Comments by Stan Deatherage | Eastern NC Now

Christopher - How well versed are you on the first three books of the Old Testament?

Commented: Monday, October 13th, 2014 @ 9:15 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Lt. Dan for Governor of North Carolina in 2016.

I have a certain talent for picking the best politicians for the right job. Do they win general elections?

Some times not so much ... but then again, who wants to have electoral responsibility for the mess this country is deeply in?

Commented: Sunday, October 12th, 2014 @ 12:26 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I don't know whether to say, "'I'm humbled and think-you', or to run."

My wife says run.

Commented: Sunday, October 12th, 2014 @ 8:43 am By: Stan Deatherage

Thanks Gene,

And I love your posts.

Why?

They get a bunch of views. I guess I'm shallow that way.

Commented: Saturday, October 11th, 2014 @ 4:47 pm By: Stan Deatherage

This is BCN's top post of the week, and for good reason: Good, knowledgeable citizens care when their representative speech is limited.

Commented: Thursday, October 9th, 2014 @ 8:24 am By: Stan Deatherage

Excellent comment Charles to show your true colors; however, I have never used the phrase, "liberal wacko", nor will you find that phrase used, by me, in all of the more than 30,000 pages that constitutes BCN.

You can discover that truth if you employ the Search feature of our date base.

Tonight, at a Beaufort County Commissioner meeting, I listened to a number of people, who lean very Left, say stuff that just was not right, some of it outright lies. Why is it that is so often the norm with the those that champion the Left way of governing and the advocacy of such? Why is it that they just can't get it right; just say things, thinking that others will think them accurate, maybe even wise, just because they possess the temerity to ingratiate themselves in public.

I say a lot of things, all publicly, and I'm not fond of, nay, I do ridicule, with impunity, those that are incompetent and dishonest. I just won't tolerate this behavior from public servants, who are elected to serve by other like minded individuals. Regardless, I have never used your phrase "liberal wacko".

Sorry you missed your opportunity to say something profound and accurate, which your comment exhibited neither.

I can't speak for Harry Meredith, Jr., but, I bet he wouldn't be offended that you accused him of being a "Conservative".

Commented: Monday, October 6th, 2014 @ 7:19 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Those are by far the most important paragraphs, especially right now at this point in time. These paragraphs were what I consider extra-substantive.

Commented: Monday, September 29th, 2014 @ 8:23 pm By: Stan Deatherage

People see different things in the words of others. I get that.

However, what I gathered from this rather provocative commentary by the former chief deputy, Harry Meredith Jr., was his reveal of the current sheriff, Alan Jordan.

Commented: Monday, September 29th, 2014 @ 7:41 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Thom Thillis truly does not have the base Republican vote in this election.

I would like to comment that he is just moving to the center to win in the General Election, but I really think this is who he really is.

Commented: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 10:04 pm By: Stan Deatherage

"Jesus loves the little children."

Kiddie porn is the most heinous crime this side of pre-meditated murder for profit, probably worse.

All children before the Age of Consent, but in varying degrees as is their young ages, should be allowed to retain whatever innocence that they can enjoy. To defile that innocence is such an intolerable great sin, so terrible and so unforgivable.

I read so many books as a teenager, a lot of them, that may have been banned in some sectors - Vonnegut, Hesse, Castaneda, Gibran, Orwell. In essence, if it ain't porn, it shouldn't be banned.

Porn is not a confluence of ideas, it is not essential, it is not art. I pity the idiot that says it is.

Commented: Sunday, September 28th, 2014 @ 12:45 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Just had our first Homeland be-heading yesterday. I suggest that we find, and kill Islamist terrorist where we can find them, rather than here.

Iraq was as good a place as any. We should have colonized the nation to the point that they were better directed toward a more productive exisitence.

Commented: Saturday, September 27th, 2014 @ 10:07 am By: Stan Deatherage

"Bush Lied, Kids Died!"

I seem to remember that 'Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and almost every other Democrat in Congress lied and Kids Died'(!), and then blamed their mistake on Bush/Cheney. Why? Because they are Democrats, and that is what Democrats do - thoughtless in practice, blaming in defense of their own mistakes.

Yeah, I remember all of that. It sure would be nice to have those bases back now in Iraq right now. I bet the Iraqis would appreciate us back in their pitiful country.

Bush's only mistake is that did not colonize Iraq, and use the oil money to turn that country around. He should not have allowed Colin Powell to convince him to enact the de-Baathification of Iraq. Huge mistake.

Commented: Saturday, September 27th, 2014 @ 9:24 am By: Stan Deatherage

Actually after I wrote this, and then heard The Amateur extol the supposed virtues of his fellow lawyer, I almost questioned: "Too tough Stan?"

Then later that evening, I heard Greta, another lawyer and truly no Conservative, tear into the incompetent dishonesty of Holder, and I remembered how much I forgot, or did not have time to mention all of this one Man's disreputable, dishonest behavior in the piece I wrote, and it hit me square: I would feel much about this man, America's top lawyer, if he was in prison for at least as much time they gave John Mitchell.

There are many "patriots" that feel this way.

Commented: Friday, September 26th, 2014 @ 6:49 pm By: Stan Deatherage

This is one situation where I respectfully disagree with the Beaufort Observer's analysis.

I do this while agreeing that the Democrat and RINO led Beaufort County Commissioners are most proficient in making a 'sows ear out of a pink purse'.

What I do know, as well as anyone in this county, is land. Free land, used efficiently, makes money. I know how to do this with properly purchased land by practice and purpose. Doing it with free land, however the conditions, 'is a piece of cake'.

Now, as everyone know by now, I will no longer be on the board to guide these errant commissioners, but Hood will still be there. Also, if these illogical managers of the people's property will not listen to Hood, and most times they don't, as they haven't myself, they may listen to a qualified consultant.

What Hood and I know about land, and if thought we were were a good team as county commissioners, we may be an even better team here, we will know whether the consultant is wise in his advice.

If he is not, Hood will scream it from his position as commissioner, and I will scream it from my position as publisher of Beaufort County NOW.

It should be a winning proposition if the logical stewardship of this great gift to Beaufort County's people can be properly managed.

What's the other option: disabuse yourself of a grand gift. Let me remind you of this one Shakespearean truth: "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth."

Commented: Wednesday, September 24th, 2014 @ 9:29 am By: Stan Deatherage

I don't get the whole tattoo thing either.

When I was growing up, tattoos were frowned upon. I accepted that, but as I grew older, I well understood tattoos for our patriots in the U.S. Navy and the USMC.

As I raised my children, I taught against tattoos for my children, and I preached that they not marry those with tattoos, unless they marry members of the U.S. military.

So far, I am 4 for 4 with my adult children in that department. Also, none of my children have problems with controlled substances.

Isn't the reality of living a responsible life difficult enough without considering new body art, or worrying about how you can maximize your partying efforts?

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2014 @ 12:06 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I actually met Lester Maddox in 1963 at a small country church near Adel, Georgia. I don't remember him having an ax handle with him.

Commented: Saturday, September 20th, 2014 @ 11:24 am By: Stan Deatherage

Thank-you for your contribution.

I have always been a huge Theodore Roosevelt fan, not because he was a Conservative; he wasn't. Theodore was an individual, and he was as tough as a lighter-knot. I mostly admire that he possessed creative intelligence, insight, and courage.

Can you imagine what he would have done already about ISIS? The man loved a good fight, and he always had to win. That is a very American trait.

Commented: Thursday, September 18th, 2014 @ 1:00 pm By: Stan Deatherage