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Daily Mail and (Barbara Jones for The Mail on Sunday) His name is Dorsen and he is one of an army of children, some just four years old, working in the vast polluted mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where toxic red dust burns their eyes, and they run the risk of skin disease and … Read more
Thankfully, TMEW and I have no credit card debt but it seems like others are making up for our lack:
“Credit-card debt in the US rose in June, surpassing the peak set just before the 2008 financial crisis. Outstanding revolving credit, which includes credit-card debt, rose to $1.02 trillion in June, according to a monthly report from the Federal Reserve released Monday. But defaults are rising again for credit cards and auto loans.
After almost 20 years of specializing in document management system, my first thought was “OCR, baby, OCR!”
OK, I think most readers here in NH know about the lawsuit concerning the NH voter list brought by the NH ACLU and NH State Rep Neal Kurk over sending that file to the Trump Administration’s election integrity commission. Well, I guess there was a settlement in this kerfuffle:
NASHUA — The Secretary of State will proceed with the release of information from voter checklists to a presidential commission on election fraud, now that a lawsuit filed by two New Hampshire lawmakers and the ACLU to stop the release has been resolved.
That last bit in the above headline was crafted by blogger and radio host Erick Erickson: “you WILL be made to care” about all kinds of “social justice” demands, nor can you be left alone. You will be forced to take a side, and if you try to be as neutral as Switzerland, you will be condemned. You WILL speak out FOR OUR ISSUE, or you will be excoriated. It isn’t “can’t we just all get along,” rather, it is a demand that you not only recognize but affirm our issue. We’ve been seeing this on college campuses for the last two years as we see these college student twit authoritarians-in-hatching demand that everyone MUST agree with us (Evergreen, Harvard, Mizzou, to just name three).
Here, Ray Buckley does EXACTLY that – acts the bully for his LGBTQrstuvwxyz agenda and seriously, who the heck can keep up with the unending morphing of one group into another as well as the always changing acronyms.
Did you hear about the deplorable memo some woman-hating Google engineer shared? The media being the media, redacted, cherry picked and excerpted their way into their very own echo chamber tizzy. In reality,
“… a major purpose of the memo was to brainstorm ideas about how to make Google a more friendly environment for women without resorting to explicit sex-based discrimination.”
But you don’t have to believe me, or The Federalist, or the Media. Read it for yourself.
Encapsulated in one tweet:
And this is why we call them “Democrats with bylines” – remember:
The MSM is not Liberty leaning at all. When have you seen them actually promote full on bore individual freedom when they “report” on the news of the day or in opining? Hardly at all, if at all. No, their orientation is that of the Collective and in the idea that Govt knows best
The Administrative State – as Progressives grew and grew government, they knew that they were coming up onto one of the mountain tops of the Progressive philosophy – a technocratic State “guiding” its subjects to a Utopia. For you see, they consider the rest of us to be dolts and deplorables who can’t cope with today’s modern world (which for them started in the 1880s) and must be under the care of a “scientific and non-partisan” bureaucratic set of “experts”. Who needs that pesky Constitution – it just gets in the way of getting things done. No, Progressives are Socialists that believe that the State is greater than the Individual and have been working to put this into action since then. Their capstone, which has allowed “Administrative Law” (e.g., rules and regulations) to go around Constitutional values, was the passage of the Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 that our Legislators gave their Power, in large degree, to the Executive Branch. Can you say “Legislation without Representation“?
So there’s a poll out putting John “everyman™” Kasich ahead of President Trump among “likely” Republican primary voters…
Ohio Gov. John Kasich leads President Trump in a hypothetical New Hampshire Republican presidential primary matchup, according to a new poll.
An American Research Group poll found that if the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary were held today, Kasich would get 52 percent support, compared to Trump, who would receive just 40 percent.
A recent report by the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute (NHFPI) hems and haws its way through potential fiscal decline couched in “mights and maybes,” and then (Surprise!) we get “substantially more” in paragraph four. While the preliminary accrual revenues for SFY 2017 show no growth over SFY 2016’s preliminary accrual numbers, the figures do show … Read more
Aren’t New Hampshire’s drug/addiction problems bad enough? How does decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana (MJ) reduce the number of addicts and associated costs? Decriminalization isn’t the answer to reducing our addiction problem.
Lacking personal experience, I refer to President Obama’s director of National Drug Control Policy’s, Michael Botticelli, December 13, 2015 interview on 60 Minutes.
Botticelli, a recovering alcoholic, is “not a fan of legalization” of MJ. He says MJ is linked to lower academic performance and lower IQs, that it exacerbates mental health problems, and that 1 in 9 MJ users become addicted to it.
