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Skip Continuing onward! Next up is the segment where Grokster Susan has a dustup over “White Chicken Chili” with Greg Moore of AFP/NH and then the guy I keep saying “makes my head hurt” for coming up with another way to look at meanings comes on to talk just about that – and his Shaolin Rifleworks accuratized long guns.
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Yes, we DID talk about former NH GOP Exec Dir Matt Mowers on GrokTALK! this past Saturday at Liberty Forum. And now that he is “Governor Chris Christie’s Campaign boy Matt Mowers” (as Steve called him), he seemingly wishes to be buddy – buddy with your’s truly. After call after call, post after post, of asking him to contact me over the problematic situation of the NH GOP Delegates amending the Platform and then the NH GOP Staff not updating those changes until after the November election (the Elites were embarrassed that the base holds views they think are “icky” – or showed that the top two candidates on the ticket were out of sequence with their own base and then promptly lost anyways).
Why? Let me count the single largeish way and not let it be “water under the bridge” in a matter of speaking:
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I haven’t put one of these types of letters up for a bit but given the wretched results (again, we no longer listen to the words, only care about real results!) we are seeing from the Republican majorities in both Concord and DC, I expect to see more and more of this; from the Daily Signal:
The last paragraph quoting Rep. Tim Huelskamp hits the nail on the head. The big Republican donors got their cheap labor.
“The biggest donors to the Republican establishment, they all are happy today. They got their amnesty,” Huelskamp said. “They just hope the issue goes away and somehow they think conservatives are still going to show up and vote for whoever the presidential nominee is.”
I can almost guarantee that conservatives will not show up and vote for whoever the Republican nominee is because we don’t see a difference between what I call “Republican elite” and Democrats.
In part from The Hill:
…Obama said that there are “a lot of law abiding, responsible gun owners” that use guns for protection, sport or as part of a tradition. But he added that upping background check requirements on gun purchasers is a policy that everyone should endorse.
“It is not violating anybody’s rights that if you want to purchase a gun, it should be at least your responsibility to get a background check so we know you were not a violent felon or that you don’t currently have a restraining order on you because committed domestic abuse.”
Once again, I dryly note his word usage – tell me, Mr. Obama, what
Instead of Government limiting itself according to the Constitution, it always seems to want to be limiting us instead. (H/T: Liberal Logic 101)
Talking on Fox News Sunday about the Ferguson report and the “disparate outcomes” on arrest records
Kim Strassal: Are we going to trust the Justice Department? Again, Eric Holder came out and said we’re not stop until we fix these things here.
Neera Tanden (Center for American Progress): Yes, we should not stop until we fix things here.
Strassal: But does anyone think that the Justice Dept. is best positioned to do be doing that?
“It’s axiomatic that the worst political scandals are those that reinforce a pre-existing, negative perception,” Will said. “The Clintons come trailing clouds of entitlement and concealment and legalistic, Jesuitical reasonings — the kind of people who could find a loophole in a stop sign.” (H/T: Fox News)
Whatever happened to that old journalism phrase, “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable”? Or what the Founders meant – to be a check on Government? Blinded. Combine this with the lack of will of the Congress to exercise its considerable powers (or the opposite – the abject surrender), we are finding ourselves stepping more and more in … Read more
As Steve points out, we were at this weekend’s Liberty Forum (Radisson at Manchester, NH) for a VERY extended GrokTALK! yesterday – instead of the normal 4 segments of around 30 minutes each, we have 12 video segments from around 15 minutes to over a 1/2 hour. So, all the video has been snipped, titled, and … Read more
Intolerant is the word (back story here) – believe as we say or retribution will come pretty much sums up the story of Brendan Eich who lost the CEO position at Mozilla / Firefox simply because he gave a donation years earlier to a pro-traditional marriage group during California’s Prop 8. Thus, upon seeing this news seemed like proper Karma:
An incredibly shrinking Firefox faces endangered species status
Mozilla’s Firefox is in danger of making the endangered species list for browsers.
…In the last 12 months, Firefox’s user share — an estimate of the portion of all those who reach the Internet via a desktop browser — has plummeted by 34%. Since Firefox crested at 25.1% in April 2010, Firefox has lost 13.5 percentage points, or 54% of its peak share.
At Firefox’s 12-month average rate of decline, Mozilla’s desktop browser will slip under the 10% bar in June, joining other third-tier applications like Apple’s Safari (with just a 4.8% user share in February) and Opera Software’s Opera (1.1%). If the trend continues, Firefox on the desktop could drop below 8% as soon as October.
This is what Democrats do because they hate productive people: I found this to be true – a lot of them, when required to pay for something themselves, would refuse to pull the bucks out of their own pockets. But when someone else is paying? No problem! And they’d complain EVERY time when I presented … Read more
Jeb Bush – part of the Bush Dynasty. It certainly seems that the Establishment GOP is rolling out the carpet for him; here in NH, he’s about to be squired around the State on Friday by Congressman Frank Guinta and former and failed NH GOP Chair Fergus “The Fringe” Cullen. The problem for me is, how is he going to be any different than a Hillary campaign.
