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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.

” The slogan is not ‘The Few, the Proud, the Umbrella Stands.’ ”

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“Why don’t we get a couple of Marines [to hold umbrellas],” the President said. “They’re gonna look good next to us.”

Better and better every time I look at this picture or watch the video.  Far better than Obama.  Yes, Obama asked for them for “assistance” and of course, they obeyed his command.  I do believe, however, the White House staff should have taken care of this “duty”.  Shades of that rumor that during the Clinton presidency, uniformed members of the armed forces were used as waiters.

Sidenote: When I downloaded the image from the NY Daily Post site, I did get a chuckle from the name they put on it: Obama-turkey

Update: changed the title – Hot Air had a better line

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”no controlling legal authority”

Get Out Of Jail Free CardThat was the line Al Gore used back when he was campaigning against George W Bush back in 2000 in raising money at a Buddhist temple (where the monks has a vow of poverty).   As I used to hear in Sunday school, and then say myself – an object lesson!  By that, he just didn’t see any applicable law that applied to the situation – there was nothing there to stop him.  There was no gate, if breached, that would cause a negative consequence to him.  It was as if someone gave him a “Get Out Of Jail Free” card.

And that is the lesson.  As a Conservative, I believe in the phrase “self-governance”.  A two-fer: both meant that citizens should be able to govern themselves in a limited government – there is no monarchy or unaccountable entity to which to be responsible for regulations and laws set for them to merely obey.  We, the citizens, elect our representatives in the law-making process.  It is also is complementary to another phrase: self-responsibility.  Combine them and one will have a sense of morality that says “I need to do the right thing – regardless if there is a law about this or not”.  It is internal governance – that little guy that sits on your shoulder that says “you REALLY should think about NOT doing that” when you know you are wrong before you start.  Right from wrong becomes a personal responsibility – even when no one is looking.  Especially when no one else is there.

Being the Progressive that he is, Gore took advantage of the fact there there was not an “external governor” stuck in the ground in front of him that said “no, this is not right”.  No flag, no cop, no bars, no signs – nothing.  In the Progressive mindset, it seems that they depend on externalities to govern their behavior.  Seeing nothing?  Go ahead and do it!  And he did.  And then blamed the fact that there was no law there to stop him.  Effectively, Progressives outsource that internal governance to others who have made the laws they must follow.

Like Gore, it seems that AG Eric Holder and his partisan crew at the Federal Dept of Justice are now claiming “hey, if there had JUST been another law in place”:

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Congressman Mike Kelly (R-PA) outlines every American’s fear of the Tyrannical IRS

Note: be sure to listen to the resounding applause he got at this Congressional hearing concerning the IRS scandal of “punish your enemies” [Obama] in presenting actual Tyranny to those groups and individuals that expressed a political thought against the ruling regime of President Obama and the Progressives he represents.

Listen to the description of the IRS that is given by Kelly and ask yourself:

“This reconfirms everything that the American public believes. This is a HUGE blow to the faith and trust the American people have in their government.

Is there ANY limit to the scope of where you folks can go?….Is there anything at all?  Is there anyway that we can ask you, is there any question that you shouldn’t have asked, Mike?  Goodness, how much money do you have in your wallet?  Who do you get emails from? Whose sign do you put up in your front yard?

This is a tax question?  You don’t think that’s intimidating? it’s sure as hell intimidating!”

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Did uber-Obama confident put a pin into the Progressive ballon and made it go “Pop!”?

I know I keep harping on this but one of the main tenets of Progressivism is to bring about the Administrative State – a place in time where expert technocrats “guide” the rest of us through our lives.  These are unelected, unaccountable, and most likely, unapproachable bureaucrats working in a centralized government situation sitting down to make sure that we all know our place in order to have “an ordered and efficient” government (‘the country as machine and we all know our Borg cog place in it”).  Obama, more than any other President since FDR, has embraced and declared (“fundamentally transform the United States”) this to be his philosophy.

