Comments by John Steed | Eastern NC Now

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

It looks like Zelensky is now crying "uncle"
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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

The AA passehger jet was right where it was supposed to be. The army Blackhawk helicopter was off course and way over its assigned height while climbing further. The issue is who screwed up, the helicopter pilot or the air traffic controller or both. The next question is why? No avenue that may explain how and why this disaster happened should be off the table for investigation, even if it makes some squaemish for ideological reasons. What is happening here is a coverup of facts that may help explain what happened and that should just not be tolerated. We need to know if this was incompetnence on the part of one or more people or deliberate.

Commented: Monday, February 3rd, 2025 @ 2:05 pm By: John Steed

Interesting development in the crash. The woman flying the helicopter at the time has finally been identified. She is Rebecca Lobach, who had served as a White House aide in the Biden administration. She was from Durham, which is a hotbed of far left politics, but her own politics are unknown other than being a White House aide, something that usually takes major political horsepower. I wonder if those aspects are why her parents pushed the army not to release her name even after they released the names of the two men on board.
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Commented: Saturday, February 1st, 2025 @ 6:30 pm By: John Steed

That "bishop" is a leftwing political acticist, like the typical "social gospel" or "liberation theology" types. They have the trappings of religion but are more political activists, and the political speech of that "bishop" glaringly showed it.

That "National Cathedral" is full of stinking leftwing politics like when they took the obnoxious woke step of removing the stained glass window portraying Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. They are anti-southern bigots among other things.

Commented: Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 @ 11:26 am By: John Steed

Most polls are giving Trump a positive approval rating, not the neutral one of this poll, even if it touts itself as "America's most accurate pollster".

For example, the Reuters/IPSOS poll gives Trump a +6 approval rating, when in his first term, his rating never went over -3.
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Commented: Sunday, January 26th, 2025 @ 1:45 pm By: John Steed

Maybe it is time to get someone with some business sense in a high administrative office at Beaufort County Schools, and to get a local school board attorney who is physically present to ride herd on major projects such as this, not one way off in Raleigh. This school ought to be named the CHeeseman Boondoggle Elementary School.

Commented: Saturday, January 25th, 2025 @ 8:45 pm By: John Steed

J6ers are political prisoners in Biden's gulag. Solzenitzen would understand.

In the real insurrection, the summer before, run by ANTIFA and BLM, the Democrats raised money for their bail and most insurrectionists were slapped on the wrist, even when they laid seige for days to the White House itself and burned down a historic church across the street. Those thugs were never hunted down like people who calmly walked in the Capitol were.

Commented: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 @ 10:24 am By: John Steed

It looks like the people of LA think the same way I do. Over 100,000 of them have signed the petition calling for the resignation of that incompetent mayor Karen Bass.

Competent leaders DO plan to be prepared for these fires. They have their resevoirs full, not empty in fire season. They maximize available water by utilizing dams, not blowing them up like the Democrats have done. They properly fund their fire departments, not leave them with half of the firefighters they need and over half of their fire trucks not available because they need repairs. They properly fund and carry out brush clearance, not do only 12,000 of the 90,000 acres Newsom promised. They pre-deploy fire trucks and firefighters to vulnerable areas when there is a weather period of high fire danger, not fail to do it because the city has cut their budget and they do not have the money for the overtime.

The owner of the Los Angeles Times has admitted he made a big mistake in endorsing the incompetent Karen Bass for mayor. but Bolshevik Bob, our woke troll, will never shy away from backing these awful incompetent politicians.

Commented: Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 @ 10:09 am By: John Steed