Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

Throughout his tenure, Biden has been barely functional, and the question has always been as to who is pulling his puppet strings. Biden is little more than a front man for a shadowy cabal which is actually running our government, a true Manchurian candidate who has bcome a Manchurian president.

Obama, who kept a residence in Washington, DC, has long been a prime suspect as Biden's puppet master. Another suspect has been George Soros, with White House visitor logs showing many visits to the Biden White House by Soros' son. If it is Soros pulling Biden's strings, it makes perfect sense that Biden is turning against Israel, given the longstanding anti-Israel positions of Soros. Obama is a little more nuanced, but is certainly also a possibility.

The video "Weekend at Biden's" was unfortunately all too true:
www.youtube.com

Commented: Friday, May 17th, 2024 @ 9:00 pm By: John Steed

This column in the UK's largest circulation newspaper, the Daily Mail of London on the Trump trial shows what a laughing stock the Biden Democrats and their political show trial are making of America's justice system:
www.dailymail.co.uk

Commented: Friday, May 17th, 2024 @ 9:20 am By: John Steed

The column by renowned and highly respected law professor Jonathan Turley on where this case sits is interested. Truley says Bragg has not come close to proving any case against Trump and an honest and unbiased judge would grant a defense motion for a directed verdict, which would end the case in Trump's favor at the close of state's evidence.
jonathanturley.org

Of course this trial does NOT have an honest and ungaised judge. It has a judge who is a political contributor to Joe Biden who has a daughter who is a Democrat political consultant who works for Kamala Harris among others. What would it do to his daughtter's business if he ruled like an honest judge should rule?

Commented: Wednesday, May 15th, 2024 @ 4:57 pm By: John Steed

One of the most significant things Speaker Johnson said is that Congress is going to investigate Alvin Bragg and his cast of characters for election interference. While Congress cannot prosecute, they can make criminal referals to US Attorneys who will then likely be Trump appointees. That will be fun to warch, especially with at least one state Attoney General also going against them for election interference. They need to nail the corrupt judges, too. Lock them up. We need to drive a stake through the heart of these crooked Stalinist political show trials once and for all.

Commented: Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 @ 9:15 pm By: John Steed

Soros' actions and funding DOES comes across as "get the Jew", both when he was a Nazi collaborator in WWII and in Soros' funding of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish activiies today.

Commented: Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 @ 11:52 am By: John Steed

Even the British press is now commenting on Biden's actions on Israel being driven by his trying to win Michigan in November instead of anything related to the Middle East.
www.dailymail.co.uk

Commented: Sunday, May 12th, 2024 @ 9:53 pm By: John Steed

As much as I support Israel's total eradication of Hamas from the face of the Earth and whatever it takes to do that, and as much as I support clearing these Hitler Youth college encampments, going down the slippery slope of "hate speech" is a bridge too far. Free speech is too vital to democracy to compromise it in any way. Tim Moore is a moron, but then we have known that for a long time.

Commented: Sunday, May 12th, 2024 @ 10:55 am By: John Steed

The day before delaying arms to Israel, Biden okayed arms shipments to Lebanon and Qatar. Lebanon is for all practical purposes controlled by Hezbollah terrorists, and Qatar is the regime which shelters Hamas' political leadership. These are just the latest pro-terrorist moves by the pro-terrorist Biden regime.
freebeacon.com

Commented: Saturday, May 11th, 2024 @ 7:54 am By: John Steed

For someone as obsessed with race as Bigot Bob, that is the only type of lynching he ever seems to think of. For regular people in society, however, it is a matter of what we have been exposed to. Most of us have grown up after the period of racial lynchings were over so there were no current accounts to learn from. Washingtonian's perspective makes perfect sense. TV and movies rarely showed racial lynchings but they showed cowboys doing it all the time.

There is only one time in my own life I have read a current account of a lynching that had just happened, and all of those involved in that one were of the same race. I was on vacation in Jamaica in the late 1980s and I like to read local newespaper when I am visiting another place. One day in reading a local paper in Montego Bay, there was an article about a lynching in a rural town on that end of the island. A homosexual had been arrested for molesting a young boy and was locked up in the police station with only a handful of police guarding him. A very large crowd showed up and demanded that the homosexual be turned over to them. Rather than risk being overrun, the police did so. The crowd then debated whether to give him a very severe whipping and castration and then return him to the police or to hang him. They decided to hang him and did so. The article mentioned nothing about any police investigation of the lynch mob. The fact that the article was so matter-of-fact, with no moral outrage made me wonder if extrajudicial punishments still happened regularly in that country.

ANy lynching is bad, whether racially motivated or motivated for some other reason. People should get their day in court whatever they have done and it should be a fair court. A kangaroo court like the one Trump is facing in Manhattan is little different from that mob in Jamaica.

Commented: Friday, May 10th, 2024 @ 7:16 am By: John Steed

Here is information on the Republican statewide runoff candidates:
www.beaufortcountynow.com

Commented: Thursday, May 9th, 2024 @ 11:59 am By: John Steed

Poor management in the public schools is the result of the tail (superintendant) wagging the dog (school board). Too many school board members act like the superintendant is their boss, when in reality, he is their employee. The school board members are the elected policy makers sent their by the voters to run the school system. The superintendant is their chief bureaucrat. Many of our Beaufort County School Board members are little more than yes-men or yes-women to superintendant Cheeseman, and that badly needs to change if we are to get out of the rut we are in.