Expert technocrats – only experts will staff governments.  That is the hallmark claim: “we know it all” – and as we have lately seen, it does have multiple uses.  However, it is expected that the Administrative State, if it is to organize and run Society, is even “better” than Society?  That’s why it was a Mtn Dew snort out the nose moment when I read this from David Axelrod, uber-confidant to Progressive Prez Obama, on why these mega-scandals are all happening at once and why it isn’t Obama’s fault:

“Part of being president is there’s so much beneath you that you can’t know because the government is so vast,”

Boggled, I was.  Here it was – an uber-Progressive saying that “Government is too big to manage”.  What an outstanding gaffe that undercuts the entire raison d’etre for Progressivism.  In one sentence, Axlerod:

  • says that the brightest President not only is NOT the Smartest President EVAH (peace be upon him) (see here, too)
  • validates what Conservatives have been saying for years; Government, as Reagan (a Progressive’s arch-enemy) once said, is the problem

If something is too vast, it is too big to manage and certainly too big to manage properly.  And if the Smartest President EVAH (peace be upon him) can’t manage it well, well, who could?  Well, the Founders “have an app for that!”

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Naval Aviation History – first carrier launch of an X-47B UAV

“The batwing-shaped craft, known as the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System, or UCAS, on May 14 was catapulted 11:18 a.m. local time from the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va., according to the service. …The drone, made by Northrop Grumman Corp., was controlled … Read more

Belknap County Conservative Republicans: “Family Fun Day” – May 18, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm at Funspot in Laconia

Belknap County Conservative Republicans Hear ye! Hear Ye! Calling All Conservatives! Belknap County is now home to a new political group in town, Belknap County Conservative Republicans. This political grassroots organization is dedicated to offering conservative solutions for contemporary issues. Don Walker, one of the founders of BCCR: “We believe that progressivism, in all of … Read more

“Scandal Cascade” – this is starting to look like Jimmah is off the hook!

The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen

Don’t worry, Jimmah – there’s an even worse dude coming in as your reliever!

I notice that Blue Hampshire has nothing / nada / zilch on the scandals (Front Page / All Posts) that have erupted since Friday stemming from the Obama Administration’s hubris of power – the DOJ going after the media (and expecting nary a sound from the sycophantic media), the IRS going after Conservative groups that held to or espoused to a form of government much less large than now and within a bounded fenced in area, HHS going after cash for Obamacare, the CIA / State Dept brouhaha over who didn’t say when about what concerning letting 4 American civilians get murdered…..a meltdown of super-major proportions.

Nary but a cricket sound from THE bastion of Progressivism here in NH otherwise known as the cheerleading squad  for an ever increasing sized, ever increasing cost, and an ever increasing intrusive Activist Government that rejects the the notion of the Constitutional Republic (re: the rejection of enumerated powers, the activating of an income tax, and regulations that would make the Politboro blush) and a subsuming of the Individual into the Collective (except for in one’s bedroom – except that Sandra Fluke led the movement to demand that our wallets be present).  And, oh yeah, Obamacare, the Progressivism capstone and Obama’s Legacy Schtick, really does seem to be the incipient political train wreck barreling down the tracks as little is operationally ready for the first train station stop in October.  I really do hope that the Law is strictly held up to its own Law (yup, Alinsky’s own Rule to make them live by their own Rule Book – and the Rule Book ain’t a 1/4 done) – and I will admit: I do hope this House of Cards that is little more than a Old Western Town’s facade to the Temple of Progressivism comes tumbling down and tumbles hard.  And before you Progs start screaming “you hateful person”, remember, not a single Republican voted for this pile of legislative doo-doo.  You own it.  You own the economy.  You own the gridlock.  You own everything.

And now, you are about to be blamed for it.  Deservedly so, as Progressivism IS the Root Cause.  Every single bit can be traced down to your philosophy.  Enjoy – and weep.

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Better comparison? Sgt “I know nothing” Schultz?

Oy vay! This is getting badder and worser for Obama.  After all, this guy is THE Alinsky accolyte and trainer and he knows EXACTLY what is going on now – and there’s not a durned thing he can do about it: RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. … Read more

I ask, seeing…

all these scandals in the Most Progressive Administration EVAH, if Progressives have been lying to themselves that men become angels when they start receiving a Government payroll check?  This is their “Heaven on Earth”? Just another question…

Humor – Coincidences

A chicken farmer went to the local bar. He sat next to a woman and ordered champagne.  The woman said, “How strange, I also just ordered a glass of champagne.”  “What a coincidence,” said the farmer, who added, “It is a special day for me. I’m celebrating.”  “It is a special day for me too, I am also celebrating!” said the woman.

“What a coincidence.” said the farmer.

