Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

What is really evil is the gain-of-function research on viruses, especially when conducted in China. Those who approved those things should be indicted.

Commented: Saturday, April 5th, 2025 @ 3:13 pm By: John Steed

The EPA grift and the USAID grift are examples of the slush funds operated by the Deep State that are bankrupting this country to fund the far left.

Commented: Thursday, April 3rd, 2025 @ 7:03 pm By: John Steed

What Beaufort County has is 1) a domineering superintendant trying to build a resume for his next job around school consolidation here with no concern about the impact on people here, and 2) and out of touch and totally superintendant-controlled school board majority.

Commented: Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 @ 8:03 am By: John Steed

I wish those two conservatives had held firm. I understand that Cheeseman was putting out the word that he would move teachers from schools in their district and then blame them if they did not go along. Cheeseman plays dirty pool, as do those who associate with him.

What we need is a school board majority that is not in Cheeseman's hip pocket, but as long as a majority are, our school system is in a mess,

Commented: Monday, March 31st, 2025 @ 10:28 am By: John Steed

The title search problem is really an out-of-town attorney problem. Normally, in a government development project of this size, government attorneys ride herd on these things, including title searches. However, with an out of town attorney, two hours away each direction, it appears that the central office staff tried to play attorney and substitute for a real attorney, and this fiasco on the four acres is the result. It took $250,000 that could have been used for other things out of the school budget as well as setting county taxpayers back another $250,000 out of the county budget.

Practicing law without a license is a criminal offense in North Carolina, and screwups by unlicensed persons like this is the reason why. Maybe the school system is stonewalling because someone may have some criminal liability in this disaster. Those four commissioners are in full coverup mode. If there had been a legiitimate professional title search done in a timely manner, they would have no reason not to provide it. The fact that they are stonewalling speaks volumes by itself.

Most school boards have local attorneys engaged as their school board attorney. In Beaufort County's case, the superintendant convinced them to hire someone who is part of the state education establishment. He may see that as protection for him over public demands on curriculum, but it has screwed the school board, the county, and the tazpayers on the bumgling of this school project. This boondoggle ought to wake up a majority of the school board to the fact that we need someone local as our school board attorney.

Commented: Thursday, March 27th, 2025 @ 6:22 pm By: John Steed

Stan, the Texas State House of Representatives had a similar arrangement for a number of years. The Speaker was a more liberal Republican and he formed a coalition of Democrats and less conservative Republicans to hold power because he would have lost if he sought the backing of the Republican caucus. He went too far when he crossed Governor Abbot on one of the governor's pet issues, univsersal school choice and blocked the governor's bill in the House. Governor Abbot responded by recruiting and endorsing primary challengers to the Speaker and his allies. The governor's candidate beat most of the Speaker's allies in the primaries and now the Texas state House has a new Speaker who is a solid conservative elected solely by Repbulican legislators and just passed the governor's universal school choice bill.

Commented: Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 @ 9:51 am By: John Steed

Since harboring an illegal alien is a federal felony, hopefully the DOJ will start prosecuting some of these arrogant leftwing politicians who do things like this.

Commented: Monday, March 17th, 2025 @ 8:05 am By: John Steed

The New York Post has a good op-ed piece saying the teachers unions control the US Department of Education and shutting it down is a way to eliminate that control.
nypost.com

Commented: Thursday, March 13th, 2025 @ 12:43 pm By: John Steed

It looks like Zelensky is now crying "uncle"
www.dailymail.co.uk

Commented: Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 @ 12:39 pm By: John Steed

What is even more significant is that the Democrats pumped him up to do that for their own domestic political purposes. They used Zelensky to try to hurt Trump, but who they really hurt was the Ukrainian people. The Democrats don't care about anything but political gamasmanship.

Commented: Monday, March 3rd, 2025 @ 10:55 am By: John Steed

What is needed is military intervention to take out the cartel drug factories, which can be done from the air. We also ought to drone the cartel leaders with Hellfire missiles like we drone ISIS and other jihadist leaders.

Commented: Friday, February 28th, 2025 @ 7:31 pm By: John Steed

Socialism and fascism are not opposites. They are kissing cousins. Both are statist totalitarian ideologies. Indeed the full name of the Nazi party was "National Socialist German Workers Party".

Commented: Monday, February 24th, 2025 @ 10:44 am By: John Steed

Parker's answers are NOT something that should be relied upon. During the controversy over the SAVAS social studies curriculum, Parker incorrectly told the School Board that Savas was "the only curriculum approved by NCDPI". That turned out to be false. Then on the Bridges math curriculum controversy, Parker told the School Board that Bridges "was not Common Core math". At a later meeting when easily available research showed that it WAS Common Core, he had to reverse himself.

The question is whether Parker is just that poorly informed or whether he is deliberately giving answers he knows to be false, possibly at the behest of his boss. Either way this history means anything he says should simply not be trusted.

Commented: Friday, February 21st, 2025 @ 2:48 pm By: John Steed

Jim Crow was YOUR racist policy, Bigot Bob, not mine. It was YOUR Democrats who passed it. ALL Republicans and Populists in the legislature at the time voted AGAINST it. Democrats play the race card differently over the years but they stick to the race card. First it is the black guy they go after, then pivot to going after the white guy. Republicans, on the other hand, believe in treating all equally, not giving racial preferences.

Commented: Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 @ 10:30 am By: John Steed

Democrats search for waste, fraud, and corruption in government spending? Is the Pope Muslim? That would not happen in a trillion years.

Commented: Thursday, February 13th, 2025 @ 9:00 am By: John Steed

The problem is that the Beaufort County schools have a know-it-all power bully as their superintendant. Cheeseman wants total control and as long as his sock puppets conrol the school board, he will ignore the professionals who should be involved in a project like this and try to do it all himself. That way he does not have to share any portion of power with professionals like attorneys or real estate appraisers. He just does those functions himself although he is not qualified to do them.

When will enough of our school board wake up to snatch the steering wheel out of Cheeseman's incompetent hands? They are supposed to be the boss, but they act like they think the superintendant should be.

Commented: Saturday, February 8th, 2025 @ 6:44 pm By: John Steed

Yes, Bolshevik Bob, there are far left hate sites like Southern Poverty Law Center who constantly spew hate at conservative sites and have the gall to call their opponentss "hate sites" or "hate groups". One of the attorneys at the Southern Poverty Law Center was arrested in Atlanta for terrorism, which tells you all you need to know about those phonies.

Commented: Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 @ 5:10 am By: John Steed