Comments by Gene Scarborough | Eastern NC Now

The CCC (Conservative Criticism Committee) seems to never run out of mud to throw---or is it cow manure?

I don't think the John Locke Foundation will ever be happy until all is Conservative, but that is just half the philosophical positions possible. I have another:

(1) Mr. Joyner said "it was being handled in Washington." That is enough at this point when a surface look begs questions from us all. I trust the truth will come out---but not in time to give ANY clear evidence of wrong doing, IF such is involved. Neither will it show right doing in time to be a real factor in election.

(2) The purpose of a good Defense Lawyer is to raise questions and confuse the Jury. Only one juror holding out is enough to get a "mistrial." That is a wast of money and time when trying to do justice and have mercy.

(3) The writer, obviously, has never tried to start his own new business. I started my Tree Surgery Company and had a gross of $130,000 the first year. With the high cost of starting such a business, I only had a taxable income of $15K! That cost went on year after year as expensive equipment was necessary to run it in a bad economy. The ALLEGATION that the Hagans "pocketed the difference is nothing more than a MS degree (More Shit) in Conservatism at this point, in my view.

When Thom Tillis begins to put out commercials without the cow manure dripping, I will gladly listen. Until then, I keep hearing more and more good things Senator Hagan has done during her first term. Her ads have some mud, but it doesn't stink like cow manure!!!

How I wish we could run elections on real issues --- as is being done in Beaufort County by the local candidates. Even our State candidates are being respectful and setting an example of "no mud allowed."

I think the article is more about hate and innuendo than facts at this point.

Tell me what a continued growing Conservatism will do to help the Great North State---PLEASE!!!! I do not yet see it in my life at Bath, NC.

Commented: Monday, October 20th, 2014 @ 7:09 am By: Gene Scarborough

Here is the REAL CONCEPT of performing a marriage ceremony, whether Clergy or Judicial~~~

It is a ceremony legally designated to the official. That official is not the judge and jury of the couple. Clergy usually counsels with any prospective couple when Judges just perform the ceremony.

So what is my duty as an ordained minister?

I got my first test early in my ministry in 1970. A young couple came to me for help. There was no minister in the SC town that would marry them---because he was divorced. I sat with them and listened to their plight. I promised to do some biblical research and let them know in a few days if I would go against the flow of fellow ministers in the town. I could cost me, if someone complained to the local Baptist Association. I didn't care about being the President of the whatever Baptist Association anyway. I was a minister of the Gospel over an enforcer of the prejudice engendered by Baptists of the day.

My research of the Bible showed the dilemma over divorce from Jesus' pronouncement that "if anyone marries a divorced woman, except for adultery, it is the same as adultery." The most original manuscripts do not have "except for adultery" in them! That, by itself, shows the divisive nature of divorce and re-marriage.

Jews loved to put the same "if's, and's, and but's" in any law of the Torah. It made for good employment for the Pharisees (Lawyers of the day who crucified Jesus). Here is what I found from biblical research over against Baptist practices:

In Jesus' day a man could divorce his wife by presenting her with a "certificate of divorce" specified in words under Jewish law. This sentenced her to a life without protection since all laws were written for men and their legal authority to only own property and do business. It legalized "serial monogamy" for those men who got tired of the wife, wanted a new one, and to heck with the old one! Many women of the day had to become prostitutes to buy food and shelter. It is like today's women who can't make enough as a secretary or cashier to support her children. She is forced to take a place at a strip club so men can put money in her garter for a show she would rather not be doing!

Jesus' clear statement dealt with the "I can flush my wife" syndrome of the day. He did not approve of lust and sin (separation) over a man's "legal lust."

As a counselor for a prospective marriage here is my biblical question: "Did you divorce over silly stuff or was it after many years of trying your best to cope with a mis-match of personalities?" Only the individual knows the answer in their heart and conscience. It is my duty to advise and counsel with good questions ---then it is their duty to live by their public vows to "love and honor one another until death do us part."

Neither I, nor a Judge performing the ceremony, is given the right to decide who he will marry or not. That turns us into ultimate "judge and jury" on personal matters. The people who want to control others to the Nth degree need to get on with their life and leave the couple to theirs, in my view!

Commented: Sunday, October 19th, 2014 @ 8:01 am By: Gene Scarborough

What trouble me most about hate---is it's refusal to go away when a child or good friend "comes out of the closet."

I have pastored churches all over NC/SC/GA and it is the same pretense everywhere. Only drinking has more pretense attached to it, my friend.

Let me put is more simply---"Those who love and live pretense enjoy the 'new conservatism' of the South." Lyndon Johnson put it simply as he signed in Voting Rights and War on Poverty Legislation: "Well, there goes the South to the Republicans for many years to come." He knew "Texas pretense" more than well, it seems!

Commented: Friday, October 17th, 2014 @ 5:28 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Stan---If you are going to say, "There should be no corporate welfare"--- why have you so lauded the Reagan VooDoo "thou shalt not regulate" theory of taxation/supervision????

