28 December 2012 - Granite Grok

December 28, 2012

Vicious Dogs

“Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.”  —Francis Bacon   In New Hampshire if you are even slightly “nipped” by a dog, you can make a pile of cash! We are not talking about a Pit Bull Terrier …

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Quotes worthy of note….

“Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute calculates that Greece owes 875 percent of GDP for unfunded liabilities; the United States owes 911 percent, or almost twice as much as France at 549 percent.”  —Mark Steyn Are we broke?

Guns ownership to be banned in America?

Following up on GraniteGrok postings HERE, HERE, and HERE regarding Senator Dianne Feinstein’s bill to ban guns in America, this is worth reproducing verbatim from Instapundit:

Why We Can’t Have A Discussion With New Hampshire Democrats

Over at my other haunt, NH Insider, my Fridge mag cross-post elicited the following response from Democrat Jim Splaine on the matter of gun ownership, which exemplifies the reason why any discussion with Democrats on any subject is unlikely. Why can’t we have a real discussion about this issue? Just like the myths of an …

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The Free State Project gonna get your momma!

Good stuff! The outbreak of fear and trembling over the surging Free State Project freedom-fighters also helps expose the bigotry and narrow-mindedness of Statists, including even elected representatives. Best of all, New Hampshire bigotry alerts have gone national, being picked up and prompting a discussion at no less than Instapundit, as follows:

My after-Christmas shopping list…

I agree with author Jim Rawles when he commented on Her Majesty Feinstein’s proposed legislation: ‘If this is enacted, we can expect a nationwide shortage of 8″ diameter PVC pipe threaded end caps!’

Gun Confiscation, “Could Be An Option”

“Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”  —George Orwell  In my last post just only hours ago, I posited the notion that Gun Guntrol advocates are, in fact “Coming for our Guns.” During a radio interview New York Governor Andrew Cuomo …

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YOU sir, as a Cabinet Secretary, are BOUND to Constitutional strictures!

Once again, we see yet another Progressive downplay the values by which the government is to act by and to be held against.  Education Secretary Arne Duncan: “I want to talk to gun owners and hunters and sport shooters and ask them, what should we do? I want to talk about community and responsibility, and …

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