Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

WOW. The chairwoman of the Beaufort County Republican Party has called for the immediate resignation of Mayor Sadler over his ordering the police department to conduct illegal political surveillance on his main political opponent.

Commented: Monday, August 18th, 2025 @ 1:53 pm By: John Steed

Sean Lennon, son of the Beatles' John Lennon had it right on DEI when he said it stands for "Dumb Evil Idiots".

Commented: Friday, August 8th, 2025 @ 9:49 am By: John Steed

The dollar today is worth about what ten cents were 50 or 60 years ago. Gold, on the other hand is worth almost 100 times what it was 50 or 60 years ago. Silver is worth almost 40 times more. Traditionally, there are three "monetary metals" that have a foreign exchange cross with all currencies in the ForEx market - gold, silver, and platinum. Gold and silver have been used for circulating currencies from ancient times until very recent. Platinum has also been used, but less so, for circulating currency. The only other metal that is sometimes called a monetary metal is palladium, although it has never been used as a circulating currency.

National central banks hold only one metal as reserves, and that is gold, although silver is often held for stability by individuals around the world and one central bank, Russia, has recently been stockpiling it, too. In the last few years, central banks around the world have been increasing their holdings of gold and gradually dumping dollars and euros.

Fiat currencies like the dollar have depreciated at diffent rates. Sixty years ago, The British pound was worth $2.80 in US currency and the Swiss franc 23 cents. Now the pound and franc are worth slightly more than one dollar each. The British pound has depreciated faster than the dollar, while the Swiss franc has depreciated much more slowly, although all of them have depreciated against gold and silver.

Bullion coins of specific weights of gold and silver are being issued by an increasing number of national mints around the world, including the US wint. There is also a curious new currency issued by several states called the Goldback, with one goldback worth 2/1000 of an ounce of gold. Half of that amount is actually incorporated into the banknotes themselves in the form of 24 carat gold leaf. State governments currently issuing goldbacks include New Hampshire, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Florida. They are designed to be spent as money in establishments which accept them. They come in denominations of from half goldbacks to 100 goldbacks.

Personally, I prefer the actual bullion but the goldback is an interesting idea, especially if more states adopt it.

Commented: Monday, July 28th, 2025 @ 4:28 pm By: John Steed

Then who are you talking about when you bring up "Tusk"???? Donald Tusk is the only person by that last name I am aware of in either US or world politics.

Globalism is the totalitarian threat in the 21st century just as Naziism and Communism were in the last century. Mass migration is one of the things they are pushing to try to bring down national governments.

Commented: Thursday, July 17th, 2025 @ 8:11 am By: John Steed

Why is crime endemic among illegal aliens but very rare among legal immigrants? Simple. Those who have no regard for obeying our immigration laws also have no regard for obeying our criminal laws either. Those who are careful to obey our immigration laws are also careful to obey our criminal laws.

It is the legal immigrants that America needs, NOT those illegal aliens who invade our borders.

Commented: Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 @ 7:49 am By: John Steed

The Pamlico County schools, as well as a charter school there, are openly welcoming Snowden students to go there, and of course that means their state education dollars will follow those students out of the Beaufort County schools. Our school board has just incentivized that exodus. One wonders what they are using for brains.

The real danger would come, though, if this kick in the face leads to a campaign in Richland Township to move the county line so they can join Pamlico County, talking a huge chunk of Beaufort County's tax base with them. Weak school board members blindly following a liberal superintendent can have profound negative consequences for our county.

Commented: Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 @ 9:51 am By: John Steed

There is no reason at all that real Republicans should have tolerated a Harry Reid holdover hack in this powerful position. Mitch McConnell was never a real Republican. He was too compromised by both the Democrats and the Red Chinese. No wonder he sat still for this travesty. John Thune was a McConnell protege, but many thought he would be better. Thune has just proven that is just not so. This Reid hack needs to go and then Thune needs to go.

Commented: Sunday, July 6th, 2025 @ 8:24 am By: John Steed

Stan, when Martin County Schools closed the community public school in Bear Grass, that is exactly what was done with the building. It is now a thriving charter school, and the Bear Grass community continues to have a local school. Charter schools and private schools tend to provide better education at a lower cost per student than public schools, so that is beneficial in a lot of ways. I wonder if anyone in Aurora would pick up the ball and run with it? That might be an option for John Cotton Tayloe as well.

