Too good not to print in it’s entirety.

Via Ace.

“Every day, many of us look around and frankly wonder what’s going on in this country of ours. It’s obvious that President Obama has been a disaster for the country, but there is endless speculation as to the nature of the disaster, whether it’s incidental or intentional. Is this all some malevolent plan, or simply the wages of unprecedented incompetence? Obama did promise to “fundamentally change” the US after all, but is this what he meant? You hear everything from grand, sweeping conspiracy theories (“If he was setting out to destroy the country, what would he do differently?”) to despairing wails (“How could he not realize that *something bad* would happen if he did *something*”). My belief is that everyone is over thinking the issue. I’m a big believer in Occam’s razor, and if you put two simple pieces of information together you get a very simple explanation for 7 years of insanity.

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“No Martin O’Malley, the beauty of our country came from the radical ideas that WE individuals were sovereign and not some aristocracy (elected or born), that we were a nation of The Rule of Law where the Law was guided by and subject to our Constitution, and that WE The People make the decisions for how our lives are to be lived and not the Government turning the original relationship of service upside down to one of master.”

A couple of rough notes on his time with Josh McElveen:

His statement about lowering the cost of a college education gave me the impression seems to assumes that students are FORCED to take on debt.  What about “No”? How about making OTHER choices – not every kid needs to go to college, ESPECIALLY if want they want to study is an economic loser (e.g., if you don’t get a job in academia, getting a degree in “gender studies” is non-functional economically).  He seems to assume that kids are FORCED to act this way – but they are not.  He never defines what a “mountain of debt” really is (just like with our interview yesterday at the CNHT Picnic yesterday where former VA Guv Jim Gilmore refused to define what “balanced” meant when we asked him about religious liberty in context of religious liberty enshrined in the Constitution vs mere ordinance or regulations of non-discrimination).

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OF OBERGEFELL AND OSTRACISM: After the Supreme Court’s decision on Same Sex Marriage, Dan McLaughlin of Red State was quoted as saying, “Now the contest begins to see who’ll be the angriest winner.” Last week it was George Takei of Star Trek making racist slurs against Clarence Thomas. This week, Max Lindenman of Patheos spots Sally Kohn tossing her name into the ring (emphasis mine):

Just as I was learning not to hate the term “national conversation,” gay marriage supporters have decided to quit speaking to us. That would, at any rate, be the earnest wish of Daily Beast columnist Sally Kohn. In last Sunday’s piece, “The New, Post-Homophobic Christianity,” she ticks off all the denominations that have changed their teachings on homosexuality and asks “Will anti-gay Christians be politically and socially ostracized?”

Her answer: “I sure hope so.”

… Or is she convinced that offering us the cold shoulder is the best way to make us change our minds?

That what Totalitarians are all about.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday said the nation owes an apology for slavery.  “As a nation — I don’t think as a president, but as a nation — we have got to apologize for slavery,” the 2016 Democratic presidential contender told host Joe Madison on Sirius XM’s “The Black Eagle.”  “As a nation we have got to apologize for slavery, and of course the president is the leader of the nation,” he added.

Sanders said that slavery had caused too much suffering to remain unaddressed.“Obviously nobody in this generation was involved in slavery,” Sanders said.

And that is the point point of major #FAIL.

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Prominent Gay Rights activist, one-percenter, and Democrat party money man Terry Bean has been pinging my Google alert all week. Seems he has bought off the minor he is accused of raping to the tune of “the lad doesn’t want to press charges anymore.” Bean is now asking a judge to drop the criminal case because of this.

Alert Ping!

Portland prosecutors say wait just one damn minute.

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Or better: How well do they keep their promises?  If you ask almost anyone at the grassroots that question (with a few examples as prompts), you’d most likely get a “well, not too well”.  This is not a new topic for us here at the ‘Grok – we’d really, REALLY like to wholeheartedly like to support Republicans but over the last few years, we techies and engineers who MUST deliver concrete deliveries without excuses, grow weary of going “Rah Rah!” time after time with the same who would, by their own accountings, lead us into a Promised Land.  And even with our now extremely low expectations, instead of the Promises Land, we get DoDaville.  Here’s a bit of it from American Thinker (reformatted, emphasis mine):

The Republican Establishment, with the exception of the presidency of Ronald Reagan and the Republican controlled House of Representatives from 1995 to 1998, has been content, since 1946, to merely slow down the big government policies of the Democrats, while politically decrying their tax and spend policies.  However, in truth, many have been comfortable with reaping the financial and ego-gratifying rewards of such indifference while playing the game with their counterparts in the other branch of the overall governing class.

