I dryly note that Obama joined The Avengers AFTER it was clear they were a hit…
(H/T: Karen at the San Diego based Women V.I.Ps – Volunteers in Politics)
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Did Marvel approve of Obama joining The Avengers?
Humane Society of US only gives 1% of its annual budget to pet shelters”
I stumbled on this video this past weekend (I don’t even know who to give a H/T too!) and am posting it as it struck a chord with me: The chord? All of our dogs have been shelter or rescue dogs: Gypsy the rescue Greyhound Tasha the Golden Retriever from the Laconia Animal shelter Ivan … Read more
Blogosphere Line of the Day!
Once again, NJ Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) has exceeded expections. Since his campaign (and subsequent elevation to Governor), his YouTubes have become Internet sensations. Now I’m betting that as a surrogate for Mitt Romney, he will continue to keep Obama “in the dark room”; “This is a guy who literally is walking around in a … Read more
Press Release – NH Legal Rights Foundation Opposes Supreme Court Nomination of Jim Bassett
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tim Condon, (813) 251-2626 May 21, 2012 New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation Opposes Supreme Court Nomination of Jim Bassett CONCORD – The New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation (NHLRF) Monday released the following statement opposing the nomination of Attorney James P. Bassett to the New Hampshire Supreme Court. The Executive Council is … Read more
I agree with Glenn about Facebook
On a post concerning the platform that has just created 6 new Billionaires and about a 1,000 new Millionaires, Facebook, I agree with Sidebar: I dryly note that Zuckerberg comes from the same learned institution as the 1/32 Indian / recipe plaigerizer / Scott Brown wannbe Elizabeth Warren. I’m wondering what she thinks about all … Read more
You KNOW what my first thought was when I saw this photo:
Thought: so, when do we see a reporter climbing INTO a pot to mock Obama’s EATING of a dog? If this Seattle based reporter wants to much to make fun of an old, old story of Romney’s Seamus the dog, let’s see her, in the vaunted spirit of bipartisanship that I keep hearing from Democrats … Read more
By the ways, we’ve become an Amazon Affiliate.
A new feature on GraniteGrok is that we’ve just become an affiliate of Amazon. That means that if you normally shop at Amazon and you go there by using the widget that’s now on our Right Sidebar (or below in this post) AND buy something, the ‘Grok gets a bit of a reward for directing … Read more
Oh, by the way, the reason for not posting a lot today from all of us….
…is that we had a GrokMeeting today. Every so often we Groksters get together and sling some political news and stories back and forth. What surprised me is that I thought today’s meeting would be a couple of hours like they have in the past; instead, it turned out to be an entire afternoon of … Read more
The intentions of man is for himself. Therefore, the State is interested in him.
It also points out that the State has nothing except from what it takes from others. (H/T: The Hipster Libertarian)
One of the quickest ways to get “The Look” from TMEW is to show her this picture of this rig and ask…
…”Wouldn’t this look great on MY desk?” (even as she knows that I don’t play computer games). A pitiful “Please?” didn’t help either…. More nice setups at the link. (H/T: Caveman Circus)
Will people of Faith stand up to defend that Faith?
The beginning of this extremely well done video lays out the call to Catholics to help protect their faith and their values:
In generations past, the Church has always been able to count on the faithful to stand up and protect her sacred rights and duties. This generation of Catholics must do the same.
Now I am an evangelical Protestant, not Catholic, so there are theological points on which we will never agree upon. That said, I believe that there is a message here for Bible believing Christians who take their faith seriously and personally (i.e., not a “back row Baptist” or a “country club Christian”) as well as to Catholics. I do believe that Obama, as with many Progressives, see a personal faith as being a hindrance to implementing Bigger Government -they realize that in order to have fealty to government, there must be no nothing “above” Government.
Notable Quote – Don Boudreaux on H.L. Mencken
Public policies are determined and laws are made by small minorities playing upon the fears and imbecilities of the mob – sometimes minorities of intelligent and honest men, but usually minorities of rogues. – H.L Mencken No better summary of modern government has ever been penned. – Prof. Don Boudreaux, economics (H/T: Cafe Hayek)
And so it begins – resisting religious tyranny
Although the political conversation over the last week or so has been Obama’s personal redefinition of what traditional marriage is, let’s not forget that he and HHS Secretary Sebelius decided that they were after yet another “First” – the First Administration that felt they had the authority to redefine what a religious organization is or could be. Function as a house of worship (for now)? “There was an exception for that!” with respect for the supremacy of the Right to Conscience – although the HHS mandate required that all health plans for employees provided for abortions, abortifacients, sterilizations, and birth control.
