Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom and how the Government is taking that away. As an evangelical Christian and Conservative with small "L" libertarian leanings, my fight is with Progressives forcing a collectivized, secular humanistic future upon us. As a TEA Party activist, citizen journalist, and pundit!, my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture.
Our democratic Republic depends on a number of things and one of the major ones is that elected officials will (GASP!) follow the law themselves. They are role models, like it or not, and what they should be modeling at the very least is adherence to The Rule of Law. But it seems that Manchester wants to be like Chicago’s – law? What law – it just gets in the way of “getting things done”. Sorry, but the means NEVER should justify the end. Without transparency, there can be no Trust and without that, well, anything goes. ‘Grok friend Rich Girard as a take on the Progressives on the Board doing a “taking” of their own:
Another View — Rich Girard: Breaking the rules, and getting away with it
It is with some sense of amazement that I write this. On Monday, Sept. 25, the Manchester Board of School Committee did two things that actually made my jaw drop.
After all, there is no “middle ground”, NH State Senator Jeff Woodburn, on the part of Democrats on abortion is there? Either an innocent unborn baby is alive – or it is dead. Yet there is NO allowance by the Democrats for compromise on this issue – it is either full on on-demand abortion at any time (even to the point where adults other-than-the-girl’s-parents can take a girl to an abortion mill) or, well, no – that’s the only option. The ONLY option. Right, Jeff? Would you even consider giving up abortion if the Right gave up the death penalty for convicted felons?
I didn’t think so. Back to your NHPR interview. Seriously, you want to go to “middle ground” but FIRST you INSULT us? Way to go, dud(e), in trying to influence people. Did you spend anytime in Hollywood before coming to NH?
It would mean that only Government had the guns. If the British redcoats HAD disarmed the Patriots at Lexington and Concord (like the Democrats want to do), would we even have a United States of America? Note to Democrats: ask yourselves this question. Would history repeat itself? You keep saying that the US Military would … Read more
Frankly, he’s doing better than any other modern era Republican. Didn’t hurt that Dirty Harry (Reid) paved the way for the destruction of the Liberals hold on the judiciary. Emphasis mine – and note that at the bottom of this quote:
The media remains so caught up with the president’s tweets that it has missed Mr. Trump’s project to transform the rest of the federal judiciary. The president is stocking the courts with a class of brilliant young textualists bearing little relation to even their Reagan or Bush predecessors. Mr. Trump’s nastygrams to Bob Corker will be a distant memory next week. Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett’s influence on the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could still be going strong 40 years from now.
Okay Paul, you’re up. No more fooling around: Are you ready to get serious? Or do you just want to continue to nibble around the edges?
“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.” – President Obama, Inauguration (2009
Politically lazy or political cowardness?
“House Speaker Paul D. Ryan backed away Wednesday from legislative action to ban ‘bump stocks,’ the device a mass shooter used in Las Vegas earlier this month to create machine-gun-like rapid fire from his legal semi automatic rifle, killing 58,” washingtonpost.com reports. “Instead, Ryan and many of his fellow House Republicans hope the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) will act administratively to outlaw the devices, which the agency ruled legal in 2010.” Translation . . .
“Administratively“? Congress is supposed to legislate and the Executive Branch is supposed to, well, execute those laws. Period. If one is to be true to the Constitution there should be no discussion. This is a really damning statement from a Republican whose Platform says that the GOP believes in a limited Government and that Ryan has said the same thing on multiple occasions. The GOP and Ryan has made much of the Constitution and that the government’s governance is governed by it. Yet, go back and read that bolded part again and ask yourself “cognitive dissonance, or trying really hard to not stand up, trying not to lead, trying to avoid a hard situation, wanting to punt it elsewhere, and not wanting (eventually) to take a vote”?
THIS is one reason why he got elected both as a US Rep and as Speaker – to do all those things that now seem to be giving him the shakes. He wants the ATF to make the decision?
As Glenn Reynolds keeps saying we are blessed in having the worst political class ever!
