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Skip “HadCRUT4, the last of the five monthly global datasets to report its February value, shows the same sharp drop in global temperature over the month as the other datasets. Our dataset-of-datasets graph averages the monthly anomalies for the three terrestrial and two satellite temperature records. It shows there has still been no global warming this … Read more
Congressional Per Capita District US Representative Party Income 1. New York 12 Rep. Carolyn Maloney Democrat $75,479.00 2. California 33 Rep. Henry Waxman Democrat $61,273.00 3. New York 10 Rep. Jerry Nadler Democrat $56,138.00 4. California 18 Rep. Anna Eshoo Democrat $54,182.00 5. Connecticut 4 Rep. Jim Himes Democrat … Read more
Speaking to the Second Amendment:
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American . . . . The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people.”
– Tench Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788
(H/T: Bearing Arms, more after the jump)
Earlier today, Grokster Steve alerted the rest of us that Kathy Sullivan tweeted out my post describing and opining on the talk that Scott Brown gave last Wednesday:
1. Usually don't read Granitegrok but this post on @Senscottbrown house party hate to admit is must read. #nhpolitics http://t.co/VcA8hVAmTL
— Kathy Sullivan (@NHKathySullivan) April 2, 2014
Or as Steve paraphrased: “I don’t always read GraniteGrok, but when I do…it’s about attacking Scott Brown“. She’s wrong about the attacking part; after all, we’ve done more on attacking Shaheen than we have commenting on Brown. She also gets it wrong that she thinks we’re necesarily Republicans (heck, so do the Establishment Republicans). Scott hasn’t been here long enough to understand who we are and what we represent – bad tutalege by Andy “The Muscle” Leach for that. You see, we don’t defend Republicans just because they are Republicans and we don’t attack Democrats for not being Republicans. In fact, we could care less which Party (e.g., Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Socialist, Communist, Green) anyone belongs to. Not at all and not a tittle.
Rather, our allegiance is to
This past Wednesday nite, fellow Grokster Mike and his lovely bride Mar-Mar opened up their home and brought in their friends and family to meet Scott Brown (if you haven’t heard, he may or may not run for US Senator from NH but at least is in the exploratory phase – much to the relief of NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn and all of the NH GOP Committees to which he’s been sending money). Now I was rather surprised when Mike said he had done so but his stated goal was to hear all of the candidates (or possible ones) and to give his friends and neighbors an opportunity to hear what they had to say. By the time Scott had arrived, well, it was clear that there was a mix of folks at Mike’s; certainly there were those I see all the time but there was also more than a few folks I had never met ending up with a full house.
It was clear that even though we had never met, he knew who I was and his demeanor changed – I guess that Andy Leach (former Sununu aide-de-camp, former NH GOP Exec. Dir (who remembers that I did not take “no” for an answer and finally got him in a ‘Grok micro-interview), Kelly Ayotte aide-de-camp, and now working for Scott Brown). I am imagining that he “advised” Scott as he immediately wagged his finger in my face and made it clear that there was to be NO video recording. Sure, I did make the anti-argument, that I do this kind of activity so that those that cannot be there in person would be able to hear his message: unadulterated, unedited (except for time – attention spans and all) and that if ANYTHING got abstracted out, the ENTIRE video gets posted (I was doing that before Project Veritas was doing that) so that the complete context would be seen and heard.
No dice. It was clear that he is not happy with bloggers – even as Mike and Mar-Mar were standing there with their GraniteGrok shirts on. Sure,
Otherwise known as “Stack’em and Pack’em” – SCI wants zoning changes such that higher density living will be mandated – high rise living for all with retail on the first couple of floors, sidewalks galore, and if you like public transportation, you will be in love with your only source. The single family homes of suburbia will simply be now over-densified and remade into little urban areas and rural areas may well be eliminated so that “green space” will hem in humans into certain areas and no further. Think of it as TreeHuggers writing housing and living policies for the rest of us – freedom of choice will be regulated away. So if that happens, what happens when this happens (emphasis mine, reformatted):
7.5 quake on California fault could be disastrous — kill thousands, cost billions
The shaking from a 7.5 quake at the Puente Hills thrust fault in the center of urban Los Angeles could be so intense it would lift heavy objects in the air, could kill 3,000 to 18,000 people and cause up to $250 billion in damage. Experts say a bigger earthquake along the lesser-known fault that gave Southern California a moderate shake could do more damage to the region than the long-dreaded “Big One” from the more famous San Andreas Fault. The Puente Hills thrust fault, which brought Friday night’s magnitude-5.1 quake centered in La Habra and well over 100 aftershocks by Sunday, stretches from northern Orange County under downtown Los Angeles into Hollywood — a heavily populated swath of the Los Angeles area.