But if you are a religious outreach or ministry of some type (e.g., halfway house, hospital, educational, soup kitchen – anything that demonstrated a caring for the poor, the downtrodden, or the needy), even if connected to a House of Worship, Obama and Sebelius decided that they could decide that you were NOT a religious organization for their means.
As the cartoon shows (sent by Grok friend Karen a bit ago), we see exactly what Obama thinks of the First Amendment:
Internet Doodlings – “meanwhile, back over at Treehugger…”
Yeah, back there again. While the name connotes an environmental bent (which it does), there is enough there to start proving “Green on the outside, Red on the inside”. Or at a minimum, think the Nanny State with Nurse Ratched looking back at you. Doubt me? Loyal reader C. Dog e. dog seems to be lately frequenting those haunts as well – it does give one a chance to raise one’s game a bit. Anyways, there’s this post complaining about our latest epidemic, obesity, and that the Government HAS to do something – Corporations through small children are forcing parent to buy junk food (or something…):
One of the recommendations intended to speed things up is for the food industry to “take broad, common, and urgent voluntary action to make substantial improvements” to marketing aimed at kids. This is certainly important, as advocates have for years been sounding the alarm about the intractable problem of junk food marketing to children and its connection to poor health. But another part of the IOM dictate sounded vaguely familiar:
If such marketing standards have not been adopted within two years by a substantial majority of food, beverage, restaurant, and media companies that market foods and beverages to children and adolescents, policy makers at the local, state, and federal levels should consider setting mandatory nutritional standards for marketing to this age group to ensure that such standards are implemented.
And this:
“Congress should enact legislation mandating” a shift in advertising. Also, that “[w]ithin 2 years the Secretary [of health] should report to Congress on the progress and on additional actions necessary to accelerate progress.”
Well, I couldn’t let that go by….
HB 1704 – Republicans doing the dirty work by resurrecting HassanSpeech? Part 3
Heh! Update before posting: If you go down 1/3rd of the post to where I discuss lines 25-26, 28-29 you can see that even if the IRS codes would not require Donors / Contributors information, this amendment will require it. Now add this info:
TUESDAY, MAY 15, UPDATE: CROSSROADS ON THE AIR. Crossroads GPS, a nonprofit self-described issues advocacy group that works in conjunction with the pro-Republican Super PAC American Crossroads, is planning political advertising in New Hampshire.
…The Granite Status has learned that Crossroads GPS will air at least two ads on WMUR television beginning later this week and at least into the middle of next week at a cost of at least $75,000.
While American Crossroads, as a Super PAC, must disclose its donors, Crossroads GPS as a 501 (c)(4) nonprofit, does not.
This Amendment would force that. What actually would happen is that they wouldn’t participate in NH. That is chilling of “freedom of speech”.
Project Veritas – “Can Illegal aliens vote in North Carolina?” Er, that would be a yes
James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has done another Voter Fraud video – this time in the State where the Democrat National Convention will be – North Carolina! How fitting, as it always seems that Democrats are the one who could care less who is voting (or how often – it’s the Chicago way!). I just keep wondering how long it will take before the illustrative theater of the absurd will finally start to sink in – and even with that, it IS absurd that the government workers can’t accept that if something is that absurd looking, they are being punked. But, that’s the problem with “seams” or boundary conditions and folks who are “just doing the job” – both them and the “system” can easily be exploited.
Here is the supporting info for this North Carolina activities (entire video, the research paperwork).
Liberals: valuing trees over babies
Or so it seems… (H/T: Liberal Logic)
Why does NH AG Richard Head want James O’Keefe emails from a third party without a subpoena?
I just received this document a few minutes ago (PDF here): Last time I looked, unless Dick Head has had a subpoena issued, wouldn’t this be against the law? Is Nadia Naffe doing this in retribution for this, as Patterico outlines? And here is a temp restraining order against Ms. Naffe, also at Patterico. And … Read more
He “Evolved”…
(H/T: Mac)
Data Point – What goes in is certainly coming out.
Silly me – and I thought taxes were need to actually pay for functions of actual Government (like salaries, office equipment, armies…) (H/T: Business Insider)