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Van Zant: The "Snowden deal" is done. The Center /Left - Left county commissioners, not one Real Republican among them, have acquiesced to the Bureaucrat Class.
My question is this: How can 64% of Beaufort County vote for Donald Trump, yet we have 4 Center /Left - Left Democrats on the Board of County Commissioners? Answer: The Beaufort County GOP. Yes, and I also remember "Gordon Solie," but I still do not know of "kayfabe."
Commented: Thursday, May 29th, 2025 @ 7:15 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Speaking of kayfabe, I could swear I was hearing a Gordon Solie commentary during that commission meeting. Also, I do think the Snowden deal is done. Why else would the county manager incorporate that, so far officially undone, event in his proposed budget. Mind you, the backroom deal was done long ago between the School Super and County Commission Chairman. The only thing remaining to find out is if the School Board has any spine. So far it has consistently been 7 to 2 in favor of jello.
Commented: Thursday, May 29th, 2025 @ 6:54 am
By: Van Zant
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John Valley, I truly agree with both of these last comments of yours; however, I have no idea what Kayfabe means.
What I do know fairly well is that NO one gets smarter from spending copious time on Fakebook, and I am most happy you agree with me on that one. I left Fakebook in summer of 2020, when Zuckerberg found himself totally compliant to the will and whim of the Non Patriot Left, and I questioned myself: How stupid am I to use my valuable time to "build-out" Mark Zuckerberg's website just to destroy the Patriot President, Donald J. Trump?
Commented: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 @ 8:40 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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SD: What happened was Hippie Cheeseman tried to get over on Unca Hood....and he did BUT, as some of you are scratching your heads on my comments, he didn't get over on the Old Man.
I don't think Unca Hood recognized the kayfabe shenaniganry being executed but a kayfabe maneuver was identified between several Commissioners and Frisco Bay.They also confirmed, but didn't confirm that they are closing Snowden. The audience didn't pick this up collectively. I wonder if Cheeseman has read Machiavelli?
Commented: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 @ 6:56 pm
By: John Valley
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SD: Also, as we both know, Facebook is a very dated and narrow platform. The only people who use the platform now are: People mainly keeping up with family members/close friends or low frequency people who love to stir the turd (Ultra-Ultra MAGA and old Che Guevara Hippies).
That, too me, is kayfabe...the all of a sudden urge to reduce/improve the human element....hmmm. What would happen if the public were presented with a compiled video of Ché Cheeseman portraying himself as Superman when he's actually Lex Luthor? I think one could find a s***-car load of kayfabe in the scripted exchange between Booth and Ché. It's so bad and hilariously cheesy, no pun intended,; the public would think it's made up. ......I'm your friendly neighborhood Spiderman.
Commented: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 @ 7:23 pm
By: John Valley
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John Valley, there are many audiences out there, and some know more than others.
Last night, Center/Left Commissioner Randy Walker suggested political governing by viral Facebook. Now, one thing I do know: the knowing of things for the Facebook crowd is of a lower echelon. Randy Walker subscribes to this level of intellect. I do not. Neither does Hood. Neither does nearly every parent with school age children, nor do the greater propensity of Beaufort County taxpayers.
Commented: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 @ 4:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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SD: What happened was Hippie Cheeseman tried to get over on Unca Hood....and he did BUT, as some of you are scratching your heads on my comments, he didn't get over on the Old Man.
I don't think Unca Hood recognized the kayfabe shenaniganry being executed but a kayfabe maneuver was identified between several Commissioners and Frisco Bay.They also confirmed, but didn't confirm that they are closing Snowden. The audience didn't pick this up collectively. I wonder if Cheeseman has read Machiavelli?
Commented: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 @ 3:15 pm
By: John Valley
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John Valley: Actually, Hood has been in a classroom within the last 5 years (he was with me). Hood was simply making an awkward point, which is this point: A commissioner being in a classroom does not matter; being a smart commissioner does matter.
I digress, John, you keep mentioning Charter Schools as if the Center/Left governs wisely; ergo, the Left and the Center/Left do not embrace School Choice or Charter Schools. I have proved in before in open session, I will probably prove it again. John, The Center/Left and the Left will never change. One will never broker some grand compromise on taking money away from traditional Charter Schools. Change comes from winning elections. I have known this for over two decades, and now President Trump is proving my point in a resounding manner.
