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.
About the only time I use a LOT of salt is right now – for corn on the cob. The local farm we patronize (“Farmer Andy” as DCE over at Weekend Pundit calls him) has a great brand of butter and sugar corn. There have been some years that I’ve remembered to go get some and realized that they’ve already closed for the day. THIS year, we’ve reliably picked it up pretty much every other day. Which for me has meant quite a bit of salt:
Participants in a recent study with the highest intake of sodium and potassium actually had significantly lower blood pressure, according to an analysis presented earlier this year at the American Society for Nutrition’s Scientific Sessions meeting in Chicago. The group with the lowest blood pressure averaged a daily sodium intake of 3.7 grams a day, far higher than the guidelines suggest.
SHOT: Perfect. Hungary Sends The EU A Bill For Their Border Fence
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been something of a thorn in the side of the EU for quite a while now when it comes to the refugee crisis and questions over terrorism and illegal immigration. While most of the rest of the union has been bending over backwards to keep pace with Angela Merkel’s plans for unlimited immigration and open borders, Hungary has taken a hard line in keeping the illegal migrants out. This has led the EU to recently consider imposing penalties on Hungary for their failure to get with the program.
Orban came up with an even better response of his own. He just sent the European Union a bill for $476 million to cover half the cost of the razor wire fence he put up to keep the flow of immigrants out.
Hungary wants the European Union to pay half the bill for the razor-wired fence it erected in 2015 to keep migrants out, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s administration announced Thursday. The fence has virtually erased illegal immigration into Hungary less than two years after it was considered the primary route for migrants attempting to enter the EU. Janos Lazar, Orban’s chief of staff, claims the 400 million euro ($476 million) figure is justified since the fence is “protecting all the citizens of Europe from the flood of illegal migrants.”
CHASER: Report: White House Weighing Mexican Remittance Fee To Pay for Southern Security Wall…
LEO -> Law Enforcement Officers. This was amusing as well: “She found that with an estimated 270 million firearms owned by everyday Americans, civilians own 70 times more weapons than all police and military services combined.” When you see things like that, remember this from one of our Founding Fathers: Who are the militia? Are … Read more
PARENTING: Forget the Terrible Twos, It’s ThreEVILs You Have to Worry About. Our boys both got through the Terrible Twos with barely an incident, but they have no idea how lucky they were that we allowed them to see the age of four. You? (H/T: Instapundit)
Yeah, from my previous post about some Lefty SJW whining about “untrained volunteers” – where would Houston et al and Louisiana be without volunteers? Anywhere, for that matter, right? I mean, what regular Army platoon keeps a couple of these bad boys around along with the guys that go “Here, Cletus, hold m’beer” and create … Read more
SHOT: Sharpton Leads ‘Ministers’ March’ to Protest Trump: ‘This Nation Is in Moral Trouble’ …The march was spearheaded by Sharpton, who also made political remarks that addressed what he called “immoral” actions happening in the United States. “We wanted 1,000 rabbis, Sikhs, imams, Christian ministers of all denominations because we wanted to say this nation is in moral … Read more
A bit of good news – the pace of the economy is actually doing better than initial reports (reformatted, emphasis mine): The U.S. economy grew faster than initially thought in the second quarter, notching its quickest pace in more than two years, and there are signs that the momentum was sustained at the start of … Read more
N.H. State Democratic Party Chair Raymond “Buckles the Clown” Buckley
Ray Buckley, Chair of the NH Democrat Party, has a missive in the Concord Fishwrap about we plebes voting. Thus:
SHOT: My Turn: Fighting back against disenfranchisement
This week the New Hampshire Democratic Party filed a lawsuit against the voter suppression bill known as Senate Bill 3. We refuse to stand idly by while Republicans try to strip away voting rights based on lies.
…SB 3 exposes eligible voters to criminal penalties simply for failing to understand or comply with confusing paperwork. It makes you sign a different form if you’re registering 31 days out as compared to 30 days out. It makes you prove not just that you live here, but that you intend to stay here.
If you can’t provide that information more than a month before Election Day, you will be turned away from registering. If you can’t provide this information within 30 days of an election, you will be subject to voter fraud investigation, including government officials knocking on your door and asking to see your papers.
