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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.
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Update: “once untrustworthy, always restricted” – the Communist Chinese policy that Prez wannabe Democrat Andrew Yang wants implement in the US

Actually, that’s not the name of my post but that quote above is a better description,”once untrustworthy, always restricted”, of the “Social Trust” system that China is building.  I’ve got a few links for you to read, with pull quotes, to give you the jist of the system that Andrew Yang want to do here in the US.  No limited government he – as I said in my previous post, Yang wants a US surveillance system that would make the feared East German secret police, who had binders on EVERYONE, look like slackers.  It’s bad enough to have thousands of CCTV cameras on city streets and RFID transceivers all along our highways.  It’s bad enough to have the FAANGS  (e.g., Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) pouring over and hoovering up our personal data (and having just signed up for Social Security, I now have a glimpse of the “teeniest, tiny-est tip of the iceburg” information the Feds gather to “verify that you are you”).

Naw, Andrew Yang wants the US to establish its own “trustworthy score” for everyone in the US – yet the nine black robed judges said that we (well, at least pregnant women) have the privacy to kill our babies? And other “intimate” acts?  How does one adjudicate the two – and worse, who decides algorithmically what is “moral” and what isn’t and then place scores on us all?

Here are the links – read them (reformatted, emphasis mine):

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And college students believe Thanksgiving is RACIST!

A way to destroy a nation is to destroy or warp its norms, its culture… …and its history.  Change them and you’ve changed the culture – and the nation. But there seems to be a few that are catching on and going “whoa, wait a sec!” (H/T: The Blaze)

“Thanksgiving Must Be Abolished”

This from Michael Walsh made my Thanksgiving Day.  Just about every SJW talking point and attitude is roundly roasted and pickled! I had only quickly glanced at the headline and went “right, just another screed from someone that hates Thanksgiving” and was about to pass it by – glad I didn’t.  Wrong – just read it:

Thanksgiving Must Be Abolished

Around this time every year we are treated to multiple news articles explaining how we ought to deal with our racist conservative relatives at Thanksgiving. These articles, in my opinion, miss the point entirely. We shouldn’t be dealing with our racist conservative relatives at Thanksgiving dinner at all because we shouldn’t be having a Thanksgiving dinner in the first place.

Thanksgiving is a patriarchal ritual in which white men and their subjugated marital slaves commemorate the mass execution of Indigenous People by consuming the living flesh of innocent animals. It is frankly shocking that any decent person still celebrates this “holiday” in 2018, but I suppose that’s to be expected. Most people today have a cartoonish idea of history. If they had a more mature and nuanced perspective they would realize that the pilgrims were a bunch of thieving, genocidal, disease-ridden, smallpox-toting demons who accomplished nothing of value whatsoever. You might say they established and built a civilization, which, hey, is kind of neat. But so what? What has this civilization ever done for me besides give me everything?

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Dem Prez Candidate Andrew Yang wants the Feds to be more like China in watching EVERYTHING we do.

Andrew Yang wants to be the Democrat nominee for President and it is really clear that he’s all in on the idea of “who needs God when you’ve got Government” (aka, bastardizing the Christian Doxology of “Praise God from whom all blessings flow”). This guy from New York is already in on UBI (Universal Basic Income, along with a European style Value Added Tax of 10% to pay for it) where the Government just prints us all a check for about a grand a month because robots are going to be taking our jobs.  Yep, crawl onto the dole on the magnificent sum of $12K a year – such a bountiful life that amount would yield (anyone for Serf City?).

But there’s a much more insidious plank he’s running on, this candidate from the People’s Republic of NY and it should give anyone a real pause as to what he believes is The Proper Role of Government.  No, it’s not straight outta Compton, but it is directly out of the Chinese Communist Party’s surveillance machine / real time “reeducation camp” idea of good governance. I think this line from the American Thinker sets the stage well:

Leftists always insist that their proposals for socialism will be nothing like what’s found in communist hellholes way down the rapids to the falls. But somehow, the opening ideas are always the same.

Like I pointed out here –

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“Poll Finds Many Americans Hope To Avoid Political Discussions At Thanksgiving”

Yeah, that would not be we Groksters:

Few Americans are eager to mix politics and turkey this Thanksgiving. A mere 15 percent are looking forward to having political discussions, while 40 percent hope to avoid talking about politics over Thanksgiving dinner. There are still 45 percent who don’t care either way…Thirty-seven percent of Republicans and 40 percent of Democrats wish to avoid political discussions this Thanksgiving — a somewhat rare instance of partisan agreement. Forty-two percent of Independents said that they hope to avoid politics.

This year it won’t be a “problem” as the Eldest and his family have ventured south to have Thanksgiving with the Daughter-in-Law’s family this year.  Thus, TMEW, the Grandson, and I will be heading to the local “Turkey Farm” restaurant for our meal (depending on the cold because it’s first come, first served and there’s generally a line out the door for a couple of hours – thankfully they normally put up a large heated tent for the waiting overflow).  So, no other family to “upset”.

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A non-Third Wave Feminist describes the kind of Masculinity that women want

“Toxic Masculinity” is all the rage on campuses around the country and certainly is a large talking point by a lot of “Social Justice Warriors” (SJWs) that all that ails us is to turn all men into feminist versions of Beta males.  In other words, make women out of men and then life would be glorious, equality would be achieved, and all crime would start.  We just have to put men into their right place in Society – which is to say, nowhere.

Meanwhile, Suzanne Venker (self-described feminist “The Feminist Fixer”) decided that the SJW Feminist view of masculinity (that masculinity is evil) is completely wrong and ill-advised – and is destroying Society.  Here’s her quick take on “positive masculinity” which is to say, how men should be acting. Period.

