Comments by Stan Deatherage | Eastern NC Now

Smart, complex men, like our Founders, are often wise to reconcile simple solutions.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 5:14 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Befuddled: Nothing politically pisses me off more than stupid politicians.

What well meaning, serious politicians do as a service to their constituents is ... well, it ain't "rocket science."

However, it does appear to be so for the politicians you speak of, those who are intellectually ill equipped to do a simple job that they did sign up for, and were elected to perform.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 4:59 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Thank-you for these good words, my dearest friend, Diane Rufino.

May your good spirit watch over us all; the Good People of the Republic you did so dearly love.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 9:39 am By: Stan Deatherage

It is high time that all of the justices smarten up, and that includes a few of the so-called "conservative justices."

These are uncertain times in our Republic, as so many of public are totally ignorant of what constitutes truth, or inspired consistently by evil. Either way, we, who now real truth, must stand fixed and solid.

Commented: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 9:20 am By: Stan Deatherage

The public education system here in Beaufort County has great potential, and then I am reminded, first hand, just how messed up it is, as I watch, know intimately, how greatly their leadership diligently strives to grasp ahold of that single shiny thread from that dark, distant gordian knot, where a masked mediocrity might be attained, and closely held; until even that common place venture of something slightly better than nothing ... Just slips away.

Commented: Thursday, July 3rd, 2025 @ 7:34 am By: Stan Deatherage

Did these partisan Democratic Socialist judges not learn anything from the latest Supreme Court ruling nullifying their nationwide injunctions? This is overtly embarrassing for these Leftist fools in black robes.

Commented: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 @ 10:38 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Lara is very smart and very poised, and she greatly admires her father-in-law. That would be a bunch of political finery to unpack, and while the Republicans have plenty of talent at this point, Lara would would be a welcome addition.

Commented: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 @ 2:56 pm By: Stan Deatherage

And this is the government that America's first two Non Patriot Presidents Obama and Biden propped up for so many years, allowing these state sponsored terrorists the ability to kill thousands of American soldiers and diplomats, while plotting to destroy our entire nation by the designs of their nuclear ambitions, now "obliterated."

Commented: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025 @ 10:54 am By: Stan Deatherage

I am truly enjoying this smart, cool, warrior Secretary of Defense.

Commented: Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 @ 6:47 pm By: Stan Deatherage

John Steed: It could be an option for the soon-to-be-former Eastern Elementary as well.

Let us face it People: You paid for these Schools! You deserve the very best education these schools can provide!

John: This is an issue completely up to the county commissioners ... To provide for the People.

Commented: Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 @ 3:54 pm By: Stan Deatherage

As a patriot and a journalist /publisher, there is nothing more disgusting than a Non Patriot, Non Journalist Propagandist posing as if they have any worth as humankind.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 6:10 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Isn't it cute to watch elderly Leftists discuss matters of national security as if they might actually know one smidge of what they speak of so adamantly.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 2:46 pm By: Stan Deatherage

A good start for the Beaufort County School Board to learn how to act as a real governing board is to first change:

1. Their incredibly awkward seating arrangements centered around ineffectual governing and poor communication of purpose to the People, for the People;

2. Abide by the Sunshine Law, and begin the conducting of the People's business in front of the People, in Open Session. There are only three justifications to meet in Closed Session - a. to discuss personnel issues about problem personnel, not policy; b. negotiate singular contracts, sensitive money issues, and once determined and ratified, report to the People openly; c. broad legal matters of attorney /client privilege where discussions are sensitive and must be protected until outcome established. Then these matters become the People's business;

3. Members of the School Board must make Open Session voting a priority; establish a continuity of governing by Open Session voting on initiatives to in-act better performance in managing the People's money by far better policy, and that means hammering out policy in public by the privilege of motions in Open Session.

These few, beginning suggestions, in my own thoughts and words, are just a start for a dysfunctional governing body to begin the process of becoming a real governing board.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 7:55 am By: Stan Deatherage

Van Zant: It does appear that a Cheeseman Coalition is forming on this very "independent" School Board.

