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It sounds like the Biden regime took its game plan from Merkel, and they would have destroyed America in another four years. I am so glad I got the opportunity to travel extensively in Germany before it got flooded with illegal aliens.
Commented: Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 @ 2:44 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Maybe it is time for Congress to start selectively defunding federal courts. This judicial tyranny has to be stopped.
Commented: Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 @ 2:41 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Commented on Answer to “Let’s Get it Right!”Stan,
Politicians and bureaucrats have contempt for the local citizens. They see us as just noisy bastards and grumbling time consumers. It is a learned behavior, passed down to the new political elites. Locally that contempt and response to citizens is passed on to the local State of NC Dept employees who live locally and head depts here. They have gotten away with it for so long they think it is their right, as they believe they are superior to the riff raft that intrude on their "important work." Some know the score, and thus know they must pay to play. They must pay with their loss of integrity to participate as an insider...and avoid getting demoted. I suspect that the City Manager has access to everyone's email, that is within their govt system. "Give someone an ounce of power, and you will learn their true character."
Commented: Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 @ 1:03 pm
By: Washingtonian
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Democratic Socialist Governor Kathy Hochul is utterly corrupt, and most ignorant on so many levels.
And hopefully, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the next governor of the corrupt state of New York, who is smart and straight as an arrow, will turn that once august state around ... or at least begin that process.
Commented: Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 @ 12:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Answer to “Let’s Get it Right!”John Steed and Van Zant: Why does it has to come to this? Why?
Oh yeah ... the "Guilty Politicians." I called the lot of them out at last night's meeting, all four Democrats (including Frankie the Fraud and Two-Faced Randy) on the board of Beaufort County Commissioners. My frustration level is pretty high right now with all things FAKE in this county right now, and when I see it, and know it to my core; I WILL call it out.
Commented: Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 @ 11:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Wayne Thigpen WatkinsI called him Thigpen or Thig, only that. We were childhood friends when we both lived on East Main Street in Washington, NC.
Also, Thigpen, Rodney Perry and myself were the only members of our class selected to try out for the Washington Pam Pack varsity in 1970, as sophomores; we all three made it, and we all made solid contributions to that 1970 team. That 1970 season was one of the best football teams in Pam Pack history, and our storied loss to Tarboro at tiny Kugler Field drew about 8,000 football fans from all over the region, as both teams were undefeated late in the season; ranked 1st and 2nd in 3A football, over the entire state of North Carolina. During that hard-fought game, we battled valiantly for the conference championship, and the right take on all challengers in the state championship round. For some innate reason, I have always felt unusually close to Thig, and when we infrequently saw each other, we could talk about everything well beyond our many days playing football on so many levels. Thigpen was such a real person, and I really dig what is real. I have always liked his wife, Kim; I am friends with his son, Ryal. These are my good constituents, the best of them; truly real people. In some small way now, I share their terrible loss. There is a deep hole in the fabric of Washington and Beaufort County now that Thigpen is gone ... I truly mean that.
Commented: Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 @ 10:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Answer to “Let’s Get it Right!”The Pamlico County schools, as well as a charter school there, are openly welcoming Snowden students to go there, and of course that means their state education dollars will follow those students out of the Beaufort County schools. Our school board has just incentivized that exodus. One wonders what they are using for brains.
The real danger would come, though, if this kick in the face leads to a campaign in Richland Township to move the county line so they can join Pamlico County, talking a huge chunk of Beaufort County's tax base with them. Weak school board members blindly following a liberal superintendent can have profound negative consequences for our county.
Commented: Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 @ 9:51 am
By: John Steed
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Commented on Answer to “Let’s Get it Right!”When "General Che" and his seven cheerleaders are faced with families making other choices than Beaufort County public schools, their solution is to give families even more reasons to choose other schools. When people complain they just blame the people living in the communities they just screwed.
Too many Beaufort County leaders have no respect for southeastern Beaufort County. For some reason it is always alright to sacrifice Aurora first. Time for Aurora to chuck Beaufort County. Start with the guilty politicians.
