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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.

FaceBook Doodlings: Libertarians & Free Staters: let me amplify what Tim said about Tuesday

Tim put up this post, urging movement Libertarians to consider how they’d be voting on Tuesday:

If you are a libertarian, or if you are a Free Stater, or if you just believe in limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility….

David Mamet, the famed playwright that was hard Left and just veered Right after finally realizing what the results of the Left have done, put it another way (even as he was speaking to Liberal Jews, it fits here):

Are you prepared to explain to your children not the principles upon which your vote is cast, but its probable effects upon them?

Go read the whole thing.  Tim’s post started a bit of a conversation on Facebook and I waded in (note: I’ve not been active on FB for a while but given the tenor (pretty much, I “went there”.  Now Leah was the main respondent and we’ve been friendly ever since we met when the TEA Party decided to “meet & greet” back in 2009 when Obama sojourned to Portsmouth, NH.  On FB, she expressed an attitude that many Libertarians seem to hold:  both Romney and Obama are pretty much communists and there’s no difference between them (and many view Romney as actually being worse).  The comment that set me off was one about Romney not being able to reverse what Obama has done:

“He is not a king, and cannot just make a pronouncement that he declares a law null and void.“

Have you not been paying attention!!  What the heck do you think Obama has actually been doing????  My response (edited to be more bloggish and a bit more expanded here):

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Blogline of the Day: by Instapundit’s Glen Reynolds

“let me just say that if Obama wins on Tuesday, I intend to be every bit as gracious and cooperative as the Democrats were in 2000 and 2004.” here.  And remember, we will only be mirroring what US Senator / US Senate Majority Leader  and Democrat Harry Reid said if Romney wins: “Mitt Romney’s fantasy … Read more

Obama: I will bankrupt the coal industry

When is the last time you saw a Gadsden Flag on a coal barge?  Remember what he said just before the last election? (H/T: Chicago Boyz via Instapundit)

So Dan Eaton wishes to “To restore transparency, civility and fairness to the institution”. Fine – how about Ethics, Dan?

The Sentinel asked why Democrat Dan Eaton, who resigned from the NH House due to ethics charges, why he was running.  Well, the guy seems to have a pair (if nothing else):  “To restore transparency, civility and fairness to the institution“

Riiiiiiight.  If I remember right, he resigned when he became under an investigation of a “lapse in ethics” – does this mean he’ll be “transparent” as to the charges AND why he resigned?  And the stories are that he wasn’t all that civil about things, either.  So, what IS fairness, Mr. Dan?    And why now is a better time for you to be back in the NH House, again, now that you are a “resignee”?   A mailer that went out to folks in that area was forwarded to me (note: you HAVE to like the name of the PAC – “the “Do You Know Who I AM” PAC.  And that’s his brother, the Chair??):

Well, seems like Dan might have been the bad boy, eh?   The PAC goes on to list the Top 5 Reasons To REJECT Dan Eaton for State Representative:

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Blogline of the Day – a take off on Joe Biden

Joe Biden, running mate of Obama, is oft heard to say “Obama is dead and GM is alive”.  Over at The Corner: “Chris Stevens is dead and the UAW’s pension plan is alive.“ That would be Ambassador Chris Stevens to Libya, murdered in Benghazi.  And the GM UAW union workers’ pensions are alive because the … Read more

After months of hearing about Ladyparts, NOW we hear about Obama’s Manparts?

Speaking to reporters after President Obama’s rally in Lima High School in Ohio Friday, longtime adviser David Axelrod said that the incumbent has never been more fired up. “I’ve known him for 20 years. We’ve worked closely for 10 years. I’ve never seen him more exhilarated than he is right now. He believes in what … Read more

Obama: Revenge. Romney: For Love of Country

The true Obama is coming out – contrast with what Romney thinks.

“He asked his supporters to vote for revenge.  For revenge.  Instead, today I ask the American people to vote for love of country.”