CHASER: “…asking to see your papers.” Democrats must show ID
to attend and vote at NH Democrat annual meetings
to attend and vote at the national DNC conventions
There is no way or technique to get “vouched” later, right Ray? Like SB3? And aren’t you being discriminatory with that whack about “confusing paperwork” – nice way to word your bigotry of low expectations that your voters can’t deal with stuff like…..getting an ID? How well do they really like being “low browed” as you categorize them as having the minds of little children who can’t do “complicated”? My, such a way of viewing your base!
We should be mindful (and wary because) of his wise words: “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – President Abraham Lincoln
Traffic fatalities linked to pot are up sharply in Colorado
Federal and state data show that the number of drivers involved in fatal crashes in Colorado who tested positive for marijuana has more than doubled since 2013. A Denver Post analysis of the data and coroner reports provides the most comprehensive look yet into whether roads in the state have become more dangerous since the drug’s legalization.
It shows that Increasingly potent levels of marijuana were found in positive-testing drivers who died in crashes in Front Range counties. The trends coincide with the legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado.
And I find this….well, I’m thinking that the operative phrase may well be “self-serving”:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
California Constitution:
SEC. 2.
(a) Every person may freely speak, write and publish his or her sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of this right. A law may not restrain or abridge liberty of speech or press.
Antifa wants to beat on REAL fascists (which, in part, want to control your speech)? Look no further than your Progressive Totalitarian Overlords (otherwise known as Democrats) in the California Senate that just passed legislation to do just that – and the lower House is about to follow suit.
Again, this is very scary time for American Exceptionalism – it shows that the Progressive Totalitarians are winning at turning this country inside out:
…Citizens are wary of speaking their minds, a new poll suggests. Many Americans are opting to stay quiet in an intensified culture of political correctness fostered by activism and often biased media coverage. “Few Americans think they have true freedom of speech today and think the country is too politically correct,” reports a new Rasmussen Reports survey.
This kind of stuff is really starting to creep me out: scared of ideas, scared of people with differing opinions, scared of history, scared of not having safe spaces supplied with pillows, crayons, and puppies?? And now the NEXT thing that these adults-who-won’t-admit-they-are-children (and very small children at that):
“Doorbells are just so sudden. It’s terrifying,” says Tiffany Zhong, 20, the founder of Zebra Intelligence, which helps companies conduct custom research and gather insights on people born in the past two decades. There’s no published research about doorbell phobia, but it’s a real thing. In a poll by a Twitter user earlier this month that got more than 11,000 votes, 54% of respondents said “doorbells are scary weird.”
And before any of you “pro-Abortion Nazis” decide to try the tired, hackneyed, and trite shaming tactic of “well, YOU raise someone with genetic defects, then” (with their expected answer that I would have to respond that I haven’t and am not right now). I have two words for you. I am. And the child … Read more
CHASER: Liberals upset that VP Mike Pense refuses to
Vice President Mike Pence has been catching some flack for the revelation that, as detailed in a Washington Post profile, he allegedly refuses to dine alone with any woman who isn’t his wife Karen, nor will he attend any events with alcohol at them if she isn’t there. This struck many on the left as comically outdated and unnecessary, and led to quite a bit of mockery of the vice president.
It is not “allegedly” – that it is S.O.P for Mike Pence, current Veep of the US. I didn’t write about it at the time, but I agree with him and the “whys” of his choice of behaviors. More on that later. The point I want to make is, at the time, Liberals and Feminists all over had their panties in a bunch and were screaming “HOW DARE that Mike Pence “protect” his marriage in acting in such a way? See! The Chauvinistic Patriarchy!”.
Yeah, you keep telling yourselves that. Yet, do you see what I don’t see?
For whatever reason, this ain’t my night to do heavy stuff, but every once in a while, going light is right. I will have to say I was impressed with the number of elements in this that get double or triple duty but in different ways. Take the few minutes to watch even if you … Read more
About the only time I use a LOT of salt is right now – for corn on the cob. The local farm we patronize (“Farmer Andy” as DCE over at Weekend Pundit calls him) has a great brand of butter and sugar corn. There have been some years that I’ve remembered to go get some and realized that they’ve already closed for the day. THIS year, we’ve reliably picked it up pretty much every other day. Which for me has meant quite a bit of salt:
