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Skip …The Left is always trying to trick us into forgetting about the rising tide that lifts all boats, so we’ll be content with the shallow water and damp sand of central planning.
– John Hayward, RedState
That’s right – be happy with what Govt gives you for crumbs. Paragraph from whence that came from after the jump (GRTWT):
Last evening I drove down the to seacoast area of NH for a book signing by James O’Keefe on his new book (now a NYT Best Seller – man, I bet somebody was banging on their keyboard really hard for each letter to put that on their list, especially since Rush told folks to go buy it!) “BREAKTHROUGH – Our Guerrilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy“. No, I didn’t get mine signed then – I had an extra special time with James here. But I did record his talk to the house full of activists:
He was also gracious enough to take 12 questions from the attendees, including one from me:
(H/T: Lucianne)
Ted Cruz: “Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents’ garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents’ garage.” (H/T: Instapundit)
Phrase of the Show (by Father Christian Tudor: STAND YOUR GROUND MORALLY! Another good show, albeit a little bit different “feel” to it, yesterday during the recording of our weekly podcast of GrokTALK! – perhaps just bit more serious than normal. Groksters Susan, Mike, and Skip were there and we were blessed to have Father … Read more
Susan, Mike, Skip and Father Christian Tudor of Concord’s All Saints Anglican Church start off the show talking about the destruction of the vendors’ areas right outside the studio who had set up for Concord’s Market Day – walking in it was quite clear that some vendors would not recoup their profits in ruined equipment … Read more
Susan, Mike, Skip and Father Christian Tudor were joined by Jeff Chidester start off the Segment 2 by starting a process of Question and &Answers A question from the Fox News show “The Five”: Who kills more – Smith & Wesson or Ben & Jerry’s? State Judge won’t dishonor Obama with Detroit bankruptcy: A state judge … Read more
Susan, Mike, Skip and Father Christian Tudor were joined by Jeff Chidester start off the Segment 2 by starting a process of Question and &Answers First lots of waivers. THen the repeal of the 1099s. Then the CLASS Act. Then States refusing to expand Medicaid. Then States refusing to do the Exchanges. Lots of lawsuits … Read more
Susan, Mike and Father Christian Tudor, and Jeff Chidester continue on with Skip’s questioning (a patient lot, them!):
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Questions! I had lots of questions that went unanswered – most because they didn’t have the time to be asked:
So that said, I have a question for politicians of the stripe of Barbara Boxer and for pundits of the stripe of Paul Krugman: if arguments advanced by Mr. A justifiably fall under deep suspicion because Mr. A receives funding from some institution whose interest lies in widespread public acceptance of Mr. A‘s arguments, then … Read more
I lost all respect, years ago, for Laconia Daily Sun Reporter Michael Kitch when we had a blowout argument that my town was made up of residents and elected officials that were cheapskates. Certainly, he knew that I truly believed that when I was on the Budget Committee in my hamlet, I tried mightily to act in the vein that “this is not my money” – and spent a lot of time trying to convince others of the same. If anything, I tried to be more frugal with other peoples’ money, their property tax monies, than I am with my own. After all, it IS mine – I earned it and I should be able to spend it the way I want to.
Kitch believes otherwise – he could not understand (or stand) the idea that I (and my town, and other political entities) refused to raise the taxes on our residents simply to send that money to towns and cities that were broke. Broke not because the single industry in town just up and left (and to which I would have some empathy) but because of years and decades of Progressive / Liberal / Democrat rule – the largest example now being Detroit. As I have written here before, we had a screaming match over the fact that I refused to send money to the leaders of those towns, who have already proved that they are incapable of wisely spending their taxpayers monies. WHY would I want to send them more and “enable” their bad habits? His response was that ‘we are all in this together, that there were people still hurting in those cities, that the intent to help was paramount, and it was irrelevant that the political and appointed leaders would just waste that extra money.
Right…
Right Senator Byrd, (former Grand Gleagle of the KKK, Democrat Lion of the Senate, R.I.P.)? (H/T: Liberal Logic 101)
Tomorrow is coming! Tomorrow is coming! Once again, on a fine summer day in July, the hot topics and the people that will yak about them, will be in Concord: GrokTALK! Jeff Chidester, NH born and bred, Conservative activist, Master of Ceremonies Extraordinaire, Talk show host of New Hampshire Perspectives, and General John Stark’s biggest … Read more
Or, mebbe not. Not in a political state of mind tonite, at least thus far today, so enjoy this series of coordinated ball handling. Oh, alright; we’d have to get this right the FIRST time – or we’d be passing the ball around in the hospital ward. (H/T: The Blaze)
Imagine! I could do my lawn in, oh, 30 seconds flat – at a 130 mph. Isn’t technology wonderful? What’s one of the perks of being Honda, a multi billion dollar global corporation? That it can make vehicles like the one above at whim. They took the body of one of their HF2620 Lawn Tractors … Read more
OK, not exactly your granny’s “hover round”… Sidenote: you notice those commercials for those power chairs that were “available at little or no cost to you” seem to be gone? Yeah, busted allegedly for Medicare fraud. I always wondered how friends and co-workers could afford houses WAY more than what I had even as our … Read more
“AL QAEDA IS ALIVE, and Detroit is bankrupt.”
MSNBC has hired Abby Huntsman, a host/producer on HuffPost Live and daughter of former GOP candidate Jon Huntsman, as a co-host of the political panel talk show, The Cycle.
“I am excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to The Cycle,” Huntsman said on HuffPost Live on Wednesday. “I think that’s needed today in the political discourse.”
That would be Jon Huntsman, former GOP PRESIDENTIAL candidate (yes, it does make a difference). Who governed, when a Governor, in a fairly conservative manner but then decided that the differential for him was to run (and certainly talk) as a moderate Republican. Which, in the end, turned out badly as far as the primary results were concerned at the end of the trail (his stop in Laconia when he first started running was a disaster – I was there; a complete nothing burger compared to “the game” that the others brought. Didn’t help his “first impression” that his aide-de-camps couldn’t spell his name right on the literature).
Now, I know Establishment Republican. I know grassroots Republican. I know political operative Republican.
As if the TEA Party targeting wasn’t enough, NOW we find out that the IRS decided to “pull an Illinois”. Remember back in 2007 when Joe “the Plumber” Wurzelbacher seriously questioned candidate Obama’s Socialist idea of that wealth redistribution was such a great economic policy (“I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”)? Yeah, what happened right afterwards has been a hallmark of the Obama Administrations minions (either by or sans direct orders) – State of Illinois bureaucrats started to illegally mine their State’s databases to dig up dirt on Joe.
Aw, those good old days, those WONDERFUL memories brought to us by “The Chicago Way” devotees – and now refreshed by our friends at the IRS! Decided to run as a political candidate? Decided to donate some Big $$ to said candidate(s)? Your friends at the IRS decided to do a wee bit of digging on your behalf:
And one would think that in the political center of American politics (no, not the State capitals as it once was supposed to be), Washington, D.C., with all of the patriotic statues and words by politicians (of both sides), this would be a no-brainer, something that happens all the time. Sadly, just the fact that some intern had to write this and bring up this subject say much about the real climate in DC and the utter divide that that lays between not just the Left and Right, but from the Smart People in government who used to serve those of us “in the hinterlands”. A perfect example, and result of, the difference between the Coasts and fly-over country in how each views this country and what each holds dear about this place we call home. Pride of Country used to be taken for granted – now, because of Political Correctness, you could be an outcast at a party for saying just that. Yet, this has gone viral: