Evil Energy Speculators

Thanks to commenter JackL for the reminder; that Jeanne “no oversight” Shaheen, Barack ‘Boondoggle’ FauxBama and the Democrats have always relied on the lie that rising energy prices were the result of “Evil Oil Speculators.”

Evil Speculators…speculators…

Isn’t what Mr. Obama, Secretary Chu, and Senate Energy Committee maven Greene Jeanne Shaheen have done, energy speculation?  Aren’t they energy speculators?  What else do you call investing tens of billions in the future value of green energy?  It’s energy speculation.

Well how is that working out so far?

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Gay Justice

Homosexuals filing lawsuits against businesses that do not wish to cater to them, Wedding photographers and Dating Services come immediately to mind, are now legend.  But is turnabout fair play? Gay bars are banning Bachelorette parties. Looks like owners of gay bars are uncomfortable hosting parties of heterosexual bachelorette’s and their randy little penis paraphernalia … Read more

Governer Sununu Takes It To The Hole

Governor Sununu looks a bit too much like Mr. Magoo here, but he’s running on all cylinders.  Why are you at CNN bringing up the birther debate when Governor Romney’s position is clear?  Why don’t you care about what Bill Maher does or says as an Obama advocate?  Why is CNN bringing up yesterdays left … Read more

Veto of HB 1549 by NH Gov. John Lynch – does anyone ever really proof this stuff?

HB 1549’s official title is  “AN ACT prohibiting the use of motor vehicle records for any federal identification database.”

There were three changes to RSA 260:14

  • III. Motor vehicle records may be made available pursuant to a court order or in response to a request from a state, a political subdivision of a state, the federal government, or a law enforcement agency for use in official business. The request shall be on a case-by-case basis. Any records received pursuant to this paragraph shall not be further transferred or otherwise made available to any other person or listed entity not authorized under this paragraph. No records made available under this section shall be used, directly or indirectly, for any federal identification database.
  • Changes the ID of a Federal form (I-151 to I-551) – NH has no control over this
  • Change United States Citizenship and Naturalization Service to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services – NH has no control over this

The latter is a simple change reflecting the name change that the Feds have done to themselves.  The first is basically saying – we continue to no support the REAL ID program (which NH has never agreed to participate in).  See for yourself – here is the entire bill:

AN ACT prohibiting the use of motor vehicle records for any federal identification database.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Motor Vehicle Records. Amend RSA 260:14, III to read as follows:

III. Motor vehicle records may be made available pursuant to a court order or in response to a request from a state, a political subdivision of a state, the federal government, or a law enforcement agency for use in official business. The request shall be on a case-by-case basis. Any records received pursuant to this paragraph shall not be further transferred or otherwise made available to any other person or listed entity not authorized under this paragraph. No records made available under this section shall be used, directly or indirectly, for any federal identification database.

2 Employment of Illegal Aliens Prohibited. Amend RSA 275-A:4-a to read as follows:

275-A:4-a Employment of Illegal Aliens Prohibited. No employer may employ an alien whom the employer knows is not a citizen of the United States and not in possession of Form [I-151] I-551, Alien Registration Receipt Card or any other document issued by the United States Citizenship and Immigration [and Naturalization Service] Services or the Attorney General of the United States which authorizes him or her to work.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Gov Lynch (or his speechifiers), in his veto, decided that instead of supporting this narrow, limited prohibition in participating in REAL ID-by-another-name, they decided to drag in irrelevant issues in order to beclown Gov. Lynch (hey, he has a few short months – don’t waste that time crisis!):

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Ask Jeanne Shaheen – Where’s The Oversight?

According to this video (from Obama Isn’t Working.com) Mr. Obama has blown through $16 billion ($16,000,000,000.00) on public equity green energy gambles that have cost jobs and lost our money, much of it to Big Obama donors, and cronies.

