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.
Sounding more like the Ferguson grand jury may be ready to reveal its decision. While many are thinking that all hell is going to break loose if Officer Wilson is cleared of wrong doing, I think that with all of the professional grievance mongers have descended up Ferguson for what ever reason (e.g., race relations, pro-Commies, “guess what I did during my Thanksgiving break!”), they are going to riot no matter what – innocent, guilty – it will make no difference.
“A St. Louis area gun shop refused a sale to an African-American woman because, according to the clerk, St. Louis police informed gun stores that Darren Wilson will not be charged,” addictinginfo.com reports. And told them to remove their firearms from the premises in case “protestors” choose to do a little affirmative shopping. “To be clear, this was not an instance of racism (not in the traditional sense, anyway) — the shop was just in the process of removing all guns and ammunition from the premises, allegedly on the order of police.” You didn’t know that? Apparently the media didn’t get the memo. Literally . . .
Did you notice the tractor trailer back there to our loading dock?” the man asked the woman, who responded with an affirmative. “All the guns are already packed in, and we’re taking all the pawns out of here too, just to protect our customers’ merchandise.”
It’s been more than 50 years since William F. Buckley first complained, “Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.” …“Convinced that no intelligent, decent person could take conservatism seriously, liberals believe it is not necessary or even … Read more
There must be many in Government that believe we on the outside can’t do anything on our own without them even as there’s still enough of us out here that hold jobs sufficient to pay their salaries. We have to be told how to do this, do that, issue regulations to “protect ourselves from ourselves” … Read more
New Hampshire Right to Life Announces New President
Merrimack, N.H. — The Board of Trustees of New Hampshire Right to Life is happy to announce the election of a new President for the organization. During its November board meeting, NHRTL trustees unanimously voted for Jane Cormier to serve as incoming President of the organization. While serving as a former representative in the NH State House for Belknap District 8, Ms. Cormier actively stood for life and small government issues. Ms. Cormier was the prime sponsor on HB483, a bill supporting informed consent requirements for abortions performed in New Hampshire. She also vigorously supported other life-affirming legislative bills and is well-known throughout the state as a dynamic and passionate speaker.
Ms. Cormier also has experience with non-profit sector management and will stand unflinchingly for the right to life from conception through natural death. In addition to writing a popular weekly column for the Weirs Times, Jane has a large network of supporters throughout the Granite State. “We look forward to having Jane become part of NHRTL. We know she will bring a new and fresh perspective to engage in robust dialogue regarding life issues here in NH”, says the NHRTL Political PAC Chair, Darlene Pawlik.
The one thing about Progressives and Big Government types – they can’t seem to want to let go of 19th century technology – trains. They get all goose-bumply every time it seems to come up and provide yet another opportunity to spend other peoples’ money to advance their fascination to relegate the many for paying for the few “privileged”. Oh sure, they have lots of excuses and obfuscations – they’ll wax eloquently about “working while riding”, Green transportation, evil cars, emissions, economy, and oh yeah, the economy.
Always the economic benefit but none of them can refute one Important Fact – NONE of them wants to pay full boat themselves for the cost of it – and how can it stimulate the economy when it can’t even pay for its own existence?? In today’s UL is an article talking about the options that are making these old fashioned tech fanboys and girls – and it summarizes it well be asking “Who REALLY pays?” (reformatted, emphasis mine):
The Manchester Regional option calls for $246 million in total capital costs, with half that coming from federal grants and another $51 million coming from the value of MTBA supplying the trains and track rights. Calculations show about $7 million beyond ticket and advertising revenues would be needed annually to pay the debt service and the remaining operating costs. By comparison, the Nashua Minimum scenario would cost $120 million in capital costs or $39 million after federal and MBTA contributions. That would leave a $4 million yearly gap to bridge. The Concord Intercity option would cost $256 million, or $128 million after federal funds. The Concord option would not get any MBTA contributions, so $15 million a year would be needed beyond ticket and advertising revenue.
