Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

Merit is colorblind. ANY racial quota or other subgroup quota is racist. People should be hired on their ability and qualifications, expecially in jobs where they public's safety is at stake. You just hate white people, Bobbie and think they should never get jobs. As Dr. Matrin Luther King's neice has said "the only race that matters is the human race."

Commented: Monday, February 3rd, 2025 @ 1:55 pm By: John Steed

Correction - MONKEY BUSINESS AS USUAL. Beaufort County deserves better.

Commented: Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 @ 11:28 am By: John Steed

The left is in denial of Trump's favorability in polls like this episode at CNN.
www.thegatewaypundit.com

Commented: Monday, January 27th, 2025 @ 8:04 am By: John Steed

This is the very reason all school boards hire a school board attorney. When major projects like this come along, they stay on top of things legally. Our superintendant has conned our school board into hiring an attorney from Durham, who is not here locally to do things like that. My guess is that to save money, the superintendant did not bring him in on this project like he should have been and that the superintendant himself incompetently played lawyer or had another school bureaucrat do that. Our school board is responsible for that, at least the ones who had a vote on hiring this Durham lawyer. They should have known better but just rubberstamped Boss Cheeseman's wishes.

Commented: Sunday, January 26th, 2025 @ 8:12 am By: John Steed

Of course Big Spender Bobbie sides with the spendthrifts and against those who stand for the taxpayer. it is in his DNA.

Commented: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 @ 10:26 am By: John Steed

THe big problem is we have had a school board majority that just rubberstamp what their liberal superintendant proposes, and never bothers to look into anything themselves. Here we have seen the total management incompetence of that superintendant. His bungling has given the school board itself a black eye. Why did no one know when they proposed this plan that the city owned four acres of the land? Why did no one have a professional appraisial done on its value instead of having a totally unqualified person, the superintendant, just guess at its value? And will this puppet school board give their superintendant a raise again after this fiasco? Will they extend his contract? THey shouldn't if they are going to represent the people of Beaufort County.

Commented: Saturday, January 18th, 2025 @ 12:30 pm By: John Steed

If the county is going to have an industrial park, they need to have control of who is recruited into it, not a small town that it lies outside of. Maybe the county should tell the town that it will be changed to a solid waste dump if they continue to play games about what businesses are allowed there.

Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 8:22 pm By: John Steed

It just keeps coming out on these feckless California Democrats. That liberal mayor had actually pushed a $23 million budget cut for the fire deparment, but finally agreed to only a $17.6 million cut. She was warned those cuts would lead to risk of disaster from a major fire, and, guess what, it has. The mayor was also warned of major fire danger conditions setting up before she jetted off on her taxpayer paid junket to Africa, but she went anyway.

Governor Newsome deliberately dumped the water in California's resevoirs into the Pacific Ocean back when rainfall had them full because of some obscure environmentalist argument, so the water was not there for the fire hydrants in fire season.

The policy blunders are legion in this fiasco from the liberal Democrat politicians.

Commented: Friday, January 10th, 2025 @ 10:38 am By: John Steed

Didn't you learn anything from the election Dumbkopf Bob? The people of this country do not buy your side's wacky Nazi symbolism. Besides, the biggest display of fascist tactics and governing America has ever seen was in the last four years.

Commented: Thursday, January 9th, 2025 @ 7:42 pm By: John Steed

Stan - Bozo Bob is out there in far left la-la land even more than usual. The Capitol Police were who did the beating of rioters, and that was involved in a death or two among rioters. One can sort of sympathize with them to a point because Pelosi deliberately left them undermanned and subject to being overrun, so they were is a desperate situation. Trump offered the National Guard to defend the Capitol but the Democrats refused that. Gallows for Pence? What a ridiculous leftist myth.

The pipe bombs are an interesing point because while the FBI has been aggresssive trying to round up anyone who was even there at the Capitol for their Stalin Show Trials, they have done virtually nothing to investigate those pipe bombs They had pictures of the person planting them but did not even release those until a few days ago. Given the hyper-partisanship of the Biden FBI, this suggests that the FBI either knows or believes that whoever planted the pipebombs was on the Democrat side. Remember, one of them was plantd at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee. The refusal of the FBI to give any focus to the pipe bombs has been a curious spectacle of the January 6 charade.

The fact that militia members travelled with guns is common practice for them. That they did not take them into the strictly gun controlled District of Columbia shows they were law abiding. If they had planned to break the law and stage anything armed, they would have brought them in anyway but they did not.

Commented: Tuesday, January 7th, 2025 @ 8:42 am By: John Steed

Appalling. A former US soldier has just been indicted for attempting to join another Muslim extremist group, in this case Herbollah. www.breitbart.com

Commented: Friday, January 3rd, 2025 @ 1:22 pm By: John Steed

Few Americans are even aware of Americana, Brazil, a city founded by thousands of refugees from the Confederate State of America who moved there after the end of the War Between the States. Unlike so many of today's "progressive" (more like Maoist) Democrats, Jimmy Carter respected the heritage of all Americans. That is a trait that is badly missing today as the "progressives" frequently attack our history and our heritage.

I was not aware that Carter had visited Americana, but good for him. Thank you for bringing that up, JV

Commented: Monday, December 30th, 2024 @ 6:03 pm By: John Steed

H-1B visas are temporary non-immigrant work visas that do not give a path to citizenship. They require a high level of skill. The concept behind the program is good but it has been badly abused in recent years. This is a program that needs to stay but be reformed to eliminate the abuse of it. They are not supposed to be used to replace American workers but cynical companies have used them for just that purpose, and Disney is an example. One reform that would improve the program is to add a very high penalty for any company found to be eliminating jobs for American workers and replacing them with H-1B foreign workers. H-1B is supposed to be a supplement when American workers are not available and that purpose should be enforced.

Commented: Sunday, December 29th, 2024 @ 4:22 pm By: John Steed

The parties that behave as Nazis are the ones that want to jail citizens for criticizing the politicians. The CDU under Merkel is who passed that totalitarian anti-free speech law originally, but now the Social Democrats and especially the Green Party want to supercharge it. Those are your real Nazis. Free speech is the essential cornerstone of democracy. The AfD strongly supports it. The CDU, and especially the Greens and Social Democrats want to goose step all over it.

One law still on the books from the Nazis is Hitler's 1938 Reich Gun Law, and that needs to be repealed. Germans need the same gun rights as Swiss and Czechs, especially with the rise of migrant knife crime. Or even the same level as French and Austrians.

Commented: Monday, December 23rd, 2024 @ 8:38 am By: John Steed

Changing your words there, Bigot Bob? In the weeks afterward, you kept posting that the events of October 7 "did not occur in a vacuum" which was a common line for Hamas apologists that you must have gotten from your talking points, and also falsely accused Israel of "apartheid". And your link has nothing to do with this issue.

Commented: Friday, December 20th, 2024 @ 8:38 pm By: John Steed

There are quite a few black patriots, BIgot Bob. Clarence THomas is a good example.

Commented: Friday, December 20th, 2024 @ 6:33 pm By: John Steed

Obama did mass retirements of more traditional "warfighter" generals and admirals and replaced them with people who viewed things like "social justice" and "climate change" as more relevant for our military. These retired generals and admirals are likely the ones backing Hegseth, who like them sees the military's mission as being competent warfighters. Trump got burned by some more "woke" Obama generals in his first term and he is wisely staying away from them.

Commented: Friday, December 20th, 2024 @ 10:45 am By: John Steed