In my view, it has been egregious that folks like Mitt Romney with all their millions earned each year are paying only 14%??? In addition the "trickling down tax money saved" has all (or most) gone overseas where taxes and labor are far cheaper from the US.

How can the corps and wealthy keep it trickling into their hands and not care about our crumbling infrastructure and the billions going to Dick Cheney's enterprises???

I would appreciate equal thought over these Republican "mismanagements" as you try to apply to the Hagan family!!! Are only Republicans and Conservatives allowed to attempt green energy new concepts at tax expense???

. . . or is "green energy" just one of those lib issues you hate so much?

Commented: Friday, October 17th, 2014 @ 4:26 pm By: Gene Scarborough

I see BOTH men as having adequate experience. I note the attitude of Mr. Coleman to be about "saving money" as a major part---and a promise to cut positions back.

Mr. Whitley impresses me with a more personable outlook on the staff now working with a promise to get acquainted with all of them before making personnel adjustment.

I felt a human warmth with him over Mr. Coleman, although he is certainly qualified as well. In my mind, I lean toward Mr. Whitley. I am taking all these races as an Independent voter highly mindful that we have major problems with money and a dangerous basement jail which must be fixed ASAP.

Commented: Friday, October 17th, 2014 @ 3:46 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Why is it that you use innuendo to tar-and-feather Hagan to the max and then whisper, "Tillis does it too." Corruption is corruption is corruption --- people are naturally tempted toward Greed and Corruption so what is new????

What is new is that people nowadays just say, "That's the way it is," and walk away. I DON'T!!! Maybe that is why 2 Baptist churches fired me / 1 fired my father / both of us have had constant conflict between corrupt "christians" (note the small first letter) who were using their place at church to cover shady business deals.

The interesting thing is that, because we both kept our integrity, we are considered heroes in those places to those who were just keeping quiet and criticizing the seduction without doing anything about it!

Did Jesus not say, "It takes a little leaven to leaven the entire loaf?" He also said, "The LOVE of money is the root of all evil."

I am age 68 now. I watched JFK get cut down. The same happened to MLK. Both Anwar Sadat and Monikim Began were killed for wanting to make peace---by their own people, no less.

There is really a more simple question, since all people seeking power eventually tend to corruption~~~WHO HAS MADE THE MOST MONEY IN GOVERNMENT SERVICE??? Servants never get rich in money. They get rich in respect because they help people. I have actually known such fine "Public Servants" in my life as well.

You can't buy INTEGRITY, but I sure can vote for it. Such integrity does not need to pull out mud and throw it at opponents. Which one, Tillis or Hagan is throwing the most dirt yesterday?????

No candidate is "perfect," but some have more INTEGRITY than others!!!!

Commented: Thursday, October 16th, 2014 @ 4:44 am By: Gene Scarborough

Out of Houston, TX, comes another story from the opposite side of the Gay issue. Their Mayor is putting pressure on pastors speaking against same sex marriage to turn in their sermons on the subject. She wants the church to keep quiet:

www.foxnews.com

I hope some of our readers of BCN will be bold enough to express an opinion---just be nice as I have been nice --- and intend to be so as emotional matters are discussed.

Commented: Wednesday, October 15th, 2014 @ 6:44 am By: Gene Scarborough

TV never has and never will be able to handle complex issues locally. Now if your get CNN on it or Bill Moyers, to name a few outside Fox News, you can have more complex issues analyzed.

If it were not for the shallow nature of TV news you and Stan and all the papers would have NO JOBS, bud. Be grateful they are shallow and only stupid people rely on them in complex situations.

I could say a bunch about the political campaigns being waged now, but I hope we are smart enough to know that you can put a piece of manure in a plastic bag to cover the smell / cover it with pretty foil / form it to look like a Hershey Bar and some people will be foolish enough to pay the "giant bar" over the "small one."

Commented: Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 @ 8:25 pm By: Gene Scarborough

One part of the article concerns me. The author states the Marriage Amendment simply states the "law of nature." I have heard and read this mis-concept several times of late. What it shows is few people are around the farm anymore!

The "law of nature" is that there are some bulls who prefer to mess with other bulls and the same is true of cows. Most farmers geld any bulls except the best they want to use as the stud for their herd this year. To prevent too much in-breeding the bull is changed once the cows are inseminated. Gelded bulls without the source of testosterone do strange acts when people are watching!

Now they can buy frozen sperm and artificially inseminate cows. Instead of bearing the expense of transporting a bull from, say Gernsey Island off Britain's coast, they can airfreight frozen sperm at a fraction of the cost. If you were to force cattlemen to "the laws of nature", you would have to outlaw such a procedure!

Scientists are trying to find out what makes a man or a woman with current research. The biblical depiction is simple and surface. The writers of the Bible thought from cover-to-cover that our world was flat / the sun rotated around it and was the center of this system / up until the exploration of sailors going west, most were convinced they would fall off in the process. Great angst and fear were present whenever a ship went out of sight of land!

This is the only "Natural and biblical" thing which is occurring with the Marriage Amendment. Another "natural" thing with the Marriage Amendment is simply allowing couples to be socially bound through legal marriage.