Commented: Sunday, May 25th, 2025 @ 11:18 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Steed: I can go along with that but, if he were as smart as he claims to be, he would be pushing renovation and revitalization along with building two or three more smaller public charter schools for the price of one mega-school. What Super wouldn't compromise on that deal? If he's for real and the whole thing wasn't completely Kabuki theater, he might bite.
SD: Bruh, I love y'all but Unca Hood said he hasn't been into a school in over twenty years and went on about unrealistic class sizes in today's time. Notice I said, today's time. I agree with him on some points, within his philosophy, but the points he made didn't translate well with a 2025 audience. Ronnie Milsap could have even seen it. Y'all remained loyal but Jesus...that was painful to watch, hoss. Everybody can't send their child across the river, slam over to Bath or to Washington Montessori.....we've got to meet in the middle without jacking taxes through the roof.
Commented: Sunday, May 25th, 2025 @ 7:01 pm
By: John Valley
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Washingtonian: All school buildings come back to the county commissioners as a first right of refusal situation, where we could buy the school building back as cheaply as would be possible.
If I was in the majority of Right-Thinking-Majority, the smart plan would to buy all school buildings back, and then decrease what the schools are given the next year so it is a hypothetical wash. Then keep the school buildings to sell or lease to possible charter schools, and, or possible private schools. This would help all concerned, especially the public schools, those that absolutely need whatever impetus there is available to learn to manage far more efficiently.
Commented: Sunday, May 25th, 2025 @ 2:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I read the below on the internet. What is Beaufort Co. School board up to? Will they be selling the Snowden school and getting a kick back?
Nothing would surprise me. -- "Denver, Colorado: “Denver Public Schools has been taking public buildings and giving them to a private corporation that then turns around and charges Denver Public Schools rent to use those buildings” ‘While reviewing Denver Public Schools documents, attorney Lisi Owen discovered a financial transaction with an unknown company and unknowingly uncovered the district’s longstanding practice of leasing district buildings to a private corporation, which it then pays rental fees to’ - Denver Gazette"
Commented: Sunday, May 25th, 2025 @ 1:27 pm
By: Washingtonian
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John Valley, the difficulty is that efficiently maintaining and improving your existing schools does not shine on a superintendent's resume for that next job in a bigger system like consolidating schools does. Superintendents are constantly building their resumes and too often school board members just sit there fat, dumb, and happy while they do it. The parents and taxpayers are poorly served by such "lost in space" school board members.
Commented: Sunday, May 25th, 2025 @ 1:36 pm
By: John Steed
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John: Your comment here is to the Beaufort County School Board and the Center/Left - Left Coalition of the Beaufort County Commissioners. "Randy Walker" is member of the Center/Left - Left Coalition of the Beaufort County Commissioners.
His wife is on the School Board. These Center/Left - Left politicians are NOT in favor of charter schools anywhere in Beaufort County. Commissioners Hood Richardson and Stan Deatherage, who are heavily in favor of School Choice as a fine alternative to make education more real, and Tandy Dunn, by his votes, may well join us in that School Choice paradigm, have proven to know what is probably best for education here in Beaufort County ... certainly more than the current administration.
Commented: Sunday, May 25th, 2025 @ 1:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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With personal politics aside, again, my biggest takeaway from all of this is that if we've had the money to start the process of renovation and improving the human element within our schools.....why in the holy hell hasn't the money been signed off on by anyone?
That perplexes me greatly as a common sense thinker. It would be a hell of a lot more cost efficient, especially on the tax payer, if you invested money in necessary projects...to get more money for more projects pertaining to school renovations & improvement. An army moves on its stomach. If you don't feed it, it doesn't move. Community public charter schools would work in rural Beaufort County regions and be very successful...if the money was behind it but nobody from either side seems to find common ground on that. Martin County has the edge on Western Beaufort County and that can't be gotten back. Bear Grass Charter School is up there with Chocowinity Primary and Bath Elementary. They are great models of human element.
Commented: Sunday, May 25th, 2025 @ 12:17 pm
By: John Valley
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The problem is that we have too many school board members who are Cheeseman's poodles They don't think for themselves. They are not doing their jobs for the people of Beaufort County when they just rubberstamp whatever Cheeseman wants. Cheeseman is just out to build his resume for his next job, and he clearly wants to have "school consolidation" on that resume. School board members who go along with that are just idiots.
As far as improving education outcomes, it is curriculum that matters more than buildings, and Cheeseman and his poodles have been blocking reform there, too.
Commented: Sunday, May 25th, 2025 @ 10:00 am
By: Conservative Voter
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Spending more and more and more tax dollars on public education will not insure a better educated student. Beaufort County is in the upper echelon here in North Carolina on per student expenditures, yet we are told that it is not enough.