Issue #1 – Illegal Immigration. Jeb wants to reward them (and so does Hillary). We just went THROUGH a Republican debacle in DC after they all campaigned against Obama’s illegal immigration Executive Order overreach – and what did we end up for a result (ignoring their words which turned out to be as hollow as a dead tree)?
In this clip (starting at 3:54), he’s for it: Its not a felony, it’s an act of love, drivers licenses for illegals, in state tuition price for illegals, and a pathway to citizenship
So what’s the bottomline? “Heck, I don’t care if you broke the law to get here, have we got stuff I want to give you”!
I just heard about this bill late this afternoon – our Legislature, led by the Democrat appointed Speaker of the House Jasper and his Jaspercrats joined with pretty much all the Democrats to prohibit minors from using a tanning bed. Once again, sticking their noses into a place where they really shouldn’t. But, then again, that’s what Progressives do (from both Parties):
NH State Rep Leigh Webb (D): “The role of government is to legislate behavior“
HOUSE BILL 136
AN ACT prohibiting tanning facilities from tanning persons under 18 years of age.
SPONSORS: Rep. Barnes, Rock 8; Rep. Azarian, Rock 8
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly AffairsANALYSIS: This bill makes it unlawful for a person under the age of 18 to use a tanning device at a registered tanning facility in this state.
It is also HOW they did it that burnt my toast – and it should your’s as well.
“The Republican Congress must rubberstamp all aspects of Obama’s destructive agenda, lest there be another government shutdown, temporarily inconveniencing a handful of people and providing RINOs with an opportunity to denounce the few conservatives who have infiltrated the GOP. Too bad government shutdowns don’t look like this.” The major problem is that the Obamas will … Read more
Don’t have any other explanation, because even stupidity doesn’t begin to explain it: We can also add the US House to that sentiment. Boehner and Frank Guinta melted faster than Odo into his bucket. (H/T: Liberal Logic 101)
Methinks you’re forgetting ONE little detail here:
“I am as outraged and frustrated as you at the lawless and unconstitutional actions of this president. … I believe this decision—considering where we are—is the right one for this team, and the right one for this country,” Boehner said, according to the source. “The good news is that the president’s executive action has been stopped, for now. This matter will continue to be litigated in the courts, where we have our best chance of winning this fight.”
Given Obama’s penchant for doing what he pleases now that he has “flexibility” , I think a lot of folks are thinking “Hey, Obama wouldn’t DARE disobey the courts!”. Me? Not so much – I think he’s perfectly willing to do so. And what’s Boehner and McConnell going to do then? Not much – they’ve already sworn off impeachment and we’ve just seen them watch Obama steal their Power of the Purse. Flapping their gums ain’t gonna do anything – Obama has just taken their lunch – and ours.
Thomas Jefferson’s Memorial has this as one of its inscriptions:
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever.”
“Gift of God” – THE anchor point from which our Rights flow. Not from Man and not from some collective. Sure, it was a collection of men that wrote the words but they believed, too. They acknowledged that there is a Higher Power from whom our freedom and our liberty flows from. They wanted to establish that with this fact, who was Man to take them away from the then (and I guess now, given the collectivism we are being dragged into) radicalism that we were not to be subservient to a government – it was to be subservient to we sovereign citizens. This was one of our foundational values of our Republic as it buttresses their philosophy that it was no longer Kings that had divine right, it was each and every one of us that were sovereign before God and Nature’s God – a singular path to an absolute truth and to which Totalitarians, Communists, and Socialists rail against as they believe Man should serve The State. Think I’m wrong?
UPDATE: This should have gone up last nite but my laptop’s Wifi quit just before hitting the PUBLISH button. Anyways, I’ll have another Frank Guinta post going up in a few.
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Deja vu all over again; I thought he might have learned from his involuntary pause in Congressional employment (due in no small measure to his failure to keep his promise to his supporters to do EVERYthing he could to cut Federal Government spending – and then promptly voted for two successful Continuing Resolutions that HIKED spending), but I guess not. Advance to the NOW – the Main Responsibility of anyone one elected to Congress is:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
So, did he do so, support, defend, bear truth faith, and allegiance? Ok, can we just try defend – with his vote?
From his “Thoughts on a Sunday“:
The totalitarians-in-training at Clemson University are calling for stripping everyone on campus of their First Amendment rights, making sure no one can voice opposing viewpoints they may find offensive, or worse, true.
What shocked the Clemson community was the professors’ support of the students’ first demand, which called on the university “to prosecute criminally predatory behaviors and defamatory speech committed by members of the Clemson University community (including, but not limited to, those facilitated by usage of social media).”
Unfortunately this idea is not restricted to Clemson alone. There are plenty of colleges and universities where the same push to censor free speech reside. I remember having a conversation with a college student on the campus of the University of New Hampshire a few of years ago. He was protesting the freedom of people to voice opinions that he found to be “hate speech” and “contrary to progressive beliefs” and a bunch of other such drivel.
And then, I think Chan hit his flashpoint; I would have PAID to see this “slow to anger but then WATCH OUT!” friend:
