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Churches, affiliated organizations?  It seems that Government has framed it such that pastors, priests, rabbis and their houses of worship seem to be allowed their freedom.  For the time being.  As told here, is that end time coming?

However, spiritually, the REAL church is the individuals within each organization, that are the people of faith.  A church, a mosque, a synagogue is simply a building – and that is why they are being granted the freedom as Obama is wont to say “freedom to worship in your house of worship.  Not in the public square.  Which is where we, the individuals, actually live.  It is we who are being denied our religious freedom, bit by bit, to actually fulfill what is enumerated in the Bill of Rights – the freedom of expression.

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And you want to destroy some of the fewer well paid middle class job that not in that group – just hand them over?  Big Government (emphasis mine):

Presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has doubled down in his efforts to push legislation that would triple the number of H-1B visa holders in the United States, even after Microsoft’s announcement last week that it will terminate another 7,800 U.S. workers in order to replace them with cheaper labor — this on top of the 18,000 it’s already laid off.

Rubio’s I-Squared bill would effectively further the plight of American STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and IT workers. Computer World notes that during a speech in Chicago last week, Rubio emphasized the false narrative that a lack of skilled American workers is the cause of these massive layoffs, using the phrase “skills gap” as his hook; a code phrase which is also employed by Microsoft, Southern California Edison and other companies.

In reality, there is a surplus, not shortage, of skilled U.S. workers and not enough STEM jobs to accommodate these citizens.

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It speaks for itself: Democrats for pedophilia? Reformatted, emphasis mine:

Pedophiles want same rights as homosexuals

Using the same tactics used by “gay” rights activists, pedophiles have begun to seek similar status arguing their desire for children is a sexual orientation no different than heterosexual or homosexuals.  Critics of the homosexual lifestyle have long claimed that once it became acceptable to identify homosexuality as simply an “alternative lifestyle” or sexual orientation, logically nothing would be off limits. “Gay” advocates have taken offense at such a position insisting this would never happen. However, psychiatrists are now beginning to advocate redefining pedophilia in the same way homosexuality was redefined several years ago.

I said it for years; once a Biblical stricture of one man / one woman for a marriage definition was in place, there are no logical arguments on gender or number.  Pedophiliacs are now trying the same proven path but with “age” and a redefinition of what category that pedophilia belongs to.  And Democrats are for this??

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…”Yeah, baby!”  And I guess this “baby organ harvesting” is one good reason why Democrats and and Abortion-mongers have been fighting the stricture against late term abortions and refusal to support post-20 week abortion limitations – can’t harvest baby organs if the baby hasn’t matured enough. I guess that Progressive mantra has been missing a few words; it’s not “it’s for the children”, it really should be “it’s for the childrens’ body parts“.  And perhaps, it always has been for the Democrats and politics, it always is all about, in the end, the money.

Any which way they can.  Remember, Democrats live and die by Saul Alinsky’s rules, and his main means was that the end ALWAYS justifies the means.   And nice to remember that Jeanne Shaheen’s

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The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”   – President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09

Naw, it doesn’t.  From the Daily Signal (emphasis mine):

The guiding fiscal principle of President Obama’s 2009 Stimulus Package was simple: “Spend it as fast as you can.” Programs operating under that principle are almost predestined to flunk a cost-benefit test—and the federal Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) has proved to be no exception. University of Chicago researchers have documented that WAP is yet another government “efficiency” program that does not actually save money. The only surprising finding was just how badly it failed. Costs exceeded benefits by a 2-to-1 margin.

The fundamental problem with energy-efficiency mandates and subsidies is that they are based on two absurd premises. First, they assume that consumers are not fully interested in saving money—hence, government intervention is required. Second, they expect a bureaucracy that has served up an $18 trillion national debt to transform into Scrooge McDuck when it is time to count energy pennies.

I dryly note that

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From the Washington Post (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Centering her presidential campaign on boosting incomes for middle-class Americans, Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday will begin unveiling an economic policy agenda designed to lift working families that have experienced years of wage stagnation and economic anxiety. In a major address in New York, the Democratic front-runner will lay out a diagnosis for why wages have been stuck and a framework to ensure that economic growth benefits more ordinary workers, according to campaign officials.  “She believes that making sure the real incomes of everyday Americans are rising steadily and strongly is the defining economic challenge of our time,” said one campaign official, who previewed Clinton’s remarks on the condition of anonymity.

Clinton will endorse a host of popular Democratic policies, such as increasing the minimum wage and investing more in infrastructure. She will emphasize proposals tailored toward working women, one of her most important bases of support, such as expanding access to child care and paid family and sick leave.  The ideas, in many ways, sound similar to the second-term agenda of President Obama, who faced an economic crisis during his first term and started to more directly address the nation’s long-running economic problems during his second. But he has struggled to pass major legislation with a Republican-dominated Congress.

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Well, at least he and his advisors understand, unlike some politicians in NH, that you CANNOT WIN WITHOUT CONSERVATIVES!  From Mediaite (emphasis mine):

Congratulations on your official presidential announcement, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Now you get to spend part of your day explaining away something one of your advisers said. Speaking — wait for it — anonymously to National Journal’s Tim Alberta, a Walker adviser tried to calm fears the candidate was moving too far to the right in order to win the Iowa caucus by intimating that positions taken this early on are contingent.

Contingent?  Contingent on WHAT?

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“No Martin O’Malley, the beauty of our country came from the radical ideas that WE individuals were sovereign and not some aristocracy (elected or born), that we were a nation of The Rule of Law where the Law was guided by and subject to our Constitution, and that WE The People make the decisions for how our lives are to be lived and not the Government turning the original relationship of service upside down to one of master.”