School buildings built will not insure a better educated child. On the other hand, a school building withdrawn, made obsolete by managerial neglect, will insure that a community school is forever lost, a local education, as time within a childhood well spent, can never be regained by forcing children up and down the highway on buses for hours every school day. There is the "human element" right there lost, forever lost, by making continual bad decisions over and over and over again by an absent school board here in Beaufort County. I see poor management first hand; I hear about such much, much more.
Commented: Sunday, May 25th, 2025 @ 9:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ceres: I also saw the video from the budget workshop and, like yourself, found several performances to be very embarrassing, angering and reminiscent of low budget B-movie acting.
The recurring motif of this meeting, that some didn't seem to understand for reasons known/unknown, was: "We're losing more students than we're taking in and this trend hasn't just started." In all honesty, Mr. Randy (Walker) made the most sense out of anybody and really hit the nail on the head when he talked about "improving the human element within the school system". Building two mega-schools or trying to plunder the western side of rural BoCo isn't going to solve the problem; you've got two sides avoiding the main issue that implicates a group in the middle...that's playing both sides. It's like a Monty Python skit on acid, it's stupifying. To lower taxes, existing structures should be brought up to code and expanded upon. They need to be brought from 1967 to 2025. The human element needs light.
Commented: Sunday, May 25th, 2025 @ 9:13 am
By: John Valley
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Every since Nutrien crossed the street and found more ore, the continuation of the destruction of aurora continues. Only building with ay taxes going to it is the school, post office, and liqour store. The town isn't good enough for a bank, grocery store, drs office, and now any school, but there's a person in that liqour store everyday selling shot bottles of liqour to the community. The county wants aurora to be gone and if I was a resident of that town I'd be heartbroken. No taxes are going towards helping them. Its a travesty.
Commented: Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 @ 4:05 pm
By: FuturePresidentOfBoco
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John: You are the man.
I was just using your steadfast commentary as a pivoting segue to what I wanted to talk about: The budget hearing; the Center-Left Coalition, and their truly refined BS originating in favor of the Bureaucrat Class, and all that they are allowed to control.
Commented: Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 @ 10:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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From the standpoint of taxpayers, commissioners, etc., this project most certainly is about money, too. My point is that money has absolutely nothing to do with why Cheeseman is proposing this. That is only his smokescreen. It is all about building his resume on consolidating schools for purposes of his next job. Cheeseman's tenure has demonstrated that he is a financial illiterate anyway. The 4 acre fiasco is a clear example of that. So is going to a contractor with t along history of cost overruns for building his mega elementary school.
Commented: Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 @ 10:21 am
By: John Steed
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John Steed: It is always about the money, because without taxpayer's hard taxes collected, the Non Patriot Left would have no reason to exist.
I sat through a meeting commissioners' budget meeting Tuesday night, where the Center-Left Coalition, those who swap votes to share power here in Beaufort County's Government, are working themselves into a Leftist frenzy to close a school in perfectly good condition to build a mega school, one in which we do not need, at the lowest point of the land, land that BCSs did not entirely own; the management of which could not be bothered to order a title search until it was TOO LATE. It is moving toward 4 months now since I have asked for a copy of that "TOO LATE Title Search," from every authority available, and this duly elected county commissioner can NOT get a copy of it. At every turn, I have been stopped in retrieving what was never done in a timely manner, for huge expenditures that never needed to be made, not in my fiscally balanced world of management. One has only to intellectually move an inordinately small distance to wonder: Why are the Leftist Center-Left Coalition, administering Beaufort County's government, and a Leftist Beaufort County Schools' administration now asking for more and more taxpayer's treasure to keep a school system afloat, one with a dwindling student population, so they may remain viable in a condition that they have become well accustomed? Could the answer just be terrible management ... With the public's money? John, it is always about the inordinate need for the public's money for Leftists, without which the Left would NOT exist.
Commented: Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 @ 9:51 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ceres, have you ever heard of a moving target. Let some of your buddies explain it to you. I think you are having a lot of trouble keeping up.
Commented: Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 @ 7:41 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Its not about money. School consolidation is part of the agenda of the leftwing public school establishment. This is all about Cheeseman trying to build his resume for his next job, and doing it on the backs of Beaufort County school children, parents, and taxpayers. Shame on him, and shame on the dullard school board members who facilitate his scheme.
Commented: Thursday, May 22nd, 2025 @ 8:11 am
By: John Steed
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