 

(H/T: Instapundit)  Again, Romney was not my guy in the primary; in fact, there were almost as many choice before Romney as there were his opponents in the primary.  But yes, THIS is what I want to hear from a President, for love of country, and not seeking revenge on one’s political opponents.  Obama has shown us yet another glimpse of his real side in that gaffe (““No, no, no. Don’t boo. Vote,” he said. “Voting is the best revenge.””).  I need to hunt down that video because it absolutely BEGS the question: “Revenge for WHAT?”

Here it is:

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Data Points – various sundry stats

Welfare (via Heritage): Over half of the US thinks we spend too much for welfare Over half thinks Govt spends too much on poverty programs Only 22% believe that poverty programs reduce poverty 84% believe work should be mandatory to receive welfare Jobs according to ADP: Revised last month’s job advance – from 162, 000 … Read more

Coward. Politics over patriotism? No – politics over American lives

With more and more details about the murder of 4 Americans in Benghazi dribbling out, and nobody in the Obama Administration (White House, DoD, CIA, State) taking real responsibility for the “stand down” decision (“not us!!”) and the Mainstream press covering for them all in this worse-than-Watergate scandal), I am making the executive decision to … Read more

Which is the more important value?

Calling out what is true (Political Correctness be damned) or calling out Death? “Murder them, just don’t offend them…” (H/T: Liberal Logic 101)

“Liberalism is an elite person’s psychological investment in enjoying a guilt-free affluence.”

Victor Davis Hanson, one of the best observers of the political and popular culture (and its decline) from a Classical Western Liberalism (as opposed to today’s rampant Political Liberalism which is more authoritarian / communitarian), has another wicked corker out

Romney almost forfeited the election when a video was leaked about his honest, though inexact, admission that 47% of Americans would, by needs, be unsympathetic to any agenda that cut spending and taxes, given their dependence on government “stuff.” Borrowing money to pay for more entitlements for the liberal mind is good politics, killing two birds with the proverbial one stone. The less well-off are indebted to those who gave them subsidized food, health care, shelter, even cell phones and will vote accordingly to ensure the liberal political class remains in power. And as deficits grow, the calls for higher taxes on those who “didn’t build that business” and are “fat cats” and never knew when they should stop profiting only increase. Liberalism is about power and influence, impossible without millions of dependent constituents.

…In the elite liberal mind, there is instead a sort of progressive Big Rock Candy Mountain. Gasoline comes right out of the ground through the nozzle into the car. Redwood 2x4s sprout from the ground like trees. Apples fall like hail from the sky; stainless steel refrigerator doors are mined inches from the surface. Tap water comes from some enormous cistern that traps rain water.  Finished granite counter tops materialize on the show room floor. Why, then, would we need Neanderthal things like federal gas and oil leases, icky dams and canals, yucky power plants, and gross chain saws — and especially those who would dare make and use them?

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Postponing the Election? Can the President actually move the date?

Of course, all of the political junkies on both sides have been thinking “should the election be put off”?  Me?  No.  We’ve been embroiled in wars and we haven’t foregone national elections – while there has been loss of life (minimal, thank God!) and lots of physical destruction, it is confined to a handful of … Read more

Benghazi-Gate now starting to make it into the campaign landscape?

Again, a recap: Ambassador Chris Stevens, IT specialist Sean Smith, and two former Navy SEALs (who lived and died by their oath to this country and each other) were murdered by Islamic Jihadis in Benghazi, Libya.  The requests for enhanced security rejected, the consulate was attacked on 9/11, 2012 and now the White House, Dept. … Read more

Blogline of the Day – Obama said something about oceans a while ago? Oh yeah!

Sidenote: Still have power but Internet is REALLY, REALLY slow  (lots of flickering but still have power – have not turned on the generator).  But blogging?  Measure response time in geological timeframes. Heh!  Obama said “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow” during his campaign back in 2008. Blogline … Read more

Hurricane Sandy – NH is out of power

Much worse in other states, to be sure.  But with 1.3 million people in the state, almost a quarter million customers are out of power.  Including many of the Groksters, so consider this your “blogging will be light today” notice. Just from PSNH, a map of their outages: Pray for the folks in along the … Read more

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