“We know we are violating numerous constitutional rights here, but if you do not comply, we will remove the boy from your home,” the judge said.

This comes home to me – it’s very personal as I am living this same story.  I can’t go into detail (at least right now) for fear of being charged with a misdemeanor (yeah, a gag order), but I know EXACTLY how and what this prior Marine, who simply is continuing to be a Marine in trying to do the right thing, is going through right now.  But imagine that – a JUDGE, for God’s sake, an officer of the Court, knowingly stating that he doesn’t care about Constitutional Rights.  Blatantly, as the story goes, the State is all too willing to use a young child as a political battering ram simply for an anti-gun animus. As I have said over the years, I generally never just repost someone’s entire post but this one mirrors my life the last two years (and it takes that long) but here it is (reformatted, emphasis mine):

On Monday, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed a lawsuit against Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) for impeding on foster and adoptive parents’ Second Amendment rights. SAF filed the lawsuit on behalf of two couples: William and Jill Johnson and Brian and Naomi Mason.

The Johnsons were going to take custody of their grandson to keep him from going into foster care. When they went to pick up their grandson, William, a retired, disabled Marine with a Concealed Pistol License (CPL), was searched for a firearm. He was not carrying a firearm at the time. At that point, agency officials told the Johnsons that they would be required to provide all firearms’ serial numbers to the agency as part of a registry. When Johnson questioned agency workers, he was given a surprising response.

“If you want to care for your grandson you will have to give up some of your constitutional rights,” a MDHHS worker retorted.

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You have to hand it to the Democrats – when somebody says “Speak”, they do.  Just like their followers that send in the exact same email or letter when urged.  I know this because I get the Democrat emails that say to send an email.  And Guess Who has fallen right into line?

US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY): Uncertainty

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Tuesday that President Trump’s threat to let Obamacare collapse was actually an attempt to sabotage the country’s health care system and use Americans as political pawns. “The president would not be ‘letting Obamacare collapse,’” said the New York Democrat. “He is actively trying to undermine the heath care system in the county, using millions of Americans as political pawns in cynical game.”

He said the president was creating uncertainty that was undermining the health care system.

US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH):  Uncertainty

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, accuses President Donald Trump of deliberately sowing uncertainty in the health insurance market, which prompted a sharp rebuttal from the Senate Majority Whip.   Shaheen took to the Senate floor today to request unanimous consent in an uphill bid for consideration of her “Marketplace Certainty Act,” legislation for cost-sharing reduction payments under the Affordable Care Act. The GOP leadership in the Senate has blocked two previous efforts to move the bill forward.

 

…“We can address the uncertainty by being clear that we’re not going to replace the Affordable Care Act,” she said.

Translation: throw crap against the wall to see what sticks politically.  Yep, top-down talking points to the point that they sound like parrots

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O’Sullivan’s First Law:

Any institution that is not explicitly right wing will become left wing over time.

Well, the GOP isn’t explicitly right wing and too often we are seeing it isn’t even right of center.  Again, my favorite worst hobbyhorse is that Republicans instituted Medicaid Expansion – a major part of the Democrat process of turning us Socialist.  And now from California we see a similar action in which the Republicans are not only aiding the Dems but giving them “bipartisan cover” in a massive take over CA’s energy sector that is doomed to fail and kill lots of industry along the way (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Stockholm Syndromed CA GOP Partners With Jerry Brown To Continue Funding High Speed Rail

Goodbye, California GOP. At the conclusion of the 2016 GOP Presidential primary crapfest, I decided I was done with the party on a national level. And while not a fan of the state party for numerous reasons, I stayed a member, hoping I could help effect change here. After all, I’m one of the few Californians whose elected officials – from city council to congress – are almost exclusively Republican.

Then last night I watched in disbelief as party leaders joined forces with the Democrats to extend the state’s cap and trade program, which has a lot of partially-related items contained within, and that was the last straw.

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Alternate title: John Thune: Health care debacle makes Republicans look ‘dysfunctional’

Look?  Really, you had the stones to say “look“, Senator?  Are you freakin’ serious?  Is there ANY doubt left? You must be delusional to think that we are SO delusional to even think of accepting that lame spin. But given what Congress has done lately, that could be considered a serious attempt at PR.

