Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

Hunter Biden always had a get out of jail free card with the Biden DOJ. They were not going to prosecute him for anything until the IRS whistleblowers came forward and exposed the corruption in Bidenworld relative to Hunter. Then they refused to move on the most serious cases, the tax evasion during the years of the Burisma deal, which could have also implicated Joe, and the failure to register as a foreign agent, until the statute of limitations ran and he was home free on those charges. Then they tried a sweetheart deal, that an ordinary citizen not named Biden would have never gotten. A conscientious judge, to her credit, cried foul on that, and they were then forced to try him on the gun charges and the least serious of the tax charges, the only one the statute of limitations was not allowed to run out on. So the Biden DOJ manipulation has saved Hunter from the most serious charges that he should have been charged with. How often does the government just let it slide when someone does not file or pay taxes on millions of dollars in income?

And, Van Zant, yahoonews has indeed become a cult. I sometimes wonder if it is being edited in Red China or North Korea it is so bad. I quit using yahoomail when yahoonews dropped way off the left end of the spectrum.

Commented: Tuesday, June 11th, 2024 @ 4:52 pm By: John Steed

Little Boobbie wouldn't recognize a fact if one jumped up and bit him on the ass. In his Orwellian tunnel vision, a "fact" is something that corresponds with the far left narrative. To him, if it does not correspond to that ideological worldview it is "misinformation". That is how most of the leftist lemmings like Bobbie think.

Commented: Tuesday, June 11th, 2024 @ 12:32 pm By: John Steed

no, you don't, Bobbie. If a staff member gave a key, it is highly unlikely they did it knowing that this damage was intended, but even so they would have culpability because they should not have given a key to a student. If Cheeseman's looking into the matter has led him to know of beleive where the key came from, that person may also be someone Cheeseman wants to cover up for if they are his buddy.

Will - All it takes is one entry point if someone has the key.

Commented: Monday, June 10th, 2024 @ 8:10 pm By: John Steed

Can't you even read, Bozo Bob? The Superintendant is involved in the COVERUP, not the actual vandalism itself. He had to sign off on doing nothing significant in response to the vandalism. The principle could not have done that on his own.

Commented: Monday, June 10th, 2024 @ 3:55 pm By: John Steed

Playing the race card again there, Bobbie? Everything to you is about race, including your shoot-from-the-hip racial profiling here.

When it comes to racial profiling, this funny video says it all:
www.youtube.com

It really does not matter who they are. Cheseman could be protecting anybody. Whoever they are, they need to pay for what they did.

Commented: Monday, June 10th, 2024 @ 10:12 am By: John Steed

This is nothing short of a coverup by Cheeseman, and he should be fired for it, and the $15,000 taken out of HIS paycheck. If these were graduating seniors, they were likely 18 and should be prosecuted as adults. If CHeeseman does not make a full public report, then the school board needs to force him to do so.

The 57 should have been called in and forced to clean it up and pay their share of damages at the very least, but none of that was done. So what they could not walk across the stage? That is no punishment.

They also need to get someone to fess up to providing the key and that person needs to be fired. Put all possible staff suspects on a polygraph if necessary.

Commented: Sunday, June 9th, 2024 @ 11:28 pm By: John Steed

Being paid to give speeches was EXACTLY how the Clinton Crime Family grift worked. Liberal putlishers paying huge advances for books has been a gambit for grift for years, too, as has people buying huge quantities of such books so that the writer makes money.

Bigot Bob is just engaged in more of that high tech lynching of a black man he finds "uppity". One thing the far left has never been able to stand is a black man who thinks for himself and takes conservative positions. They want them all to stay on the Democrat plantation.

Commented: Saturday, June 8th, 2024 @ 4:48 pm By: John Steed

PJJ, I think this new school boondoggle may be a "bright and shiny object" to try to distract from the school system's huge failures in educating our children as shown by so many low scores by Beaufort County schools, and particularly in Washington on the state standardized tests. That has nothing to do with buildings and everything to do with a subpar curriculum. The school board members up this year are nothing but rubberstamps for our liberal superintendant. The tail is wagging the dog, and that is where the problem lies.

It is very noticable that local young people working as cashiers have a hard time making change correctly. Their math skills have been degraded by Common Core math, yet Cheeseman's appointees proposed, and his school board sock puppets rubberstamped a woke new math curriculum last year based on, you guessed it, Common Core. One of his top staff even tried to lie to the new conservative school board minority to say that the curriculum was not Common Core, but confronted with the evidence had to backtrack and admit that it was. The rubberstamp school board majority approved it anyway.

Another example is cursive writing which state law requires schools to teach but it is a hit and miss proposition here in Beaufort County. I have talked to a number of parents who complain that their children have not been taught cursive. One mentioned going to a restaurant out of town where the menu was in cursive, and his children who had gone to Beaufort County Schools could not read it. It might as well have been written in Greek.

Beaufort County Schools are failing our students in curriculum, NOT in buildings.

Commented: Saturday, June 8th, 2024 @ 9:40 am By: John Steed

I agree that this would be a strange position for someone actually from Bath. All of the money is being spent in a different school attendance district, not Bath, as has been pointed out. But there is also another reason. This is a school consolidation, and the parents in the old Bath High School district were up in arms when their high school was consolidated with Belhaven and Pantego some years ago. I know people who graduated from the old Bath High School and who think the education their children or grandchildren receive or received at consolidated notheastern high school is much inferior to what they received as studants at Bath High School. For multiple reasons, this poster takes very unusual positions for someone who actually was from Bath.