A magnitude-7.5 earthquake along that fault could prove more catastrophic than one along the San Andreas, which runs along the outskirts of metropolitan Southern California, seismologists said.
As a dyed in the wool New Englander who used to visit California fairly frequently,
Can’t you all even get the narrative right?
The Left is trying to redefine the language again so that OTHERS must supply another’s needs (classic “according to their needs” mantra) – this translates into “I demand that you pay for me”. Once again, the Progressives are all willing to minimize the Constitutional meaning and power and replace it with their ideological Dystopia. Which is shone by the folks in the video – watch especially for the lady in the blue jacket who is against the Green’s First Amendment Rights but argues for her own First Amendment Right without recognizing her hypocrisy.
Again, this is about Obama trashing the First Amendment Right of the individuals that own and run a company. It is the Left “progressing”
The idea that the US electricity grid could be knocked out for 1.5 years is a bit shocking. But that’s what the agency in charge of protecting it has revealed. It may have all gone under the radar and unnoticed, but someone at the Wall Street Journal took notice of a number of warnings put forth last year by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (following an attempted “terrorist attack” on a California substation) and recently wrote up a story about the matter. The essence of the risk was pretty concisely put forth by FERC officials: “Destroy nine interconnection substations and a transformer manufacturer and the entire United States grid would be down for at least 18 months, probably longer.” (Note that many substations are protected only by fences and cameras.)
Well, the actual stats Shahan put up seem to jive with what I’ve seen elsewhere. But then he runs towards the cliff:
Annie Kuster is silent here, and Sebelius is silent here: “Kathleen Sebelius appeared to have no retort when confronted with Oklahomans’ dislike for Obamacare, and sat silent on air. On Monday, Oklahoma City’s KWTV-TV anchor asked Sebelius about the “64 percent of Oklahomans [who] aren’t buying into the health-care plan. “They don’t like Obamacare, and … Read more
Jonah Goldberg does a short video on the true meaning of “Social Justice” – and those that love Social Justice hate the philosophy of Individual Freedom / Free Society given to us by our American Founders. It means a removal of any and all Freedoms necessary to accomplish a Redistributional endpoint (aka, Socialism). some of … Read more
Let’s just say that while Congressman Annie Kuster (D-NH) put in a magnificent political performance here, she kept that same upstanding level on WMUR’s 6pm news for the event that today was the last day for Obamacare sign up. After all, don’t do it and you invoke the fines and penalties (although with the many Royal Decrees and unilateral Changes that His Highness Obama has handed down since Obamacare was actually passed, who really knows when it really ends – Steve is right, it IS Lawlessness)!
Josh McElveen (having just commented that Healthcare.gov failed not once, but twice this last day of signup): “While supporters have taken heat since the launch of that website could only grin and bear it”
Congressman Annie Kuster (D-NH, see mark at 1:10): Honestly, I just think it was so much interest. Two million people went online this weekend. You know, we’re a nation of procrastinators, that’s the bottom line. So, I think its important to do everything you can to get online today and start that process…
Interest? Or “hide saving” time? After all, Congresswoman,
Bravo (or do I have to be PC / Spanish correct and go Brava?)! ‘Grok friend Betsy McCaughey is one of our favorites – former Lt. Gov. of New York, Constitutional Scholar, and one of the nation’s premier experts on Obamacare. She goes all around the country on speaking engagements, is on the radio, a Fox News Contributor – and I keep going through her books on it. Well, she caught Kagan in a lie from the oral arguments for the Hobby Lobby / Conestoga Obamacare case this week in her New York Sun Op-Ed (emphasis mine, reformatted):
That playbook was laid out in a brief that had been filed by 19 senators and 91 members of the House, all Democrats , supporting the Obama administration’s legal war against Hobby Lobby, a chain of craft stores that provides health insurance to all employees but refuses to cover morning-after pills such as Plan B and Ella. The owners, the Green family, try to run their business according to Biblical principles, including closing on Sunday, foregoing hauling beer even when their trucks have to run empty, and not providing abortion drugs. Senator Murray claimed that “What’s at stake in this case before the Supreme Court is whether a CEO’s personal beliefs can trump a woman’s access to free or low-cost contraception under the Affordable Care Act.”
