Comments by Stan Deatherage | Eastern NC Now

Take it up Wyatt, but I warn you: He rarely does comments, and he has sense of extreme privacy that he rarely allows to be violated.

But I can tell you what I know of Wyatt: He thinks Obama is an idiot. You know, he's not alone. I think it may be that ex-military, during war time thing for my friend, Wyatt.

Commented: Saturday, May 23rd, 2015 @ 2:46 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Buddy doesn't do it all by himself, plus he needs a new website, which we will build him when he gets enough money socked away.

Over the years, he was one of my biggest supporters. He once ran for county commissioner the same time I did with his campaign pitch being he wanted to win so could help Stan to continue to do the RIGHT thing. The man did not win, but I appreciated his strong commitment to smaller government, more effective government.

I guess you could say, we have a bold mutual respect.

How did you find out about Buddy Harrell?

Commented: Saturday, May 23rd, 2015 @ 12:53 pm By: Stan Deatherage

One more thing we have in common Ted - contracting.

Bureaucrats may be a necessary component, but that does not make it any less onerous.

Commented: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 8:44 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Gene, You just don't appreciate clarion thought (Not that there is anything wrong with that).

Look, I know how it is for you guys; I was a Liberal once, but that was a long time ago.

Like you, I was self satisfied in my limited knowledge of the real world, and I, too, would use hyperbole as a way of communicating ideas; however, I didn't yell so much (Why the caps in every post, every comment?). There is one difference between young Liberal Stan, and the older Liberal Gene; I could do math, still can.

Commented: Friday, May 22nd, 2015 @ 5:05 pm By: Stan Deatherage

The older I get, the less I am tolerant of those that present a world that is so far removed from the one where I learned right from wrong.

For them, it is a relative existence, where there are no absolute truths.

Commented: Thursday, May 21st, 2015 @ 9:59 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Gene,

With every string of words you write, you are a classic Liberal. Now you are equating me with the Nazis. That is a classic Liberal cliche.

What's next? Racist. Wait, you've done that too already by insinuation.

Commented: Thursday, May 21st, 2015 @ 7:14 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I was no where that goofy for Ronald Reagan, and he was unequivocally the best president in modern times.

Commented: Wednesday, May 20th, 2015 @ 8:34 pm By: Stan Deatherage

We do represent all views, and I have pissed off the Neo Cons as well. As a Libertarian/Conservative, I defend the Constitution, and the 1st Amendment, and I feel everyone should have the right to express themselves providing they tell what they know to be true, and will stand behind that.

I will allow all the space necessary to refute such, and I may climb in to help refute as well. I am on no pedestal here.

I think what pissed off the ultra Liberals, the squishy middlecrats and the RINOs, which are plentiful here, is that I took hard, unpopular stands contrary to popular opinion. So dd fellow Conservative Hood Richardson, who can be rather acerbic on occasion.

Regardless, in hindsight, we were right, and right in a large way, which I think pissed them off even more.

I have always treated governing as a word problem, and most politicians, especially RINOs, don't, or just don't have that certain intellect to comprehend such. In word problems, even for the nebulous science of governing, there is always a better answer.

After a while, it just got easy for me, to be right nearly all the time. Liberals, and I include the squishy middlecrats and the RINOs, don't appreciate this manner of governing, and tend to gravitate toward the poorly informed mob, which is contrary to the pure concept of representative government - at least at the higher level where I operated.

I never have.

Commented: Wednesday, May 20th, 2015 @ 12:21 pm By: Stan Deatherage

They grew up fast back then.

My father grew up fast, and prepared me to be a warrior if necessary, and it has carried through my entire life.

In Beaufort County, I have been accused of being a bully by the poorly informed, I mean some really poorly informed, those with their proverbial heads-in-the-sand people - Gene knows who they are - remarkably, some with good educations.

Well, they have Bob Deatherage to blame for all that offended their liberal to moderate sensibilities. He taught me right from wrong early in life, and to always stand up for what I knew to be right, and in this liberal county of Beaufort, I did that, and I have been told that I am the bully.

In this new Society of the Victim, that faulty intellect is so prevalent in the liberal Beaufort County, where the lines of right and wrong are significantly blurred, and not everyone has a grasp of that road map to real absolute truth.

So, to the very poorly informed of Beaufort County, when I stood up for what was right, and I was seen as the bully, I was actually taking on the bullies as I have all my life, and you have Bob Deatherage, a World II infantry man, and a sergeant at 19 years old to blame for all my actions as a 5 term county commissioner - 18 years of it.

I will always stand for what is right, which is almost always what is smart, and I will do it to my last dying day. I do it to honor my father. I know what made him proud, and it is the least I can do for a man that went to war, a horrible war, at 18 years old.

And one more thing, my father thought quite well of my fellow commissioner Hood Richardson. I guess it is just way we Deatherages roll.

Bob Deatherage, like Bob Dunning was a teacher, at least to me. I will always value that.

Commented: Wednesday, May 20th, 2015 @ 10:04 am By: Stan Deatherage

If Elvis had only lived. If Buddy Holly had only lived. Both Southern boys.

Even Jimi Hendrix was apolitical. For Jimi it was all about the music. If Jimi had only lived.

Actually Jimi was a paratrooper until he broke his ankle, and they mustered him out, honorably discharged.

Commented: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 3:42 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Gene, no real Conservative considers any of the Bushs Conservatives - good men, but not Conservatives.

You, Liberals would not know that. I just don't think you have been 'hard wired' to know that yet.

Commented: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 9:48 am By: Stan Deatherage

Yeah Gene, Your president lost Ramadi this past weekend, and the Islamist terrorists are slaughtering the innocents.

Be proud, be Liberal proud.

Commented: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 9:21 am By: Stan Deatherage

Which, I have no knowledge of such.

Commented: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 8:21 am By: Stan Deatherage

I was just sent this. Now this is funny:

Dear Abby

My husband is a liar and a cheat. He has cheated on me from the beginning, and, when I confront him, he denies everything. What's worse, everyone knows that he cheats on me. It is so humiliating. Also, since he lost his job 14 years ago, he hasn't even looked for a new one.

All he does all day is smoke cigars, cruise around and shoot the bull with his buddies, while I have to work to pay the bills. Since our daughter went away to college he doesn't even pretend to like me, and even hints that I may be a lesbian. What should I do?

Signed: Clueless


Dear Clueless:

Grow up and dump him. Good grief woman! You don't need him anymore!

You're running for President of the United States. Act like one.

Commented: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 8:03 am By: Stan Deatherage

It's called a cliche, Gene.

Commented: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 7:07 am By: Stan Deatherage

It's called the Homestead Act and it has been around for decades.

Hey, you're the Liberal that wants big government and worries about Hood's conjecture in the bargain, so PAY UP.

Commented: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 6:14 am By: Stan Deatherage

It all sounds good, but right now, if I am not hanging out with my very best friend, I am working.

I have much to do, and I must find the right people to make it all work.

Commented: Tuesday, May 19th, 2015 @ 6:02 am By: Stan Deatherage