Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

She admits it in her book. Denial is not a river in Africa!

Commented: Friday, January 27th, 2023 @ 7:23 am By: John Steed

I hesitate to poke fun at the lemmings who foloow the establishment's narrative right over the cliff without even considering it might be wrong. Calling those who have concerns about experimental vaccines based on a brand new technology never used before and not thoroughly tested are a great deal different than the anti-vaxxers who refuse to take any vaccines for any illness. Indeed it was mentioned on the radio today about a town in California that was the opposite, the most heavily vassed in the state by percentage on Covid, yet with a long history of anti-vax positions against other illnesses.

The questions swirling around the Covid vax centers on those using mRNA technology. These are the ones with the severe side effects, although for women of a certain age, the traditional vax Johnson and Johnson can have some milder side efferts. The inventer of the mRNA technology even warned about putting that in use so quickly without adequate testing. It is interesting that Taiwan, which counts only deaths FROM Covid in its stats, not deaths WITH Covid, had slightly more people who died from the vaccine than died from Covid.

As for myself, I get the flu shot every years and am up to date on traditional vaccines, and I drove an hour each way to get the Johnson and Johnson Covid vax, but I would not ever take one of the mRNA Covid vaxxs. You lemmings can feel free to march off the cliff with that one.

Commented: Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 @ 2:56 pm By: John Steed

Somebody is really concerned that this political indoctrination of our children goes forward to take a dastardly step like this impostor did. Who could it be? Perhaps SAVVAS itself trying to protect its contract? But how would it have that much local information on names of school board members likely to be opposed? Maybe NCDPI whose leftwingers are anll-in on CRT, DEI, and similar indoctrination of children. Most likely someone at Beaufort County Schools central office who is trying to defend this because that's what top bureaucrats in that office want.

Checking that IP address could tell us a lot. If it is from out of state, it is probably SAVVAS itself. If from the Raleigh area, it is probably someone connected to NCDPI. If it is local, it is probably someone from the Beaufort County Schools central office.

Commented: Tuesday, January 24th, 2023 @ 7:52 am By: John Steed

While I appreciate Locke's attempts to make this Green New Deal disaster the least damaging to citizens that may be possible, they are wrong to call this fiasco "bi-partisan". It was RINO driven to pander to far left Governor Cooper. It is even more radical than the EU's Green Deal that is sending power prices into orbit. The full sordid story of how Speaker Moore and Senate President Berger betrayed the Republican base and the citizens of North Carolina to bander to self-seeking and ESG-driven special interests can be read here:
www.beaufortcountynow.com

Commented: Saturday, January 21st, 2023 @ 11:59 am By: John Steed

And here is a former US Armey infantry officer who writes at the conservative site Red State:
redstate.com

Commented: Wednesday, January 18th, 2023 @ 2:31 pm By: John Steed

Virginia is also joining Florida in challenging "woke" in the classroom, at least from the state level. Some local boards like Loudon County and Fairfax County are "woke" extremists.

North Carolina as a state has butchered its history ("social studies") curriculum by a "woke" version from the state level, and it is up to local boards to "just say NO" to that.

Commented: Wednesday, January 18th, 2023 @ 7:40 am By: John Steed

Look at the video and commentary. It clearly says "Uvalde SCHOOL police cheif" not "Uvalde town police chief". I have read that quite a few other places, but it is plain as day in this article itself.

Commented: Friday, January 13th, 2023 @ 12:11 pm By: John Steed

This was one of those rent-a-cop private police forces hired by the school board, like we have now in the Beaufort County schools.

Commented: Thursday, January 12th, 2023 @ 7:30 pm By: John Steed

Fkor more on Andre Beliveau see this article:
www.beaufortcountynow.com
Why Locke has someone like this working on the green energy scam is beyond me. He has been part of it, so he is biased, and in the wrong direction, to be writing about it for a conservative organization.

Commented: Tuesday, January 10th, 2023 @ 9:52 am By: John Steed

This guy is not very well informed. If he read the Daily Haymaker, he might learn something.

In the Republican governors primary, there are two top drawer candidate almost certain to get in and both have a following among GOP activists and the GOP base, Lt. Governor Mark Robinson and State Treasurer Dale Folwell. Mark would probably make the better candidate but Dale would make the better governor. Tillis apprears to badly want to run, but if he got the nomination, he would be an albatross around the neck of the whole GOP ticket. There is also a possibility of two other mediocre candidates running, former Congressman Mark Walker and failed former Governor Pat McCrory. Personally, I wish Folwell would keep his powder dry and run against Tillis in the 2026 Senate primary.