Does New Hampshire want more mentally impaired citizens?
It’s not just happening in Australia. Recorded temperatures at the Bureau of Meteorology’s Thredbo Top automatic weather station have dropped below -10C in the past week, after action was taken to make the facility “fit for purpose”. A record of the Thredbo Top station for 3am on Wednesday shows a temperature reading of -10.6C. This … Read more
This morning I spent some time on the Girard at Large Radio program. The two topics of interest were a recent controversy in the state over Human trafficking and a change in leadership at GraniteGrok.com.
Hot off the digital press from Tony Shinella at Patch, CONCORD, NH — Two elected officials and the ACLU who had planned to sue the state to keep it from releasing the voter registration database to the recently formed Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity have dropped their lawsuit after Bill Gardner agreed to only release pictures … Read more
Democrat politicians ooze concern for the poor and promise wonderful sounding policies to win the votes of gullible, ignorant, and willingly deceived people. But, in practice, Democrat policies hurt the people they are promised to help. The Democrat demanded $15 minimum wage hurts young, uneducated, unskilled, and/or part-time workers.
A recent University of Washington study reports that the increase to $13 on the way to implement Seattle’s (a wealthy city) $15 minimum wage law resulted in a 9% reduction in work hours, a 7% cut in jobs for the lowest wage earners, and an average $125 per month less take home pay. (http://tinyurl.com/yb9kersz) (http://tinyurl.com/yd9atq62)
Nearby areas, not subject to Seattle’s $15 minimum wage law, didn’t suffer these job losses, business closings, and wage losses.
War is horrible. People are killed, maimed, emotionally destroyed. Property is destroyed, wealth is consumed. As we saw in WWI, even the winners lose in protracted wars. As we’ve seen in Viet Nam and Iraq, trying to conduct a “gentle”, “compassionate”, or “politically correct” wars just prolongs the killing, suffering, destruction, and cost. If you must fight a war, the best way to lessen the suffering is to end the war as quickly as possible.
This is why the United States and Japan should celebrate the anniversaries of August 6 and 9, 1945. The atomic bombs we dropped on those dates quickly brought WWII to an end saving at least 150,000 American soldier’s lives and perhaps avoiding the extermination of the Japanese people.
WWII in the Pacific was particularly savage. The Japanese believed in death before dishonor, and surrender was considered dishonorable.
Back in 1975, one of the stupidest fads swept the US and made its “inventor” (marketeer?) a millionaire. That was the “Pet Rock” and he sold millions (yes, MILLIONS) of these inanimate objects as pets – at $3.95 a whack. It came, made a buzz about rocks, and then disappeared as quickly as it showed up on the scene.
Well, just like Hollywood’s issue of running out of any kind of original idea (really, bringing back The Karate Kid as a TV series 30 years later??), so has the Pet Rock. Except now, with all things being “Tactical” (or “tacticool” as some deriders rightly hold), so has the Pet Rock – but now dressed in black:
John was one of the first of the national level bloggers that linked to GraniteGrok during our early years from his RightWingNews site. I later had the chance to meet and talk with him several time at various conservative events and get togethers to swap stories and just talk shop. Interesting because early on, he … Read more
The GOP ran on “repeal and replace” and raised millions of dollars from individual donors who believed in this promise. Politicians aren’t used to having to actually deliver on what they say on the campaign trail, but a Virginia attorney has filed suit against the Republican National Committee over the party’s failure to repeal and replace.
There’s always a reaction when promises aren’t kept. I’ve held for a while that we ought to be treating politics not as a separate entity but as another facet of the Marketplace. You want me to spend my political currency (i.e., my Vote) with you, you need to make the case that you are worth it. My Vote is very precious and rare, and I don’t wish to waste it on a sub-par product (as that is what a candidate is writ small and what a political party like the GOP is writ large). I’d rather NOT spend it if what the GOP is offering for a product is flawed, not up to par, or can reach my standard of excellence. And as a number of political wannabee candidates have found out, my ire has ramifications with other like minded conservatives and libertarians here in NH.
Look, if we purchase an inferior product in the marketplace, we have redress protocols available to us courtesy of these same politicians. Many are
MSNBC Guest: Caitlyn Jenner ‘Flaunting Her Residual White Male Privilege’ Me? Just gibberish with some hack trying to rearrange the Left’s identity group’s totem pole. But I thought it was against the Progressive Law to call a transgender woman a male? Oh, I get it – because he’s WHITE. Wait, isn’t that racist?
