Comments by Stan Deatherage | Eastern NC Now

Group is probably the most corrosive societal institution that I spend hours each day tying to abolish.

Remember, Group Think killed Christ.

Commented: Thursday, February 18th, 2016 @ 12:49 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Dude, Do you have friends in Jail?

How many others are "on the lamb?"

Commented: Wednesday, February 17th, 2016 @ 2:39 am By: Stan Deatherage

I'm in full agreement Alex, but, there is a reason for this.

Most Americans, from all walks of life and ranges of education, have limited math skills and, therefore, have limited cognitive abilities to understand complex problems. I, sadly, know this first hand.

In short, we get the government we deserve.

Commented: Saturday, February 13th, 2016 @ 12:57 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Graduating with college degree in your day, B.T., is far different than graduating with one today.

Commented: Sunday, February 7th, 2016 @ 7:54 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Now, that's funny.

Commented: Monday, February 1st, 2016 @ 8:03 am By: Stan Deatherage

My father's battalion CO was a Lt. Colonel, and they called him grandpa.

He was 27 years old on Okinawa.

You guys will both have to admit one thing about Jane Fonda. She was a true, and fearless trailblazer for Hollywood actors in taking a direct stand for treason. I do believe, she may have been the first.

Commented: Saturday, January 30th, 2016 @ 9:50 am By: Stan Deatherage

Your parents must have been wonderful people by knowing the grace to find that special love to bring you back to being their little boy again.

In many respects, I am a big tough guy, but I am best when I still possess the wonder of a child. I think the Lord wants that part of us to have dominion over.

But I could be wrong.

Your personal pieces still possess the universality of the human condition, which well communicates to the rest of us. I think it is the mirth of your humor that makes it work.

I look forward to your next piece.

Commented: Friday, January 29th, 2016 @ 8:49 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Audie Murphy is kind of a special guy for me. My Dad, Robert Earle Deatherage, would talk about Audie rather than tell how many Japs he killed at Okinawa, which is how I think he dealt with his PTSD.

My father literally hated the Japs, but he never talked about killing them. I think it was an unnatural thing for him to do - the killing and the talking about it - since he was a young Christian boy from Fuquay Springs in 1945.

He did love to talk about Lt. Murphy killing Germans though.

More than two decades ago, I visited Arlington with a delegation of county commissioners from North Carolina, which was arranged by the NC National Guard. I visited the magnificent and flawed lieutenant's grave, and said a prayer for his immortal soul.

He was a great American ... one of the greatest.

I will visit his grave site again, and will again say that prayer, but this next time I will include a prayer for my father's good soul as well.

These thin, wiry, bright young men were so special. They gave up a big chunk of their young spirits to do what they did for us.

Commented: Friday, January 29th, 2016 @ 7:46 am By: Stan Deatherage

It has been over three weeks since that fateful January 4th day, and now I can conclusively promise that we have located almost every lost post that we sought to find.

If anyone knows of a missing post that we have not found, please let me know its full title, and we will search a bit more; otherwise, we have finished the harvesting of the lost crop.

Commented: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016 @ 1:45 am By: Stan Deatherage

Whether one considers Cruz a Cuban or a Texan, one thing we can all be sure of, he is a Southerner. And, as a Southerner, Cruz would make an outstanding commander-in-chief.

Commented: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 @ 9:47 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Thanks Alex.

I am still working on it, and still finding lost posts when I have time.

Remarkably, the internet believes that these are new posts, once they are re-submitted, and this months traffic represents that they are re-accepted as significant posts.

Commented: Tuesday, January 19th, 2016 @ 1:09 am By: Stan Deatherage

If Eagles were like America's Beatles, then Glenn Frye was their John Lennon.

There was a time in my life, when I made a turn toward a different light, a better light, and musically, the Eagles were part of that turn. During that turn, the Eagles were new and fresh and rhythmic oasis for me. I bought all of their albums, and there were not many of them, but they are all classics.

The Eagles, On the Border, Desperado, Hotel California, The Long Run are all classics - great music.

Commented: Monday, January 18th, 2016 @ 7:54 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I'm glad you see this B.T. I wish we had backed up more of recent, rather than importing to another surrogate site: pittcountynow.com ; because that did not work out so well.

One must learn from their mistakes, as we continue to do, or cry often, and I am not so good at that whole crying thing. There is no crying in online publishing!

When I was a commissioner, I use to believe that when it it did not go one's way in governing (especially for a Conservative in a non Conservative community), one learned something, and moved past it a little, but also: There is no crying in governing!

An then now, there is Blubbering Barack. That may create a whole new paradigm for Socialist Liberals.

Commented: Saturday, January 16th, 2016 @ 11:24 am By: Stan Deatherage

"Hire a good HAZMAT team" to sanitize the Playboy Mansion ... now, that is funny Bobby Tony. I can only imagine the DNA squandered in those hallowed halls.

Commented: Thursday, January 14th, 2016 @ 12:53 am By: Stan Deatherage

B.T., all of this is very doable, providing that one does not do math. The science of math seems to confuse things.

Commented: Wednesday, January 13th, 2016 @ 1:06 am By: Stan Deatherage

We are about 90% complete here, with clean-up the emphasis.

If anyone has a post that is lost, please notify me with the title and there is about a 80% chance that I will be able to find it somewhere, and fairly fast, so you will not be putting me out.

Commented: Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 @ 4:12 am By: Stan Deatherage

So far, we have recovered about 480 posts, and I am about 84% done with all this, so I shall continue to persevere until I am satisfied that we have done all that we can do.

A slight silver lining to all of this, and I do not suggest this for anyone; however, the truth here, because of all this attention to find posts and re-submit them to the Search Engines, we have had the largest traffic week since our inception years ago.

Commented: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 2:04 pm By: Stan Deatherage