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Yeah, tell me how good that “moral compass” works for the rest of us. (H/T: Powerline)
We’re used to hearing rants when they get the percentage raise in a government body budget (e.g., some govt budget only gets a 3% raise instead of the 5% proposed one). They holler, “CUT! CUT!, they CUT my budget!”
I’ve been railing (wailing?) for a while about how the Left is perverting our language right out from underneath our lips. Like Transgender – a word of the Left. We should be calling it by its actual name ALL the time: gender dysphoria.
When I took a statistics class in college, the first book we were assigned was “How To Lie With Statistics” by Darrel Huff (1954). The focus was how numbers can be managed and massaged to seem to make them lean in the direction you would like your readers to lean.
Alternative title: Democrats: Rights, Entitlements – what’s the difference? Democrats don’t want you to think about differences. There are BIG differences and Grokster Beth, over on the Nashua Politics Page, made a challenge over this statement made by NH State Senator Cindy Rosenwald in this specific topic of, once again, Democrats deliberately maldefining common words … Read more
BUMPED: from APRIL 17, 2016. I was searching for something else (there’s a lot that turns up with over 36,000 posts in here) but came across this about New Harmony – America’s SECOND run at Socialism (the Plymouth Pilgrims were first, IMHO) that failed horribly because all attempts at Socialism fail. Why? There will NEVER be “the right people to implement” because they refuse, unlike our Founders, to recognize that we humans can’t (or won’t) be “evolved”. They view us as mere parts of their “social machine” to be moved around as THEY want. Have a read because BERNIE SANDERS!
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If you are always reading, you will learn something new all the time! And this I didn’t know, that socialism (and the tendency of Progressives to try (force?) to “perfect” others arrived here on our shores much earlier than the late 1800s in this piece labeled “The Character of a Socialist” (emphasis mine, reformatted):
Upon initial inspection, Bernie Sanders’ near monolithic appeal to America’s youngest voters is perplexing. Why would the first generation of the 21st Century gravitate toward a living relic of the 20th Century who has made it his objective to rehabilitate the very worst idea of the 19th Century? Some say that it is a lamentable aspect of the modern age that history is poorly taught, and its lessons must be eternally relearned. The appeal of Bernie Sanders-style socialism may, however, have as many roots in the simple absence of a degree of prudence and wisdom, qualities that cannot be conferred in a classroom.
Nope, sometimes you need “failure experience” – something that these youngers haven’t had the time to get (and still quite full of themselves to boot).
A word to Bruce Currie, a frequent liberal commenter here at the ‘Grok whokeeps on insisting that a marketplace can ONLY exist with Government overseeing and regulating it. So, how is it possible for democracy to conflict with liberty? Democracy is a scheme for governing human interaction. But so is liberty, which is a system … Read more
UPDATE II – the bill has been sent to Interim Study by a vote of 14-6. I’m betting that we had, at least, some influence on that vote. I’m REALLY willing to bet that NH State Rep Jan Schmidt and Deb Steven’s collective utterances about others had much more to do with it. Instead of … Read more
Context is everything – and timing as well. And in this case, size and mass, too. Common sense? Well, if this meme exists, think about it. How many people have actually done this? (H/T: Powerline)
Calling all Candidates… The 603 Alliance will be holding our first 2020 Candidate Training on Saturday and Sunday, March 21st and 22nd in Manchester, NH. The 603 Alliance provides training and ongoing support for candidates who are committed to limited government and fidelity to the US and NH Constitutions. Our 2018 trainings received consistently positive … Read more
This has gotta hurt. Bloomberg’s minions, Everytown for Gun Safety and Mom’s Demand Action, in defenestrating the Second Amendment may well want to ignore their “sister” organization’s findings.
And I’m pointing her out as she is a sponsor of HB1159 which is meant to shut GraniteGrok simply because we: Disagree with her politically, triggering her inner “Cancel Movement” Keep putting up her voting record, triggering her “How DARE YOU!” Always publishing what she says and does, triggering her violent Berni-bro ness (such as … Read more
The political class has prospered by hiding from the public the cost of the public’s appetites. By making vast deficit spending not an occasional counter-cyclical recourse but a constant governing strategy, it has made big government deceptively cheap, giving today’s public a dollar’s worth of goods and services and charging them only about 80 cents. … Read more
Sixty-four percent of small business owners approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president, the highest approval rating for Trump among entrepreneurs since CNBC and SurveyMonkey began conducting a quarterly survey in 2017.
Sometimes, it’s enough to just sit back and watch someone else do something cool! pic.twitter.com/BrLo90zTP7 — Unusual Videos (@UnusualVideos) February 20, 2020 (H/T: PJ Media)
I was watching the Democrat Prez Debate in Las Vegas and I think that this was a special moment that really brought out the deer-in-headlights of all of the Prez Wannabees: Warren, Sanders, Biden, Buttegieg, Klobuchar; asked by Hizzoner Nanny Bloomberg who else up on that stage had ever actually added to our economy by … Read more
Sure thing, Democrat Prez Wannabees – there ain’t no way, no how, that you can “unite” the country. You’re all so Left you might as well be stationing yourselves off the mainland and in the Pacific. Do you really thing that just because you would be King Queen an Imperial President that those of us … Read more
Yep, that’s right. At least now. When you see the bills they are trying to pass in both Concord and DC, you know from whence they came. A Constitutional Republic depends on a number of things but most of all, adherence to The Rule of Law, Equality before the Law, the Right to Private Property, … Read more
What IS it with Democrats – why have they become the Party of Censorship? It has come to my attention that NH State Rep Liz McConnell (D-Brentwood) is, once AGAIN, trying to silence and have the Brentwood Newsletter defunded (it is supported, in a small way, by Petition Warrant in Brentwood) and shut down? Do … Read more
It comes down to “Who Chooses”? With Socialism, in that everything is owned by “all” and the majority ALWAYS overrules the minority (and the smallest minority is YOU), the Government chooses (whether you like it or not). You are only a cog in a collective. With Capitalism and our Representative / Constitutional Republic, that adheres … Read more