Comments by Van Zant | Eastern North Carolina Now

Stan: I guess dancing is easier than clearing a path.

Commented: Tuesday, January 28th, 2025 @ 7:36 pm By: Van Zant

I just did a quick read of this article before starting on a full day. As someone that follows the meetings on the school videos this is dead on the money. Perfect title, too.

Commented: Monday, January 27th, 2025 @ 11:02 am By: Van Zant

Stan: The politics of 4 to 3. Of that 4 majority, 2 are Democrats and 2 are Democrats that changed registration to Republican in order to get elected. Essentially, they are 4 Democrats. But you know that more than most.

The mind-blowing thing about this is, the local Republican Party supports the alliance with the Democrats and opposes the 3 Republicans on the county commission adhering to the Republican platform. In other words, the official local Republicans support the undocumented Democrat commissioners instead of the Republican commissioners.

All this personal vendetta politics is costing taxpayers money and worse. It's so crazy it's almost unbelievable. Throw in the familial relations between the various boards and a school superintendent working on his professional resume at local folk's expense and it really gets convoluted. But no worries, it's only hard-earned public money.

Commented: Sunday, January 26th, 2025 @ 4:42 am By: Van Zant

Ever notice how these episodes of poor planning and lack of preparation always ends up costing the taxpaying citizens of Beaufort County money?

Commented: Saturday, January 25th, 2025 @ 4:45 pm By: Van Zant

Because of the schizophrenic voting of North Carolina and Beaufort County citizens we have elected Trump to take care of this woke DEI junk at the federal level, but we are left at the mercy of it at home in places like Beaufort County Community College.

Commented: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 @ 8:10 pm By: Van Zant

Cgirl - It looks like criminal Joe has jumped from pardons straight to blanket immunity.

Commented: Monday, January 20th, 2025 @ 2:59 pm By: Van Zant

Regarding whoever is working for who concerning the School Board, it appears nothing has changed since the last election. Cheeseman and his assistant are still dead center with their sock puppet chairman, while a few of their favorites are in fairly close proximity, and members not on the favorite list are mingled with the staff or placed on the planet Pluto. No sign of the board lawyer, but I hear he is a superintendent call away in Durham if he is not preoccupied with his Democratic Party activism. This is well beyond embarrassing. Being a Beaufort County resident, it hurts to see what has become of my county. I don't recall seeing anything like this.

Commented: Sunday, January 19th, 2025 @ 6:36 pm By: Van Zant

I knew it was bad. It's even worse than I thought. What a tangled web.

Commented: Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 10:46 am By: Van Zant

I wonder where the saturation point for fast food restaurants is. That must be the way to go for the Beaufort County economic development wizards. Granting that this pertains to some parts of the county more than others. Although Dollar Generals are found all over.

Commented: Thursday, January 16th, 2025 @ 4:12 pm By: Van Zant

Next, we need to restore the military to a focus on readiness instead of being a laboratory for woke activism. This is one more aspect of national security and is one more thing that makes a great deal of difference for having a healthy nation state.

Commented: Thursday, January 16th, 2025 @ 12:08 pm By: Van Zant

I've observed there is a lot of corruption at the federal, state AND local levels.

I thought we established an industrial park so we would not have industry next to our houses (or in place of them) but might have it somewhere. Munition factory? Sounds like a great place to get a job. Gun manufacturing would be good, too. I might even apply for any such openings if they were here. Maybe some of my family members could stay home instead of being forced to leave. But no, our choice is make do here or go somewhere else.

I'll continue to pray for the people of California. They're not all crazy, and the ones that are crazy in many instances know not what they do.

Commented: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 11:14 am By: Van Zant

It seems we have an industrial park, but county leadership doesn't particularly want any industry.

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 8:05 pm By: Van Zant

It has been very clear that the Biden Administration has been a bunch of authoritarian bullies. Bravo to Zuckerberg for coming clean about it and for his recent revelations about free speech. I do have to wonder if, for instance Genghis Khan were elected four years from now, would Zuk perhaps have another revelation.

Commented: Monday, January 13th, 2025 @ 11:09 am By: Van Zant

Even mealy mouth Murphy never called January 6th an insurrection. That incorrect term is only used by Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney and the Big Boobs of the world.

Concerning the illegal alien problem, we should not be aiding countries that are undermining our own security.

Commented: Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 @ 10:17 am By: Van Zant

Stan: One of my biggest differences with BB is that he regularly ascribes hate as the motivation for the people he disagrees with. That's insulting.

I also find it unconscionable that anyone could rationalize the practice of permanently physically mutilating confused children. Whether the adult who has gone through this process turns out to have a homosexual or heterosexual orientation, they are left with a mutilated body that cannot be returned to a healthy state. That is monstrous cruelty.

Commented: Sunday, December 29th, 2024 @ 10:53 am By: Van Zant

Biden is a CINO.

Commented: Friday, December 27th, 2024 @ 12:32 pm By: Van Zant

Concerning the entity claiming this article is full of lies - Two things: 1) More convoluted dishonesty 2) The reason the disloyalty performed by the perpetrators is not addressed is because they cannot address it, since they are guilty of it.

My take on this is that the people embroiled in this hostility probably don't care about anything other than their petty battle. To people of good will on the outside looking in, it's just an off the rails local party doing way more harm than good to the locality they reside in. Expressed in one word: Disgraceful. How anyone could behave like this and delude themselves into thinking they are doing good in the community is beyond me. That makes a person wonder if doing good in the community is even what the motivation is for some of these people. The primary motivation must be just the personal issues. Also, in some instances personal gain.

Commented: Saturday, December 21st, 2024 @ 8:54 am By: Van Zant