Put another way, that annual cost that still would need to be funded breaks down to $10 per estimated rider per one-way trip under the Manchester option, $22 for the Nashua alternative and $61 for the Concord option, according to the study.
This recent election saw more elected Republicans voted into office, top to bottom, than any time since Herbert Hoover. Each and every poll that I have seen said why – just like in 2010 only louder and more angrily – stop Obama. They kicked the Dems out of more state legislatures and governerships than ever, sending the message that the electorate wanted the Dems stopped at the State level. They strengthened the majority in the US House for the Republicans and gave them a majority in the US Senate. The message? Stop Obama and his policies. Period. Full Stop. No Excuses. We are tired of the “dense pack” efforts to fundamentally transform America via the use of Alinsky’s Rule #8:
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
The base has had it – and sent a message to “do what it takes“. We sent you there to do one and only one job. Period. Stop the dissembling of America. Stop the Progressives from turning us into Europe (or worse). Return to Constitutional order and bounds. We gave you more than enough ammo – get to work and we will accept no excuses.
…Kristof’s other “overwhelming” evidence of the current effects of past slavery is that blacks do not have as much income as whites. But Puerto Ricans do not have as much income as Japanese Americans. Mexican Americans do not have as much income as Cuban Americans. All sorts of people do not have as much income as all sorts of other people, not only in the United States, but in countries around the world. And most of these people were never enslaved.
If we wanted to be serious about evidence, we might compare where blacks stood a hundred years after the end of slavery with where they stood after 30 years of the liberal welfare state. In other words, we could compare hard evidence on “the legacy of slavery” with hard evidence on the legacy of liberals. Despite the grand myth that black economic progress began or accelerated with the passage of the Civil Rights laws and “War on Poverty” programs of the 1960s, the cold fact is that the poverty rate among blacks fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent by 1960. This was before any of those programs began.
From Ed Morrissey Hot Air: Semi-retired President invokes the Sick And Tired clause of the Constitution Sick and Tired of those recalcitrants in Congress not giving him his throne and scepter, I guess. The runner up line was caught by NewsBusters (penned by Jonathan Alter): ‘Many Homes’ Will Hang Portrait of President Obama Some homes … Read more
While I have been reading Session’s words for a while (one of the few Senators making a sustained effort on behalf of American workers knowing the impact that granting Amnesty will bring due to an unnecessary and unwanted dilution of the labor market that already has 92 million people out of the labor force) but have not quoted him much at all. He does a great job here (emphasis mine):
“President Obama’s executive amnesty violates the laws Congress has passed in order to create and implement laws Congress has refused to pass. The President is providing an estimated 5 million illegal immigrants with social security numbers, photo IDs and work permits—allowing them to now take jobs directly from struggling Americans during a time of record immigration, low wages, and high joblessness.
This amnesty plan was rejected by the American people’s Congress.
So far, VERY quiet. Have the day off today so I thought that I would call all four of our Federal Representatives (your choice as to whether they represent us or they are the representatives TO us from DC); I called their DC offices rather than a NH one (previous experiences have shown that the NH ones generally refer to Washington in issues like this).
Senator Kelly Ayotte:
Her Press Secretary, Liz, was not available according to the receptionist that took my call. She offered to send me to Liz’s vmail. I did let her know that my previous call (another issue) was never returned. She then offered to have me talk to the Deputy Press Secretary, Brianna – ended up leaving another voice mail (with my number & email).
“Why now?” “The Country has been waiting over 500 days” Really. He got grilled by Elizabeth Hasselbeck on Fox this morning from the aspect of legal immigrants who have made a big investment and now Obama simply GIVES illegal immigrants a free pass. They’re HAPPY because it is more fair. President Press Secretary Earnest kept harping … Read more
Yeah, ain’t this the height of irony. Obama calls out “Free Entry” (and free access to our welfare system) to those coming in through our Southern border and Mexico (who supplies the majority of its citizens as our illegal aliens) had decided to use a Free Market alternative to slow down immigrants through its borders – ABC 10 news (reformatted, emphasis mine):
SAN DIEGO – If you are a United States citizen and cross the border frequently you may have to pay a fee to go into Mexico. The National Immigration Institute in Mexico (INAMI) has started a pilot program in which foreigners that enter Mexican territory for more than seven days or they will be involved in paid work, they will have to pay 306 pesos, or about 28 US dollars.
