Comments by Stan Deatherage | Eastern NC Now

I like that show better than "Breaking Bad". At some point, I tire of stories about narcotics (which are a terrible evil).

Commented: Saturday, December 1st, 2018 @ 3:11 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Bush 41 may not have been a hardened Conservative, but he was a hard core patriot, and all man. Torpedo bombers were not known to have a long life expectancy (see battle of Midway), when 41 signed to serve and fly in the Pacific Theater.

He was a good, brave man, and we are fortunate to have had his service to our nation in the military and our government.

Commented: Saturday, December 1st, 2018 @ 2:35 pm By: Stan Deatherage

This post was picked up by another local publication, and there were many comments, where I did answer one from a commenting individual, whose was concerned that I act in a civil manner, where I did answer this:

Thanks Big Bob, I'll Try to Civil ...

There was that time, however, when the Liberal Majority thought it wise to allocate 2 million dollars of tax payer money to build the Southwest County Jail with no advance funding in place.

Kind of like buying a house, with no real financing or cash, except that 10% option money that one will never get back, but, you put that "other people's money" down anyway. That instance, I did state openly with the cameras rolling, that my fellow commissioners were "the stupidest board of county commissioners that I had ever served with and I have served with many".

If I remember correctly, that was a Republican majority trying to govern Beaufort County as well.

Also, if memory serves me correctly, this was the same board that conspicuously stood idle against the strenuously advocating advice of The Hood and myself to save the people's hospital from giving their hospital to Vidant for 9 million dollars, so Vidant could enjoy their current monopoly, when we had a 30 million dollar lease on the table to Community Health Systems, where Beaufort County would keep their then 60,000,000.00 hospital plant and the 30 million dollars.

This would have never happened if we had anything close to a Conservative Majority.

Bad government does not exist without the foolish enterprise of poor representatives elected by those that really want or need them there.

I wouldn't called them "stupid", but, one could easily make the argument, by the definition of Representative Government, that these voters were heavily on the foolish side in these instances.

These two terrible examples constituted tens of millions of lost wealth of the tax paying citizens of Beaufort County.

Commented: Saturday, December 1st, 2018 @ 8:31 am By: Stan Deatherage

Hypocrisy is the storm trooper of an ignorant mind. - Stan Deatherage, 112918 / 3:16 pm

Commented: Thursday, November 29th, 2018 @ 3:18 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Nice touch about Acosta and James Madison University motto.

Commented: Sunday, November 25th, 2018 @ 1:24 am By: Stan Deatherage

Me too. I keep my mirrors shrouded.

Commented: Tuesday, November 20th, 2018 @ 12:06 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I have not thought about Dave Mason in a long time. And, I had forgotten that he did that song.

I saw Dave Mason in concert as a warm-up guest for Kenny Loggins at Elon College in 1970 something.

I was with my wife; then we drove to the Blue Ridge Mountains and camped out for a few nights. I think it was mid to late Autumn and very cold at 4700 feet above sea level. It was fun, an adventure. Youth, huh?

Commented: Tuesday, November 20th, 2018 @ 10:25 am By: Stan Deatherage

You probably can play yourself in chess, and still remain in a state of perpetual suspense.

This whole DID premise is truly humorous. You got me laughing.

Commented: Sunday, November 18th, 2018 @ 3:37 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Hey Bobby Tony, I heard that one yesterday from a local resident who was once a Florida resident.

I know a little bit about reintroducing pythons back into the everglades, which is definitely all Trump's fault.

Commented: Friday, November 16th, 2018 @ 10:33 am By: Stan Deatherage

This is an issue that will never die as long as Democrats well know that the best way to win elections is "to control the ballot box".

Commented: Monday, November 12th, 2018 @ 12:40 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Right now, it is Florida again.

Commented: Friday, November 9th, 2018 @ 6:25 pm By: Stan Deatherage

It is a well written piece, and I do appreciate the kind sentiment; however, I truly do believe it was always just about the "Exocet Missile".

Commented: Thursday, November 8th, 2018 @ 9:35 am By: Stan Deatherage

Thank-you Jerry for your vivid metaphor of the Falklands War, and your British Naval History analogy gives me great pause to thank my Republican opponent Tandy Dunn for a race well run:

Thanks Tandy for your rapid congratulations, but, moreover, thanks for being a solid Conservative that I well knew I would have been able to depend on when the crunch of governing takes center stage.

It was a Democrat night in Beaufort County for the commissioner's race, where popularity, Liberal ideals and special interests were paramount in the selection of our representatives.

Randy Walker may have said it best: 'As I talk to people in Beaufort County, I don't see people concerned about their taxes going up. I think everyone would like to pay no taxes, but people know that taxes have to go up to provide all these services.'

By quoting Randy, I am enunciating that it just has not gotten bad enough yet for Democrats; the upper class in Beaufort County, and, moreover, many people in Beaufort County who still do not pay enough attention to the real government story to understand the difference of how government, out of control, will usually snowball into a fiscal catastrophe.

Tandy, you ran as a real Conservative, and you were true to that message, and that is most commendable in my burgeoning book.

So, thank-you Tandy, and I wish you well in any future political endeavors that you should continue to explore.

Commented: Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 @ 12:47 am By: Stan Deatherage

You guys would like Spencer. He just started doing Facebook a few months ago, but still likes his email most.

He is a funny guy just being Spencer.

Commented: Thursday, November 1st, 2018 @ 7:40 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Good post B.T.; great icon.

Commented: Saturday, October 27th, 2018 @ 8:57 am By: Stan Deatherage

I once met Lester Maddox at a church service near Nashville, Georgia when I was with my father back in the later sixties. He was a character back then that I did remember.

Who knows: Without Lester Maddox, there would have been no Jimmy Carter to balance out the racist, and without Jimmy Carter, there would have been no Ronald Reagan to balance out the incompetent.

Commented: Monday, October 22nd, 2018 @ 9:09 pm By: Stan Deatherage

"Liberals Care More than You Do"

The School Resource Officer conundrum is just a perfect example of liberal politicians using an issue that is of extreme sensitivity, and then play at fixing the problem with as much money as is possible; then using that massive expenditure to show that they care far more for others than any pragmatic, far wiser Conservative ever could.

This creates a greater group with a collective community sense of well-being that neither fixes the potential problem, but only masks the truth that these politicians are either too lazy, or just intellectually incapable to correctly identify the source of the problem, and more effectively address it.

This is why these sorry Beaufort County Commissioners have listened to one wise word that Hood Richardson has uttered over the last four years.

Commented: Saturday, October 20th, 2018 @ 8:23 am By: Stan Deatherage