This post’s actual title is from a piece in Townhall by Lt. Col. Allen West (ret.), a favorite of the ‘Grok because of one enduring quality (OK, a few): steadfastness.  He knows his principles and never sways from them – and doesn’t hide from them.  And has no problem in pointing out others that TALK the WALK but refuse to actually move their legs. He asks a couple of questions (bullet pointed, emphasis mine):

• …what is rather perplexing is that the latest iteration of the Senate healthcare legislation entails Republicans advocating for maintaining Obamacare taxes on “the rich”. Why are Republicans taking up the progressive socialist mentality of class warfare and wealth redistribution, along with using the tax code as a weapon against a targeted segment of our society?

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There’s a gathering of Democrats this evening at the Exeter Inn, 90 Front Street. They’re having a panel discussion on the left’s so-called ‘Resistance’ and the “Indivisible Movement.” Seriously? The Democrat Party is a divided hot mess in a dumpster fire, and they have a “grassroots group” called the indivisible movement?

Here’s indivisible for you. Put neo-feminist leftists in a locker room shower with penis-bearing trans men. Or arrange for Black Lives Matter supporters to sit in the same room on campus with white SJW..wait, sorry. The whites won’t be allowed in.

Indivisible my…

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“Doomed to repeat” and all that, it seems.  Back then, I just couldn’t understand why people were not just using their houses as ATMs but as slot machines in always betting that the housing market prices would continue to just climb out of proportion that was normal – the NEW Normal, they called it.  I knew what some of these people were making for income – my eyes just bugged out at the mortgage amounts (and rates) they were carrying!  They just knowingly nodded their heads at me when I refused to follow along as if I was just a doddering financial moron.

I’m still in my house – they ain’t.  Who was the fool (ok, I can be a fool for OTHER reasons, just not this one). But a new twist on this has come up that really has my head wanting to be scratched – what, you all want to lose a ton of money AGAIN??? Emphasis mine, reformatted:

Subprime car loans have been around for ages, and no one is suggesting they’ll unleash the next crisis. But since the Great Recession, business has exploded. In 2009, $2.5 billion of new subprime auto bonds were sold. In 2016, $26 billion were, topping average pre-crisis levels, according to Wells Fargo & Co. Few things capture this phenomenon like the partnership between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and Banco Santander SA. Since 2013, as U.S. car sales soared, the two have built one of the industry’s most powerful subprime machines.

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Tim Gill is a major donor to Democrat’s, the backbone of the gay-lobby, and has been at the forefront of funding gay marriage and other LGBT initiatives across America. What’s his next target?

Anyone who intends to hide behind their first amendment right of association, free speech, and religious liberty are in his crosshairs. He’s prepared to spend every dime in his foundations, and this is a quote, “to punish the wicked.”

No exceptions. No quarter.

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On July 25th voters in New Hampshire State Senate District 16, will go the polls in a special election. The Democrat in that race is Manchester Ward 1 Alderman Kevin Cavanaugh.  Kevbo is on record in support of making Manchester a Sanctuary city. Seeing as the Kevinator is an elected official in the largest city in a state with a well advertised “opioid epidemic” perhaps he should consider this from The Hill.com.

“… the U.S. Sentencing Commission found that 75 percent of all criminal defendants who were convicted and sentenced for federal drug offenses were illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants were also involved in 17 percent of all drug trafficking sentences and one-third of all federal prison sentences.

A recent Lawrence, MA, drug raid–a city called out by Governor Sununu as a leading source of the drugs coming into New Hampshire, netted over 30 individuals, many of them illegal immigrants moving drugs to cities like Manchester.

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“I didn’t expect Donald Trump to win. I think most of my colleagues didn’t. So we didn’t expect to be in this situation.”

That was US Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) a couple of weeks ago at a town hall committing a gaffe – inadvertently admitting to a truth that none in the GOP elite (and make no mistake, Congress is an elite place) wanted to say concerning repealing Obamacare.  I could be kind as leave it as the dog caught the car.  No, that’s too good for them; they just exposed themselves as to who they really are – no better than the old scraggly bewhiskered guy at the bus station in an old stained trenchcoat with a leer on his face.  Yup, the old “you can trust us – we’re not like the others” schtick has lost its appeal and dignity.  They conned us all – Please, may we have the House?  Please, the Senate would make all things better?  We’re just DYING to have the Oval Office – and THEN think of what we can do for you!

