Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

DeSantis is making Florida safe, which is the polar opposite of Democrat run states and cities. Why do you think people are moving to Florida and registering Republican when they get there and are fleeing California and New York in droves?

Commented: Monday, February 27th, 2023 @ 8:40 pm By: John Steed

The way the left distorts those three words is pure evil. Equity, in the Orwellian Newspeak of today's far left means government imposed equality of result, which is pure unadulterated Marxism. Their perverted definition of "diversity" was shown by an Iranian representation attending a UN conference on "diversity" when he advocated exterminating the Jewish folks (hmmm! sounds a lot like the Third Reich to me!). And "inclusion"? A school board in a French speaking part of Ontario did a book burning of library books they did not consider "woke" enough and made a video of its for students, saying it was an example of "inclusion", also suggesting they go through their own homes and do their own book burning. Again DEI sounds like it came straight from the Third Reich. The articles describing each of these events have been previously posted on this site.

Commented: Friday, February 24th, 2023 @ 7:25 pm By: John Steed

The Daily Caller material is factual. Not so the rantings of Bob.

Commented: Monday, February 20th, 2023 @ 7:03 pm By: John Steed

NCGOP Chairman Whatley drove that wedge very deep with his recent power plays, calling off district party conventions and refusing to properly pass a budget for the state party. Any "unity" in the GOP needs to be behind someone other than Michael Whatley.

Commented: Monday, February 13th, 2023 @ 7:58 am By: John Steed

Hooray for Tennessee. Education should be controlled locally, not by higher levels of big government. States should kick the intrusive feds to the curb and then put most of the decision making at the county level.

Commented: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 7:50 am By: John Steed

The way the FBI is going, it is not impossible that they would reach that stage. But there are also lots of other valid comparisons with other political secret police, the KGB. the East German Stasi, the Romanian communist Securitate, to name a few. But according to the polling, it is the Gestapo that a majority of Americans equate today's FBI with.

Commented: Thursday, February 9th, 2023 @ 12:37 pm By: John Steed

There is an old saying that "Figures lie and liars figure" Given the revelations of the Climategate emails on how the climate alarmist mad scientists manipulate and distort numbers to try to justify their theory, that is particularly appropriate to them. Their crazy "math" may actually BE woke as it resembles Common Core math where 2 + 2 can equal anthing you want it to. I remember one set of historic climate numbers that had been so distorted that the University of East Anglia could not even find the original unmanipulated data any more.

Commented: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 @ 9:55 am By: John Steed

Since ESG spouting globalist Larry Fink, a WEF accolyte, inserted three woke globalist board members onto Exxon's board with the stock proxies that Blackrock holds, one cannot trust a thing coming out of Exxon. That is what started many state treasurers either dropping Blackrock's management of state pension funds or at least taking the proxies back under state control. Fink has a very apt last name and is a devout follower of globalist totalitarian Klaus Schwab. Fink is also trying to abuse those proxies to put other wokesters on corporate boards.

Commented: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 5:29 pm By: John Steed

So much for those power hungry globalists who try to politicize the weather.

Commented: Sunday, February 5th, 2023 @ 9:42 am By: John Steed

Dr. Martin Luther King would disagree with you, Bob. He advocated that people "be judged on the content of their character, not the color of their skin", and his neice, much more recently stated that "the only race that matters is the human race".

But the problem is, Bob, YOU are WOKE. You also push the same radical woke gender crap.

Commented: Friday, February 3rd, 2023 @ 7:40 am By: John Steed

Disney is so stupidly woke, they might take all of this seriously and cancel those rides. No wonder their stock has tanked so badly. Get woke, go broke. Disney is hopeless. Walt must be turning over in his grave.

Commented: Wednesday, February 1st, 2023 @ 11:51 am By: John Steed

Woke public school curriculums will be key topics in other GOP primaries in 2024. Do those three school board Republicans want to stay on the side of their own party in that primary? I would think they would, as the opposite course would likely be politically fatal.

In the Governor's primary, the two top candidates will be Lt. Governor Mark Robinson and State Treasurer Dale Folwell. Both are publicly opposed to woke curriculums in public school. For Robinson, it is his top issue, and he fought very hard and very publicly against the woke social studies curriculum at the state BOE. Folwell also is on the record opposed to that very curriculum. Facing GOP primary voters, are school board members going to want to be on the same side as their top gubenatorial candidates or on the same side as Roy Cooper and his state BOE appointees?

Then there is the presidential primary, where the two top contenders, Donald Trump and Ron deSantis are both opposed to woke public school curriculums. DeSantis is making that a major part of his campaign, and the company SAVVAS that is inbolved here is one rejected in FLorida for being woke. Do candidates running in a 2024 Republican primary want to be on the same side as their top presidential candidates or on the same side as Biden's Education Department?

These issues will clearly be in the forefront for voters in 2024 primaries in races beyond just the school board.

What we have is a school superintendant trying to cozy up to what the education establishment wants to further his own career when he is ready to move up to a bigger system and throwing the schhol board members under the bus to do it. He cares nothing that following his proposal (and everyone knows his "committee" is just a smokescreen) would be fatal to the political careers of the school board members. To him, that is just collateral damage.

Polls show that voters do not want wokeness in public schools, which is why this is a big issue in other races. It is what elected a full Republican slate in Virginia two years ago.

Hopefully school board members are smarter than the superintendant thinks they are.

Commented: Monday, January 30th, 2023 @ 9:23 am By: John Steed

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