Comments by Stan Deatherage | Eastern NC Now

Publisher's note: My reply to the Beaufort Cobserver was not printed in that periodical. I reckon it did not fit their narrative. There were other misrepresentations associated with me and BCN that did fit their narrative, so basically if you read my name, and BCN's position in all of this in the Observer, be advised, there is not much truth to it.

I further reckon that there really are profound differences between the Beaufort Observer and BCN, and their editor, Delma Blinson, was wise to sever all ties with us.

Here at BCN, the truth matters. That is why we not only believe profoundly in the First Amendment, we defend it.

The reply unpublished, but requested by the Beaufort Observer, is here below:

My reply to Beaufort Observer's editor on my choice to publish this piece over his objections:

My policy for the NOWs, with BCN as their prototype, is that Beaufort County NOW will allow content from any contributor, at any time, providing that the content is reasonably well presented. We don't editorialize the content, nor do we cull parts of the content, or advise, and guide the message, or the construction of the content. I am not an editor, only the publisher of Eastern North Carolina's only Moderated Informational Platform - moderated for presentation only.

It does not matter whether I agree or disagree personally with the contribution, I will still allow for its inclusion in BCN. I may form a personal contrary opinion, and publish it in BCN, but that depends on the condition that I know as much or more on the subject as the contributor, and that I have the time to form a similar well presented point.

It's too bad that you have severed all ties with Beaufort County NOW, because the piece you wrote is well presented and I would love to publish it in BCN. It doesn't matter that I don't agree with the point you made about my prototype publication, BCN, but it is a well presented point of your perspective.

Commented: Thursday, October 30th, 2014 @ 12:16 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Thanks Gene.

If one has a policy, especially as long as I have had of not only accepting all well presented content but inspiring it, one must stick to it. And I intend to stick to it "come Hell or high water".

Commented: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 6:53 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Thanks Liz.

The world will surely find benefit when we get a look at the journal of your sojourns - both near and far.

Commented: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 1:05 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Thanks Gene. If I could have only made past the RINOs here in Beaufort County, and trust me on this one truth: Limited voting can hurt some Republicans here in Beaufort County - too many people thought I was a shoo-in and spent their one vote on the other guy. Heck, I thought I was a shoo-in.

Keith is a good choice, if you can see clear not to waste your vote on a "write-in" for me.

Commented: Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 @ 8:10 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Thanks Gene for all your submissions. I see a few new in the queue, which I will get ... to.

Commented: Thursday, October 16th, 2014 @ 8:04 am By: Stan Deatherage

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