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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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These Harvard kids got the lesson of their life in the Heartland

…Nearly all of them agreed that they didn’t know what life was like outside the coastal cities and states. Only one student, Henna Hundal, 20, had grown up in a rural environment — an almond farm in Turlock, Calif., — while Kessler, a computer-science major, was the only member of the class who had ever fired a gun. The students ranged in age from 19 to 21, with an equal number of girls and boys and a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds. The majority of them hailed from cities and suburbs in blue states along the East and West coasts. One was from Wales.

They admitted they had been fed a steady diet of stereotypes about small towns and their folk: “backwards,” “no longer useful,” “un- or under-educated,” “angry and filled with a trace of bigotry” were all phrases that came up.

…Two weeks later in Londonderry, NH, the students visited a gun range at [the Londonderry]Fish and Game Club and saw something else they didn’t expect — 40 women of all ages, shapes and colors pointing pistols at a target.

I wish I could have been there.

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When CHAD can demonstrate they know more about REAL gun safety…

Until then, shut the bleep up and stop being Nannies that are unneeded, unwanted, and “presenting” (they use that word a lot, those medical people) a snotty (and snotty) sense of moral superiority to we “bitter clingers” of you know whats. You know far more about medical issues than I do and I listen.  Don’t assume … Read more

Quick Thought: it sounds so fine and so high-falutin’ don’t it?

“Everyone has a right to live in a country not dominated by the systemic racist practices of government and other powerful institutions, structures, institutional interlocks, and matrices,” Willem Cerf of Manchester said in remarks distributed by the campaign. Scratching my head here – I think Cerf just called almost EVERYONE in the country else a … Read more

BlogQuestion of the Day – Coverup? How big is the cabal and what will the consequences be?

https://twitter.com/SohrabAhmari/status/1007279078989127680 Why aren’t more people going bananas over this?  Shouldn’t this be a bipartisan deal, where the bureaucrats are trying to influence (or, worse, alter) the outcome of an election?  Which is worse, our OWN government trying to do so or “Russians”? How are Progressives going to square this circle given that this is now … Read more

It’s what the Left does – normalize what used to be taboo to accept their even worse

No TabooComparisons, comparisons.  First, go back and read this.  Remember, the media ‘fessed up to “normalizing” homosexuality.

Now this:  Bernie Sanders Says Liberals Are Turning the “Radical” into the “Mainstream.”

And now this:  Drag queen superheroes show — ‘Super Drags’ — coming to Netflix: ‘They’re going to save the world’

So, normalizing Socialism and Communism.  Now add to that which  used to be considered to be depraved behavior – and we Normals aren’t to say a thing or be labeled RACISTs or HOMOPHOBES, or DEPLORABLES or IRREDEEMABLES (did I forget the word BIGOT! ?).  Stigma – a word that has had its meaning pretty much neutered.  Depravity is in, church going and traditionally moral people out.  Fun-cations (complements of unemployment – trust me, it ain’t) in, hard work out. Responsibility is out, blaming others is in.  America bashing in, pro-America out; you get the picture (and I keep coming back to this over and over because it does seem that the America I grew up in is being deliberately and methodically destroyed.

So when all what used to be praised and held to be of value, what happens?

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RRftSotRR – I get stuff. This next one? “Listen only to me – *I* know the truth”

Translation: “Republican Republican for the Sake of the Republican Party”. Translation: Thou shalt not diss the Party. And it is still “shut your traps”. The next section of that missive has several sections – here’s the first part of it:

RRftSotRP Missive - front-600 Part 2

I guess the writer is talking about US! Nice to be noticed and for all the right reasons.  One thing is for sure – you KNOW who we are as we almost all go by our actual names.  Yes, some people use an alias – that’s what the Revolutionary pamphleters did to keep their heads on their shoulders in working order.  It’s, you know, the entire reason for the Free Speech part of the First Amendment.  Which is exactly where I’m going with this.