One more thing, I requested back in February, 2025, from Superintendent Cheeseman, the Title Search and notes on the infamous 4 acres that cost the taxpayers of Beaufort County an additional $500,000.00 for the additional land cost to build a $52,000,000.00 projected for an unneeded school on land thought owned, but was not, and discovered as such, irrespective of the fact that original title search needed for the planning of that school, now being built at the lowest point of the lot, was obviously never requested; never performed when absolutely needed.

As Beaufort County's elected taxing authority, and the taxpayers most ardent representative, I have yet to receive that promised Title Search, lo these many months later from Superintendent Cheeseman, as promised.

Commented: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 @ 11:21 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Don Shreve: The closing of S.W. Snowden School will not only be an issue in the 2026 School Boards elections, it will also be one of the most important issues in the County Commissioner race, especially since the three Republicans serving the citizens of Beaufort County worked diligently to save Snowden, when the School Board would not, while the Center-Left /Left Coalition (those who swap votes to share power on the Beaufort County Commission} stood in the way of these Real Republicans' constituents being better served by their representatives.

Commented: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 @ 8:23 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I have held my nose and voted for Tillis many times in the past.

If there is a primary, and Tillis has not conceded his position, I will vote for the other guy.

Likewise in the past, I did not vote for Senator Burr during many election cycles. For some of you Tillis detractors out there, I sincerely believe Burr was worse than Tillis.

Commented: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 @ 4:27 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Recently, I attended a Pitt County Board of Realtors Luncheon and extravaganza, where the middle-aged speaker - the state association president - engaged in an impromptu exchange; where he, the speaker, and myself, the attendee, publicly discussed DEI as I was halfway through my chocolate dessert.

The Middle-Aged Association President expressed: "Right now on all forms, created by the North Carolina Association of Realtors, the subject of DEI and its content is now scrubbed, removed from all forms you will use going forward."

Stan Deatherage, as erstwhile Realtor intuitively ... Claps loudly and utters a sincere and effective cheer.

The Middle-Aged Association President (staring in the direction of the clapping, cheering Deatherage queried): "And you think this is a good thing?" Continuing in retort, "DEI is important, and will be necessary on all our forms, for every communication of our Association's business until every homebuyer, every Realtor's client knows: Inclusivity and Equity in this Diverse Society within North Carolina."

In a state of unrequited puzzlement, the Associated President continued to cast his gaze upon me, even though I had now stopped clapping and cheering, just like myself, the estimated 4 other half-hearted clappers, out of about 120 Realtors in attendance, had withdrawn the slapping palms in an haphazard rhythm out of lack of momentum, there at the Greenville Hilton, that day in early June, 2025 ... As if he expected a detailed, concise answer from this: Grizzled Realtor of some great esoteric knowledge; a 7 term Conservative Beaufort County Commissioner; Publisher /Webmaster Extraordinaire and Digital Impresario; not to mention a Writer of all manner of prose, non prose and whatnot ... So, yes I instinctively responded.

And, not to disappoint, as expected, an unperturbed Stan Deatherage blurted out simply, and without much regard for the fanfare of perfection, succinctly retorted ... "DEI is an abomination!" And nothing more was said.

Continuing on, after the profession of an alternate and unexpected reality within this abrupt measure of discourse, the Middle Aged Provocateur and After Dinner Speaker continued his gaze upon my person for a few long seconds, as if he expected a more robust explanation, in debate, regarding this tattered and lost issue - DEI ... Of which I could have duly given such in the great spirit of refined verbosity, and would have done so in any political setting; however, I did not here, then ...

My Chocolate Cake was only half eaten, and the hour was late.

In hindsight, it would have been rather nice if the wait staff had brought me that first cup of coffee with cream. Coffee is a welcome substitute for ice cold milk.

Commented: Saturday, June 28th, 2025 @ 11:35 pm By: Stan Deatherage