At the end of the day, men want a woman and women want a man. Here’s what masculinity that attracts women like a moth to a flame looks like:

  • A man who stands tall and proud and who never asks permission.
  • A man who knows who he is and who isn’t afraid to share it with the world.

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Quotes

Notable Quote – Jordon Peterson

“The dominant narrative in our culture is predicated on the assumption that the West is a tyrannical patriarchy. It has become acceptable in our time to put forward a version of history, the present and the future that is based on a deep hatred for men. This is a very enervating, demotivating, discouraging story, as … Read more

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Notable Quote – Annie Holmquist

Quoting / commenting on Sara Kaufman “Interestingly, Spock’s view of the primacy of likability flips the long-standing Anglo-American notion, prevalent among the Puritans and up through the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries, that one builds character through service to others, whether God or your fellow man. In this older view, the less … Read more

BlogQuestion of the Day: “2020 starts now, Skip”

We helped Democrats rack up historic victories in 2018 — taking back the House, flipping key state legislative chambers, and picking up governors’ mansions and Senate seats. The reason we won all of these races is that grassroots donors invested in these races early, and helped build a foundation for victory.

That’s the title and part of the message of yet another email missive I got from the Democrat National Committee (as an Independent, they’ve glommed onto my email address, along with almost every other Democrat group and candidate – DELUGED with email these past few months. Jus’ askin’.  Look, I’m only 1 guy in a very small State with only 1 vote.  So why are the Democrats so hungry and already reaching out?  And it isn’t just from the DNC, either!  Yet:

 So why haven’t the Republican apparatuses done the same? With the same frequency and intensity?

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It sounds like NH’s “Social Studies” is about to get “SJW watered down” again

Used to be called History and separately, civics. How did we get here from back then and how is American government supposed to be organized and run?  Basic issues and basic knowledgebases for any American citizen.  Sadly, our government schools seem to be a poor job of both – after all, ask a young adult the same question we require of LEGAL immigrants wishing to become naturalized Citizens and be prepared for a very dismal experience.  So when I saw this (emphasis mine, reformatted):

NH in process of revamping social studies curriculum

EXETER — The state of New Hampshire’s educational standards for social studies has not been updated since 2006 but with a review from the Department of Education underway, local school administrators and community leaders are beginning to line up to help shape its process.

I went “It’s really gonna get addressed!  Yay!”. Then I went back and reread that “community leaders” bit again. Sorry I did that….sigh….

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NH Secretary of State – Dems are proving that if you cross them, they will destroy you.

“It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.”

-Joseph Stalin (apocryphally)

December fifth is another election here in NH but to one in which none of us “regular” people get to cast a vote: the important Secretary of State.  Important office – it is responsible for not only the business side of the State (company formations, reporting forms, and the like) as well as the election side (thus, the quote above). In addition, it has been Bill Gardner that has ensured that the NH First In The Nation Primary has stayed exactly that. However, it is that middle part, about elections, that is of most concern here at this time. However, this is an election that is the sole prerogative of our State Legislators – both the NH House Representatives and the NH State Senators.  They, and they alone, vote on the candidates.  This year, for the first time in a long time, there is a rival to Bill Gardner – a craven, self-serving Democrat Colin Van Ostern who decided that this was prime time to go full Political Opportunist and had $250K to spend campaigning for the office.

No one, except Van Ostern,  has faulted Bill Gardner on anything that he has done on the job (in fact, even Ray Buckley, NH Dem Chair, has praised him in the past on his FITN ceaseless work UNTIL he transgressed two Major Pillars of the NH Democrat Party:

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It isn’t just about the marijuana tax revenue Democrats desire…

As Steve posted, the reason why the Democrats decided to go all out on legalizing marijuana was not that they treasure Liberty (they don’t) but that they want YOUR money in their Treasury.  It’s one of the reasons I’m against legalization and against casinos here in NH: both do nothing more than act as an expensive facade for bigger, more expensive government leading to more boondoggles and intrusiveness.

But the other reason? They’re beaming that they’ll achieve yet another Democrat Agenda item at the same! Question E…

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Democrat Congressman: Sell your guns to the Federal Government or we’ll nuke you

So, NEVER tell me again that the Democrat / Socialists / Progressives are saying “Nobody is saying they want to take your guns away”!  From back in May and then again in November, this from anti-Second Amendment US Congressman Eric Swallwell (D-CA, San Francisco) started what most of us really know – civilian disarmament IS on the Democrat agenda:

Ban assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters: Ex-prosecutor in Congress

…Instead, we should ban possession of military-style semiautomatic assault weapons, we should buy back such weapons from all who choose to abide by the law, and we should criminally prosecute any who choose to defy it by keeping their weapons. Our courts haven’t found a constitutional right to have assault weapons, anyway. When the Supreme Court held in 2008 that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that this right “is not unlimited” and is “not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.”

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Quotes

Notable Quote – Roger Simon

“As people scramble to explain the sudden resurgence of socialism not only on America’s college campuses but also in the corridors of political power, it is worth noting the concomitant resurgence of anti-Semitism in those redoubts. The coincidence is not, as the Marxists like to say, an accident. The truth is that unfettered socialism, though based primarily on a demand for the abolition of private property, always comes riding on a current of anti-Semitism.”

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Notable Quote – Gnardo Polo

…But I think that part of Trumps success is connecting with what lower class Americans want, and how they think… My wife thinks I’m a huge Trump fan.  I’m sure some of my friends do to.  But just like a lot of people, I just don’t think he’s as bad a he’s portrayed by the … Read more

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