Commented: Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 @ 9:10 am
By: Van Zant
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Commented on Answer to “Let’s Get it Right!”John: I agree wholly on your understanding of "School Choice," and once again, thanks for humor.
Sometimes, it is better to laugh than cry.
Commented: Monday, July 7th, 2025 @ 10:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Answer to “Let’s Get it Right!”What we've got here is a giant turd, of biblical proportion, that's rolling downhill. The reason why I use "biblical" is because there is, in fact, an exodus of students leaving BCS.
This ain't "conspiracy theory" or hearsay, now; it's common sense. The ship's fixin' to run a ground quicker than they thought...an' they're comin' in too hot. Montessori ain't keeping in Beaufort County.....too much headache for most parents that work a regular job. If there were charter schools in the county , like those of neighboring counties, this wouldn't be happening. The School board is watching dollar signs fly right out the window...but they can't/won't say it publicly. General Ché would have to admit fault and that ain't happening. Bath Elementary becoming a charter school would be a good move in the right direction and also a yuuuuuuge middle finger to The San Francisco Hippie that was wollerin' in the mud, up'air, with them hippies at Woodstock.
Commented: Monday, July 7th, 2025 @ 8:41 pm
By: John Valley
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Commented on Answer to “Let’s Get it Right!”Concerned Taxpayer: Conflict of Interest in Beaufort County is an approvable issue under two determinable factors -
First: The parties in question must either be a Democratic Socialist or a RINO; Second: It is preferred if the processes to effect such behaviors actually should cost the local taxpayers more of their public money.
Commented: Monday, July 7th, 2025 @ 7:30 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Answer to “Let’s Get it Right!”There are too many relationships in the Snowden Affair and in commissioner and school board matters that just don't pass the small test. One is the two husband and wife pairs on the commission and school board. Insider dealing? Do you think? Then there is two school board members having daughters who are principals or vice principals, who are at Chesseman's mercy. Conflict of interest? Do you think?
Commented: Monday, July 7th, 2025 @ 7:17 pm
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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Commented on Answer to “Let’s Get it Right!”School Board Member Shreve has been pilloried in an extemporaneous manner here, so I will not pile on.
I will, however, boldly state that Beaufort County Commissioners' Center-Left /Left Coalition, in the majority on the county's board, DID vote to close Snowden School. All of these local bad actors were in this together.
Commented: Monday, July 7th, 2025 @ 4:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Answer to “Let’s Get it Right!”There is a power bully involved in Beaufort County Schools. His name is Cheeseman, and Don Shreve appears to have caved in to him. Sad.
Commented: Monday, July 7th, 2025 @ 3:41 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Commented on Answer to “Let’s Get it Right!”It is good to hear that the accusation of Mayor Williams playing both sides is false. That struck me as not likely to be true when I read Shreve's screed. Shreve made the original motion to start the process of closing Snowden. His fingerprints on that fiasco are very obvious. The real question is why would he do such a thing to the families and students at Snowden?
Commented: Monday, July 7th, 2025 @ 2:16 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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As a Sixties / Seventies rocker, The Beach Boys were always a guilty pleasure of mine, mixed in with the likes of Cream, The Band, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Derek and the Dominos, Van Morrison, The Doors, etc.
"Pet Sounds," which was Brian Wilson's signature creation, is still one my favorite albums of music; even now all these many decades later.
Commented: Sunday, July 6th, 2025 @ 2:25 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on Let's Get It Right!Van Zant: Excellent analysis on the machinations of the terrible decision making processes, and easily recognizable poor management of the Beaufort County Schools.
