Skip, Author at Granite Grok

Tyranny? Proper Role of Govt for a Senator demanding Fox Sports to not to air NASCAR race because of NRA sponsorship?

September 26, 2018April 12, 2013 Skip

“Nice network and race series you have there – shame if something happened to it (if the Feds were to start looking at them)”

I wanted to start this post off with “Have guns become the new pornography that must be silenced?” but that would miss the nuance of the Progressive mind that ALL things that run counter to the Progressive making “progress” IS considered pornography – and thus, be discredited, maligned and eventually eliminated. Constitutionally protected? Makes no difference – FORWARD! Free speech / First Amendment? Makes no difference – FORWARD!

That you have a sitting US Senator (Democrat) trying to lean forward in silence the opposition to achieve a Progressive Political Milestone? Forward to Tyranny worthy of a Banana Republic:

The National Rifle Association-sponsored NASCAR race slated for this weekend is “inappropriate in the immediate wake of the Newtown massacre,” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, wrote to the race’s broadcaster on Thursday.

No, we are no longer in the “immediate wake” of using dead children for political children – Senator, when will the Left stop using dead children as politicial pawns?

MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry – If you thought getting my rifle out of my cold, dead hands was hard enough…

October 27, 2019April 12, 2013 Skip

“We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had a private notion of children; your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children…We Have to Break Through This Idea ‘That Kids Belong to Their Parents‘“

If my kids were still young, Dr. Harris-Perry, you’d get a blast of “cold, dead hands” from me! Wait until you come to my house still thinking MY kids are YOUR kids. With antics like this, I no longer have to wonder where the Village Idiot went. Problem is, there are lots of folks, especially those in Education and the rest of Government do believe exactly what she is saying – these other Village Idiots believe children belong to us all rather than to the Parents that gave birth to them. Sure, we who have kids want to do everything possible for them – that called ‘being responsible’. If you make the decision to have them (or, made the decision to engage in an action that would result in a child, intended or not), that is the natural outcome – you put their best interests well in front of your own. To me, this is the essence of traditional marriage – yes, I and my wife loved each when we said “I Do’s” but we also realized that when the time to have children came, our needs were a far, far second compared to theirs. NEVER did I believe that ANYONE else was responsible for them.

NH GOP hierarchy – damage control: Oh no, that wasn’t REALLY a vote (er, was it?)

September 26, 2018April 11, 2013 Skip

Last night I put up this post – a Presser by the Coos County Republican Committee sent out by Eric Catman, the Coos County Chair:

Expressing no confidence in New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairman Jennifer Horn

Be it resolved that we the members of the Coos County Republican Committee do hereby issue this resolution due to recent actions of Chairman Jennifer Horn in her handling of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee.

Whereas the recent attack on longtime New Hampshire Republican State Committee Treasurer Robert Scott by Chairman Horn has distracted the party from its objectives…

Well, THAT didn’t take long – the Area 1 Vice Chair Vicki Schwaegler seemingly immediately ran to the media in full out damage control (some reformmating, emphasis mine):

A no-confidence vote taken by members of the Coos County Republican Committee against New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Horn Wednesday night via conference call was not an official act, according to the party’s vice chairman, Vicki Schwaegler.

Please note that she is not THE Vice Chair – that would be JP Marzullo; Vicki is only 1 of 5 AVPs; in fact, this next part of the article is absolutely wrong:

When your head smells like dead fish….

September 26, 2018April 11, 2013 Skip

If you’re looking for political commentary, this ain’t it. I’ve just been ruminating today. It started when I was jogging and working out….

Notable Quote – Martin Wolf

September 26, 2018April 11, 2013 Skip

I’ve never agreed with the meme that ‘companies FORCE us to buy their products’: This charge – that corporations own customers – is another example of the lie that freedom is slavery. We are free to make choices, however. Insisting upon anything else demeans us. It is because we are free that corporations need to … Read more

Wait a sec, I thought President Blameless was the Commander-in-Chief??

September 26, 2018April 10, 2013 Skip

From RedState:

Ever notice that this administration is only lightning-fast when it comes to shifting blame when things don’t work out perfectly? They practically left a vapor trail in their zeal to anonymously accuse the US military of being responsible for our tense situation with North Korea:

So, it’s the Navy’s fault that the U.S.-North Korea spat has gone so far?

That’s the apparent message from senior administration officials who, according to the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, said that they had long planned to send B-52s, B-2 stealth bombers, and F-22 fighters to the Korean Peninsula as part of preplanned wargames with South Korea, but that they had not planned the recent deployment of Navy destroyers.