A couple of rough notes on his time with Josh McElveen:

His statement about lowering the cost of a college education gave me the impression seems to assumes that students are FORCED to take on debt.  What about “No”? How about making OTHER choices – not every kid needs to go to college, ESPECIALLY if want they want to study is an economic loser (e.g., if you don’t get a job in academia, getting a degree in “gender studies” is non-functional economically).  He seems to assume that kids are FORCED to act this way – but they are not.  He never defines what a “mountain of debt” really is (just like with our interview yesterday at the CNHT Picnic yesterday where former VA Guv Jim Gilmore refused to define what “balanced” meant when we asked him about religious liberty in context of religious liberty enshrined in the Constitution vs mere ordinance or regulations of non-discrimination).

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OF OBERGEFELL AND OSTRACISM: After the Supreme Court’s decision on Same Sex Marriage, Dan McLaughlin of Red State was quoted as saying, “Now the contest begins to see who’ll be the angriest winner.” Last week it was George Takei of Star Trek making racist slurs against Clarence Thomas. This week, Max Lindenman of Patheos spots Sally Kohn tossing her name into the ring (emphasis mine):

Just as I was learning not to hate the term “national conversation,” gay marriage supporters have decided to quit speaking to us. That would, at any rate, be the earnest wish of Daily Beast columnist Sally Kohn. In last Sunday’s piece, “The New, Post-Homophobic Christianity,” she ticks off all the denominations that have changed their teachings on homosexuality and asks “Will anti-gay Christians be politically and socially ostracized?”

Her answer: “I sure hope so.”

… Or is she convinced that offering us the cold shoulder is the best way to make us change our minds?

That what Totalitarians are all about.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday said the nation owes an apology for slavery.  “As a nation — I don’t think as a president, but as a nation — we have got to apologize for slavery,” the 2016 Democratic presidential contender told host Joe Madison on Sirius XM’s “The Black Eagle.”  “As a nation we have got to apologize for slavery, and of course the president is the leader of the nation,” he added.

Sanders said that slavery had caused too much suffering to remain unaddressed.“Obviously nobody in this generation was involved in slavery,” Sanders said.

And that is the point point of major #FAIL.

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Or better: How well do they keep their promises?  If you ask almost anyone at the grassroots that question (with a few examples as prompts), you’d most likely get a “well, not too well”.  This is not a new topic for us here at the ‘Grok – we’d really, REALLY like to wholeheartedly like to support Republicans but over the last few years, we techies and engineers who MUST deliver concrete deliveries without excuses, grow weary of going “Rah Rah!” time after time with the same who would, by their own accountings, lead us into a Promised Land.  And even with our now extremely low expectations, instead of the Promises Land, we get DoDaville.  Here’s a bit of it from American Thinker (reformatted, emphasis mine):

The Republican Establishment, with the exception of the presidency of Ronald Reagan and the Republican controlled House of Representatives from 1995 to 1998, has been content, since 1946, to merely slow down the big government policies of the Democrats, while politically decrying their tax and spend policies.  However, in truth, many have been comfortable with reaping the financial and ego-gratifying rewards of such indifference while playing the game with their counterparts in the other branch of the overall governing class.

They have brought us upon themselves – and they wonder why the moniker of “Junior Democrats” has stuck over the years.  The post goes on to discuss how Left the Democrats have gone back to their now Marxist roots:

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Ayup – there is no one more Establishmentarian than Jeb Bush in this race (he of the “…willing “[To] lose the primary to win the general…”) which immediately signaled to the base of “need you (sniff)?  nope”.  So we’ll see how that works out for him.  And then he decides to double down and continue the throwing away of the base:

“Yes, I got a lot of good advice from the last candidate who I wish was president right now, the last Republican candidate, and he validated a belief that I have which at some point we have to start campaigning in a way that is beyond the base. I think you have to be respectful of conservatives and you have to campaign hard, convince thatm (sic) that you’re the guy that can unite the party, but there also always has to be an eye on the ball on the next group of people who decide who the president is going to be.”

Hate to keep sounding like a broken record, but look at the record just here in NH this last November with the top of the ticket.  Who, btw, are the poster children for exactly what Bush is saying he’ll be doing.  All three now, have drubbed their base.

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“I’ll be free of them four days a week!!”

Yeah, that was the exclamation of one mother of young children when she heard that her two kids were going to be in school through the summer in Special Ed class. Not a word was said at that point in time about the help they “might” get – just that she now had all that time for herself.  At government expense.  She was ecstatic!   Sigh….my wish is that all young parents would be this: whose hand should be rocking YOUR child’s cradle? 

Progressives (if you have been listening to Hillary Clinton and Obama for the last few years) have been pushing for this for decades – but why?  Well, in their mindset, every woman must fulfill their her destiny – and that, in their mind, can only be done in the workplace.  A stay-at-home Mom?  Doing what I think is the most important job in the world?  Well, Progressives know EXACTLY what that is – raising children.  These incremental Socialists understand that completely and THAT is the goal that they are striving for.  They KNOW that whoever raises the child owns the future – for values taught young last forever in most cases.  If a child is spending far more time in hands of government run and NEA staffed schools than with their parents, whose values are going to be inculcated? Already we see teachers believing that parents are an impediment and that THEY know what is best for the kids and less and less, no longer hiding it. Let’s face it, government school staffs are highly critical of conservative and religious values – vast majorities ARE in the Party of Government and are Progressives themselves.  This from Hot Air:

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