So here’s a question?  New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen cut her teeth in her first Senate race by raging about taxpayer hand outs to big oil.  These “Handout’s,” as it turns out, were actually incentives that reduced how much of those Oil companies legal profits would be taxed.  Less taxes on the oil companies money, not handing them billions of our money.  Most people don’t know the difference, they just see the spin.

So how does that compare to Mr. Obama and his Department of Energy giving direct grants and loans (of our money),  totaling tens of billions, to companies that are all going bankrupt or out of business?  (No Spin.)  Does it make a difference that Senator Shaheen is a huge supporter of Green energy boondoggles, sits on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, as well as three Energy Subcommittees on Energy, Public Lands and Forests, and Water and Power, who would presumably have some interest in how that money is being wasted?

Where is the legislative oversight Senator Shaheen?  We are out 16 Billion (so far), and I can’t recall hearing a peep out of you about that.

Video on the Jump.

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Venture Capitalism. Obama really wants to put up his record?

Really?  Does Obama truly believe that just because his outlook is a  “government-centered”, that his version of venture capitalism using public tax money is better than private money?  Sure does – he keeps spending more and more of it.  Problem is, like many Progressives, he places more importance on the intent than the results:

(H/T: Hot Air )

It is rather amusing to watch the official Prez Press Flack Carney twisting behind the podium to explain this:

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Piling on Jeanne Shaheen’s Greenie green suck

And as Steve points out here (and mine), being Green means having LOTS of green – and just watching it swirl down the toilet (data points via The Enterprise Blog):

  • …candidate Obama promised to create 5 million green jobs, at the low, low cost of only $15 billion per year
  • Obama spent $90 billion of his stimulus package on green energy projects, including weatherization of buildings and development of electric vehicles. Yet, by the end of last year, just 16,100 people landed new jobs in the so-called green industry, Labor Department statistics show, far short of the 200,000 jobs the White House projected it would help create each year.
  • It is amazing to see just how badly the government can do at these things: 16,000 jobs out of 200,000 predicted is about 8%—a mere 92% underperformance rate.

Steve had this observation:

New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen cut her teeth in her first Senate race by raging about taxpayer hand outs to big oil

So, what does this do to her campaign strategy –  Did Obama just skewer a rerun of her campaign issue against big oil again (NY Times):

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Media Millions

While the 99% and the Democrats are bashing bankers for not sharing their wealth, take a look at the people running media and entertainment.  (Just to give you a baseline, the most well paid “banker” had 21 million in compensation in the same year.) Les Moonves, the CEO of CBS Corp. (CBS), was paid $69.9 … Read more

Greece To Leave EuroZone June 18

That’s the headline.   And some folks sound happy to see the freeloaders gone. “The basic question is that a German has to increase working from 65 to 67 and that is to pay for Greeks retiring at 50. The 17th of June is the perfect opportunity to say either ‘we’ll behave’ or ‘we’ll carry on … Read more

Let’s Dance – NH Democrats & Moral Authority

It was a tough call.  You know, where do you start a series of posts pointing out that the New Hampshire Democrat Party is morally bankrupt and incapable of passing judgement on anyone or anything without looking like the hypocrats they are?  If you are in New Hampshire, you start at the bottom, which also … Read more

Planned Parenthood – Gendercide? Yeah, We Can Do That. [Updated]

The process of moving the culture to the left continues apace.   A recent undercover video reveals that Planned non-Parenthood (PP) is willing and able to engage in the lefts long love affair with eugenics.  That is, to use whatever resources are at its disposal to craft the genetic make up of future generations.

Eugenics was the prime motivation for Margret Sanger (PP founder) to hand out contraception to those she deemed inferior; poor, minorities, etc.  She wanted to control and craft the master race by the systematic reduction of any gene pool deemed a danger to the coming socialist utopia.  (Ethnic cleansing, and the Holocaust are the most extreme examples of what Sanger hoped to achieve without the killing.)  So this is not a new idea, but just how far down the lefts  eugenics path have we traveled in America?

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Memorial Day – a time of remembrance and reflection.

