Comments by Gene Scarborough | Eastern North Carolina Now

Are Republicans washing their drawers in public yet---or not???

Commented: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 2:49 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Stan---let me put it this way: If your NC taxes did not go up the last 2 years while the Conservative leaders tell us they are saving us taxes, be sure to say so with a simple yes or no answer . . .

Commented: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 2:35 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Too many Deacons spend too much time on practical matters like finance and lawn/building care which have a committee to do that part. It is far easier to decide dollars and cents than to get out there and help the pastor minister to the flock. The water hits the wheel when a person is grieving or crazy and there are visitors who could use a follow-up.

Many of them say, "That's what we hired the preacher to do!" Real churches meet spiritual needs / real Deacons are servants of the church rather than the masters.

Commented: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 11:39 am By: Gene Scarborough

So, Stan --- did your NC tax go up the last 2 years like mine --- with your buddies in control of this state???

Commented: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 9:27 am By: Gene Scarborough

Did you see the 60 Minutes segment last night about Duke Energy coal ash spills and how they have walked away from them without putting arsenic, strontium, and other hazardous wastes into a LINED CONTAINMENT AREA . . .????

Leslie Stall was asking the lady who heads Duke Energy some serious questions and she got the "I wish I could kill you" look in her eyes before it was over!

Commented: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 8:39 am By: Gene Scarborough

I have read a lot of BS in my life ~~~ this is THE BEST!!!

H.L. Menkin called Conservatives "my contemporary ancestors!" He was a smart man looking a British BS and calling it what is it. I go with him on the kind of Conservatism which has turned NC from PROGRESSIVE to REGRESSIVE in the last 10 years!

Commented: Monday, June 15th, 2015 @ 7:44 am By: Gene Scarborough

You are living in a County dominated by Church of Christ which brought the lawsuit to throw out the Marriage Amendment as unconstitutional. You need to enroll at SEBTS where you would feel comfortable in these days of abject Conservatism, bud. . .

It is always the dog that sneaks up behind you that bites your butt the best --- of the ornery mule that kicks you in the head = BEWARE---you are safe if he hits your hard head---otherwise you might just learn a few lessons about TRUTH, old sport.

Commented: Saturday, June 13th, 2015 @ 1:16 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Enjoy the bush --- not sure whether that is figurative or literal, Bobby Tony.

I don't blame the government for anything but being the puppets instead of the controllers. When Conservatives are the puppets of the rich, I have a problem and the current Reaganomic Tax Code is an obvious failure to me!

I also say, Title XX (LBJ War on Poverty) has gone for 5 generations of tit sucking by poor people who don't WANT to work. Give them a shovel and swingblade for a 40 hour week before they get another government dollar from me!!!

Commented: Saturday, June 13th, 2015 @ 8:48 am By: Gene Scarborough

I am far from resting my case, Stan --- It is that the Nazi way of labeling Jews as "Christ killing Rats" led to concentration camps and gas chambers with big furnaces to destroy the evidence through cremation of Jews. Now Israel is a source of reverse hate in the Middle East and they are cleansing the West Bank of all Arabs.

Words of TRUTH always get out. They are understood by wise people who look beneath the hate of labels applied too quickly to others who see through the hate and misnomers of Conservatism.

Commented: Saturday, June 13th, 2015 @ 5:47 am By: Gene Scarborough

Stan---I am BOTH Progressive and Loving in my outlook on life and politics as well as religion. Your fancy words inserted in this article are the same as Dr. Paige Patterson who became President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) and now President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) which is the largest of all the Southern Baptist Seminaries. He uses big words to cover his small mind.

I like Bernie Sanders for his forthright views inside Congress. Elizabeth Warren also appeals to me. Both of them come from real middle-class America and have not forgotten their roots and struggle even though they now are tempted with bribes and saying only what appeals to the rich control part of America.

We have such political examples in BOTH parties---Dwight Eisenhower / Harry Truman / Teddy Roosevelt / Franklin D. Roosevelt / Miss Mae Coker whom I cited some time back. Those who rise to heights of influence and some financial success are always tempted to forget "from whence they came."

When Paige Patterson came to Wake Forest his pompous wife immediately decided to give the President's house a new name of "pomp and circumstance." She had a sign painted that you can see today if you pass through on NC 98 headed to Durham the back way.

MAGNOLIA HILL is right there. The locals of Wake County are laughing their behinds off at the pomposity ~~~ Magnolia Hill was the last whorehouse in Wake County in days gone by!!!

"Beware of too much rise too quick," is my take. Hillary suffers from the disease as well as Ronald Reagan and Dick Cheney. You must read "Worse Than Watergate" by John Dean (who was up to his neck in the Nixon fiasco). On the religious side, you can read Joel Gregory's book on W.A. Criswell who refused to resign even when Gregory was called as the next pastor of FBC Dallas. "Too Great A Temptation" is that book. Both show a down-to-earth analysis of folks forgetting their commonality with citizens once getting to a place of great influence and the "Peter Principle" brought them to ruin . . .