Secret pharmacy serving Congress delivers Alzheimer’s drugs: “It makes you kind of sit back and say, ‘Wow, they’re making the highest laws of the land and they might not even remember what happened yesterday.’” …even if they can’t remember what it is (H/T: Instapundit)
“Do you know what stupid is? Stupid is continually telling a large portion of the population that they’re the cause of all social problems, you hate them, they’re Literally Hitler and you wish them dead. And then telling them oh by the way, please give up your guns.” – Ace And then after we hear … Read more
Glitz. Glamor. Red Carpets. Money galore. A reality all of its own. And more money. Power. Privilege. Klieg lights. The Beauties.
And the strand has been pulled from this ball of ugly yarn. A story land where Life is all fantasy and now we see that those Beautiful People who have been lecturing us Normals for decades have been putting up a shimmering facade that was but a nanometer thick. For all to see, the underside of that fantasy is the crypt that is truly Hollywood has appeared. In telling us that our values are petty, redneck, old fashioned, and not “hip”, we are now seeing how hypocritical it all really is. Faithfulness, duty, honor, values – you rubes are SO square and behind the times. And we ARE superior to you – you must adopt the values we tell you to.
Yeah, and your movies are bombing, you can’t come up with an original thought in your collective mind and the message back is “you all suck” and our wallets have been shutting closed (especially this summer season). But you all keep telling us,either yourselves or via your movies that we suck and how dare you not like us! Humpf!
Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national … Read more
.@marchandsteve tells @nhpr he would move to reinstate concealed carry permit requirement, push for universal background checks #NHpolitics — Michael Brindley (@MWBrindley) October 9, 2017 So, Marchand wants to overturn Constitutional Carry? Does that mean that gay marriage and abortion isn’t really “settled law” and thus is fair game? Good to know, Steve, good to know … Read more
Some didn’t even let the bodies cool – it is Progressive partisanship at its worst. No time for actual reflection, no time for grief, and no “safe space” for the victims’ families. Instead, even as the bodies were still on the ground, they went full political. AWR Hawkins has the list:
The Democrats cannot stop themselves when it comes to gun control, and proof of it lies in the fact that various Democrats—and/or Democrat surrogates—have voiced support for nine different gun controls since Sunday.
Ban on Bump Stocks – Sen. Dianne Feinstein is pushing this with her Automatic Fire Prevention Act. She admits that bump stocks are an accessory—that they do not convert semiautomatics into automatics—but she wants to ban them anyway. Her bill explicitly bans any accessory that allows an increase in rate of fire in short bursts but does “not convert the semiautomatic rifle into a machine gun.”
Ban on Trigger Cranks – Sen. Feinstein’s bill bans trigger cranks too. Like the bump stock, trigger cranks are another novelty that gun owners can use to achieve short, rapid bursts of fire. Such cranks allow a gun owner to mimic automatic fire yet do not convert a semiautomatic gun into an automatic one.
Ban on Semiautomatic firearms – Sen. Feinstein voiced support for this ban during her appearance on Face the Nation, and the Washington Post pushed for such a ban two days later.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
-Ronald Reagan (actor, speaker, author, Governor, President of the United States)
In a poll by FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), the results should be disheartening. Short changed by their high school educations and then further indoctrinated by the overwhelming Leftist (many outright Marxists) professors, these kids have no idea what their actual birthrights are for being American citizens. Emphasis mine
In the most comprehensive survey on students’ attitudes about free speech to date, FIRE measured student responses to questions about self expression, reactions to expression of other students, guest speakers, and hate speech. Some key findings include:
46 percent of students recognize that hate speech is protected by the First Amendment, and 48 percent of students think the First Amendment should not protect hate speech.
Most students (56 percent) support disinviting some guest speakers. Democratic students are 19 percentage points more likely than their Republican peers to agree that there are times a speaker should be disinvited.
