Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

To make an absurd charge like that you really are an anti-Christian bigot, Bigot Bob. I have never known anyone who had any animosity toward the Jewish religion, and I have lived my entire life in the South. Heck, that was even true in antebellum times. The first person of the Jewish faith to serve in a national cabinet position was Judah P. Benja;min of Louisiana, who served succesively as Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Secretary of War in the cabinet of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Commented: Saturday, May 27th, 2023 @ 9:24 pm By: John Steed

Those of us who value freedom have great respect for Florida. When authoritarian Democrat governors like Roy Cooper, Gretchen Whitmer, Cuomo, and many others were goosestepping all over our freedoms in the Covid tyranny, Florida was one of the islands of freedom. Governor deSantis early on saw that freedom worked in places like Sweden and that the REd Chinese concept of lockdowns did not, go he restored the freedom of the people of Florida early on.

Florida is a shining example to other states, as is South Dakota, that freedom works and Faucism does not.

Commented: Friday, May 26th, 2023 @ 5:24 pm By: John Steed

It is a thread about an unjustified partisan political attack by a once respected group that has gone way to the left and become overtly political. An objective look at Florida statistics shows this attack to be total nonsense. Florida has the best record in the entire country for black run buinsesses, for example. There are no objective stastics to justify this political attack. But then again, the NAACP has in recent years become a shill for the Democrat Party in lawsuits to manipulate election laws in a partisan manner, so I guess their making an unjustified partisan political attack is to be expected.

Commented: Thursday, May 25th, 2023 @ 6:34 pm By: John Steed

Covid allowed parents to finally see what was going on in the schools and many were shocked. That is not what they want for their children. Too many in the education establishment have not figured that out. That is leading to defeat of incumbent school board members and sometimes firing of senior bureaucrats. They ought to wake up, but for too many it is still business as usual.

Commented: Wednesday, May 24th, 2023 @ 7:22 pm By: John Steed

I think Bobbie's approach to pyromaniacs would be to hand out matches.

Commented: Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 @ 6:50 am By: John Steed

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