Comments by Gene Scarborough | Eastern North Carolina Now

Here is my LIT thought, gentlemen ~~~~

In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other:
“Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”
- Útmutató a Léleknek

Commented: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 11:22 am By: Gene Scarborough

"Now if you will deal with White Supremacy of the kind practiced by Terry McVeigh in Oklahoma and too many white cops brought to the light of day in recent months---THEN we would have a more "fair and balanced" outlook."

Commented: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 11:08 am By: Gene Scarborough

Stan---you never miss an opportunity to focus on Terrorism and Fear, my brother. Now is you will deal with White Supremacy of the kind practiced by Terry McVeigh in Oklahoma and too many white cops brought to the light of day in recent months---THEN we would have a more "fair and balanced" outlook.

I totally join you in deploring killing on the streets. The Middle East and fundamentalist Muslims are but an example of "hate and kill control of people." That IS NOT any part of Constitutional Dreams of the Founding Fathers, in my view.

Rather, they envisioned a Republic where the Will of the People was followed. In a day of "bought representatives" --- this, it seems to me, is worthy of note!

Commented: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 8:05 am By: Gene Scarborough

These last few rounds of comments are some of the best I have read thus far on Democracy vs. Republic. Rather than say, "Liberals more believe in indoctrination, which keeps the public more stupid. The more stupid people voting Democrat, the quicker we lost this Republic."

Why not simply say: There is a current debate over the real nature of the United States. Our choice is really~~~"are we 'bought by the rich'----or a 'golden dream' of "liberty and justice for ALL?"

Commented: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 7:31 am By: Gene Scarborough

You don't understand, Tony---I like Reagan as a person. He is down-to-earth, a kind of every-man, his love and care after the space shuttle disaster were outstanding. When he played Kanute Rockney and said, "Do one for the Gipper," I was ready to jump up and run a touchdown.

I have no reason to doubt he wrote his radio scripts BUT that was not true when he became the President.

My first Cousin should respond to your worship.

He was a PATCO Traffic Controllers after his duty in Vietnam. He had a piece of shrapnel hit the sandbag an inch from his head as his Forward Air Controller duty put him on the line close up and personal. His assumption was that the compassionate Reagan, having been a union leader in Hollywood and knowing their requests were honest, would help them get the equipment and proper pay for their critical job with Air Control here, would do what was right.

Instead, he turned a deaf ear and fired anyone who dared complain. In their places were hired inexperienced "don't-give-a-care" types who laughed at a near miss in their control space.

He had 2 sides. That of the doting grandfather / that of the tight-fisted tyrant.

I never met him as did my Cousin. I am just sharing the real story of Reagan . . .

Commented: Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 @ 6:41 am By: Gene Scarborough

Gentlemen ~~~ I have some Reagan tonic which I carefully saved from that era. It is still in great condition since I froze it. It is guaranteed to eliminate all gray from your hair / make your mind appear to be functional / cover any effects of Alzheimers / make you appear to be nice at all times in public and able to be a GOP mean as a snake when off camera!

OOPS---I forgot it --- enables you to read without glasses and say that script as if it were all your own ideas. . . My cost is reasonable and I need to sell it to make up for the house and business I lost to this little Bush Recession . . .

Interested????

Commented: Saturday, May 2nd, 2015 @ 3:46 pm By: Gene Scarborough

I LIKED Reagan / he was a great speaker and script reader / he was NOT the CREATOR of the concept he sold --- just as he did 20-mule Team Borax and GE on his TV show! HOWEVER---the tax code put in under him and the idea that the rich and corps will share their wealth came from some strange planet inhabited by idealists KNOWING NOTHING ABOUT HUMAN GREED, man. Maybe it was named CONSERVITAS!

Commented: Saturday, May 2nd, 2015 @ 10:23 am By: Gene Scarborough

We are too often distracted from God with the "things" we worship over the Spirit trying to use a "still small voice" as God did with Isaiah in the wilderness he went to for God Time, my brother.

Commented: Saturday, May 2nd, 2015 @ 10:14 am By: Gene Scarborough

You are still a citizen + taxpayer with a voice. You and Hood came to mind when a friend just sent me this funny story:

Getting a Hairdryer Through Customs.
An attractive young woman on a flight from Ireland asked the Priest beside her, 'Father, may I ask a favor?'
'Of course child. What may I do for you?'
'Well, I bought my mother an expensive hair dryer for her birthday. It is unopened but well over the Customs limits and I'm afraid they'll confiscate it. Is there any way you could carry it through customs for me? Hide it under your robes perhaps?'
'I would love to help you, dear, but I must warn you, I will not lie.'
'With your honest face, Father, no one will question you.'
When they got to Customs, she let the priest go first. The official asked, 'Father, do you have anything to declare?'
'From the top of my head down to my waist I have nothing to declare.'
The official thought this answer strange, so asked, 'And what do you have to declare from your waist to the floor?'
'I have a marvelous instrument designed to be used on a woman, but which is, to date, unused.'
Roaring with laughter, the official said, 'Go ahead, Father. Next please!'

You BOTH give a slanted story with partial truths---making me laugh!

Commented: Saturday, May 2nd, 2015 @ 5:48 am By: Gene Scarborough

You Conservative obsession is becoming tinged with Paranoia, Stan.

The simple fact is that humans are locked up under a potential building disaster. When people can turn and run out---no great problem / if they are in our care as prisoners, we are liable just as is Baltimore today, man.

I shall assume you did not get your nap of my hard questions/observations are driving you to drink. Either way, I am not impressed with any takes you and "The Hood" have on the Beaufort County Jail.

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2015 @ 7:38 pm By: Gene Scarborough

The folks I talked with say it has much wood in it also! Am I mis-informed on the structure of the Court House? It surely has papers out the wazoo and that is most combustible. There is no fire suppressant system either.

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2015 @ 5:58 pm By: Gene Scarborough

You totally miss my point, Stan---"right / legal" mean NOTHING IF A FIRE BREAKS OUT AND PEOPLE BURN TO A HORRIBLE DEATH!

The Bible says much about people with hard hearts, brother!

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2015 @ 2:03 pm By: Gene Scarborough

One word with adjective~~~ Abject Conservatism.

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2015 @ 11:18 am By: Gene Scarborough

The Emory "Renaissance Man" definition included "thinking with knowledge of both sides of any issue and then rationally stating your own." In my view---and I so love Stan and his corner of openness here---he only got educated in the small world of Bob Jones / Jerry Falwell / Pat Robertson who were afraid some student would get pregnant --- or have a thought other that that they REQUIRED!

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2015 @ 9:17 am By: Gene Scarborough

Thanks for proving my point in this thread, Stan---the word, "COMPROMISE," is not in your vocabulary. What is the problem with being more logical and reach some conclusions---even if it is AGREE TO DISAGREE.

Commented: Friday, May 1st, 2015 @ 4:10 am By: Gene Scarborough

My first concern to be subpoenaed is POW Torture / Stand Down command on 9/11. It amazes me how important things are overlooked by Conservatives ~~~ and they bitch and moan over supposed "imperfections" --- their monkey tails are shining from the tree after the last election!!!

Commented: Thursday, April 30th, 2015 @ 6:18 pm By: Gene Scarborough

I surely hope the Obama EO did just that. Any government works best in the bright light of honest disclosure. We have lost too much respect over recent years because of all the lies told us which turned out to be exactly opposite of the predicted outcome and promises of Washington and Raleigh. . .

Commented: Thursday, April 30th, 2015 @ 5:26 pm By: Gene Scarborough