Comments by Stan Deatherage | Eastern NC Now

Rev. Bolden,

I see you have much to say about hydraulic fracturing, and I want to make our space available to you, but I your time would be better spent to use the post format - many more people will see this.

Also, I have posts, that are germane to a more regional consciousness, transport to our other fledgling county NOWs, which will increase your ability to make you point to many people.

Incredibly, because of our superior proprietary delivery system that powers BCN, well presented points have a long shelf life here. In fact, some of my most popular current posts are the ones that were written, two, three four years ago.

Also, and this is very important, BCN is a regional leader in reaching readers, and may be the best searched site originating from Beaufort County, and that includes WITN, WDN, etc. ...

Without objection, I am changing you status to writer, but I will need a picture of you and a profile (about 200 words) to get you started.

I await your reply,

Stan Deatherage

Commented: Sunday, March 10th, 2013 @ 3:07 pm By: Stan Deatherage

We'll ask around and report back on this periodical.

Commented: Saturday, February 16th, 2013 @ 7:37 pm By: Stan Deatherage

This is why I am voting against all economic development projects and all economic development infrastructure, as we now know it, with one caveat - I will vote some for some assistance, within tight tolerances, to decrease our holdings in both inustrial parks.

Once, we have divested away all of our property, I will not vote to spend another dime until we, and North Carolina, revolse to fundamentally overhaul the entrie structure of what government sponsored economic development shall be going forward. That is it.

The Spinrite deal proves that no elected official can completely know all he needs to know to allocate funding properly.

I have done this long enough to know, in the long run, it is truly a losing proposition for the public, and well promotes the moral hazard of government picking economic winners and losers.

Moreover, this is government at its worst, yet, on the surface, appears to be a positive step to "do the right thing."

Therein lies the irony of its fundamental hypocrisy of bad governing.

Commented: Wednesday, January 16th, 2013 @ 10:55 am By: Stan Deatherage

The first thing Adolf Hitler did as Chancellor of Germany, along with banning certain books, was the confiscation of citizenry's firearms.

We all know how that turned out.

Thanks for voting in the poll. I assume you voted with the vast majority of our readers.

Commented: Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 @ 9:52 am By: Stan Deatherage

This "I'm Okay, You're Okay" mentality of the squishy liberal wing of the Republican Party is destroying the Republican brand.

Furthermore, the RINO wing has conveniently adapted to the Democrat's idea of bipartisanship, which is a lesson I learned decades ago.

That lesson learned from the Democrat super majority ruling Beaufort County: "Stan, you need learn bipartisanship, and govern like us - just do it our way."

RINOs despise men of principle because they cannot be co-opted to do it their way - give them the power of the purse, the power of total control.

Their maxim of celebrating, and managing, the co-opted politician to the exclusion of a principled government is just as destructive as the extra-liberal policies of today's Democrat.

If bipartisanship means the philosophical marriage between the co-opted RINO and the ultra liberal Democrat for the betterment of the Republic, it will be an unprincipled marriage made in Hell. If this is how the Republic moves forward ... why bother?

We, our nation, our land, our Republic would already be in the death spiral and our every motion, in that vein, would be the movements of the walking dead.

So ... to all of those squishy, carefree joiners; only to go along, to get along, to strive to just fit in, and to always endeavor to never think too deeply on the weighty subjects that truly matter to the very survival of our Republic, I reiterate: Why bother?

Commented: Sunday, December 30th, 2012 @ 11:45 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Charles, you said it: Atlas is shrugging right now.

I am writing a piece right now on how all Democrats, their electorate and politicians, who are actually responsible for "Altas Shrugging."

It is playing out right now, in real time, and fortunately, this time, I may have the assets to make a difference for we who are patriots.

Of course, at some point, the Democrat fascists could always just shut down the internet. But until they do ...

Commented: Saturday, December 29th, 2012 @ 11:22 am By: Stan Deatherage

"Reaganite Entertainment" - never heard this before.

Do you reckon this under-known term was originated by some Liberal on a college campus or news desk somewhere in America, or abroad?

Commented: Friday, December 28th, 2012 @ 2:22 pm By: Stan Deatherage

It was quite the fantastical day.

The Allman Brothers really brought it home for me.

Commented: Thursday, December 20th, 2012 @ 11:13 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Well said. They are much worse than Democrats. Democrats wear their Democrat skin, and you know who they are, and you deal with that. I actually get along with reasonable Democrat politicians.

The RINO lies in wait to feather their own nest, or the nest of their special interest masters.

Commented: Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 @ 3:20 am By: Stan Deatherage

Well said Jim. This is no time to raise rates.

Commented: Wednesday, November 21st, 2012 @ 2:25 pm By: Stan Deatherage

"That's a bingo."

Commented: Sunday, November 11th, 2012 @ 1:23 pm By: Stan Deatherage

It was never intended by our forefathers that those, who have elected to take no advantage of our free education system, and choose to live off of the free stuff long provided by Democrat politicians in return for their vote, to, in fact, have that right to vote.

Commented: Thursday, November 8th, 2012 @ 6:25 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Well written by a lawyer, friend of mine.

Commented: Sunday, October 28th, 2012 @ 6:06 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Is it that bad?

Commented: Monday, October 22nd, 2012 @ 8:42 pm By: Stan Deatherage

As a 16 year Beaufort County Commissioner, I have always opposed Limited Voting, but I make this long held assertion with the tempered understanding that there is little we can do until we find a better system that will pass Federal Justice pre-clearance.

It sounds confusing, and it is very much so, but the system of the current limited Voting can be changed, but only if there is the will of a majority of county commissioners simultaneous with the will of the U.S. Justice Department. This is the God's truth.

I, for one, will not opt for a poorer system just for the sake of change, and to oblige others of a much lesser knowledge of this complicated conundrum.

Hood Richardson will not either.

I was at the Candidate's Forum, and no candidate had any rudimentary knowledge of what a proper election system would entail, save Hood, and to a lesser extent Gerry Langley. Dondi Dixon, if elected, would be a quick study in such.

I know all of this because I have been at the nexus of this ongoing argument as committee chairman to evaluate the current system, and to plan the prospect of another. Incidentally, Steve Rader and I drew what alternative maps that have been drawn suggesting alternative systems, and they are stored at the Beaufort County Board of Elections, complete the then current social dichotomy of the Beaufort County electorate.

Yes, and I do wince and cringe when I hear prospective county commissioners speak on any subject when they have not taken the time to gain any understanding such. In particular on Limited Voting, I was kind'a embarrassed for them.

Candidates often say the darndest things in their quest for elected office. Candidate Gary Brinn may have set a new low in his misunderstanding of this one issue.

Commented: Thursday, October 18th, 2012 @ 5:37 am By: Stan Deatherage

Well Jeff, tell us how you really feel next time.

I hope you are not right.

I generally like Huckabee, although, I did not support him in the last presidential primary, which was tough for me because I almost felt to follow Chuck Norris, because ... he is Chuck Norris.

Commented: Thursday, October 11th, 2012 @ 12:41 am By: Stan Deatherage

Rest in peace "Tiger." Those were good days back in the mid 1970's.

Commented: Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 @ 2:22 pm By: Stan Deatherage