Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

The left constantly tries to claim that anything that does not fit their narrative is a "conspiracy theory". Those scientists who continue to advocate long held climate theories that predate the global warming fad are NOT "conspiracy theorists. They are backing theories that fit the data much better than the CO2 global warming theory.

Yes, there are both consipracy theories and coincidence theories that are bouncing off the wall, but we saw with the recent Durham report that much of what the left has been falsely denouncing as "conspiracy theories" has, in fact, been true all along. We have also seen with Covid that much of what those following the leftwing narrative have been denonucing as "conspiracy theories have turned out to in fact have been true all along.

Commented: Monday, May 22nd, 2023 @ 12:38 pm By: John Steed

This is NOT your woke far left echo chamber where the narrative is deemed "the truth".

The science of gender is biology, not psychiatry, Little Bobbie.

Commented: Monday, May 22nd, 2023 @ 8:23 am By: John Steed

You parrot the globalist narrative of the cliamte scare perfectly, Big Government Bob, or should I call it the dogma of the Climate Scientology religiious cult.

CO2 is a very minor greenhouse gas. The most important greenhouse gas is water vapor which accounts for over 90% of the greenhouse effect. Most of the new CO2 released into the atmosphere comes from natural processes, not humans. Water vapor is impacted by solar radiation, not something we have any control over.

If you look back in the Earth's climate history, it is clear the CO2 did not cause any of the past multi-century warm periods in Earth's history. There is no rise in CO2 predecing a warm period. CO2 goes up about a century AFTER a warming trend has started. It is a RESULT of warming, not a cause of it.

If you look backward in Earth's climate history, the global warming due to VOs theory does not fit, not even close, to the actual facts.

The Global Warming / Climate Change dogma is driven by politics, not science, although some useful idiot scientists have figured out it is a path to fame and fortune and go along with it. It was an obscure and discredited theory among scientists until Margeret Thatcher dixocvered it and decided it would be useful in her battles against the Marxist coal miners union and against Arab oil sheiks and put UK government money behind it. Since then, the globalist, particularly at the UN have decided it would be politically useful to them and have been pushing it. At its core it is all about politics, not science.

If you want to hear some prominent scientists rip the global warming / climate change theory to shreds, the British TV documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle" is great.

Commented: Sunday, May 21st, 2023 @ 10:29 am By: John Steed

You are talking about deformed babies that are born with sex organs of both, but again, that is NOT "gender assigned at birth". Those are biologically determined to be hermaphrodites (sp?) and then doctors may discuss how to treat that condition. The overwhelming majority, the normal babies, have only one set of sex organs and their chromosomes are of one gender. That is NOT a "gender assigned at birth". That is a biologically determined gender. You know "the science".

Commented: Saturday, May 20th, 2023 @ 8:45 pm By: John Steed

It made Fetterman incapable of doing the job. It was actually cruel to him when the Democrats did not replace him with someone who was capable. If you have warched him in the Senate, he is clueless. It is sad the way the Democrats are using him. But he was also a whack job before the stroke.

Commented: Thursday, May 18th, 2023 @ 5:08 pm By: John Steed

While neither Walker nor Warnock was hitting on too much in brain power, at least Walker had enough common sense to support solid economic, national security, and public safety goals. Warnock totally lacked common sense. Warnock is not too different from Hank Johnson.

Commented: Thursday, May 18th, 2023 @ 8:06 am By: John Steed

PBS parrots the radical left narrative, and that is a very different thing from "the truth". Only loony left lemmings like Big Government Bob confuse the two.

Commented: Wednesday, May 17th, 2023 @ 12:23 pm By: John Steed

Make stuff up? That's what YOU do!. The rules of this site only allow me to post one link in this post, so there is the most recent indicident with SPLC: townhall.com

Commented: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 @ 11:47 am By: John Steed

Yes, you are, Bobbie.

Commented: Tuesday, May 16th, 2023 @ 6:58 am By: John Steed

If you want to see hate, violence, and destruction in Amrican politics in the past few years, it has come from the LEFT and not the right. The left likes to use the term "hate" to throw at their adversaries, but the ones who actually spew hate are the far left, or what Margaret Thatcher used to call the "loony left". ANTIFA and BLM are two loony left, and indeed Marxist, organizations that are some of the prime organizations of the far left that spew hate, violence, and destruction. The "green" environmental extremist movement is increasingly doing that, too. But the corporate media (the self-styled MSM) never seems to use the term "far left" while they often throw around the term "far right".

These days, the loony left, of which Baghdad Bob below is a part, will generally call anyone to the right of Mitch McConnell "far right" and heck they might even include RINO McConnell. Many of them would also include old style liberal RObert F. Kennedy, as well, because he does not toe their narrative.

Commented: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 6:46 pm By: John Steed

The worst thing about Bridges is that it aligns with the failed Common Core math that has been dumbing down our students. Dr. Phillips told the School Board that Bridges was "not Common Core" but after citizens pointed out that Bridges own website boasted how Bridges aligned with Common Core, Phillips had to walk that back. Now the excuse was that teachers could just delete the Common Core aspects, but how realistic is that when the whole Bridges curricum is designed to be aligned to Common Core?

Our elected school board members need to stop funcionting as rubber stamps for the superintendant and start engaging on these issues to represent the parents and taxpayers who elected them.

