Comments by Stan Deatherage | Eastern NC Now

Yesterday, We did over 800,000 hits for the day.

The bots must be hungry.

Commented: Monday, February 22nd, 2016 @ 11:14 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I probably should not pre-announce this possibility, understanding the jinx effect and this being the 20 of February (9 days before the end of the month), but, here goes; I that predict February, 2016, will be that blowout month that I will be talking about for some time going forward.

Commented: Sunday, February 21st, 2016 @ 4:44 am By: Stan Deatherage

I'm not saying that the IRS is a total failure, but, I do advocate that it be shut down, all of its employees scattered, and then it be retooled, and if it begins to make a simpler sense, then you re-open it under new management.

Commented: Saturday, February 20th, 2016 @ 1:06 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Trump represents the anger of the working folks, and, especially, those that can do simple math.

If I am nothing else, I am a working man, and I am well proved to know math, and yeah, I am well proved to be plenty pissed that non patriot politicians pose as our leaders; however, I choose to put my nation's future in the capable hands of another Republican vessel, any other Republican vessel, with one caveat ...

Trump wins my vote in the end as the last Republican standing.

Simply, I just don't believe that treasonous liars, and non patriots, who would carve up and distribute our nation - at home and abroad - should occupy the highest office in the land; the office charged with protecting the real Americans, who make this nation work at its core.

So, if need be, Trump would get my vote, and I would pray every day that he do all within his presidential power to save our Republic.

Commented: Saturday, February 20th, 2016 @ 10:33 am By: Stan Deatherage

B.T.: Thanks about your comment of the MLS thing. I have always thought the MLS format extremely restrictive. It give Realtors structure though, and trust me on this one, many of them need it.

You know that we built to power BCN could be mad into an MLS like system with a series of modifications. You know, if I can find the salespeople, I may be heading there.

Commented: Thursday, February 18th, 2016 @ 7:56 pm By: Stan Deatherage

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