Commented: Tuesday, July 1st, 2025 @ 2:37 pm By: John Steed

No school board should become a cult of personality, especially around their chief bureaucrat, who is their employee. That is how the tail wags the dog.

Commented: Monday, June 30th, 2025 @ 6:51 am By: John Steed

Berger was prostituting for the special interests connected to communist China in trying to destroy our local shrimp harvesting industry. They are the major competitor of North Carolina shrimpers. The "County Compass" just identified a major importer of frozen Chinese shrimp that is massively expanding their Norfolk, VA importation facilities focused on shrimp. This is who expects to get the shrimp business when they shut down our local shrimpers. They likely provided the dirty political payola to the thoroughly corrupp Phil Berger to push this dirty political attack on North Carolina commercial fishermen.

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Real Republicans need to take this phony Phil Berger, an Undocumented Democrat, out in the primary. Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page is challenging him and actually leading by double digits over Berger in the polls.

Commented: Saturday, June 28th, 2025 @ 3:44 pm By: John Steed

BCCitizen, the fees you list are minor and rarely, if ever, paid by city taxpayers. The ones that cover things that used to be covered by taxes, like storm water and trash, on the other hand are paid every month by virtually everyone, and they add up.

Renters may think they are home free because they do not directly pay property taxes on the houses they live in, but they do pay that tax directly every year on the cars they drive. Also, they will pay the property tax on their house indirectly when their landlord has to go up on their rent to cover his additional costs for those taxes. This hits everyone, one way or another.

Commented: Thursday, June 26th, 2025 @ 3:29 pm By: John Steed

Washingtonian, it is all too common for local top bureaucrats to accumulate too much power they should not have when the elected boards that are supposed to be their bosses are weak or complacent. That creates a local "deep state". We have that locally at the county, city, and especially school board level. The tail is wagging the dog in too many instances. The way to solve that is to elect people to governing boards who will assert the powers those boards possess to keep the bureaucracy in line.

If you have to fire these bureaucrats, the thing to keep in mind is that while they are pulling the wool over the eyes to their governing board, they are also probably writing contracts for themselves to make it hard or expensive to fire them. The way around that is to find the circumstances where they can be fired for cause. That saves the taxpayers a whole lot of money.

Commented: Saturday, June 21st, 2025 @ 4:14 pm By: John Steed

Many conservative think Sen. Buck Newton's amendments are quite good. It is too bad that the Democrats have their panties in a twist. Cry me a river. Don't let these woke imbeciles control the agenda.

Commented: Sunday, June 15th, 2025 @ 5:35 pm By: John Steed

Maybe some of those "Rs" are really Undocumented Democrats. Well, actually more than just "maybe".

It is telling that both school board members whose district's schools were impacted by this voted against it. Why are school board members whose district's schools are not impacted doing this to the southside schools? That is outrageous. Stacey Davis was the only board member on the north side of the river not to suck up to Boss Cheeseman.

Commented: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025 @ 9:38 am By: John Steed

IT seems that too many on the school board are saying in effect "Don't confuse me with facts because my mind is already made up". Even worse, their minds were made up by Cheeseman's diktat.

Commented: Monday, June 2nd, 2025 @ 1:21 pm By: John Steed

That out of town lawyer Cheeseman got hired as school board attorney is chairman of the Durham County Democratic Party, one of the most "woke" party units in the state. Cheeseman had brought him in as school board attorney in the previous county he was superintendent as well. He seems to function more as the superintendent's attorney than the board's attorney.

The only visible things Cheeseman seems to use him for are:
1) backing up Cheeseman's election interference in school board elections as he did twice in the 2024 election, and
2) backing up Cheeseman on kowtowing to the liberal DPI on curriculum

He seems to be missing in action on the things that we need an active and engaged school board attorney for.

Commented: Sunday, June 1st, 2025 @ 2:01 pm By: John Steed

John Valley, the difficulty is that efficiently maintaining and improving your existing schools does not shine on a superintendent's resume for that next job in a bigger system like consolidating schools does. Superintendents are constantly building their resumes and too often school board members just sit there fat, dumb, and happy while they do it. The parents and taxpayers are poorly served by such "lost in space" school board members.

Commented: Sunday, May 25th, 2025 @ 1:36 pm By: John Steed