There are two images that always come to mind on Memorial Day: (Photo credits: Todd Heisler/The Rocky Mountain News, via Associated Press, unknown) (H/T: NY Times, BlackFive) They are concrete examples of two sacrifices: the man that put himself into harm’s way for his country and for his buddies and sacrificed himself for them, and … Read more

Brett Kimberlin and my Kitchen Floor

I missed most of this weekend, and continue to, including the blog burst on Brett Kimberlin.  I am removing and replacing vast swaths of ceramic tile (some broken some not) from my kitchen floor and replacing them with a lovely pattern, using some contrasting color…blah blah blah.  (My wife watches a good deal of Home … Read more

Medal of Honor: Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith. First posted: 9/24/2006

I thought that this would be an appropriate time to repost one of the earliest posts on GraniteGrok – in a time when more and more the selfish ramifications of the “ME!” generation becomes apparent, here is a unselfish sacrifice of honor, duty, and “it’s about them” attitude. He gave his unselfishly gave his live … Read more

DJ Bettencourt – a sad story

I thought it a bit strange, when I first heard it,  that DJ was resigning from the House and from being the Majority Leader – after all, the session was just about over.  Really, it was “dude, why bother, ya gotta run for re-election anyways”.  Family?  I knew that he was going to marrying Shannon Schutts soon, but it didn’t register is was REAL soon – like this week, so I kinda went “huh?” over the hackneyed phrase ” to spend more time with his family,” (a saying that is generally used in business when one has lost a position due to a corporate merger or political upheaval – or poor results come out) but decided, ok – a bit of a stretch, but it passes muster.  And even though Grokster Tim writes here, I didn’t know that DJ was to be the Exec Dir. of the NHLRF (the new job bit).  Then the real shoe dropped about the faked reports for the law internship at Brandon Guida’s office in order to graduate from UNH Law).

Sidenote: I do have to side with Guida in this and NOT just because that ‘silence is complicity’ would have put him at risk – cover ups are wrong for any reason and anyone (and not just someone of ‘high’ stature or any ideology)

A sad story indeed.  No, it is not my point nor my deal to add gas to a fire he lit himself.  All of us, at one time or another, have done stupid things and some of those have risen to the level of REAL stupid.  I certainly have and I can commiserate with some of the torment that he is now putting himself through (“did I really think I could skate by?”) – and that of those around them (having been there around those whose actions got me involved as collateral damage).  He may have blown up in actually getting that law degree and a shot at the bar, his political career here in NH may be in tatters

Sidenote: why does it seem that Dems who do similar things always seem to come back but Repubs aren’t allowed to (at the least, not for a LONG time)?

and he may have lost other things of much more value of a personal nature as well.

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Memorial Day, Liberty-&-Freedom, and the military draft

From the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

The quote below is from an article in today’s Union Leader by Vietnam Navy veteran Jim Adams (he was in the Navy and in Vietnam around the same time I was in the Marines in Vietnam):

“In 1940, as World War II loomed, Republican presidential candidate Wendell Willkie gave his support to his opponent — Franklin Roosevelt — in his push for a peacetime draft. Later in life, Willkie remarked that on his epitaph, he would rather have that he “contributed to freedom” than that he was a President.” But wait….

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Moral Authority

The New Hampshire Democrat party and their fellow travelers have nothing to run on so the travails of one man in the New Hampshire House, DJ Bettencourt, are all they’ve got.  Of course, he will no longer be in the NH House, a feature of his circumstances which we would never see from a New Hampshire Democrat, and therein lies the rub.

The New Hampshire Hypocrats have as much moral authority to point fingers at Bettencourt as NAMBLA would have it were ever to complain about Catholic Priests sexually abusing boys.  Actually, the NH Democrats may have less.

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Coolest President Ever?

Not Obama, Lord no.  147 years after his presidency he’ll be lucky if there’s any mention of him beyond his being the first black president (After Clinton, of course. That and, perhaps, almost doubling the deficit in three years.)  I am referring to Abraham Lincoln, whose “past” has taken a turn toward the macabre in … Read more

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