And we see the 3 female (and more importantly, Progressive) justices spew this same nonsense. We see three things at play here that have never been tried
I often fume at Katrina vanden Heuval when she goes on the Sunday morning talking head shows (she is the Editor of the extremely Progressive magazine, The Nation – and no, I have no idea what nation is that her magazine is calling “The Nation”). She hates Conservatives, hates the TEA Party, and pretty much everyone else that is for limited government, self-responsibility, and free markets. So, like many of the Leftists that have decided that the Koch brothers are the devils incarnate (and pretty much refusing to see their own brands of Billionaire do-badders like George Soros and the Brothers Styers), she asked what turned out to be a very dumb question:
http://twitter.com/#!/KatrinaNation/status/450088170428694528
Well,
Ah yes, back to TreeHugger. They really are all about downshifting one’s standard of living to ensure that “Gaia” won’t be hurt from global warming global cooling climate change Mankind activities that would make us like Venus (or was that Neptune?) in temperature. They also are all about Socialism (“we’re all in this together and we won’t let you out”) and the totalitarianism that you will live your life by their sacred proscriptions. I call it “the cave and firepit lifestyle”.
Well, owning a big car? Very much a mortal sin. Electric car? Well, maybe – as long as you use PV panel to recharge it. While they are all about cramming everyone into high density “walkable neighborhoods” (like the self-righteous do-gooders from the Federal Government EPA / HUD / DOT), they will allow that riding bicycles are OK and rate just a tick under forcing you to walk everywhere. And certainly, if those bikes are “communally owned” so much the better. Thus, this bad news gave them a rather latte day (emphasis mine, reformatted):
Citi Bike is underwater and de Blasio refuses bailout
One of the most unique features of New York City’s bike share program is that it’s privately funded. In most cities, bike-share programs, like other forms of public transportation, are subsidized with taxpayer money. But according to The Wall Street Journal, Citi Bike is in debt. Alta Bicycle Share, which operates Citi Bike as a subsidiary, needs to raise tens of millions of dollars to keep the program going according to WSJ’s off-the-record sources.
From Pindell on Friday:
Maggie Hassan: It took more than a year, but the freshman Democratic governor finally has her first solid legislative victory on Medicaid expansion.
And a big Progressive step Leftward (and remember, Progressives are merely incremental Socialists in disguise) – in furthering the instrusion of Obamacare here in NH. Like I said here, this Democrat Progressive could not have done it, nor set the financial / cultural stage for a broadbased tax, without Republicans in the State Senate. Leaders, even: NH State Senator Chuck Morse, NH State Senator Jeb Bradley, NH State Senator Bob Odell, or NH State Senator Nancy Stiles.
Isn’t it nice to see the Democrat ball advanced down the field even as this Plank in the NH GOP Platform has now been shattered: from within.
Oppose the implementation of Obamacare in New Hampshire
“Having one’s back” – the trust that one places in another that no matter the situation, no matter the circumstances, the other guy will be steadfast, present, and loyal. It’s that last term that seems to be such a nuthingburger in politics where if political speed of movement could be measured when the mud starts flying around someone, politicians AND political operatives would be Olympic world class sprinters.
Heh! once again another set of bon mots from Political Scoop this Friday:
Scott Brown: His odd, “whatever,” comment to the Associated Press this week became late night comedy fodder, but he is continuing to win over conservatives and now Ayotte is on the record having his back.
Hmm, maybe that phrase “on the record having his back” does not mean what I think it does because
Update: Ted Cruz is speaking. I’ve put the video after the jump because it auto-plays and I can’t turn it off – but his is talking about Marxism and Leninism….
Methinks one Party won’t be too happy over this….
Heh! Does this mean one should try to miss once in a while? (H/T: The Blaze)
Back in June, I posted about Elizabeth Daly who was pursued by a pack of nitwits from the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control agents – over water bottles:
More and more, Government workers are making us believe by their actions that we Citizens (and Parents) are the problem to be taken care of and solved. Now, this real story I had seen before, but who can pass up and putting in a line like this from NH’s own Mark Steyn to introduce it?…
…When a half-dozen men and a woman in street clothes closed in on University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly, 20, she and two roommates panicked. That led to Daly spending a night and an afternoon in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Her initial offense? Walking to her car with bottled water, cookie dough and ice cream just purchased from the Harris Teeter in the Barracks Road Shopping Center for a sorority benefit fundraiser. A group of state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents clad in plainclothes approached her, suspecting the blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water to be a 12-pack of beer. Police say one of the agents jumped on the hood of her car. She says one drew a gun. Unsure of who they were, Daly tried to flee the darkened parking lot.
Well, it looks like these power hungry para-military folks may be serving up a big pay day for the college co-eds that so dastardly thought that those comestibles were EVIL. The HORROR of it – SUGAR TERRORISTS! Obesity Mongers! From the Daily Mail (emphasis mine, reformatted):
Student, 20, sues for $40MILLION after being hauled from her car at gunpoint and arrested for buying beer underage when she only bought WATER