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Great show this week with guest host Rick Olson, and guests Mark Meckler (on primary and convention politics), Doug Sachtleben from Club for Growth (on pre-convention, convention, and general election dynamics), and NHRTL’s Jane Cormier updates us on today’s peaceful protest of Planned Parenthood, and the need to defend life at all stages.
The University of New Hampshire has a reputation…they constantly beg for more taxpayer money while blowing vast sums of cash on trivial crap. Case in point, the $17,570.00 custom table they just added to the Holloway Commons.
This architectural wonder is the newest addition to a $10.5-million-dollar renovation of a single dining hall on their Durham, New Hampshire campus. It’s Okay. It’s a light up table.
[Bumped- because it came up on today’s GrokTALK!: Originally posted Feb 9th, 2012]
The short-lived Komen for the Cure controversy over funding for Planned Parenthood ignited more than a few debates in the verse, more of them about abortion as it turns out than breast cancer screening. And we (men) were “reminded” of a few things. Not only does funding “women’s health issues” continue to be successfully propagandized as the latest invented constitutional mandate (men don’t have the same mandate if you forgot), but the femi-nazis and their gargoyle familiars have taken the occasion to remind anyone with a penis that they have no say whatsoever in whether or not a woman should, could, can, or will have an abortion. Men have no say. Fathers have no say. Just go away
If this is your policy, that’s fine, but from now on permission to use your vagina should come with some kind of End User License Agreement (EULA) which can be read and signed in advance of any intimate contact. Let’s call it the VULVA– Vaginal Use Liability Verification Agreement
I’m really beginning to hate seeing this phrase: “with the help of the following XX Republicans“. It always means that we have Republicans voting against their base and against the platform – and happy about it. It means that the vision we were given by the Founders, a limited Federal government, just went dark by yet a few more photons.
And there’s US Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) right in the middle of them. Do you think that perhaps she’s going to start regretting some of her “bipartisan, reaching across the aisle” votes when the NH Conservative base votes “present” (e.g., takes a pass on that race like we did for Havenstein and Brown) come September and November? The first line in the post gives you all you need about the brainlessness (not to mention, principlelessness) of her vote (with the second telling who is really going to be eating this one):
GOP-Passed Solyndra Subsidies Use Enron-Style Accounting to Fuel Federal Housing
What happens when you mix green energy social engineering with the affordable housing agenda? You get the worst elements of venture socialism that led to our economic collapse. You also get a bill from your GOP Senate pushing this very left-wing ideal of central planning.
This week join us as we welcome Rick Olson, Mark Meckler, Doug Sacthleben, and Jane Cormier – starting at 9 am Eastern. Spreaker Stream updates at 9 am eastern Video
Every Friday, Powerline has a column from Ammo Grrrll that is a must read for me. This one – absolutely go and read the rest, but this part speaks to the young’uns “back when” and the the miserable little crapheads that think that they are all-knowing adults because SOCIAL JUSTICE!
Young men of my father’s generation, the same age as today’s wretched college crybullies, were storming the beaches of Normandy and Anzio, being strafed by machine gun fire from real triggers. An uncle I never met, my father’s older brother, perished in the Pacific. His picture in his dress Marine uniform graced Grandma’s upright piano til the day she died.
I would love to thank him, of course, for giving his life for liberty and country. But I would be embarrassed to show him a piece of chalk and explain that pitiful muscle-free men the age he was when he died, now cower in fear from a graffito which mentions a political candidate they apparently don’t care for.
Shot:
Tech giant Intel is laying off some 12,000 workers…The chip-making giant said the mass firings are part of a “restructuring initiative” that will further its shift away from the PC business toward smart devices and cloud-based computing.
Chaser:
It’s one of the country’s 15 largest users of H-1Bs [visas], which are temporary visas that allow companies to hire foreign workers for American tech jobs. The big-time layoffs come even as the company has called for hikes in the number of foreign workers it is able to hire using H-1B visas.
Hangover:
The title comes from Mark Steyn’s recent remarks regarding Frau Merkel’s lynching of comedian Jan Boehmermann, for making a joke about the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan didn’t like it. Merkel has set the German Shepherds courts on Boehmermann, and set whatever still passes for free speech in Germany on an even steeper downward slide into obscurity.
