Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

You are an illegal alien crime denier. Cut your losses, Little Bobbie. Facts trump your infantile bluster. You are a know nothing.

Commented: Friday, July 5th, 2024 @ 12:11 pm By: John Steed

LIberal Bloomberg may not have been looking but many conservatives were. So were a lot of liberals because this case was one of the reasons that the left has been so active in attacking the Supreme Court. However a second case that came down today also is a blow to the gut of the bureaucratic administrative state, opening up opportunities to sue by weakening the statute of limitations. Together these cases are a godsend for ordinary Americans against arrogant bureaucrats and their administrative overreach.
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Commented: Monday, July 1st, 2024 @ 8:03 pm By: John Steed

"ESSER funds"???? Someone with that detailed minutia sounds like a central office school employee, not a parent. Regardlesss of where public funds come from, they should not be flagrantly wasted. If the school was going to get torn down, shouldn't those funds have been spent somewhere else? Or was the plan for Eastern Elementary thrown together more recently than that? Either way, it illustrates the need for long range school facility planning that the current superintendant and current school board majority seem incapable of.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 1:07 pm By: John Steed

The only one of the two that is really known for a fact to be a "junk grabber" is Biden. Ask Tara Reade, Biden's former Senate employee. Biden did more than grab. He inserted his finger in her, what is known as digital rape, against her will.

As to the rigged Stalin Show Trial in Manhattan, that proves nothing except that the New York court system is thoroughly corrupt.

Anyone who watched the debate can see that Biden is well past being able to run the country. So who is? Some say Obama. Some say the deep state. Sokme say others. But Biden is clearly no capable of it.

Commented: Sunday, June 30th, 2024 @ 7:50 am By: John Steed

Biden was a lie machine last night, which is par for the course with him and always has been. In his first run for President, he had to withdraw after he got caught giving a speech of UK Labour Party leader Neal Kinnock verbatim, using Kinnock's family history as his own.

Fraudulent elections should always be contested.

Commented: Friday, June 28th, 2024 @ 7:42 pm By: John Steed

I guess Bolshevik Bob hasn't received his talking points yet on which side he is supposed to take on this issue.

Commented: Friday, June 28th, 2024 @ 4:11 pm By: John Steed

Bobbie, many conservatives want to improve the fairness and objectivity of presidential debates, which has been badly needed for a long time. That is why the RNC cut its involvment with the Presidential Debate Commission last year, before even knowing who the nominee would be. Left wing "journalists" should not have a monopoly on control of presidential debates. Yeah, Trump kicked Biden's ass, but the issue going forward is lets establish a level playing field for future presidential debates. Tapper and Bash could have been more blatant in skewing questions than they were, and the back that their bias and the network's bias was made so public probably stopped them from doing more than they did.

What is really needed for future debates is to let each candidate choose one moderator. Among other things, if a moderator got out of hand with such an arrangement, it would be clear to voters which candidate was to blame for them.

Commented: Friday, June 28th, 2024 @ 9:40 am By: John Steed

Superintendant Cheeseman does not care about what is good for education in Beaufort County, just about what looks good on his resume to get a higher paying and more prestigious job in a bigger system. Unfortunately, the majority of our school board are little more than seat warmers who do not really engage on school policy but instead just rubberstamp whatever Cheeseman tells them to do. Mack Hodges, T.W. Allen, and Eltha Booth are particularly pathetic examples of this. We need a school board that engages on policy, not the weak fools we have warming so many of those seats now.

Commented: Thursday, June 27th, 2024 @ 8:56 am By: John Steed

School consolidation is a part of the liberal school establishment's agenda, which is opposed by conservatives who favor neighborhood schools. Conservatives believe that especially in lower grades, neighborhood schools provide an atmosphere much more conducive to family involement and that it is easy for students to feel lost in mega schools.

As for changing schools so often, this is actually worse with a K-3 elementary school instead of having elementary school extend up to the 6th grade as used to be the norm. Building a series, perhaps three, neighborhood K-6 schools would be much more positive for education that a mega K-3 school. Existing schools could be repurposed for that with renovations and perhaps some new construction as needed.

If DPI is misusing the lottery money to push the liberal agenda of school consolidation, the legislature needs to step in and put a stop to that. Local control of local schools means that local elected school boards should decide what is best for their district's needs, not liberal educrats in Raleigh.

Commented: Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 @ 8:50 am By: John Steed

You are probably right, Van Zant. Wikipedia has been denounced by its own co-founder as badly biased to the left. If it were honest, it would change its name to Leftypedia.