Commented: Sunday, May 14th, 2023 @ 3:53 pm By: John Steed

Big Government Bob's lame attempt to change the discussion to a different subject, Jim Crow makes no sense, as he again does not have a good grasp on history. He apparently knows little outside the leftwing narrative. What Jim Crow most resembles are the Black Codes of the antebellum NORTH. The Black Codes imposed in many northern states created far more severe restrictions on free blacks than the later Jim Crow laws of the South. Free blacks, which were 20% of the black population in the South, were generally given more rights in the South prior to the war than in many northern states. This is reflected on the differing treatment of black soldiers by the two sides during the war. The North gave them half the pay of white soldiers while the South gave them full pay. The North put them in segregated units while the South integrated its units. The North did not allow minorities to serve as commissioned officers while the South did allow it and even had a minority general.

Commented: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 10:51 am By: John Steed

As usual, Big Government Bob, you confuse the far left political narrative with the truth, when in fact, nothing could be farther from the truth.

Commented: Thursday, May 11th, 2023 @ 11:51 am By: John Steed

The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by Lincoln and never went to Congress, which has no authority over executive orders. It did not apply to the four slave states in the union, not did it apply to Confederate territory that was then occupied by union troops. Lincoln asserted he was freeing slaves in areas he did not control but did nothing to free slaves in areas he did control.

The Confederate army was the first to enlist black soldiers in the War Between the States. There is an interesting letter from the great black abolitionist Frederick Douglas written after the First Battle of Manassass talking about all the black soldiers in the Confederate army who had served in that battle and calling on Lincoln to enlist black soldiers in the Union army.

The Confederate army also gave better treatment to minority soldiers. The Union army gave them half the pay of white soldiers, while the Confederate army gave them full pay. The union army placed them in segregated units while the Confederate army's units were integrated. The Union army did not allow minorities to serve as commissioned officers while the Confederate army did allow them to be commissioned as officers. As a result, the highest ranking minority to serve in the War Between the States was Confederate General Stand Watie, who commanded the last sizable Confederate military force to surrender at the end of the war.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 8:24 pm By: John Steed

Bobbie, you really do not know much about history do you? Lincoln's rationale for attacking the South was "to preserve the union", not to end slavery. The Republican platofrm of 1860 did not call for the abolition of slavery in the South. The month before Lincoln sent an armed intervention fleet to Charletson, forcing the South to take Fort Sumter before it arrived, Congress passed two major bills. At that time, the souterhn members of Congress had resigned and left, and the north had total control. One bill was the Morrill Tariff that almost tripled import duties, a huge deal for the South. The other was the Corwin Amendment.

What was the Corwin Amendment? It was a proposed amendment to the US Constitution that was passed by the required supermajority and submitted to the states for ratification. Lincoln endoresed it in his first Inaugural Address. The Corwin Amendment would have given Constitutioinal protection to slavery and made it impossible to abolish at the national level without amending the Constitution again.

Saying the north started the war to end slavery, just weeks after passing a Constitutional Amendment to pootect slavery is ludicrous.

Then their is the Fremont Affair. Missouri's state government was pro-Southern, so in 1861, Lincoln appointed General Fremont as miliary governor of the state. Fremont was an abolishionist and used that authority to issue a proclaimation abolishing slavery in the state. Lincoln responded by firing Fremont, revoking the proclamation, and using federal troops to return slaves that Fremont had already freed to their masters.

That over a year after the war started Lincoln went on an anti-slavery kick was mostly a foreign policy ploy. He finally comprehended how close his government had come to the UK entering the war on the side of the South in the Trent Affair, and his "preserve the union" gambit was laughted at in the UK. "How can a country that owes its own existance to seceding from the British empire possibly complain about someone secceding from them?", the Brits chortled. Lincoln was trying to create a moral stand to keep the UK out of the war, but many in the UK never believed it. The quotes below from Marx and Dickens are good examples of that, as well as an incident in the House of Commons when a pro-northern MP made reference to the war being about slavery but was shouted down in parliament with cries of "No, its the tariffs".

While I would agree that the end of slavery was by far the most important psoitive result of the war, it was NOT the cause of the war.

Commented: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 1:27 pm By: John Steed

When you advocate for the anti-history pogrom of Mao's Cultural Revolution, Little Bobbie, that makes you a Maoist. From your posts, you are also an adocate of "equity" as the far left uses that term today, which is a very different thing than equality, and it is consistent with Marxist ideology. You also support Marxist concepts like CRT, DEI, and ESG.

Actually, when you consider what Marx wrote concerning the war, your position, Bobbie, is considerably to the left of Marx.

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 7:39 pm By: John Steed

Affirmative Action has been around for over half a century, which has tilted the playing field in favor of minorities and against whites, especially white males. Everyone now of working age has been in that environment. I don't know of whites complaining about that, but the left sure wants to keep complaining about something that has not impacted anyone of current working age. Only some of advanced age would perhaps remember the last gasps of Jim Crow from their early childhood. You progs are beating a dead horse.

Kemi Badenoch, a black woman serving in Boris Johnson's cabinet called Critical Race Theory "a dangerous trend in race relations" in a speech on the floor of the House of Commons that was called "the speech of the year" in the UK. You can hear the most acclaimed part of that speech here: www.youtube.com

Commented: Tuesday, May 9th, 2023 @ 10:21 am By: John Steed