18 April 2017 - Granite Grok

April 18, 2017

Blogline of the Day – Actually, a confirmation of my earlier Blogline of the Day

We’re seeing the obviousness of Western Society cultural suicide – and the fears are being realized. The Deconstruction of the West: The greatest threat to the liberal international order comes not from Russia, China, or jihadist terror but from the self-induced deconstruction of Western culture. The previous one SEEMS to be about the mass Muslim …

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Data Point – Feds collect the most in income taxes EVAH!

“Through March, the federal government collected approximately $695,391,000,000 in individual income taxes. That is about $7,387,280,000 more than the $688,003,720,000 in individual income taxes (in constant 2017 dollars) that the federal government collected in the first six months of fiscal 2016.” And we’re still running a yearly deficit of almost $527 BILLION.  Most of the …

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Blogline of the Day – Speaking Truth to Power about Sweden with snark

They live in a world defined by childlike assumptions of multiculturalism, but multiculturalism has worked for the West about as well as socialism worked for Venezuela. -Susan Stamper Brown (on Sweden’s societal suicide via mass immigration from incompatible cultures and the Leftist globalists that created it) Note: I almost used the line just before it …

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And most of society thought that “prepping” was for eccentrics and wackos

Just thought I’d leave this here: 20+ YEARS OF FECKLESS NORTH KOREA POLICY, AND NOW: North Korea tensions have Hawaii pols revisiting emergency attack plans. “The plans were last revisited in the 1980s. But the Hawaii House Public Safety Committee on Thursday formally called for the state’s defense agency to repair their hundreds of Cold …

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Whew – I thought I was already on the deep down slope!

JUST IN TIME!!! When I turned 40, a large contingent of friends from church threw me the obligatory “you’re over the hill” birthday party.  Who knew they were twenty years too early (emphasis mine, reformatted)? Middle age begins at 60, say researchers It was not so very long ago that hitting the milestone birthday of …

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US Senator Jeanne Shaheen – “Taxes should be simple”. That’s not what she means

Well, US Senator Jeanne Shaheen is a prime example of why they aren’t – she has always loved every new or expanded revenue source created.  Yet, like the GREAT Progressive politician she is (and I’m not using GREAT as a nice superlative). I’m on her mailing list and got the below.  Now, UNLIKE an engineer …

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