7 August 2014 - Granite Grok

August 7, 2014

GIGO Gecko-more proof that Obama’s EPA is killing coal & making electricity prices rise

GIGO Gecko, a new commenter, decided to challenge my post on rising electricity prices (now at an all time average high) which I peg, in no small part, to the EPA’s new regulations on CO2 emissions that carry out Obama’s promise in closing coal fired electrical generating plants – or cause the to go into bankruptcy.  …

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Blogline of the Day – Resolve vs Snotty

“His [Obama’s] greatest rhetorical skill turns out to be mockery. The man who once promised to transcend political divisions is an expert at the stinging partisan jab. What Churchill was to thundering statements of resolve, he is to snotty put-downs.” – Rich Lowry (syndicated columnist, National Review editor, TV pundit)  

Red Box Review: Divergent

Before I get all political, let me say that I enjoyed the movie, Divergent.  I liked the characters, and took an interest in their circumstances, even though I had a hard time suspending disbelief with regard to the world they live in. Divergent is set in a classic post-apocalyptic progressive utopian society.  Human natures and …

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Gov Transparency Site Misses $619 billion, Data They Do Have is Wildly Inaccurate

Doug Powers – Michelle Malkin.com Transparency we can believe in? A government website intended to make federal spending more transparent was missing at least $619 billion from 302 federal programs, a government audit has found. And the data that does exist is wildly inaccurate, according to the Government Accountability Office, which looked at 2012 spending …

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“… when there are only a few of us left, we will feel an irresistible pull towards a far away land ..”

The Obama’s hosted 50 leaders from Africa this week, many of them tyrants and dictators. The red carpet was rolled out for Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who shot or jailed virtually all his political opponents, Gambia’s Yahya Jammeh, who threatened to ‘cut off the head’ of any homosexuals in the country and for …

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About Those ‘Social Issues’

A snippet from Selwyn Duke – American Thinker… rebutting the notion that government should stay out of ‘social issues.’ As I predicted years ago and wrote about here, there now is a movement afoot — one that has received “unbiased” mainstream-media news coverage — to legitimize pedophilia. Moreover, it has co-opted the language of the …

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Notable Quote – Jonah Goldberg on the ravages of Progressive Woodrow Wilson on America

“I believe it is no exaggeration,” wrote sociologist Robert Nisbet, “to say that the West’s first real experience with totalitarianism — political absolutism extended into every possible area of culture and society, education, religion, industry, the arts, local community and family included, with a kind of terror always waiting in the wings — came with …

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Shades of Ian Underwood – especially when the police start saying it

During the NH anti-gun bills debates, a gentleman by the name of Ian Underwood gave his testimony  to the NH Legislature on what he saw as a large problem in the legislators’ behavior in ignoring their oaths of fidelity to the NH Constitution: The first is that a bill like this undermines respect for the very …

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