choice between the lesser of two evils. Hagen is a complete failure, Tillis a whack job Republican who has about as much business being a US Senator as Pat McCory has being Governor. Hagen...

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Charlotte Weekly Picks Up Cedar's Rant - South Charlotte Middle School Kids At Risk

A few weeks ago I banged out a half dozen tweets (twitter rant) after seeing 2 near pedestrian vs car accidents within a quarter mile of each other. The victim in each case, a CMS Middle School student trying to cross speeding traffic on South Charlotte's Pineville - Matthews Road (Highway 51 to Native Charloteans).Main stream media types fail to take notice of such things, unless of course there is the dead body of a 14 year old lying in the road. Case...

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Thriller - Vincent Price

Cedar Posts is no fan of Michael Jackson, however "Thriller" remains one of the best Music Videos of all time. Beyond Jackson's dancing and John Landis' direction, the short is still rather thrilling due in part to Vincent Price and his voice over "rap" Thriller. What better way to kick of a Friday edition of All Hallows Eve.Darkness falls across the land The midnight hour is close at hand Creatures crawl in search of blood To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood And whosoever shall be found Without the soul for getting down Must stand and face the hounds...

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Ghost Fleet Of Mallows Bay

A little Halloween Tale without the macabre horror.There’s a small bay on the Maryland side of the Potomac River, 30 miles south of Washington, D.C., that is an eerie final resting place for hundreds of ships. More than 230 were scuttled here, and most of them were never put into service.In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson rallied the nation to join World War I. Germany’s submarine offensive was fearsome, and the United States was woefully unprepared.To counter the Kaiser’s forces, the nation would have to launch the greatest shipbuilding program...

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Tina McCard Fraudster Thief Convicted Felon - Spotted In Charleston and Still on the Loose

BOLO - Tina McC...

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CMPD Stingray - Beyond The Constitutional Issue

A lot of chatter over the Charlotte Observer story concerning the use of Stingray, a super tech spy gadget that LE is using across the nation to track and ease drop on thugs and ghetto rats. Of course the story line is all about constitutional rights and the ever increasing scope of government in the "big brother" age. But the back story is rather interesting: As with much of CMPD the budget and expense approval process is all smoke and mirrors. From the Observer:"Charlotte City Council voted unanimously without debate in 2012 to spend...

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Observer Bill Scam Tied To Charlotte Biz Journal

GDid you get one of these bogus bills for The Charlotte Observer last week?Of course it is a scam, but the interesting twist is they got my name from the Business Journal!Seems the CBJ sold this this scammer my name! You see my CBJ subscription has this odd little typo unique only to that once a week bit of USPS Mail! Which prompts me to say WTF ( well that's funn...

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On Patrick Cannon Cedar's Take:

Later this morning former Mayor Patrick Cannon will be sentenced by Federal Judge Frank Whittney. He'll get probation and here's why.Cannon was targeted by someone in the Obama administration because it was concluded that His-honor was just the tip of the iceberg and that corruption ran deep all the way down to the cellar of the government center. Turns out Cannon was a big mouth talker who believed his own hubris lies, an amateur targeted by...

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Gay Marriage Why It Is Not A Win For The LGBT Community

The Supreme Court's Refusal to review the lower court's ruling and subsequent North Carolina court decision opens the door to same sex marrige in North Carolina. But this is not a win for the LGBT faction any more than proabition was a victory for the Bible Belt crowd.North Carolina was and still is opposed to gay marriage, most of us in the metropolitan areas are just tired of hearing about it, and just as many don't really care. It's a perversion,...

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American - US Airways Public Relations Fail

Wearing his dress ASU ribbon rack with at least, bronze star, army commendation medal, plus army combat infantryman badge, air assault badge, parachutist badge and unit commendations.This First Sergeant on a six hour flight from Portland to Charlotte asked a US Airways flight attendant if he could hang his jacket so it wouldn't  get wrinkled. The answer was NO First Class passengers ONLY!The story has since become a PR nightmare for the...

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Throw Back Thursday: Gordonton, North Carolina Circa 1939

Raney Currie Baynes (1891-1942) owned this country store in Gordonton, Person County, North Carolina, and is seen standing in the doorway. Note that some claim that the store was owned by Ivey Baynes, brother of Raney Currie Baynes.If your are new to the South you might find it odd that a scene like this is still pretty easy to find. Eastern North Carolina, Western South Carolina, Southern Georgia, most of Alabama and damn near all of Mississippi. Screen...

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Novant's Presby Problem

Hard to tell what's going on at the former Presbytierian Hospital. The once five star and must for Charlotte's well heeled has apparently fallen behind since Novant took over operations nearly ten years ago.Dozens of rooms in one wing of the hospital are abandoned and posted with the above notice. Apparently theft from the "out of service" wings of the hospital is an increasing problem. The eerrie stillness of finding yourself on the empty fourth...

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October 5, 1993 CMPD Officers Burnette and Nobles EOW

John and Andy were the first two officers killed at one time in the history of Charlotte and Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department.The officers patrolled Boulevard Homes - a housing project that was notorious for crime.On October 5, 1993 John and Andy were chasing a suspect who ran into a wooded area near the Boulevard Homes housing project.The suspect shot and killed the two officers.In the 21 years since, Charlotte has erected a memorial...

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Steve Smith Is a Raven Now

Sunday morning Steve Smith was known as a former Panther. Now, in the pre dawn mist of Monday morning, Steve Smith is Raven and 1/4 of the way through the season, Baltimore is better because of it and the Panthers are not.Cedar's random thoughts on Steve Smith's Sunday of Blood and Guts Everywhere:Smith's performance was a much needed respite from the ongoing domestic violence saga at both teams. Everyone expected Smith to turn it up, but...

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Obama's Latte Salute

Cedar's Take:Obama doesn't know how to salute, I'd rather he just not do it.Prior to Reagan, Presidents did not return the salute. Reagan pulled it off, but he was an actor.There is no law requiring the President return the salute. There's a photo of Bush 43 is being tweeted and emailed around, where Bush is carrying a 40 pound dog in a rain storm and saluted with his free hand. The Marine to Barry's right has no less than six service stripes,...

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485 Fake Tree - The Mystery Widens (File This Under I Told You So)

More than a year ago, Cedar Posts noted the totally out of place cell phone tower disguised as a pine tree. A tree that was better suited to the Northwest than South Charlotte, that just didn't make sense. Photo Credit: Cedar PostsTurns out I wasn't the only one interested in the odd tower and placement on CMS property. Now the info trail has become rather interesting with the posting of a YouTube video from the blog Info Wars.Trouble...

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Greensboro Speeding Ticket Earns Woman 1 AM CMPD Wake-Up Call

Charlotte's main stream media looking anyway possible to shame CMPD Officers. Take WSOC's report on the arrest of Mazoe Anderson. Anderson had an outstanding warrant out of Guildford court for failure to appear on a traffic ticket. For some reason Anderson's warrant found its way to CMPD, let's assume her DL address and Officers came to her home to make the arrest. As you might expect Anderson wasn't happy about going to jail at 1 AM over a traffic...

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Mecklenburg County Manager Acknowledges Unaccompanied/Undocumented Youth

Unaccompanied Homeless YouthI have just learned of a human services issue that the Board should be aware of. Last Friday, DSS staff engaged in a work group discussion on the topic of unaccompanied - undocumented youth living in the County. There are currently 488 unaccompanied youth in Mecklenburg County.According to the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY), unaccompanied homeless youth are youth experiencing...

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