While there are some arguments in consolidating high schools such as being able to offer more subjects, those do not hold true for consolidating elementary schools into a mega-school. At that level, it is just nuts.

Commented: Thursday, June 6th, 2024 @ 7:29 am By: John Steed

Every bit of it is true, Bolshevik Bob, and that is why this abuse of our courts for political purposes is such a threat to our democracy. It is just like Stalin, Putin, Hitler, Maduro, Xi, or you name the dictator.

As usual, Marxist internet troll Bolshevik Bob uses an Orwellian Newspeak definition of the word "true". When he uses it, "true" means "consistent with the far left narrative."

Commented: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024 @ 9:12 am By: John Steed

Bobbie is off in far left smear la-la land. Nobody "owns" a supreme court justice.

The guy who had a massive conflict of interest was Juan Merchan, and the Democrats were fine with that because he was a political contributor to them, even though New York ethics standards said judges are not supposed to make political contributions, and Merchan's daughter was one of their political consultants.

Commented: Tuesday, June 4th, 2024 @ 1:00 pm By: John Steed

The big problem here is total lack of transparency in planning, which has long been a problem with our school board, even pre-dating Cheeseman. Like the last round of school building, this one was concocted in the backroom without public input or outside expert input. For example, did the Washington attendance area have the biggest need, and if it did was this the best location within that attendance area for a school? If memory serves, it seems there have been statements in the past that Washington's growth was projected to be mostly to the west, so would that be the most efficient place to put a new school?

The school board never held any public hearings either to determine needs or to get public input after the plan was conceived. Cheeseman and T.W. Allen clearly want to keep the public in the dark and reserve all power to themselves. That is not the way that government agencies should be run.

Once the school board achieves a majority that is not under Cheeseman's thumb, one of the things they need to do is put together a long range facilities plan, based on input from experts on things like population projections and on public input from the citizens of the county. Government should be conducted in the sunshine and not in secretive smoke-filled rooms.

Commented: Saturday, June 1st, 2024 @ 9:10 pm By: John Steed

"The justice system worked" in Manhattan the same way it does in North Korea, or Stalin's Russia, or Putin's Russia, or Red China or Iran, but NOT the way it is supposed to work in America with due process and a neutral unbiased judge and jury.

When one of the most prominent legal experts in the country, former Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, a Democrat who supported Biden in 2020 says this trial was the most "Sovietized" he has ever seen and a complete travesty, he has a lot more credibility as to the nature of this trial than a Marxist-loving Hamas apologist internet troll like Bolshevik Bob.

The dictatorship peoblem relates to those who pull Biden's strings. Biden himself is little more than the front man who barely knows if he is coming or going or what day it is or where he is, the perfect Manchurian candidate.

Non discloure agreements are common and not illegal. This was ginned up into a "crime" by a crooked Soros DA who commonly lets real felons go free. A heavily Democrat (and likely all Democrat) Manhatten jury is not a "jury of his peers" for a GOP presidential nominee. A fair jury could only have been obtained by a change of venue which the Biden-contributor judge denied. The "business record" involved was a computer menu drop down entry clearly made by someone much lower in the organization than Trump himself. This trial has added a whole new meaning to the term "trumped up charges".

Commented: Friday, May 31st, 2024 @ 4:10 pm By: John Steed

Decisions like spending $50 million on school construction need to be made with both substantial expert input and substantial public input. A secretive smoke filled room process does not cut it. There is more to the problem here than just "informing" someone after a secretive cabal has made a deal.

Commented: Thursday, May 30th, 2024 @ 3:34 pm By: John Steed

The reality is that a recent poll of suburban women found that inflation and cost of living are now a more important issue to them than abortion, and it is Bidenflation that is going to kill Biden's campaign. Women buy gas and they do much of the grocery shopping so they see the damage Biden has done to their family budgets first hand.

And calling killing babies "health care" is pretty sick. Do you also think an executioner in a prison is a "health care provider"?

Commented: Tuesday, May 28th, 2024 @ 9:07 am By: John Steed

Nobody is "taking medical advice" from laymen posting on the internet. What the internet allows, however, is the opportunity to find diverse medical opinions and allows us to research them. For example, on deciding to take an mRNA vaccine, should you listen to the doctor / medical researcher who invented it and has very detailed knownledge of it, and who says it can be prone to serious side effects, or a local doctor who has little background knowledge of mRNA and is just hyping what Big Phrarma and government are promoting? Should you listen to Fauci who has never actually practiced medicine or to the "frontline doctors" group that has actually had experience in dealing with patients with Covid/ Should you listen to government medicince or to the group of epidemiologists and virologists lef by two of the handful of world class experts in those dields and their Great Barrington Statement, that disagrees with governemnt medicine on the subject?

Medical consolidation has too often made our local doctors mouthpieces of their medical conglomerate in too much. My own doctor, in response tn a discussion we had on Covid told me he was not in a position to discuss certain things because he was told by the Vidant higher ups not to. He hinted at personal opinions that did not agree with the government medical narrative but only barely. It was so much better before Obamacare led to medical consolidation when doctors worked for themselves or in a small partnership and they had free rein to express their real opinions.

Commented: Monday, May 27th, 2024 @ 8:42 am By: John Steed

Here is another one. A poll conducted for a liberal group found that 1/4 of Americans know someone who died from the Covid VACCINE.
www.beaufortcountynow.com

Commented: Sunday, May 26th, 2024 @ 8:45 pm By: John Steed