4 April 2017 - Granite Grok

April 4, 2017

From making sport of to….silence. Which should concern us all

Nope, not gonna link because, well, I’m not going to out someone who doesn’t want to be.  But first, my response: THis is REALLY scary when you start thinking about the ramifications, not just about Rice being outed for outing others but that your friends just got yanked backwards as if they were movie stunt …

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Blogline of the Day (Part 3) – the dumbest line of the day (I think)

Schumer: How about instead of nuking the filibuster, you let Democrats help choose Trump’s SCOTUS nominee? Yeah, the Republicans won the election to do THAT? If that happened, Senate Minority Leader Chuckie Schumer would be the Senate Majority Leader in slightly less than two years. And neither Trump or Pence would be in the Oval …

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Notable Quote – Frank Furedi

When political commentators talk of the emergence of a post-truth world, they are really lamenting the end of an era when the truths promoted by the institutions of the state and media were rarely challenged. It’s a lament that’s been coming for a few years now. Each revolt of sections of the public against the …

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Blogline of the Day (Part 2) – Republican “dedication”?

FORMER CONGRESSMAN TOM PERRIELLO: I lost my seat in Congress because I voted for Obamacare. I don’t regret that decision at all. House Republicans have yet to show similar commitment to their oft-stated principles. He was willing to sacrifice his political career for Socialism (for that is what Obamacare is – just like the VA). …

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Remember, ole’ US Senator Ted Kennedy restarted the politicization of SCOTUS

What we’re seeing today with the severe politicization of SCOTUS nominations (simply because Government has become so big and intrusive, the stakes for any nominee are YUGE!) does have a history, and one that Ted Kennedy (“The Swimmer”) way back gave a huge kickstart.  The history from a piece called “Ted Kennedy Killed the Judicial …

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