God did not make me with urges towards other men. The same is true with my wife. HOWEVER we all know other people not that way. My wife had a gym teacher who felt compelled to tour the locker room while the girls were showering. None of them liked it. All of them had a "strange feeling" about her.

Would it not be better to legally bless that coach with the right to marry some female and take care of her sexual urges?

If you look at it in this way, our obsession with sex and relationships is forcing "natural urges" into a mold that does not actually reflect Nature! Leave it up to religious fanatics to force others into their mold of narrow definition on "right and wrong."

I NEVER ask that you think as I think. I just ask that we THINK on this subject rather than pitch a fit of force with a Conservative stick --- that does not conserve natural science!

Commented: Tuesday, October 14th, 2014 @ 8:13 am By: Gene Scarborough

I want to say a good word for "nasty old conservative" Hood Richardson: "You go, good buddy!" Oops ~~~ that was 4 words.

I attended a meeting about 2 months ago. I observed 4 Commissioners barely listening to any citizens addressing the Board. That's not good.

I also listened to Hood Richardson, a certified Surveyor/Engineer point out the fallacy of the current jail plan. He said, "The materials proposed are inferior / the plan will cost, at lest, twice what is stated right now." In addition, he wisely pointed out the "almost bankruptcy of Counties doing the same with shoddy planning and proposals. Once you are in the process the cost goes up."

He also ---wisely --- pointed out that current finance approaches are being done without a public vote. We will be paying with increased taxes and we should vote as a taxpaying public.

Now, I don't always agree with Hood's Conservatism, but he is more than right, in my view!

Why silence a wise man, duly elected, to his position as a Beaufort County Commissioner???

Commented: Monday, October 13th, 2014 @ 3:31 pm By: Gene Scarborough

I DON'T THANK!!!! With the typical "distraction by association," your make a piss poor case, my brother.

You add the derogatory "anointed one" and I am really unimpressed. Take a note from Tillis' failing campaign ~~~ as old Agnew noted, "The negative nabobs of negativism" are the enemy of the American Republic!

Surely you will listen to a good alliterating Conservative ---- before he was indited over violation of law, that is!!!!

Commented: Monday, October 13th, 2014 @ 2:42 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Did I just read the "hay-maker" state: "Our guy goofed and is gonna lose."

I think so!!!!

Tillis is, indeed, the candidate of the Conservative Establishment. He makes the same mean and nasty negative commercials they all seem to do. This time Hagan is "fighting fire with fire" from the beginning --- and the exposure in bright sunlight is driving the bat into hiding from that essential light and warmth of TRUTH!

When abject Conservatives admit they are failing before Election Day, the people who want to vote with the winners should give most serious consideration to both the Marshall Adame and Kay Hagan candidacies!

Sooner of later even unwise voters wake to the pain of the screw in the backside / smell that what trickles down from VooDoo Economics isn't money, but cow manure!

Commented: Monday, October 13th, 2014 @ 2:32 pm By: Gene Scarborough

I meant "bet on it", good buddy.

Maybe we should have an "edit" button on these posts.

Commented: Monday, October 13th, 2014 @ 2:04 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Sorry, Stan, but YES HE DOES!!! If it violates the Constitution of the US about "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and that against discrimination ~~~ YES HE DOES!

Roy Cooper, our Attorney General, said in the beginning that it would violate the Constitution. We should have listened to our State's Lawyer! However conservative NC citizens listened to Billy Graham --- brought from his Parkinson's wheelchair in Black Mountain. A crying witness of conservatism does not persuade a Judge who has seen taars before.

Commented: Monday, October 13th, 2014 @ 1:59 pm By: Gene Scarborough

A beautiful woman pretty much lays to rest the angst over immigration. Now if such lovelies survive Ebola, will us stupid and afraid TV watchers discover the sky is not falling after all????

Commented: Saturday, October 11th, 2014 @ 9:44 pm By: Gene Scarborough

The largess of Freedom for individuals is one of the hallmarks of our "Great Experiment in Democracy." It was tried by Romans and Greeks, but there were the Kings and Lords vying for control.

It seems to me that one of the basic conflicts of humans is that of "Lock-step Conformity vs. Everyone doing his own thing." What is even more strange is how the same Hippies and Non-conformists of the 60's have become the Conservatives of today!

I have a sister who did stuff in college for which she can't forgive herself. Instead of saying, "I messed up and God forgive me," she has become the most obnoxious religious zealot I know.

This is nothing new. Augustine was a ribald rascal living a life of debauchery. He got religion and became a Pope of great influence and conservatism in the first Century Roman Catholic Church.

The real question is: Authentic or Pretending to be perfect?

In my view we are all "sinners saved by the Grace of God." We aren't God perfect, but when we pretend to be such and dictate our ways to others, we are just obnoxious, at times!

Commented: Saturday, October 11th, 2014 @ 4:51 pm By: Gene Scarborough

I thank you for the fine videos. We all need better and more cooperative County Council members. The last years of deadlock and bullying are an embarrassment to me.

Commented: Saturday, October 11th, 2014 @ 9:41 am By: Gene Scarborough