You know you’re in for some fun (unless you’re a Democrat) when the opening paragraph starts like this.

The lawyer for the confidential FBI informant who exposed that Russian nuclear officials engaged in bribery, kickbacks, money laundering, and extortion in their attempts to corner the U.S. uranium market under the Obama administration revealed the threats her client received from the Obama administration if he didn’t keep quiet during the 2016 presidential election.

And if you didn’t think it could get better the Russian government has been threatening him, the Obam DOJ was threatening him, and the Obama FBI were threatening him, all because of a lawsuit that would have cracked this Clinton, Obama, Uranium Kickback, collusion scam wide open during Hillary’s election campaign.

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Misguided Prosecution. In the last couple of days, I have seen some pretty harsh emotional critique about 31-year-old Alycia Neely’s arrest. I need not over litigate the details because Kimberly Morin has done a great job  where she asks, Was Manchester Mom Wrongfully Arrested for Daring to Protect her Family? The details are contained therein.

Looking at this case, however, I am reminded of State V. Oriol Dor, an opinion issued by the N.H. Supreme Court on August 7, 2013.  On May 8, 2012, Manchester Police searched Dor’s vehicle, finding a .40 caliber semi-automatic pistol located in the glove compartment.

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James Delingpole writes, “When I reported earlier this year on the 58 scientific papers published in 2017 that say global warming is a myth the greenies’ heads exploded. Since then, that figure has risen to 400 scientific papers.”

Those unreported or underreported reports number closer to 900 if we count the 500 published last year. Each and every one takes issue with the consensus theory that man-made forcing via CO2 emissions is causing the planet to warm, and all the thousand shocks that such so-called warming create.

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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY

October 23, 2017 

Guidance for President Donald J. Trump’s Remarks on Combatting the Opioid Epidemic

What:  President Donald J. Trump’s Remarks on Combatting the Opioid Epidemic
Where: The White House – East Room
When: Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 2:00PM EDT

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GrokTALK! has always been something of an umbrella of media posts, but for several years it was anchored by a weekly podcast. While we may drag that anchor back into the fold, it won’t be anytime soon, but that’s not the end. The umbrella is going to (hopefully) get bigger with or without that podcast.

We would like to use GrokTALK! as a place to aggregate Conservatarian content (podcast or video interviews or political talk) from New Hampshire and beyond and we’d like your help.

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Yeah, one has to pass a background check to be able to attend after receiving the invitation to attend.  That information was given to them on Tuesday when I first received the invite.  Now at 7:42am this morning, I finally got the authorization that says “come on down”!

Good morning  —

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When I first received the invite, I thought it would be the regular Presser / Briefing that they have every day at the White House.  Briefings – questions!  So I thought, hey, they wouldn’t have asked the ‘Grok to come all that way down without a slight chance of being able to ask a question, right?  So the original invite came in Monday evening – and the left over part of what used to be my mind started racing.  There’s my task for tomorrow!

You all know what its like to lay down for your evening’s sleep – the body says “sure” but the mind goes “eat my dust, dude” and goes off to the races.  Well, at 2:30am, I finally gave up and started in on 4 questions so as to make sure I’d be ready: an obligatory one, the real one, a serious one (that I’ve NEVER heard any of those High and Mighty Cream-of-the-Crop Pompous Journalists that inhabit that place as if they owned it, and then an amusing one. Hey, gotta be ready for anything, right?

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PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP IS TAKING ACTION ON DRUG ADDICTION AND THE OPIOID CRISIS

“The best way to prevent drug addiction and overdose is to prevent people from abusing drugs in the first
place. If they don’t start, they won’t have a problem.” – President Donald J. Trump

DRUG ADDICTION AND OPIOIDS ARE RAVAGING AMERICA: Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost their lives to drug abuse, and it will only get worse unless action is taken.