Having said that, and as I recognize that one cannot mention everything within the real confines of this sorry event, top to bottom, let me remind ever reader here of two things: 1. Commissioners Richardson and Deatherage voted against every bad decision made by the inept Beaufort County School Board, and we voted against every fool pledged move made, in the majority, by the Beaufort County Commissioners' Center-Left /Left Coalition. 2. Since early February, 2025, I have repeatedly asked for a copy of the phantom title search (in finite detail) that was alleged to be eventually completed (like closing the barn door after the prized mare had "runnoft") for the Four Acre Debacle, and I have received nothing from either governing board. Until I receive that copy of that phantom title search (in finite detail) that was alleged completed for the Four Acre Debacle that I have requested so many months past, I will NOT VOTE for in favor of any request by the Beaufort County School Board. As a 7 term county commissioner of some ability and much knowledge, and as the Taxing Authority of all Beaufort County's tax paying citizens, I will not support abject incompetence by wasting my constituents' vote toward such, as is signified by this politicized measure of informational denial to this elected representative of my many wise and Good constituents that obviously agree with how I have governed in a wise and honest manner all these may decades. There is a statement that "truth dies in darkness." I would rather profess that truth lives in sunlight.
Commented: Sunday, July 6th, 2025 @ 1:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on GOP Furious As Unelected Bureaucrat Yanks Conservative Elements From ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’Thanks John. I knew you would know.
Thune knows the machination of the senate members better than we do; however, you would have fired Democratic Socialist partisan Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough; I would have fired Democratic Socialist partisan Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough; Lord knows that President Trump would have fired Democratic Socialist partisan Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, but what about some of the liberal Republicans, mostly women, would he have lost this because of their shallow natures would have caused them to think this was a petty move by the Senate Majority Leader, and the bill barely squeaked by. The answer today, now, is to fire Democratic Socialist partisan Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough.
Commented: Sunday, July 6th, 2025 @ 12:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on GOP Furious As Unelected Bureaucrat Yanks Conservative Elements From ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’The Senate Majority Leader has the power to do that at any time. In fact, in 2001, former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott did fire the then Senate Parliamentarian. The parliamentarian could also have been overruled, which has also happened before. John Thune is spineless.
Commented: Sunday, July 6th, 2025 @ 10:30 am
By: John Steed
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Commented on ‘Flags Flying…Tears Flowing’: Gen. ‘Razin’ Caine Honors Pilots’ Families After Heroic Iran StrikeJust one night ago on July 4th after the waterfront fireworks display, I spoke to a Washington resident who was concerned about the amount money appropriated to the military in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, which is a massive budget reconciliation act.
His idea was to take 1/2 of the military, when not needed when on a war footing, was train these military men to develop vocational skills to become a workforce of expandable utility in various communities. While this idea, on its face, may able as noble hypothetical initiative, the thought, moreover, demonstrates a profound lack of understanding why the United States has the standing military that it possesses at its constant disposal, when properly led by a smart and wise Commander-in-Chief.
Commented: Sunday, July 6th, 2025 @ 9:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on GOP Furious As Unelected Bureaucrat Yanks Conservative Elements From ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’John Steed: How difficult would it be for the Senate Majority Leader to fire Democratic Socialist partisan Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough?
Commented: Sunday, July 6th, 2025 @ 9:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commented on GOP Furious As Unelected Bureaucrat Yanks Conservative Elements From ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’There is no reason at all that real Republicans should have tolerated a Harry Reid holdover hack in this powerful position. Mitch McConnell was never a real Republican. He was too compromised by both the Democrats and the Red Chinese. No wonder he sat still for this travesty. John Thune was a McConnell protege, but many thought he would be better. Thune has just proven that is just not so. This Reid hack needs to go and then Thune needs to go.
Commented: Sunday, July 6th, 2025 @ 8:24 am
By: John Steed
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Commented on GOP Furious As Unelected Bureaucrat Yanks Conservative Elements From ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’Watch what I tell you......
The stage has and is being set for the "America First" party or as Trump championed previously: The "Patriot Party". Musk, though I DO NOT trust him, is running controlled op for Trump and helping setup the conditions to successfully transition into a third party "one party" system. Good or bad, this is definitely a Sun Tzu strategy.
Commented: Saturday, July 5th, 2025 @ 10:25 pm
By: John Valley
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