So Jan Boehmermann will be put on trial pour encourager les autres. As Barbara Amiel well understood, for every protracted expensive court battle that ends in a free-speech victory there are thousands and thousands of other publishers, editors, writers, comedians, film-makers, playwrights, directors, producers, cartoonists, artists who get the message that discretion is the better part of valour. In my book Lights Out: Free Speech, Islam and the Twilight of the West, I put it this way:
These are the books we will never read, the plays we will never see, the movies that will never be made…
Kimberly has a post here in which the NH Department of Safety admits that Police chiefs have abused their power when it comes to discriminating against legal gun owners requesting pistol revolver licenses. The word used with regard to the abuse of power is ‘Seldom.’ Yes, there is abuse but because it is infrequent, we’d rather not do anything to prevent it, and there is certainly no rush to end it.
Seldom. Infrequent. Not common. But present.
How’s-about we casually apply that logic to some other turns of phrase and see how that goes? What if we said, “Police chief’s wives are seldom abused by their husbands”? #CopsWivesMatter?
Have to hand it to Dan Joseph of MRC – I put up a lot of his videos because, well, he amuses me in how he asks simple questions and gets either the “hamanahamanahamana” or “deer in headlights” response. In covering the Democracy Spring “Leftists get together and teensy-arrestopalozza”, he does it again. You will … Read more
… unless they’re for our side! h/t @BillFrezza
They’re not hiding it anymore. Hillary Clinton will come after your guns if she elected. It’s not a hyperbolic scare tactic; it’s a promise. With Antonin Scalia no longer on the Supreme Court, they smell the stench of an anti-constitutional opportunity and they’re going to seize it, taking to it like a pig to a fly swirling slop. They’ll tilt the court further away from the Constitution and Rule of Law and towards arbitrary caprice.
Washington Free Beacon reporting (emphasis mine):
This week a Tea Party co-founder, Mark Meckler, joins us to talk about the threats and challenges of a brokered GOP convention, Doug Sachtleben, from Club for Growth, returns to discuss primary politics, and our special guest host, complete with a fresh set of new knees, is Londonderry Fish and Game Club President Rick Olson. There are plenty of other … Read more
More narrative (and yes, you need and should go read it) at the post. (H/T: The Corner)
On Tuesday the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee held a public hearing on Senate Bill 336. This is the bill that will end almost 100 years of state-sanctioned discrimination by issuers of pistol/revolver licenses. What’s truly interesting about the testimony submitted to the committee is that the Department of Safety (DoS) actually admits that discriminatory practices do indeed happen in New Hampshire.
I can almost hear them surfing to Think Progress or some other ‘bought-and-paid-for’ left-wing turd-flinger in search of the official rebuttal… Prager U
I was killing some time the other night after cleaning up some backlog on the DVR and decided to see how bad the new Odd Couple was before I slipped away to play Fallout 4. It’s awful, and it is either Matthew Perry’s fault or it is mine.
He looks like he is acting. He sounds like he is acting. Everything his character does appears like acting. There is no suspension of disbelief for me. It was 20 minutes of Matthew Perry doing bad Middle School theater as Oscar Madison.
To be fair, I am willing to admit it might just be me.
So it’s OK if I self-identify as someone who may no longer shop at Target? “Inclusivity is a core belief at Target,” a new company statement reads. “It’s something we celebrate. We stand for equality and equity, and strive to make our guests and team members feel accepted, respected and welcomed in our stores and workplaces every … Read more
This week’s Throwback Thursday is a compilation of speeches, and one interview, from 2013; featuring Col. Allen West, Louisiana State Senator Albert Guillory, author and Talk show Host Howie Carr, and Congressman Tom Delay.
I’ve heard this stat for a long time and I’ve scratch my head ever since – if 20% of women on college campuses were actually rape victims, why do we still have coed dorms (or coed floors in those dorms)? Why aren’t RAs patrolling the halls all the time (and “hallway pass monitors” in the … Read more