Proper management would include setting expectations for school improvement and basing any raises on meeting those standards. For the central office and superintendant that should include scores districtwide increasing to the expected level. If not, no raise for them. For each school, there should be a similar arrangement for principles and assistants for improving the scores of that school. Teachers are paid less, so they should probably get a cost of living raise, but should get a bonus or a further raise if their class exceeds the expected levels. Reward success and punish failure. That is the only way our schools will improve.

Commented: Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 @ 4:28 pm By: John Steed

Not only is Harriet Beecher Stowe a white woman, but her book is a novel, a work of fiction that was written with a political agenda.

If you want to read an anti-slavery factual perspective from an eyewitness (which Stowe was not), a far better source is the chapter on slavery in Charles Dickens book on his travels in the US. Although a renowned novelist himself, that book of Dickens is non-faction based on his personal observations, and he highly critizes both slavery and slave owners.

It is also interesting that during the War Between the States, Dickens never bought the north's narrative about fighting to abolish slavery, which claim he described as "specious humbug designed to conceal the north's desire for economic control of the wouthern states."

Commented: Monday, May 6th, 2024 @ 12:44 pm By: John Steed

A book? How about "The Great Republic", a history of the United States written by former Britich Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill? If you bothered to read that, as I have, you will find Churchill's viewpoints on the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 very similar to American viewpoints.

As to the War Between the States, both the northern and southern versions leave out things. Both are politicized and always have been. Some on each side even objected to their side's slanting of the war, like Sherman who after the war objected that the war had not been about slavery and if it had been, he would have fought for the south.

The most objective viewpoints on the war are those from people in other countries who observered or studied it, like Sir Winston Churchill, who devoted a chapter in his book on US history, "The Great Republic" to the causes of the war. Churchill concluded that the main cause of the war was a rupture between two competing concepts of government that had existed since the founding of the county, between the concept of a powerful cental government espoused originally by Alexander Hamilton and represented in 1860 by Lincoln and the north, on one hand, and concept of limited government, originally espoused by THomas Jefferson, and represented in 1860 by Jefferson Davis and the south, on the other.

The north's narrative of the war being about slavery was also disputed by two contemporary observers of high stature. Novelist Charles Dickens, a leader in the British anti-slavery movement described the north's attempts to say the war was about slavery as "specious humbug designed to conceal their desire for economic control of the southern states." Similarly, Karl Marx wrote "the war is not about slavery, it is a war of economic subjugation by the north against the south."

Then there is British political philosopher Lord Acton, best known for his quote that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely" who praised the Confederate constitution as being a great example of democracy that corrected the defects in the US Constitution.

As Churchill wrote, the south stood for limited government, something that is badly needed now. Those Jeffersonian concepts would solve a lot of what is wrong in America and in the western world. President Jefferson Davis, in his memoir, "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" (another book you should read) pointed out that the principles of limited government were lost when the south lost the war, and he correctly predicted the continued increase in the power of the federal government that has occured since that time.

I can see why a big government advocate such as yourself does not want the limited government perspective of the south and of Thomas Jefferson taught. And it is amusing that someone such as yourself who does little but regurgitate the far left narrative would try to tell others to read different viewpoints.

Commented: Friday, May 3rd, 2024 @ 11:23 am By: John Steed

Okay, lets take the Revolutionary War or even the War of 1812 where the US fought the UK. There are not going to be significant differences in they way they are presented in modern British accounts versus modern American accounts. Both sides of those conflicts will present objective history.

Where the problem comes in is where some ideology, like the communists or the woke are trying to politicize history, and that is when the distortions start flying. It is the totalitarian ideologies that are absolutely the worst for this. As George Orwell wrote. "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 10:37 am By: John Steed

Well, NO, Jim Crow is on YOU. It was your party, the Democrats, who proposed it and all voted for it. My party, the Republicans voted AGAINST Jim Crow. That is the actual historical record that you want to sweep under the rug. Own it, Bobbie, Jim Crow is YOURS.

As far as air traffic controllers, you were the one who brought up the year 1776 in reference to them. Regardless of the year, air traffic controllers are FEDERAL jobs, dumbass, and state Jim Crow laws did not apply to federal jobs at any time.

And the issue of the present DEI problem with air traffic controllers never had anything to do with race in the first place. It has to do with Biden giving DEI preference to these categories:

Hearing (total deafness in both ears)
Vision (Blind)
Missing Extremities
Partial Paralysis
Complete Paralysis, Epilepsy
Severe intellectual disability
Psychiatric disability
Dwarfism

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 9:53 am By: John Steed

President Dwight Eisenhower proudly displayed a portrait of General Robert E. Lee in the Oval Office at the White House his entire presidency. In his own words, here is why Eisenhower so respected General Lee:

"General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as I read the pages of our history.

From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee’s calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation’s wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained.

Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall."

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 10:09 pm By: John Steed

I do not remember ever seeing Newsmax or Fakebook cited or linked on the BO, and I could probably count the tiny number of times I have seen Fox cited on one hand.

Bobbie's positions, on the other hand, could be easily found at Think Progress, the left's Talking Points Memo, or even the Daily Worker. He is way off the left side of the spectrum.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 2:08 pm By: John Steed