While they toasted, the farmer asked, “What are you celebrating?”   “My husband and I have been trying to have a child for years, and today, my gynecologist told me that I was pregnant.”  “What a coincidence,” said the man. “I am a chicken farmer and for years all my hens were infertile, but now they are all set to lay fertilized eggs.”   “This is awesome,” said the woman. “What did you do for your chickens to become fertile?”

“I used a different rooster,” he said.  The woman smiled and said

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“FBI Launches Criminal Probe of IRS Conduct.”

Post title taken from Instapundit.  Which made me think of the upcoming corresponding headline, soon to be seen on a blogsite near you: “IRS Agents swoop into local FBI offices” Tit for tat?  You really don’t think that with Government as large as it is, it couldn’t happen?  The Bureaucracy’s version of a “brush back” … Read more

Tyranny, Mr. President?

From here (and a follow on here): RealClearPolitics – PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They’ll warn that … Read more

Decisions have consequences – even on Mother’s Day

We just returned from a dinner out – courtesy of the Youngest who had asked if he could take TMEW out for Mother’s Day – a very pleasant time and not a single word about blogging or politics out of me (er, maybe that was the reason for “a very pleasant time”?).  Yet, for at … Read more

Notable Quote – Prof. Dan Boudreaux

for the “Progressive,” to insist on spending your own money, and only your own money, is considered to be greedy and shallow, but to insist on spending other people’s money is considered to be selfless and enlightened. Truly strange. – Prof. Dan Boudreaux

Guest Post by Cornerstone Executive Ashley Pratte: Statement on Gosnell Trial Verdict

Statement on Gosnell Trial Verdict (Manchester, NH) Today the jury in the Dr. Kermit Gosnell trial, found Dr. Gosnell guilty of murder in the first degree. Ashley Pratte, Executive Director of Cornerstone, released the following statement: “The unimaginable horrors that came to light during this trial was shocking and appalling. This trial serves as a … Read more

Blogline of the Day: Sir Winston Churchill on the Obama IRS Scandal?

obama-big-brother2As Steven Hayward of Powerline points out, this speech by the British Prime Minister during WWII given while campaigning to retain that position after the war’s end, points out that a Socialist Government brooks no dissent. Yes, the title of this post is a wee bit over the top (after all, Churchill is no longer with us), but even though these words were spoken almost 70 years ago, the meaning still holds true – the Collective cannot tolerate thoughts contrary to its own.  After all, if people start thinking on their own, they have just gone “Individualistic” – the opposite of the most High Truth of Socialism: We ARE (and WILL BE) in this together.

My friends, I must tell you that a Socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Although it is now put forward in the main by people who have a good grounding in the Liberalism and Radicalism of the early part of this century, there can be no doubt that Socialism is inseparably interwoven with Totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State. It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of Socialism.

Look how even today they hunger for controls of every kind, as if these were delectable foods instead of wartime inflictions and monstrosities. There is to be one State to which all are to be obedient in every act of their lives. The State is to be the arch-employer, the arch-planner, and arch-administrator and ruler and the arch-caucus-boss. . .

A Socialist State once thoroughly completed in all its details and its aspects—and that is what I am speaking of—could not afford to suffer opposition. . . Socialism is, in its essence, an attack not only upon British enterprise, but upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to breathe freely without having a harsh, clumsy, tyrannical hand clapped across their mouths and nostrils. . . Have we not heard Mr Herbert Morrison descant upon his plans to curtail Parlimentary procedure and pass laws simply by resolution of broad principle in the House of Commons, afterward to be left by Parliament to the executive and to the bureaucrats to elaborate and enforce by departmental regulations? . . .

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Blogline of the Day: Hey, we got less than you and we’re in a war!

Iraq?  Afghanistan? No, it is not the US Army complaining that Big Sis’s Department of Homeland security has more small arms ammo than they do (although if I was the Army, I would be complaining and wanting my MRAPs back too). Nope, a different war: Just heard audio from Syrian rebel who says, “We have less … Read more

Palate Cleanser – Pump Gas News (Jay Leno)

I don’t watch Jay Leno too often lately – perhaps with this, I should.  Powerline (H/T) called this “delightful”.  I did find amusing and caught myself laughing at times and found it to be one of those “nice” types of videos for a 5 minute view of someone taken by surprise – and then “going … Read more

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