Comments by Gene Scarborough | Eastern North Carolina Now

We can work much harder on cooperative government and society than we have in the past. Frankly, I would have thought enough time had passed to solve this problem between 1950's and now. It is disappointing to see people so loving hate and division that they miss the opportunitiy to love and respect one another.

Some hearts must change to see better days.

Commented: Friday, August 18th, 2017 @ 12:04 pm By: Gene Scarborough

I have yet to meet a woman who had an abortion who did not feel guilt over the decision. This is such a superficial discussion as to not warrant much argument. My problem with abortion is the way it soon ignores the simple problem of a child not really wanted and how such lack of will translates to a bad environment which tends to warp normal development normally had in a loving and inviting family.

The worst evil I see in most current abortion debate is how women could be relegated to back room abortions in shadows the procedure does not need. Before Roe v. Wade was decided women lived in a hell of being stuck with an unwanted child to rear as well as great danger from filthy procedures.

Another problem I have is with anti-abortion people disguising themselves as a clinic or service to offer help to a struggling woman. They bombard an already guilt-ridden person with more pressure to change their troubled mind in a pre-determined direction. In such a case you have used a lie to a dilemma full of moral angst!

The lady sounds and acts so superficial that I would not expect many in her class to take her seriously and be influenced greatly. This is a most serious matter for anyone pregnant and not wanting a child. There are so many people wanting to adopt a child that I would lean to that route as a wiser road.

As a summary observation, I think much of the political debate on this is being done by men who don't have to bear a child. I would caution men to defer to women as the real victims of unwanted pregnancy. How dare any man dictate to women when he is likely not going to undertake the financial and moral responsibility of fatherhood.

To make a bad situation worse is never wise, in my view . . .

Commented: Thursday, August 10th, 2017 @ 8:41 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Deborah was originally from Rocky Mount and her family attended the same church as my wife. We have had a great interest in this situation for several days now along with input from my wife's Rocky Mount friends.

She was being treated with some medication for a Urinary Track Infection and a side effect was disorientation and thought disruption. No one knows exactly how any medicine will affect them.

I am grateful she has been found, but sad she has left this life. I am also impressed with the level of volunteer concern along with the good search effort once her car was located and identified. It should bring a good feeling of security to Beaufort County residents to know we have such good services from responders.

We are now retired and expect to live to the end here in Beaufort County. It is a great place to live in your last days of life.

Commented: Monday, August 7th, 2017 @ 6:33 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Sometimes it shows a great deal of WISDOM to SAY NOTHING!!!

Commented: Sunday, April 3rd, 2016 @ 10:13 am By: Gene Scarborough

Just as Atlanta and GA are at ends of the political and sexual scale, so are Charlotte and much of the rest of NC.

We who grew up on the farm know there are certain male animals as well as female who love to play in the pasture with their same sex buddies. We can whisper about them in the small corners under a tree and ignore them, but "God hep" the one who mentions it in public . . .

Commented: Wednesday, March 30th, 2016 @ 1:09 pm By: Gene Scarborough

One of my favorite stories is of the jokester family member who was the only one with the first birth of his brother's twins. Holding his breath, the brother asked him what name he gave the first one.

The answer was "Denise" --- and he gave a great sigh of relief. Then he asked about the second one's name. "De Nephew" was the answer!!!

Commented: Monday, March 28th, 2016 @ 4:56 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Like the guy who constantly won the Million Dollar Roundtable no matter what he had to do got a question yelled at him from the balcony:

"Are you really happy???"

Commented: Friday, March 25th, 2016 @ 8:49 am By: Gene Scarborough

If you are so wanting to kill people---just join our Military and get PTSD from all the blood and destruction you get to witness. . .

Commented: Thursday, March 24th, 2016 @ 10:25 am By: Gene Scarborough

I graduated Emory in 1967. It was "the rebellious 60's" elsewhere and Emory students did an Affirmation Vietnam rally at the Braves Stadium. They now get students with issues from home as they always have! Get over it modern crybabies. . .

I would see where Newt Gingrich was that night since he is also am Emory grad from my same era.

