Comments by Gene Scarborough | Eastern North Carolina Now

In you dreams, Stan ~~~ in your dreams . . .

It is the exact same motive of hate gone wild as infects you and others who write articles here for abject conservatism.

Commented: Friday, February 20th, 2015 @ 2:14 pm By: Gene Scarborough

The truth of our approach to ISIS now by diplomacy over killing is clearly seen if you just read the Bible. The same "eye-for-eye-tooth-for-tooth" was in vogue from the Jews early on. Their view was "If you kill, we kill you" because the 10 Commandments say "thou shalt not kill."

Jesus taught to forgive you enemies and love one another. THAT is the only solution to hate ~~~ stop the vengeance and leave some stuff to God. "Vengeance is mine" was part of God's Word in the OT along with what the Pharisees had made it through too much law and confusion to society.

WE cannot and will not solve all problems on this earth, but minding our own business and setting a great example of human cooperation through democracy is far better than blowing the rag heads away and giving them more reason to hate us.

Commented: Thursday, February 19th, 2015 @ 9:20 am By: Gene Scarborough

Stan---I can't fix stupid / I can't beat a mule into submission without killing him with the second 2X4 busted across his head . . .

Sorry 'bout that, buddy

Commented: Wednesday, February 18th, 2015 @ 8:22 am By: Gene Scarborough

Will you ever get it, Stan???? I am conservative, but not the mean sort. I believe in NOT throwing out the baby with the bath water. What about this do you not understand???

I watched people who called themselves "Conservative Resurgence" advocates tell every lie in the book and pull every dirty trick in the book to take over the SBC. When you have been a student at Southeastern Seminary 1967-70 and know fellow students call professors "liberal" when they are just teaching academic material --- they are really saying, "This stuff didn't affirm my prejudices but challenged them and I won't be moved. I prefer narrow and stupid" --- this is what I keep trying to tell you. . .

. . . and you shall not be moved either. Instead you keep using epithets like they grow on trees of hate, man.

Commented: Monday, February 16th, 2015 @ 6:17 pm By: Gene Scarborough

I REFUSE to just talk. I PREFER to show love and understanding with communication to Muslim people. Just like the KKK and White Supremacists in this country, the do NOT represent me and most are Muslims far more loving already than you imagine.

How many of these "terrible haters" do you actually know ~~~ or do you base all your hate on Fox News and the like???

Commented: Sunday, February 15th, 2015 @ 10:47 am By: Gene Scarborough

I am like the preacher who did a sermon on "Love One Another" 3 times in a row. A lady complained over hearing the same sermon in a row. He answered, "When you folks stat doing what the Bible says, I will go on to another subject . . ."

Commented: Saturday, February 14th, 2015 @ 4:35 pm By: Gene Scarborough

I talked with a proficient welder this week. In the course of the conversation he shared the future of welding from his professional magazine.

Did you know that right now this country needs 200,000 welders? In the near future with welding projects on the horizon it will be double and we do not have enough well-trained welders now!

My oldest grandson is thinking in this direction. He now lives at Elizabeth City and the shipbuilding industry at Norfolk is an open door for him. Instead of thinking some fancy degree that had no opening with graduating after 4 expensive years of college, I would encourage a simple career in welding for many who really want to succeed in the next 30-40 years of real work and income . . .

Commented: Saturday, February 14th, 2015 @ 11:25 am By: Gene Scarborough

I have read a lot of stupid things pretending to be smart ~~~ this is the worst yet!
(1) The biggest and most efficient expansion of the US was a result of national railroads at the end of the 1800's and into early 1900's.
(2) Only a fool blinded by the sun would think rail transport of heavy goods is efficiently done by expensive highways with high maintenance/fuel costs.
(3) I grew up in Atlanta, congested beyond imagination since the early 50's, the ONLY solution to traffic snarls is their light rail and satellite parking.
(4) It costs the taxpayer far less the highways. I can now get off a plane , collect my baggage, walk 100 yards to the MARTA station which takes me to 5-Points and then out to Stone Mountain in 1/3 the time of the drive and without ANY traffic issues.
(5) I have been to Europe and England where trains are still in place and every large city has a light rail system. The BEST way to get around is rail in cities and train in the countryside.