“We are doing what should be done,” said Rudolfo Figueroa, representative of INAMI in Baja California. “Foreigners who enter Mexico have the obligation to register; if they will be in national territory for more than seven days, they have to pay the right of non-residents.”
Conservative Review has a quick list of the lies implicit / explicit / omission by Obama last night:
Lie #1: Every President has Taken Executive Action on Immigration: No other president has ever issued an amnesty of anywhere near this scope, created it out of thin air, or built it upon a prior executive action instead of a statute…
Lie #2: Illegal Immigrant Crossings are Down: Actually, this is the third straight year that border crossings have gone up, not to mention the entirely new wave from Central America…
Lie #3: It does not grant citizenship or the right to stay here permanently: Under the royal edict, the work permits can be renewed every three years, and most likely, they will be renewed at the same 99.5% acceptance rate as DACA applications…
Lie #4: Only 5 Million: Make no mistake about it. Obama’s illegal amnesty will not just apply to 5 million individuals. It will apply by default to all 12-20 million illegals in the country as well as the millions more who will now come here to enjoy the permanent cessation of borders and sovereignty…
I know some of the critics of this action call it amnesty. Well, it’s not. Amnesty is the immigration system we have today — millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules.
Yes, but before last night, they feared deportation. Which is the opposite of an amnesty!
And now, with Obama’s edict, they don’t have to worry about deportations AT ALL. For all of the bluff of “heightened deportations”,
As Steve pointed out, Terry Bean is a member of the Democrat National Committee, a big money bundler for Obama, an abortion advocate, a founder of the gay advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, and a friend of Ray Buckley (DNC Vice-Chair, gay advocate, and Chair of the NH Democrat Party) was arrested on accusations that … Read more
From CNN (reformatted, emphasis mine): 211,275 people who have more than $30 million in net assets in 2014 – a 6% increase (12,040 ) 183,810 are men and just 27,465 are women. 68% of the men were self-made compared to 34% of women 13% of men fully inherited their wealth, whereas 48% of ultra wealthy women … Read more
And you wonder why Congress might be dysfunctional? “Do the Right Thing” – that was ingrained in me when I was a Sr Consultant at DEC working with our customers, their customers, and all the internal departments within DEC. Is that the problem with our Federal Government – that their definition of “Do the Right Thing” is dysfunctional? This from Betsy’s Page caught my eye that started on a run by Senator Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) absence at committee (emphasis mine):
Defenders will say that legislators typically miss committee hearings. Perhaps that is evidence that Congress is doing too much missable stuff. I do an activity with my students when we cover the Congress unit and give them an excerpt that David Price, a Democratic representative from our area of North Carolina wrote. He includes a schedule from a typical day in his life as a congressman. The students soon notice that he has overlapping meetings all day long. He meets with constituents and interest groups, pops in at several committee meetings and then goes to several fundraisers in the evening. He’s busy from early in the morning until late in the evening. Then I ask the class what he does not have on his schedule. Someone will finally notice that there is no time on his daily schedule for him to read bills, do research, or have a briefing on a policy. If this is what they’re doing all day long, how do they have time to understand the policies they’re voting on? They have to just vote the way their party leadership or interest groups or aides advise them to.
“A St. Louis area gun shop refused a sale to an African-American woman because, according to the clerk, St. Louis police informed gun stores that Darren Wilson will not be charged,” addictinginfo.com reports. And told them to remove their firearms from the premises in case “protestors” choose to do a little affirmative shopping. “To be clear, this was not an instance of racism (not in the traditional sense, anyway) — the shop was just in the process of removing all guns and ammunition from the premises, allegedly on the order of police.” You didn’t know that? Apparently the media didn’t get the memo. Literally . . .