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Data Point – American ingenuity and productivity; Texas

Texas Oil Peak Cyclical Employment             Production Rig Date Workers (BBL/Day) Count         October 2008 211,100 1.125 Mil 925         December 2014 295,100 3.532 Mil 872         March 2018 215,900 4.052 Mil 492 (H/T: Forbes)  

Oh Good Lord above – give me wisdom

No, you don’t get a pass just because you think you “deserve” one and that because whatever it is you are proclaiming is “self-evident”.  Sorry, given a choice between what your lyin’ sign says or my truthful eyes, I’m picking the latter.  I’m a black 20 year old Asian, if you ask me, and my … Read more

RRftSotRR – I get stuff. This one? “Shut up and just vote for us, Republicans”

I get stuff.  All the time.  Some puts a smile on my face for the right reason.  Some don’t.  But some put smiles on my face but not necessarily for the purposes for which it was meant.  This is one of them. RRftSotRR stands for one of my memes: a “Republican Republican for the Sake of the Republican Party”.  Translation: Thou shalt not diss the Party.  Not swift, as I’m not all that into such totalitarian diktats from my “political” betters (or those thinking they are).  So, in this person’s own words:

RRftSotRP Missive - front-600 Part 1

OK, this is mostly fact based – mostly.  There’s an element of truth in there to which the answer is [carefully?] avoided and it is something that we all learned in elementary school (well, depending on when you went to elementary school).

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“The Suicide of Europe”

Another 5 minute commentary from the folks that have mastered the genre.  This time, why is Europe laying down to die as a culture and civilization? “Europe is committing suicide. How did this happen? In this video, Douglas Murray, author of The Strange Death of Europe, explains the two major causes of Europe’s impending downfall.” … Read more

Intellectually, I knew this happens but to see it is another thing

…to actually see it on screen. I went to look for an image (DuckDuckGo doesn’t do the best of jobs for that so I picked Google) and after creating a new tab, this showed up: A bit too connected for my liking – the first three were cell phone calls I placed this afternoon while … Read more

Notable Quote – Roger Kimball

On what rot the 1960s wreaked upon today (emphasis mine):

 “Only a few periods in American history,” the New York Times intoned in an editorial called “In Praise of the Counterculture”:

… have seen such a rich fulfillment of the informing ideals of personal freedom and creativity that lie at the heart of the American intellectual tradition. … The 60’s spawned a new morality-based politics that emphasized the individual’s responsibility to speak out against injustice and corruption.

A “new morality-based politics,” eh? It seems so long ago, shrouded in a Day-Glo glaze of grateful recollection. But when it comes to the Sixties, and especially the fulcrum year of 1968, Time magazine is right: “50 Years After 1968, We Are Still Living In Its Shadow.” Indeed, paroxysms of the 1960s, which trembled with gathering force through North America and Western Europe from the mid-1950s through the early 1970s, continue to reverberate throughout our culture. The Age of Aquarius did not end when the last electric guitar was unplugged at Woodstock. It lives on in our values and habits, in our tastes, pleasures, and aspirations. It lives on especially in our educational and cultural institutions, and in the degraded pop culture that permeates our lives like a corrosive fog.

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GrokTV! – Rochester 912 meeting: Frank Edelblut, NH Commissioner of the Dept of Education

Frank Edelblut
Original Image: WMUR

Frank Edelblut, Commissioner for the NH Department of Education spoke at the June meeting for the Rochester 912 group talking about what he has encountered during his time in that spot. I will have to admit, he was adroit in covering a whole range of issues that his department is covering. All without notes. And then the same during the question and answer period as well. I think this is TED lecture quality.

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Do you know what this is?

NH Declaration of Candidacy page 1 4

Yep – that yellow thing is the paperwork you’d fill out at the office of the NH Secretary of State, Bill Gardner, located on the second floor in the State Capital building in Concord, if you were to run for state or county wide offices (but not the House of Representatives).  There are slots still open all over the place (literally!) for good Conservative / small government / less taxing / less intrusive candidates (you know, not Andru Volinsky types) to sign up – you’ve got until the fifteenth of this month to do so (4pm).

So, if you ever wanted to light up a Liberal (no, not the visage on their faces – those might get VERY dark in your general direction) in the best way possible, sign up with a lovely grin on your face.  Hey, it might even have the same effect on an establishment GOPe-er as well!  See – fun!

Heh!  When I brought it home, TMEW immediately

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But both sets of females are doing each action willingly?

It should be rather clear to see which ones are the more intelligent ones. It ain’t the ones trying to promote a Feminist agenda. So the other is merely Progressive (e.g., pulling down values that Normals embrace) (H/T: Powerline)

Charles Krauthammer – a life well lived

Charles Krauthammer
Image: Washington Times

I may not have always agreed with Charles but he was always a treat to listen to.  Reasoned, well thought, and erudite; those were the hallmarks of Charles Krauthhammer. He has just informed us all that he only has weeks to live due to cancer:

“I have been uncharacteristically silent these past ten months. I had thought that silence would soon be coming to an end, but I’m afraid I must tell you now that fate has decided on a different course for me.”

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