Comments by Stan Deatherage | Eastern NC Now

Everyone one has a right to their opinion ... and then again, there is the Kool-aide.

There is no hate here, in fact hate is a bad word to throw around; however, the truth of the matter is that we have a lawless president, who would have been already impeached if he was a Republican.

Commented: Sunday, July 20th, 2014 @ 9:30 am By: Stan Deatherage

Thanks Gene for your incite-full words of the probability of rising taxes.

USDA did turn down Beaufort County's request for the loan, but that may not ultimately stop the 'Gang of Four': beaufortcountynow.com

Commented: Sunday, July 20th, 2014 @ 9:23 am By: Stan Deatherage

I wonder was this stop, in Wisconsin, the 56th or '57th state they had visited, or the one they had no gotten to yet'.

When Gerge W. Bush would flub his lines, the Mainstream Media had great fun poking fun at the Republican. Not so much with this Democrat - hands off, hands off everything - Apology Tour, Fast and Furious, Solyndra, Benghazi cover-up, IRS targeting of political enemies and cover-up, losing the Iraq war, Bergdahl deal, Eric Holder lying to congress, etc., spying on Fox reporter James Rosen, etc., etc.

Mr. Obama has not gotten his due yet ... but it is coming, and will be coming in a big way.

Commented: Friday, July 18th, 2014 @ 10:43 am By: Stan Deatherage

One thing you have to know about artists: Eventually all of them paint naked people.

Commented: Monday, July 14th, 2014 @ 2:08 pm By: Stan Deatherage

We have many nonpolitical topics, and will accept all well conveyed posts of such that we can get. In fact we will accept all posts that are well presented about any topic, with some limitations of course.

Our nonpolitical topics do rather well in traffic terms. In fact our most popular post, of all time, is of a nonpolitical nature: beaufortcountynow.com

Commented: Sunday, July 13th, 2014 @ 11:51 am By: Stan Deatherage

Charles you detected a bit of sarcasm in my comment, so you must understand that I agree with you, us.

Which naturally brings us back to the 'Chicken or the Egg' Conundrum: Which came first, the uninformed Facebook addicted, squishy electorate, or the governor looking for a victim hug, a baby to kiss, or a puppy to snuggle?

Commented: Friday, June 20th, 2014 @ 8:57 am By: Stan Deatherage

Sadly, the problem, I believe, lies with the fact that we a have an extremely uninformed electorate in Beaufort County. Most voters just do not know the issues or what the probable ramifications could be.

Why else could an issue such as 'commissioner behavior' be a contributing issue in a primary election, a primary election that was well swayed by Independents in a time when real Republicans did not go to the polls in sufficient enough numbers to counter the huge amount of money that bought that election for the political neophytes.

Sadly, Hood and I have lately remarked that what this county may well need is a good old fashioned tax property increase - one large enough to get the attention of those that really don't pay attention for whatever purpose, and believe that commissioner conduct and the pleasure of giving away a hospital are the real issues we should embrace.

The problem with that is that those of us that do pay attention will suffer as well. I will be sorry about that eventuality, because it will occur just as soon as we have an economic downturn, and I fear it will be severe.

Consider the fact that Hood will not always be on that board, and I am done for the foreseeable future, and you have to ask yourself: Can Ashley Woolard, Greg Dority and Bill Tarpening, or the other RINOs run that board when times get that tough.

Think about it.

I just thought about it. I don't think there is a dime's difference between the RINOs' handlers and the Woolard - Dority - Tarpening triumvirate. Therefore, I'm betting the taxpayers are screwed regardless, at this point, no matter what happens. I guess I'm a bit cynical at this point.

Commented: Thursday, May 29th, 2014 @ 1:34 pm By: Stan Deatherage

By the way: SNI is a cloud company now, and a more profound cloud company later.

Commented: Monday, May 26th, 2014 @ 11:59 am By: Stan Deatherage

My wife and I were a bit Blue about a variety of things, and then we streamed "Forrest Gump", which is always a turner for our moods.

"Forrest" will always be one of the top 5 movies of all time for me, and Lynn.

Commented: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 10:40 am By: Stan Deatherage

Clifton, I just read this post and I could not see the abject stupidity, dishonesty, thrown in with a measure of porkishness hcnkkk, hcnkkk, but I did not get the true stupid angle.

If you can give it to me, then these two may well qualify for 'Stupid as Charged'.

Let me know.

Commented: Saturday, May 24th, 2014 @ 8:51 pm By: Stan Deatherage

What type of notifications for which system?