They have brought us upon themselves – and they wonder why the moniker of “Junior Democrats” has stuck over the years.  The post goes on to discuss how Left the Democrats have gone back to their now Marxist roots:

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Ayup – there is no one more Establishmentarian than Jeb Bush in this race (he of the “…willing “[To] lose the primary to win the general…”) which immediately signaled to the base of “need you (sniff)?  nope”.  So we’ll see how that works out for him.  And then he decides to double down and continue the throwing away of the base:

“Yes, I got a lot of good advice from the last candidate who I wish was president right now, the last Republican candidate, and he validated a belief that I have which at some point we have to start campaigning in a way that is beyond the base. I think you have to be respectful of conservatives and you have to campaign hard, convince thatm (sic) that you’re the guy that can unite the party, but there also always has to be an eye on the ball on the next group of people who decide who the president is going to be.”

Hate to keep sounding like a broken record, but look at the record just here in NH this last November with the top of the ticket.  Who, btw, are the poster children for exactly what Bush is saying he’ll be doing.  All three now, have drubbed their base.

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Whether it’s because he or his staff are historically illiterate or they’re just really stupid.  Obozo referenced Neville Chamberlain in his second inaugural address when, on foreign policy, he said (emphasis mine):

And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice–not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity; human dignity and justice.

The words appeared on the TelePrompter and he parroted it without stutter, completely unaware of what he just said.  However, others in the world, who are not as ignorant as he is, took note.

His use of the phrase, “peace in our time” conjures the old 1938 Munich agreement.  And for those of us who are actually historically aware, know that less than a year after the 1938 agreement, Hitler found himself a sudden craving for Keilbasa and decided to seize the entire supply by invading Poland, thus igniting WWII.

Funny.  About a year later his Eminence echoed Chamberlain…

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“I’ll be free of them four days a week!!”

Yeah, that was the exclamation of one mother of young children when she heard that her two kids were going to be in school through the summer in Special Ed class. Not a word was said at that point in time about the help they “might” get – just that she now had all that time for herself.  At government expense.  She was ecstatic!   Sigh….my wish is that all young parents would be this: whose hand should be rocking YOUR child’s cradle? 

Progressives (if you have been listening to Hillary Clinton and Obama for the last few years) have been pushing for this for decades – but why?  Well, in their mindset, every woman must fulfill their her destiny – and that, in their mind, can only be done in the workplace.  A stay-at-home Mom?  Doing what I think is the most important job in the world?  Well, Progressives know EXACTLY what that is – raising children.  These incremental Socialists understand that completely and THAT is the goal that they are striving for.  They KNOW that whoever raises the child owns the future – for values taught young last forever in most cases.  If a child is spending far more time in hands of government run and NEA staffed schools than with their parents, whose values are going to be inculcated? Already we see teachers believing that parents are an impediment and that THEY know what is best for the kids and less and less, no longer hiding it. Let’s face it, government school staffs are highly critical of conservative and religious values – vast majorities ARE in the Party of Government and are Progressives themselves.  This from Hot Air:

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Greece has sucked the oxygen out of the financial news at owing $270 billion for this country of 11 million people and now wants to stick it to those who became the “other peoples’ money”.  PR also made news when its governor said that it could not pay back its $72 billion debt and now wants US laws changed so as to be able to go bankrupt (and also stick it to those who became the “other peoples’ money”.

And then there is China – no, not quite the debt that is the topic.  It is their absolute meltdown of their stock exchanges over the last 3 weeks or so: $3.2 Trillion of value just vanished.  We Groksters had a number of emails on the techie news of the day (United Air Lines, Wall St Journal, NY Stock Exchange) but also mentioned China.  My 2 cents:

China has been a ticking time bomb for a while, financially.  Folks for a few years, have thought that Commies have been fudging their economic numbers and their exchanges have lost $3.2 Trillion over the last month or so.  Now, the Chinese govt can’t stem the flood of what Instapundit calls a “preference cascade” – investors finally got sick of putting up with the nonsense and started pulling out as some of the real data’s results starting showing up.

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