• In 2016, more than two million Americans had an addiction to prescription or illicit opioids.
  • Since 2000, over 300,000 Americans have died from overdoses involving opioids.
• Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of injury death in the United States, outnumbering both traffic crashes and gun-related deaths.
• In 2015, there were 52,404 drug overdose deaths – 33,091 of those deaths, almost two-thirds, involved the use of opioids.
  • According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics, the national age-adjusted rate of opioid overdose deaths in 2015 was 10.4 deaths per 100,000 Americans.
• The situation has only gotten worse, with drug overdose deaths in 2016 expected to exceed 64,000.
  • This represents a rate of 175 deaths a day.
  • This exceeds the number of Americans killed during the Vietnam War.
  • The rise in overdose deaths is largely due to the proliferation of illicitly made fentanyl, a highly potent synthetic opioid, and fentanyl analogs.
• In 2016, more than 11.5 million Americans ages 12 and older reported misuse of prescription opioids in the past year, and nearly 950,000 Americans reported heroin use in the past year.
• In 2014, the number of babies born drug-dependent had increased by 500 percent since 2000, and children being placed in foster care due in part to parental drug abuse is going up – now it is almost a third of all child removals.

A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY: President Donald J. Trump is mobilizing his entire Administration to address drug addiction and opioid abuse by directing the declaration of a Nationwide Public Health Emergency to address the opioids crisis.

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SHOT: San Francisco 49ers Pledge $500,000 to Push Suppressor Ban, Other Gun Control Measures

The San Francisco 49ers pledged $500,000 Thursday to secure a suppressor ban and other gun controls. The push comes in the weeks after the Las Vegas attack. Suppressors were not used in that attack, but the 49ers are dedicated to banning the devices anyway. According to ESPN, the 49ers presented the gun control pledge as part of creating a “more understanding and safer America.” The $500,000 will also be used to push a ban on bump stocks and armor-piercing bullets. The ban on armor-piercing bullets is somewhat ambiguous, but appears similar to a ban which was unsuccessfully pushed by the Obama administration in 2015. The Obama-era actually targeted bullets that would have to be re-categorized as armor piercing in order to be banned.

CHASER: NFL Ratings Continue to Crater As New Numbers Reveal Massive Two-Year Decline

According to Nielsen data obtained by the Sporting News, “League games averaged 15.1 million viewers through Week 7. That’s down 5.1 percent from 15.87 million viewers during the same period last season and off 18.7 percent from 18.35 million viewers during the same period in 2015.” As the Sporting News notes, “Ratings are lagging for a variety of reasons, not least the ongoing protests during the national anthem that former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began in 2016. Fans are still angry about Kaepernick’s continued unemployment as well as what’s seen as the growing politicization of the NFL.

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On Monday, it was reported that a Manchester woman was arrested for “endangering the welfare of a child” because she had a loaded firearm in the glove box and a child was sitting in the front seat of her vehicle. 31-year-old Alycia Neely was pulled over for failing to use a turn signal and the story gets a little strange from there.

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WashPo is reporting that Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign and Democratic National Committee financed the Trump dossier. (c/o The Daily Wire)

The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about President Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.

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On Senator McCain’s Trump bashing (emphasis mine):

Because of you, they think, we got identity-politician Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court, not another Neil Gorsuch-type justice instead. We had to read steady reports of “the emerging Democratic majority,” which told us our days were numbered, these conservatives fume. When we voiced other beliefs, cowering Republicans handed us the condescending, inclusive language they’d adopted to adapt to the Obama era. Those other beliefs — God and country, family and home — “That’s not what we’re all about,” conservative members were told.

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But loves Government. Once again, it’s all about “inequality” and how to “fix it – at Davos.  Think about inequality at the annual “aren’t we rich and Elite” party they throw for themselves?  The AP decided to weigh in on this report from Oxfam (1/16/17):

Sidenote: Oxfam – weren’t they the folks that were just concerned about getting food to hungry people?  Oh, right, once a charity, everybody’s morphed into a some kind of Social Justice Warrior – and once an SJW, you become a full spectrum SJW because: INTERSECTIONALITY (where SJWs play “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” with every issue where “We good, everyone else needs a hearty verbal lashing and internet mobbing”)

So how did it start (reformatted, emphasis mine)?

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