On the Council of State, this article missed one on Commissioner of Labor. Not only are liberal establishment Republican Jon Hardister and conservative Freedom Caucus member Representative Ben Moss running, but so is attorney Taylor Brooks, who is an opponent of Covid vaccine mandates. The article also misses what is sure to be a hot primary for Superintendant of Public Instruction. Incumbent Catherine Truitt, a McCrory moderate, has greatly disappointed the GOP base, beginning when she was sworn in and appointed a liberal Democrat as her top deputy. It has gone downhill from there, with her most recent scandal the firing of a professor at Governors School, which is run by DPI, for daring to give three optional lectures questioning CRT. It turns out that the woman Ttuitt has running Governors School is a hard core leftist. That will certainly be a major primary.

Then there is the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. The writer completely misses the real divide on this issue. It is between the Republican base which does not want this socialist program, and some GOP legislative leaders who want to pander to the special interests and pass it. Any Republican legislator who betrays the GOP base and votes for this piece of garbage needs a primary.

Commented: Monday, January 9th, 2023 @ 6:29 pm By: John Steed

Kevin McCarthy is a prostitute for the special interests, much like Mitch McConnell and the GOP leaders in the NC General Assembly. That is the basic problem with McCarthy. He is one of the biggest alligators in the swmap. It was appalling that Trump backed him. The last time McCarthy made a stab at Speaker, he dropped out due to his controversial relationships with Renee Ellmers, an NC Congresswoman, and Frank Luntz, a big time lobbyist, alleged pollster, and political operator. With Ellmers, it was simply an affair with a married colleague which was very well known in Congress. With Luntz, McCarthy was his roommate, which was odd since super lobbyist Luntz who worked for big names in Big Pharma and Big Tech clearly made enough money he did not have to bunk in with womebody to hold expenses down. The relationship between McCarthy and Luntz was a lot deeper than just being roommates. Some have suggested it was also sexual, but there is no evidence of that. At minimum Luntz was a scummy dude who had way too much influence on McCarthy. After that first round, McCarthy seemed to cut his ties with Luntz, but in the last couple of months, Luntx has suddenly come back in the picture and that is very disturbing. McCarthy even made Luntz a speaker at a recent GOP House caucus meeting to advise on messaging.

bigleaguepolitics.com

The conservatives have gotten concessions from McCarthy to weaken the power of the Speaker within the caucus and give the rank and file more control. That badly needs to be done in the NC General Assembly as well since Berger and Moore are the same breed of snake as McConnell and McCarthy. Will those concessions be enough to keep McCarthy from betraying the GOP base like McConnell does regularly? Only time will tell.

Commented: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 7:35 am By: John Steed

The big spenders used an extremely creative, indeed Orwellian, definition of "infrastructure" for much of what was crammed into that bill. It should have been called an "inflation" bill instead, because that is more accurate to what it really was, and McCOnnell has his dirty fingerprints all over it.

McConnell organizing 60 votes for the fake "infrastructure" bill allowed Biden to keep his "reconciliation" slot open to use for the even worse "inflation reduction" bill which was actually an inflation PROduction bill.

Mitch McConnell seems to be the second coming of Benedict Arnold. The REAL Republicans were the ones who voted against both of these monstrosities and the omnibus.

Commented: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 5:00 pm By: John Steed

While there are some common problems between the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) and the non-mRNA vaccines, the problems seem to be of a much greater order of mahnitude in the mRNA shots. Those are the ones that a statewide grand jury, approved by the state Supreme Court, is investigating. Shoddy manufacturing processes seems a common problem with all the vaccines.

Commented: Saturday, December 31st, 2022 @ 1:45 pm By: John Steed

Agreed. The sooner they start making some headway, the more that can be accomplished. Waiting is often not a wise strategy in politics, but their first moves need to be well thought out and be things that other members are going to be afraid to vote against. Too many of the old members seem to think they work for the superintendant instead of the other way round.

Commented: Wednesday, December 28th, 2022 @ 3:57 pm By: John Steed

What a baldfaced LIAR Tillis is. In fact, Tillis was the only Republican to help Schumer obliterate the biggest obstacle to passing the omnibus. dailyhaymaker.com

Commented: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 9:20 am By: John Steed

If these know-nothings who posture as English professors would talk to educators in majority black English speaking countries in the Caribbean and Africa they would find that they value proper English. These idiots do not belong in our universities as professors.

Commented: Tuesday, December 20th, 2022 @ 8:08 pm By: John Steed

That's okay. Now we have a real Supreme Court in North Carolina. They will undo this partisan crap of the radical left Democrat court, on ALL maps - Congress, Senate, and House.

Commented: Sunday, December 18th, 2022 @ 7:51 am By: John Steed