Well, at least Trump kept his promise when he ante’d up Gorsuch and at this point, Gorsuch is filling the role.  And take away the bluster, the illogical verbiage, the Tweets, and a few missteps here and there and ONLY concentrate on his achieved results (that is, what a President can do on his own), Trump is delivering (and no, I’m not agreeing on everything but for the stuff *I’M* counting on), he’s delivered quite a bit of good conservative policy.

Congress?  

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That is, only tolerance for itself and not for others.  Especially, it seems, when seeking asylum in a foreign land.

Dogwalker Hospitalised After Attack By Somalian Migrant Who Said ‘Dogs are Unclean’

A middle aged woman had to be hospitalised in Vienna following a brutal beating in broad daylight by a veiled Somali asylum seeker offended by her pet dogs. The victim, named only as Ingrid T., described how she was talking with neighbours at the gate of her garden, accompanied by dogs — her deaf, almost-blind, three-legged Collie mix “sitting peacefully” alongside while 10-month-old ‘Poco’ meandered along an alleyway towards her parents’ house  — when she “saw a pretty, veiled woman approaching slowly. “I knew some people from these countries do not like dogs, so I went to Poco and wanted to pull him back,” the 54-year-old told Krone from her hospital bed in the Austrian capital.

The 18-year-old Somali asserted, “The animals are unclean,” Ingrid recalled, stating that her attacker then “grabbed me, spun me around and scratched me” until both women fell to the floor. It took the efforts of three men to manage to pull the asylum seeker away from the Austrian dog owner, who told Krone the assault left her unable to feel her legs.

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RINO US Senator from Maine, Susan Collins, is holding up repeal of ObamaCare so she can have “bipartisan” support.

Along with this RINO is another usual suspect, Alaska Senator Murkowski.

Camera Hog and failed presidential candidate Lindsey Graham is in the same boat.

How about this:

Let’s all have a daily countdown until one of these gutless charlatans can come up with the name of one single Democrat who will support their bipartisan, keep ObamaCare dream?

If Collins, Murkowski, Graham, and other weak Republicans are behind scenes talking to progressive Democrats hell-bent on obstructing President Trump – where is their progress report? What deals can they propose?

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Zero Hedge is reporting that Klaus Eberwein a former Haitian government official who was expected to expose the extent of Clinton Foundation corruption and malpractice next week has been found dead in Miami at the age of 50.

No one should be surprised by this. Or this,

According to Miami-Dade’s medical examiner records supervisor, the official cause of death is “gunshot to the head.“ Eberwein’s death has been registered as “suicide” by the government. But not long before his death, he acknowledged that his life was in danger because he was outspoken on the criminal activities of the Clinton Foundation. 

He was set to testify next Tuesday.

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And summed up perfectly by this:

If you want to know what smug liberal superiority and self-righteousness is all about, this is the piece for you.

That would be a piece in Pravda on the Merrimac by Rep. Mary Jane Wallner and Sen. Dan Feltes – both Progressive Democrats – which basically tells the rest of us that we do NOT have any rights to our wealth as long as they have better things to spend it on (especially when the theme is about “it’s for the children!!!” so SHUT UP).  And it comes “right in your FACE” in the third paragraph where they make it absolutely clear that they have first claim on your money (emphasis mine):

Gov. Sununu’s partisan budget spends much more on additional tax breaks for business owners and big corporations than it does on child safety and child protection. In doing so, it blatantly ignores “foundational” (basic) recommendations on child protection coming from a recent independent audit of DCYF.

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A professional snowflake admits to having to self-censor her own speech to avoid triggering other snowflakes, among other things. A circumstance ripe with opportunity.

 I self-police what I say in activist spaces. I stopped commenting on social media with questions or pushback on leftist opinions for fear of being called out. I am always ready to apologize for anything I do that a community member deems wrong, oppressive, or inappropriate—no questions asked. The amount of energy I spend demonstrating purity in order to stay in the good graces of a fast-moving activist community is enormous.

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