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Remember here, the Leftist activists and the hoi-polloi of the Democrat elite solons (e.g., Reid, Pelosi, and others of the Cultural Marxist (more the Marxist, notably)) that have decried their outrage they have (faux as it is) for any of those “racists” that believes that the Washington Redskins and Chief Wahoo mascot of the Cleveland Indians is racist.  So incensed they are, they created what they hoped was a logo that would cause the rest of us (who pretty don’t much care what they are outraged about) to be outraged in reverse.

As the Indiana Jones “Holy Grail” movie said (paraphrased to the plural): “They chose poorly“. Yawn….we don’t see it as a “reverse racism” slap – mostly because we don’t really care.  We see it for what it is – mean spirited attempt to make us feel bad or outraged, and with our “consciousness raised”, we’d simply fall into groupthink lockstep.  Yet even as they attempt to shame us, they can’t see past their own upturned noses for the hypocriticalness.  Oopsies (reformatted and emphasis mine):

 …A name entwined  – with big money at stake – not only with modern Democrats but current-day America: Andrew Jackson.  Yes, that Andrew Jackson. The seventh president of the United States, the hero of the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. The man whose statue sits directly across from the White House in LaFayette Park, and whose familiar image graces the twenty dollar bill, not to mention a portrait in the White House itself. The man who is seen by historians as the co-founder (with predecessor Thomas Jefferson) of the modern day Democratic Party.

Yes, there is “a rest of the story” connected with the above story: 

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Well, there’s more from my friend (and indeed, he is exactly that) concerning Christian compassion, the illegal kid invasion, and Government “caring” and Suffer the little children quote from Matthew 19  (emphasis mine):

yeah – we’re gonna agree to disagree on this.  Either feed’m and send them home, or feed’m and send them to their relatives.  Putting them in a holding cell for further processing, and waiting for them to be old enough to vote – ain’t gonna work.

My response:

Not matter what, we feed them – on this we agree.

IF they have followed our laws (at which, they would not be crossing our borders in the manner they are doing), they should go to those relatives IF those relatives themselves are legally here – on this we agree.

The law is clear – follow our rules, follow our laws.  Else, you are here illegally.  In that case –

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A good friend has been following GraniteGrok on the issue of the illegal alien kids invasion and sent this to me:

Skip – whatever happened to “suffer the little children to come“?  This isn’t a moment to score political points.  This is a moment to practice being a Christian.  Perhaps we should be sending troops to Hondoras instead of adding them to the unemployment lines.

He’s a good guy – a hard worker (former co-worker), a good family man, and takes his beliefs seriously. But he was offbase with this and I needed to gently tell him that:

“Suffer the little children to come” – use the whole quote in context, <redacted>.  It was never for us to call EVERY child in the world to come illegally into the US.  The full quote (Matthew 19) is:

13Then some children were brought to Him so that He might lay His hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. 14But Jesus said, “Let the children alone, and do not hinder them from coming to Me; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” 15After laying His hands on them, He departed from there.

And notice that it was His choice of an individual action – not a governmental one.  He did not

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Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) decried the House GOP lawsuit as he addressed “all the white people in here” during the Rules Committee hearing — which was filled with battles between the Democrats and the newly unified Republicans like Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers, who both also commented to the Rules panel.

Forget about Hastings’ impeachable past.  What his statement represents is the increasingly open philosophy in Democrat Party circles that race explains everything, including the certain demise of the GOP in time.  Instead of acquiescing to this evil, instead of accepting the premise of this immoral racialism, the Republican Party must strike back.

We have blogged about this guy in the past (here, here, here, and hereThe first shows how this guy operates; knowing that HIS skin color protects him against widely being called a racist by the Left (as he throws the race card against Sarah Palin).  He is one of the more frequent throwers, but I have watched the Left use this more and more and more in what is now called “political discourse” as they use Alinsky’s Rule and attempting to demonize those that simply disagree with them.  Almost any issue, any topic, and the Left is going to throw

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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

I really don’t think that just because they show up for work, that what happens then can be called “work”.  Our Federal Government’s “whether it works” on full display (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Federal paralegals had no work, so they surfed the Internet

Dozens of federal employees at an obscure agency that handles appeals of patent applications went years with so little work to do that they collected salaries — and even bonuses — while they surfed the Internet, did laundry, exercised and watched television, an investigation has found.  The employees, paralegals making $60,000 to $80,000 a year, were idle with full knowledge of their immediate bosses and multiple layers of managers and judges who “sat on their hands” waiting for work to give them, a year-long probe by the Commerce Department inspector general’s office uncovered.

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During our second segment of GrokTALK! this morning, we talked with Robin Eubanks:  “author of  Credentialed to Destroy — Robin S. Eubanks — calls in to update us on state and globally directed education”reform,” what they call competency based education.”   We discussed how the impending curriculum of Common Core and newest iteration of CBE really stems from the philosophy of Progressive John Dewey back around 1890s/1900s.  That people existed to be “cogs in the machine of society” and education was should to be designed to turn out compliant worker-bees.

Robin, and Grokster Mike, emphasized that such “education” will cut out the heart of the American economy – that “creative destruction” via innovation by those relative few that have the “bright ideas” that drive new products and industries (which history has shown has created a vastly higher standard of living than ever contemplated under planned economies).  The question that must be faced from the “new education” is this: if people are trained to be “compliant,” where will the striving be that is such a large component of innovation?  What happens to the “few strivers” when striving and risk taking is bred out of us?  The discussion of “the few” immediately brought this Robert Heinlein quote to mind (as GraniteGrok is, in part, named from a word from Heinlein best seller “Stranger in a Strange Land” – Grok):

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Steve has a most important post up today where he brings up that Jeanne Shaheen, regardless of her campaign ads or sound bytes, is not really interested in the people of NH (but gets it very slightly wrong).  Emphasis mine, a bit of reformatting:

I can’t say it often enough.  We need to elect Senators and congress-people who are less interested in taking credit for getting some fraction of our money back and more interested in making sure it never leaves New Hampshire in the first place.  We send them to DC to ensure that we, as a state, have the most opportunity to decide our own destiny, be it roads and bridges, health care, education, property rights, or the defense of our natural rights.  But Democrats go to DC to do exactly the opposite.  They consistently vote to bring more money through DC, to make more decisions in the US capitol, and to keep our tax dollar running through that offshore-bankrupt District of Columbia instead of in Concord or your home town.

This vote is just one more example of who Democrats like Jeanne Shaheen really represent; lobbyists, politicians, and bureaucrats.  Preferably, as far away from us as possible.

Steve is EXACTLY right – the money that is made in NH (which IS earned private property), the wealth that created, should stay in NH and not taken from us.  The Founders, with their sense of Federalism that put the States first, would approve of his outlook – me, too.  The best control is when local people have it – and not when it is translated to far away.    He is right in that Democrats get elected “to make more decisions in the US capitol” than at the State level if elected to the national level.  They also do it at the State level – to paraphrase Steve, “to make more decisions in the State capitol, Concord” than at local level if elected to the State level.  Correspondingly, it also works at the City or town level than by individual or families make their own decisions.

Where I slightly disagree with him is

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