Comments by Stan Deatherage | Eastern NC Now

My 'ox was gored' when my nation was taken from children.

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 5:03 pm By: Stan Deatherage

You guys crack me up. And I need that from time to time. Hell, I need it a lot.

Ted has a good point on Religious Moderate conundrum. Would that not be an oxymoron? Now if Ted can just capture it all in three very short paragraphs ...

Now that would be artful.

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 4:40 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Snake handlers: What a commitment?

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 4:09 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Tailback (remember those) on offense; Middle Linebacker in a 4 - 4 (2 Middle backers - 2 corners) - 3 (safeties); deep to receive on kickoffs. For some reason, I stayed on the field except when we punted or we kicked off.

I made the varsity as a sophomore, and played quite a bit, so much, much was expected of me my Junior year. Plus by my junior year, I was 6 feet tall, weighed 190 lbs. with a 32 inch gut and ran a hair under a 4.6 40 (in pads).

Needless to say dreams of playing in Kenan Stadium danced in my head. Tore an ACL and cartilage, and still played until I could no longer walk. And it was over - the dreams, all that work to get to that point - and its over.

So I became a stupid Hippie until just before my 20th birthday, and then I began straightening out, seeing more clearly. mad it to the ranks of conservative thought by my young 30's (Churchill was right).

Genetically, my knees are predisposed to such. But those were also the days of the crack-back-block.

If I were to play in these times, I would lift weights with my legs mostly - especially around the knees, work on the speed, and I would play wide receiver, strong safety.

I was really good at catching a football.

On another note: the first game I ever played in - sophomore - as the linebacker, I hit a wide receiver, coming over the middle, so hard, I knocked him out of the game, actually they loaded him up in an ambulance and hauled him off to where ever they haul them to. Needless to say, he did not make the catch. It was like my third tackle.

Too much information hear, huh?

Bobby, if you had been on my team, I would have probably retreated to the bench to talk to you about our later plans after the game. It would probably have included beer. I would buy the beer for me and my friends, I had no fake ID, and yet I bought the beer - never carded.

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 3:38 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Football stories, huh. I'd have a near lifetime of these stories if my knees had not played out by the time I turned 16 years young.

Oh well, when one door is closed, you move on or you 'jimmy the door'.

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 2:12 pm By: Stan Deatherage

You know Bobby Tony. It is not a big issue for me right now.

There are far weightier issues in America and North Carolina, local. If I was pushed to vote on the issue as an elected guy, I would vote the Old Testament.

Commented: Saturday, May 30th, 2015 @ 10:37 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Lot of truth there Bobby Tony. Some good humorous truths.

Commented: Friday, May 29th, 2015 @ 11:27 am By: Stan Deatherage

Take a look at the post now.

Commented: Friday, May 29th, 2015 @ 4:14 am By: Stan Deatherage

And I vote Bobby Tony, which is an outstanding point of order.

Check out that Video Search and think how you can use it in your posts.

Commented: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 10:10 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I don't want to be a pastor. I am not trained for it.

But it is the height of your arrogance to think that you know real stuff, and when you don't know that stuff enough to debate it - you still bloviate in Liberal buzz words and phrases - which is incontrovertibly obvious in your writing.

I learned a long time ago if you don't know something, keep your mouth shut.

That might be good advice for you.

Commented: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 8:24 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I'm full growed here. This is not a game for me here. I don't sway with the wind, or poorly considered public opinion; I stand strong on principles.

That is what qualifies me fully as a patriot, who strove to make a difference.

That is my M.O. with the smart people of Beaufort County. You Liberals can think what you wish.

Commented: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 12:45 pm By: Stan Deatherage

In about 1.6 years from now, I don't want to see Hussein at all, ever again, but I know that will never happen. The Leftest press will no doubt give him the Bill Clinton deification treatment.

Commented: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 7:31 am By: Stan Deatherage

Barack Hussein being a Supreme Court Justice would be tantamount to him being Secretary of Defense. It's just yet an other area where The Amateur has no working knowledge.

Commented: Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 @ 8:53 am By: Stan Deatherage

Where I am right now is about 28 feet above sea level, and this is considered high ground here Downeast. Plenty of snakes, which I don't mind. They have a purpose.

I love the mountains; not as much as the coast, but I do love the higher ground, and the better air of summer.

Commented: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 @ 1:29 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Wyatt was a salesman, but we talk less about that than we do his two hitches flying a Spad. He says one of the most grueling films he ever watched was "Rescue Dawn", and it took him three sessions to finish it. He said the only reason he finished it was to honor his downed brothers in arms.

Even though he was very impressed by the film, the story and Christian Bale's performance, I don't think we will ever see that review out of Wyatt.

Commented: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 @ 8:50 am By: Stan Deatherage

This presupposes that America elects another Liberal to the White House, after 8 years 'down the drain', and it might have to be someone other than a Clinton, because the Clintons and Obamas don't play well together.

Good luck with all that.

Commented: Tuesday, May 26th, 2015 @ 5:43 am By: Stan Deatherage

I support the military against their many Liberal detractors, from so many vantage points, and they appreciate it, as I have been told.

I support an America, I work for an America that would flourish under a government that considers its wisest policy to protect real freedoms, by sustaining the world's once greatest military, while re-continuing a Republic worth fighting for, dying for.

Commented: Monday, May 25th, 2015 @ 5:59 pm By: Stan Deatherage