Commented: Saturday, June 13th, 2015 @ 5:23 am By: Gene Scarborough

"Liberal" smiberal --- MODERATE, my friend~~~Moderate (meaning I look at all sides of any issues and make up my mind for myself with much logic) . . .

Commented: Friday, June 12th, 2015 @ 8:22 pm By: Gene Scarborough

There you go again, Stan (it's beginning to rhyme) --- calling a Moderate at Liberal is getting to be a cuss word and my chipper is not yet sold, buddy!!!

Here --- in facts and figures --- is the cause of deficit financing since Vietnam:
costsofwar.org You stop calling me a Liberal and I will stop compalining.

Were you not at the Commissioners meeting with a vote when I spoke with you and the others about how you could reduce the Property Tax to fair---why has it not yet been done with Hood's wise observation????

Commented: Friday, June 12th, 2015 @ 11:59 am By: Gene Scarborough

Thanks, Stan, for the prompt posting of this part of the series on Conservatives scheming, lying, going around the rules to DESTROY the largest Protestant Denomination in the USA. The numbers in giving and participation in NC are going DOWN when, before the takeover, it was a steady growth!

Commented: Friday, June 12th, 2015 @ 5:53 am By: Gene Scarborough

Ray Jackson was my Principal and I remember the event. He was a former amateur boxer and his large nose, somewhat askance, showed that history. He was always fair and balanced with discipline. Our faculty had an ex-WAC teaching typing with the same military precision to the folding of the typewriter covers "this way."

I also remember in the 7th grade someone calling our Japanese classmate, Patty, a "Jap." The teacher stopped everything and gave us a lecture on prejudice and name calling none would ever forget! You knew the next to dare such was going to visit the Principal's office and a visit with the "Board of Education" there.

Clarkston, GA, of the early 50's was almost identical to Bath where I now live---a caution light / school with all grades in the almost identical brick building.

We still have a Beaufort County School system that teaches as was done at Clarkston. We are drawing people from all over the world in retirement. Come on over from Atlanta and see how good it is!

Commented: Thursday, June 11th, 2015 @ 6:08 am By: Gene Scarborough

Anytime there are "meetings before the meeting" ~~~ I call it "plotting and plodding"

Commented: Wednesday, June 10th, 2015 @ 3:32 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Can all you elected folks "just grow up?"

Commented: Wednesday, June 10th, 2015 @ 9:15 am By: Gene Scarborough

Alcoa has a most interesting case which is hard to decide by any judge!

At its core is the failure of Alcoa to be profitable with aluminum---so it now profits from selling the power generated by dams along that stretch---AS LONG AS IT DOES NOT HURT THE WATER QUALITY.

It sort of relates to FRACKING in NC. Oil companies (with similar power and greed) have been approved for inserting chemicals into the shale sand level of our earth to flush up a super-low quality substance which, when refined, can become gasoline and in the process releases methane gas into the aquifers. This harms the atmosphere and water. Without water and breathable air mankind perishes along with other plants and animals!

The areas where this procedure is practiced --- all have water coming out of faucets in time. It tastes terrible and could be lit with a match inside a citizen's kitchen! Even where it is done, oil owners have managed to get injunctions so it is not done on or near their personal property!

It is a close call where Courts rule over ownership. None of those courts go back to say, "Greedy white men took this land from Native Americans who hunted and fished and lived along it without problems! Maybe you should give the power rights and income back to those native folks who got sent to midwestern reservations and starved to death along the Trail of Tears."

Corporate profit vs. wise use of the environment is the real issue here, in my view. Now, NC is letting the Federal Government do seismic studies between the Outer Banks and Gulf Stream. According to Big Oil there is no danger to mess up a critical part of the East Coast when (not IF) a well ruptures as it did in the Gulf of Mexico. Deepwater Horizon was not located in The Graveyard of the Atlantic where guaranteed hurricanes and nor'easters blow everything into destruction. It was in the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf coast and aquaculture HAVE BEEN ruined as we read this!

Renewable Energy / Corporate Greed / Water essential to life / the value of electricity to cool and heat as well as produce aluminum and run textile mills all meets in a Wrestling Ring --- and he who wins can be smart or bribe the ref!

Any relationship to Deflategate and the NBA finals is purely coincidental. Those with monster ego-needs and betting money on the outcome of the battle face the matter of ETHICS and MORALS at the core.

In that area of philosophy and theology the question is WHO GETS HURT BY THE ACTIONS OF OTHERS? WHAT IS THE LONG TERM EFFECT TO MANKIND AND MOTHER EARTH?

Commented: Wednesday, June 10th, 2015 @ 5:12 am By: Gene Scarborough