Commented: Friday, May 16th, 2014 @ 9:01 am By: Stan Deatherage

The feeling is mutual, and, rightfully, I consider myself blessed to have known you and Velma for so long, and so well as my principled friends. It is a friendship that I will always cherish as I step away from the local government stage, and move deeper into taking care of my free market business.

While you have always been generous with me in your compliments of my years as a county commissioner, I will always remember you as my favorite party chairman Beaufort County Republicans have ever had.

God Bless you and Velma.

Commented: Sunday, May 11th, 2014 @ 11:57 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Sandy, you are restating yourself, and I won't take the time to do the same, so this thread is finished for the rest of the night.

Commented: Friday, May 9th, 2014 @ 11:27 pm By: Stan Deatherage

So, again I ask: Are all of these 'Three Stooges' hit pieces about some anonymous 'hit piece' on Ashley?

Commented: Friday, May 9th, 2014 @ 11:17 pm By: Stan Deatherage

No I don't, and I actually don't have the time to care.

Is this what this is all about; some 'hit piece' on Ashley that I have no knowledge of?

Commented: Friday, May 9th, 2014 @ 11:07 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Rob Perk with the NRDC (Washington, DC office) called me, after 7 days, but his excuse was bona fide, and I am one to give credit where credit is due.

Rob is a personable guy, even lived in Washington, NC for a few years, so I feel we had at least had one thing in common. I clearly doubt, even though I consider myself an ardent conservationist (a practical one), that we have the same priorities toward how to be good stewards of our planet; however, Rob impressed me as reasonable man, and he did what no one else would actually do - he was forthcoming to the extent he could be, and exhibited follow-up to my satisfaction.

I thanked him for that.

Rob said that they lifted the image from Senator Bill Cook's site, and I can't completely refute that, but we did agree on one issue that bothered me greatly: That other producers and TV station exec.s might feel that they could wantonly steal content from BCN, at will, claiming public domain, and then ward everyone off their TV station sites' content of public figures as if it is copyrighted and mine is not, is a false understanding of the 1st Amendment, and the common decency of keeping your hands off of what is not yours.

Obviously, there are too many in positions of authority that may not have a proper understanding of a doctrine of fairness, or maybe they have incompetent lawyers - Lord knows I have met my share of them over the years.

At first blush, Rob Perks of the NRDC is not one of those that would hide behind false narratives, and therefore, I consider this matter closed.

Commented: Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 @ 11:20 pm By: Stan Deatherage

It has been well over 90 hours since I first contacted Carolyn Stevens at WCTI about the stolen content that they were running on a ad sponsored by the NRDC.

In that conversation, I begged for the contact information of the producers of this 'hit piece' ad that stole my content. Ms. Stevens, and every other TV station administration personnel, running this 'hit piece', have given me the same bogus contact information of the people that stole my content, and now many days later, I am still no closer to discovering the real names of the thieves than when I began.

No one now is calling me back to clear this all up; not the: TV stations, the ad brokers, not the NRDC, no one.

What I have discovered this week; however, is that some TV station managers firmly believe that since Bill Cook is a public figure, and since Beaufort County NOW is not a TV station website, then there are two sets of rules that apply to ownership of 'public domain' content.

Rule 1) If the image is of a public figure, such as a politician, and that image is taken from a publication such as BCN, where the theft of our proprietary content is expressively forbidden, with traffic between 5,000 and 7,000 people a day, it is public domain content and the public has a right to it.

Rule 2) If the image is of a public figure, such as a politician, and that image is taken from a publication such as a TV station, where the theft of their proprietary content is expressively forbidden, and traffic is also very good, it is not 'public domain' content and the public does not have a right to it.

As time permits, since I have been told, or it has be implied that none of these TV stations will honor my written Cease and Desist request, I have two questions where I need answers, just so I will know the future 'rules of the road.'

Question 1) Who is required to know who actually produced the content for political ads? Someone must be required to know.

Question 2) Since there are two sets of rules for public domain content - one set of rules for TV stations, and a second set of rules for other publications, like BCN: What are those two sets of rules, where can they be found and when does one entity qualify for copyright protection, such as a TV station; and when does the other entity, such as BCN, not qualify for copyright protection for the same 'public domain' content?

Someone, some people, at some point must know the answers to these specific questions, and they will inform me. I will not stop untill I get these answers.

Commented: Saturday, May 3rd, 2014 @ 1:23 am By: Stan Deatherage