Commented: Sunday, June 23rd, 2024 @ 2:35 pm By: John Steed

There are a lot of morons who throw around the "fascist" label without knowing anything about what that ideology is about other than it is authoritarian, but there is a lot more to it than that. Fascism is based on the "corporate state" where political power, and authoritarian political power, is shared between fascist politicians and corporations and organizations in league with them. Executive decrees are used more than legislation through elected bodies. If Mussolini showed up today in a time machine, he would find himself much more comfortable in the Biden administration than the Trump administration. The Biden regime is the one that adheres more to classic fascist orthodoxy.

The main difference between communism and fascism is that under communism, the state owns all the property while under fascism private companies and individuals still own the property but government dictates how they can use it. Today's Democrats share an ideological kinship with Mussolini's fascists.

The European farmers call the EU Green Deal "climate communistm" but ideologically what is being pushed by the climate alarmists is much more out of the classic fascist playbook. A term I first heard when I was in college, "eco-fascism" is much more appropriate for the climate alarmism movement of today.

Commented: Saturday, June 22nd, 2024 @ 3:04 pm By: John Steed

The dollar has already lost 20% of its value under Biden. If that frontman for a far left cabal gets back in, then stick a fork in America, we are done.

Commented: Thursday, June 20th, 2024 @ 11:52 am By: John Steed

Spot on, Van Zant, Bozo Bob does not bother to read the article linked above so that he might learn some real facts. Instead, he hypes the far left narrative, which is anti-meat.

Commented: Tuesday, June 18th, 2024 @ 12:59 pm By: John Steed

Hooray for some common sense judges in the federal system. This makes 11 states where this dictatorial travesty has been blocked. Fifteen more states have pending lawsuits to block it.

Unfortunately, nobody is going to bat for the girls of North Carolina. Our radical left Attorney General Josh Stein actually supports Biden's distortion of Title IX. If not blocked in North Carolina, the radical Biden DOE is set to try to force boys into girls bathrooms and locker rooms and onto girls athletic teams. Even when all 26 states that have filed lawsuits get it blocked, the Biden DOE can still some after states like North Carolina.

This is a dictatorial abuse of power by the Biden regime which is thumbing its nose at the Constitutional doctrine of Separation of Powers. Congress adopted Title IX of the 1972 Civil Rights Act to protect women in education. The executive branch is supposed to enforce that law, NOT rewrite it to something different, which is what Biden is trying to do. He is acting like a dictator to usurp the powers of Congress.

Commented: Monday, June 17th, 2024 @ 8:41 pm By: John Steed

While there are some Republicans who can correctly be called Uniparty like Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Lisa Burkowski, THom Tillis, Phil Berger, and Tim Moore, trying to suggest Trump is one is way out there. There was lots of fraud in the 2020 election, mostly engineered by Democrat shyster Marc Elias to screw Trump and the conservatives.

Commented: Monday, June 17th, 2024 @ 2:08 pm By: John Steed

The Qanon people are the people who would be in Putin's pocket. For the Putin crowd, here is the explanation given in Putin's mouthpiece "Russia Today" on what happened to Ukraine's gold in 2014: www.rt.com

That was the quasi-official Russian account of Ukraine's missing gold reserves, but Russia and truth very rarely go together.

You can spin the political events of 2014 however you like but the facts are that the corrupt pro-Russian president fled the country because he counted heads in parliament and realized he was going to be impeached and removed the next day. His party boycotted that session of parliament but parliament had well more than a quorum and all the other parties voted unanimously to remove him. The removal was done by a proper Constitutional process by parliament. Those are simply the facts.

Now, I can see why that corrupt pro-Russian president chose not to stay around after he was certain to lose his presidential immunity when he was impeached. On his orders, secret police snipers had murdered over a hundred protesters, whose blood was on his hands. He got out of Dodge just ahead of the posse.

Commented: Friday, June 14th, 2024 @ 5:17 pm By: John Steed

Good catch, Country Girl. This is huge. A federal judge has shot down Biden's Title IX rewrite, where he imposed bureaucratic rules that stood Title IX as passed by Congress in 1972 on its head. Biden tried to delete the protection of women and girls and replace it with protection of "gender identity" and "sexual orientation". That is the opposite of what Congress passed.

Attorney General Paxton did a great job in shooting this monstrosity down. While this will help the other 25 states suing Biden over this travesty, the order does not seem to explicitely apply to them. With our radical left state AG Josh Stein, NC is not one of the states suing to overturn this harebrained rule.

Commented: Thursday, June 13th, 2024 @ 11:08 pm By: John Steed