Last weekend, the U.S. ordered two guided-missile destroyers to the Western Pacific — the U.S.S. John S. McCain and the U.S.S. Decatur — to provide additional defense against North Korean ballistic missiles.

Command takes responsibility, Mr. Obama.

Indeed. Especially when one is Commander-in-Chief instead of Blameless-In-All-Things. Really, other than the Drone killings, and indicating he was fine with the Affordable Care Act being called Obamacare, what positive things has he done? Yes, I know – OBL. However, that was a continuation of a program that preceded him – any President would have given that order. Yes, as it turns out (I bookmarked this a couple of days ago) the Navy used its protocol to send two additional destroyers without getting Presidential approval – it wasn’t needed. In fact, new DoD Sec. Hagel didn’t even have to approve it. Yet, Obama choose to hide behind (not lead from behind) and…

Apologies, apologies – both show the rot in our culture…and both involve Obama – Part 2

September 26, 2018April 10, 2013 Skip

Well, my earlier post was about Obama’s apology – and I still believe it was unwarranted and unneeded. But Obama bowed to the Political Correctness crowd – and having done so (er, again?), they will make him do so again. You see, it is a never ending game of gotcha. And really, when you get … Read more

Yo, Mr. VP? How about spitting in their eye? Really, who CARES what they think?

September 26, 2018April 10, 2013 Skip

We aren’t them! Or is this just the normal “I’m a politician and I feel vulnerable if not everyone likes me”? I read stuff like this:

Vice President Joe Biden gave a heated speech on reducing gun violence this afternoon, lashing out at Republican senators who have vowed to filibuster the gun-control legislation. “It’s almost mind-boggling,” Biden said to law-enforcement officials in Washington, D.C.

He asked the senators to consider how their actions are being viewed by the international community: “In sophisticated capitals and in less-sophisticated capitals, they all reported on Sandy Hook, they all reported on Aurora.” “What do you think is being said today in those capitals about us?” the vice president asked. “Imagine what they’re saying, gentlemen and ladies, in other capitals around the world today.”

and I don’t know whether to scream or cry. Who cares what they say? Why is it that our leading politicians give the indication they are ashamed of their country (Obama’s Apology tour and now this)? Filibustering is part of the way that the Senate decided, according to the Constitution, to run itself. Biden, after decades in the Senate, should know that. Or staying with the Progressive meme, just another crass attempt at poking holes in the Constitution (I’d say like Swiss Cheese, but the Swiss are all armed)? Why is it that our leaders wish to lower us (and yes, that is the proper word) to their level in not trusting their citizens (versus the Founders that trusted we Citizens – but not future (current?) leaders not so much – by enshrining our previously existing Right to defend ourselves and our Free State).

Blogline of the Day: It spotlights: don’t do more until the basics are done

September 26, 2018April 9, 2013 Skip

We have known about Reynolds’ Law for quite some time:

“Subsidizing the markers of status doesn’t produce the character traits that result in that status; it undermines them.”

Well, it seems like Glen Reynolds (of Instapundit fame) now has a new law (making the above Reynolds First Law)

Reynolds’ Second Law:

“The more a government wants to run its citizens’ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.”

Liberal Hypocrisy – Children are the adults in the Progressive world

September 26, 2018April 9, 2013 Skip

The second one definitely breeches Reynolds’ Second Law. How can the Progressive mind believe that an 11 year old can make rational decisions about a powerful hormonal abortifacient but an adult can make a rational decision about how thirsty they are? Or is this ONLY about the money – another illegitimate baby on welfare for … Read more

Blog Thought of the Day: Which one should Government be able to do FIRST?

September 26, 2018April 9, 2013 Skip

I point out here Reynolds’ Second Law (yes, it is my Shiny Object of the day): “The more a government wants to run its citizens’ lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government.” From the lens of the above, which of these is the “basic” one: Our government says … Read more

Still think the Second Amendment DOESN’T exist to protect us from Tyrannical Government?

September 26, 2018April 9, 2013 Skip

On a Firefox tab somewhere, I have a couple of posts I wish to comment on this very topic (just can’t seem to find them today) – that America can turn into a Tyrannical Government (especially if Progressives succeed in doing away with the Constitution – the ONLY bulwark we citizens have against an overreaching government. And within that Constitution is the last resort of Citizens: the Second Amendment.

Think I’m crazy? Ask someone whose “Democratic government” was overtaken by those that promoted a “safer, more secure” future than the government at the time about the need for its Citizens to protect themselves – and a Free State:

Progressives often wish that we forget our history. They also want to us to be ignorant of the history of other countries where their philosophy has been tried before – and failed. Yes,