Since NC is trying to change our state schools to Conservative Stamp machines, maybe Emory is just trying to copy us . . .

Commented: Thursday, March 24th, 2016 @ 10:08 am By: Gene Scarborough

Don't leave out "The Donald" when it comes to truth-telling issues. His own party is now conspiring to stop his non-stop bull spewing.

Commented: Friday, March 18th, 2016 @ 10:56 am By: Gene Scarborough

I fail to see any wisdom in drilling oil in the Graveyard of the Atlantic. The location between the Outer Banks and Gulf Stream is guaranteed to have a blow out sooner or later and the environmental damage would be intolerable to me.

Any of us living in Coastal Carolina and down river from possible fracking inland would be part of a Crude Oil Sandwich which would destroy aquatic life already under assault from river pollution already taking place.

For me, the wiser approach is to seek energy from alternative sources to Petroleum. It is undeniable that the environment suffers from pollution already in place from past practices. It is time to look seriously to the future for me. . .

Commented: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 11:44 am By: Gene Scarborough

We are saddened with this great man's death. Even his opponent on the Bench has comments worth reading as the situation is resolved in the best way possible:

www.slate.com

Commented: Monday, February 15th, 2016 @ 10:14 am By: Gene Scarborough

We got a Conservative from Texas as the new UNC System President. The connection with George Bush is obvious as well.

The Southern Baptist Convention did the same tactic (out of Texas) with its seminaries. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest had their changes forced on them in the late 80's. Now they are graduating students with a mega church mentality and king preacher model being taught to naive students---many of whom have no clue about Southern Baptist history. Their professor of denominational studies is re-writing the history to agree with Conservative contentions that "change was necessary."

Now the local rural churches which used to count on good student pastors are going to Duke, Campbell, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond for their pastors. They did so after much church fighting as the new kind of Baptist preachers were naively called to serve --- rather than to dictate.

Dr. Bill Friday years ago interviewed the new SEBTS President, Paige Patterson, as he came from Texas to lead the biggest Baptist preacher school east of the Mississippi. Dr. Friday prefaced the interview saying, "This is, perhaps, the most significant change in NC in the last century. Now, the pulpits of NC and surrounding states will have a vastly different product than since this school was founded in the 1950's in Wake Forest on the old College campus." (loosely quoted)

I think the purpose of changing our University System to a different model is purposely in hopes of graduating only Conservatives to the businesses of NC. It will result in students seeking higher education in more balanced schools of higher learning even though the cost will be higher.

The model for higher education has been a time of self-examination and mind-stretching experiences higher education done right should be. Change the Supreme Court / change the education model --- in order to further control minds toward a skewed outlook on life and decision-making.

America was founded on a model of freedom and democratic voting so the tax paying citizens get a balanced representation which helps instead of harms and uses tax money for some fore-ordained purpose. It is a disguised form of a new dictatorship, in my view . . .

Commented: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 9:59 am By: Gene Scarborough

If ANY President were a dictator, this article would be appropriate and accurate. Since he has had to contend with a divided electorate filled with hate and non-cooperation, it reflects more on the American people than any individual leader.

Face it---Rush Limbaugh is a big mouth who threatened to leave if Obama won a second term---yet is still here getting rich off hate and division. I don't waste my time on his BS and that of other conservative-obsessed media. WE have done better in past years / we can do better now / vote against Conservatism in 2016 and then we will see real improvements in America and NC crazy.

Commented: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 9:05 am By: Gene Scarborough

I trust the stamp is self descriptive, Stan . . .

Commented: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 1:16 pm By: Gene Scarborough

Should your stamp, Stan, be "Screwed by Conservative"????

Commented: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 1:07 pm By: Gene Scarborough

I am wondering 2 things:

(1) When Stan will stop his smear words --- thinking "liberal" is one of them
(2) When the battle between Trump and Carson will deteriorate to a fist fight

I have never in my entire lifetime seen such antics a year and some months before we even have the national election and months before the National Election meetings of either party . . .

Commented: Tuesday, October 27th, 2015 @ 12:14 pm By: Gene Scarborough