It is scenic, far less stressful, way much cheaper than a car on a highway . . .

Commented: Wednesday, February 11th, 2015 @ 5:27 pm By: Gene Scarborough

I am from Atlanta, a Georgia Tech fan by default because Emory has not major sports presence, but I could not miss Dean Smith upon coming to Wake Forest in 1967-70.

Coach Smith did more than we realize to improve the moral stance of NC on racial issues. So much as to be a Baptist and draw the accolades of a Rabbi who wrote this:
John Feinstein, who is writing a book about Smith, interviewed his pastor, the Rev. "Robert Seymour, who recounted that when Smith arrived in Chapel Hill, he was appalled to learn that the restaurants in town were segregated. The two men agreed that Smith would patronize restaurants where he was known and bring black members of his church with him, pretty much forcing the restaurants to serve them. Thus began the integration of restaurants in Chapel Hill. When Feinstein asked Smith about this, he said he wished Rev. Seymour had not told Feinstein. Feinstein asked if he weren’t proud of what he had done. Dean Smith responded: "You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do the right thing."

Dean Smith found himself in a highly segregated culture in which equality—along the lines of color, religion, sex, politics, and socio-economics—was unthinkable, even unimaginable. Prof. Joshua Berman of Bar-Ilan University, the author of Created Equal, tells us that Tana"kh (Hebrew Scripture) was the Dean Smith of its day. In Berman’s own words[1]: "…the Pentateuch is history’s first blueprint for a society where theology, politics, and economics embrace egalitarian ideals, by reconstituting ancient norms and institutions….The Pentateuch, I claim, took aim at the socioeconomic structure prevalent throughout the ancient Near East: the divide between the dominant tribute-imposing class and the dominated tribute-bearing class." And in the next breath, Berman notes that the italicized terms are borrowed from Norman Gottwald[2] and that, "it is hard to imagine us convening a session on the theme of equality and the Pentateuch had it not been for his life’s work around these ideas." (Please note Berman’s humility; I’ll return to that in a moment.) He continues: "By rejecting social stratification, I mean rejecting the permanent and institutionalized power given to particular classes to control the economic, military, and political resources of society." Does this sound like the Near East 2500 years ago? Or North Carolina in the 1960s? Or both?"
~~~ "High Scorer," Rabbi Amy Scheinerman / weekly article

Thanks, Coach Smith --- INTEGRITY is hard to find in prominent folks anywhere!!!

Commented: Wednesday, February 11th, 2015 @ 4:56 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Ask the same of many things today, but with a view to helping them do better rather than being fired . . .

Commented: Tuesday, February 10th, 2015 @ 9:38 pm By: Gene Scarborough

VA is fighting a pollution problem on the Chesapeake that we do not have in NC. It would stand to reason that we should be able to compete ~~~ until we see the ash dump waste work its way down and potential fracking effects.

You can't have both clean and pristine water and it production and raping NC for fossil fuels as well as offshore drilling . . .

Commented: Monday, February 9th, 2015 @ 2:49 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Hood seems to be a "hood" to me --- he touches the mean and hateful side of his constituents rather than set an example of good diplomacy and working FOR all the people of Beaufort County . . .

Until our County Commissioners start using wiser dialogue to make some progress, we wax and wane in REGRESSIVE ways . . . Just glad I am not any paid employee who must cringe every month there is a meeting of the Commissioners.

The real issues are a dilapidated and dangerous jail / healthcare missing from Belhaven . . .

Commented: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 7:37 am By: Gene Scarborough

I have strong reservations about offshore drilling especially. I know the promises sound so good, BUT what happens when a drilling rig ruptures as did the one in the Gulf operated by BP? The spilled goo throughout the Gulf of Mexico. The disbursement chemicals are already affecting fish and shellfish in negative and unknown ways for the worst. Their tar balls are already washing up on our Outer Banks.

With the same area perfect for wind electrical generation, why would we want to risk both the Outer Banks and the Gulf Stream in the face of severe storms certain to traverse the Graveyard of the Atlantic? BP was SUPPOSED TO HAVE containment domes over all their wells as an insurance against a blowout---BUT THEY DID NOT!

If you trust Big Oil after they put so much money into electing Senator Thom Tillis, why should they be entrusted with the most pristine waters of the Atlantic Ocean all along the Eastern Shores of the US. I just don't see it as a wise move when we know fossil fuels must be replaced with solar, wind, and tidal changes to produce the needed energy.

I believe we can create just as many jobs and income by going other directions far more safe for our lovely state. It is a tourist mecca devoid of oil drilling and potential spills. If you believe fracking is safe, why are the chemicals used now a felony to divulge under the new NC law passed last summer?

The Governor makes good promises, but he was the spokesman for Duke Energy which has put ash dumps on the Haw River which contain many caustic and cancer causing elements in them. They are polluting the heck out of the inland fish. . . now Duke is wanting taxpayers to clean up their mess making big money on energy they sell to us at a substantial profit.

"The LOVE of money is the root of all evil" is simple to say. Our loss of a middle class to the 1% owning 80% of US money is scary. It is not anywhere near being corrected from the Trickle Down VooDoo of the great salesman, Ronald Reagan.

Commented: Saturday, February 7th, 2015 @ 4:15 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Too bad you are such a political conservative freak that you miss the qualities of Jimmy Carter:
(1) He walked down Pennsylvania along with his wife as a show of humility.
(2) He refused to go to war over oil prices in the Middle East.
(3) He was a DC outsider and those embedded were hell bent to make his way hard.
(4) He ordered the mission to save Iran hostages, but it failed---had he been successful it would have been all glory and honor / because of the failure all Presidents since have shied from action that brought Osama to justice by WHO?
(5) The back channels got Reagan elected by keeping the hostages until he won office by the same crooked means as too many Republicans. FLA / Bush
(6) He has become a honoree with the Nobel Peace Prize and Habitat work along with several published works honoring wise diplomacy over war.
(7) Have you ever been offered an Adjunct Professorship at Emory and the likes?

He is a man of love and diplomacy / you are one of the most hard-headed and angry Conservatives I have ever debated, but since you have some good sense to reason in a debate, I honor your conservatism, good buddy . . .

We shall agree to disagree on many things and that is OK by me.

Commented: Saturday, February 7th, 2015 @ 6:22 am By: Gene Scarborough

My God, you are prone to overstatement --- on behalf of the other person, Stan.

I am simply saying, "If the shoe fits, we must own it." Our activity at Abu Garib and Guantanamo were hidden as were the death camps / people died and were tortured at our hands by the orders of Bush / Cheney / etc. The only ones dealt with thus far were soldiers at the lowest levels following orders.

Emory gave me the ability to reason and get out of my southern conservatism to a better kind of conserving that which is wiser. I often wonder where you got your training in abject Republican / Tea Party Conservatism. Explain, if you can . . .

Commented: Friday, February 6th, 2015 @ 10:13 am By: Gene Scarborough

Just up this morning from yesterday's hearing of the Armed Services Committee:

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This guy is a young Turk with a hate that won't quit --- does he speak for you, Stan?

Commented: Friday, February 6th, 2015 @ 6:22 am By: Gene Scarborough

Dealing with Hood is like keeping a bulldog from a piece of fresh meat, it seems!

Why the numerous distractions when we have the jail issue and Belhaven hospital as far more important matters . . .

Commented: Thursday, February 5th, 2015 @ 9:16 am By: Gene Scarborough