58 percent of college students think it’s important to be part of a campus community where they are not exposed to intolerant or offensive ideas.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”
“For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
Some letter-writers who criticize my defense of so-called “price gouging” mistakenly assume that I oppose charitable actions to help victims of natural disasters (Letters, Oct. 11). In fact, I applaud any and all outpourings of such generosity. To the extent that big-hearted people make available, at zero or very low prices, additional supplies of goods such as water and propane, the prices of these goods are kept from rising as high as they would rise without such generous giving. This result is entirely commendable.
Yet the very fact that, with every natural disaster, prices of such goods nevertheless rise to levels higher than they were pre-disaster proves that the amounts of goods supplied charitably are insufficient to meet all of the victims’ needs at pre-disaster prices. The resulting rise in prices, therefore, continues to serve the useful function of enticing those people with ordinary-sized hearts to work harder to bring much-needed supplies to the victims and to persuade the victims themselves not to use available supplies frivolously.
A list of 70 odd requirements was issued by the White House on Sunday in response to the Democrats demanding and whining that the Obama Executive Order be “honored” by Trump (and actually want to extend that amnesty to their illegal alien parents that brought these then “kids” into our country illegally AND want to bring other family members in) and legislatively formalize this. The overriding question is “why didn’t you do this when you had supermajorities in the House and Senate AND held the Oval Office?
I’m on most of the major Democrat email lists – sometimes as my usual email address and sometimes under others. Most of the stuff is absolute emotion – their titles and content SCREAM emotion: “Women will DIE!”, “They want to put you back in chains!”, “This. Cannot. Happen.”, “LAST CHANCE!” and a recent one, “Poachers will win if this bill passes.” And yes, we are called EVIL.
If you don’t know, George Soros is the multibillionaire that, when a child, helped the Nazi in their Holocaust death camps. He is known for making money by currency manipulation of sovereign countries. He is an open faucet of money, via a whole gaggle of Progressive “charities” and when followed, it almost looks like money laundering. He’s one of the Left’s biggest donors over the decades. Also, he is no friend of Freedom and actively is working for a single world government and open borders.
In this piece from DC Whispers, he’s at it again. The Democrats talk about Trump in collusion with the Russians? Republicans ought to be yelling about Soros more often as he’s really trying to crush our sovereignty. Here’s one of those times where I do quote quite a bit of that post (reformatted, emphasis mine):
AMERICAN COUP: Big Money Donors Trying To Overthrow Trump Revealed. Here’s The List…
The establishments and elites that create our political and entertainment culture have no idea how fragile it all is—how fragile it seems to people living normal, less privileged lives. That is because nothing is fragile for them. They’re barricaded behind the things the influential have, from good neighborhoods to security alarms, doormen and gates. They’re … Read more
We don’t need you. We have your children – Herrman Goebbels
That second question in the title is from a post I did back in 2009 – and the question has only become more and more important over the last eight years so I suggest that you read it because here is another example of what Progressives in education believe about “truth”:
Two Canadian professors have developed an approach they call “Trojan horse pedagogy” to peddle social justice to otherwise unassuming students. Sal Renshaw and Renee Valiquette, both of whom teach at Nipissing University in Ontario, detailed their extensive “ruse” in a recently published book, boasting that their “Introduction to Interdisciplinary Analysis” class is actually a “social justice” course in disguise… “Our goal in this class is to move both hearts and minds, in part by ‘forcing’ an encounter with at least some knowledges that students have already decided they are not interested in,” Renshaw and Valiquette explain, adding that the classes are “rooted in… post-structural feminist theory.”
Our democratic Republic depends on a number of things and one of the major ones is that elected officials will (GASP!) follow the law themselves. They are role models, like it or not, and what they should be modeling at the very least is adherence to The Rule of Law. But it seems that Manchester wants to be like Chicago’s – law? What law – it just gets in the way of “getting things done”. Sorry, but the means NEVER should justify the end. Without transparency, there can be no Trust and without that, well, anything goes. ‘Grok friend Rich Girard as a take on the Progressives on the Board doing a “taking” of their own:
