When people who politicize everything in the pursuit of power spend twenty-trillion of someone elses dollars in just a few years, well that buys a lot of something, and where Democrats are concerned it is called progress.  No, it wasn’t for science, or bridges, or good paying Middle Class jobs,* or equality, or security, prosperity, or happiness.  It didn’t buy experts, unless by experts you mean those expert at buying favors, concealing facts, spinning statistics, dodging investigations, or refusing explanation.

These things (facts, statistics, scrutiny, and investigation) are all enemies of the left and its agenda and are to be avoided at all cost.  Why else do you think New Hampshire’s Democrat delegation refuses to expose themselves to unfiltered questioning.  Not only are they part and parcel to the hypocrisy and deception, they are also too stupid even to survive questioning by those they intend to rule.

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From Concerned Veterans for America – The accompanying press release is on the jump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ86BFw8dgE&feature=player_detailpage

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Sorry, but here at the ‘Grok, if you tell us one thing during your campaign for office (adamantly anti-Illegal Alien Amnesty) and then flip on the issue for no discernable reason (other than what the picture shows to your left) (yes, she was then for it after being against it), we tend to take notice – and are keeping our flashlights on.  You see (like we are trying to educate Ed Mosca about), Principles matter to us – a LOT!  What IS the principle for you, Kelly?  Is it a strong one, resting on Granite?  Or the wind of political expediency?  After all, strong words AGAINST before election against, then strong words FOR a bit down the track.

But then when our Southern Border started looking like chicken wire, your Amnesty words fell silent.  You see, Kelly, we promised to watch – and listen.  Silence SHOUTS loudly.

Fast forward to today and the news that President Obama is granting Executive Illegal Alien Amnesty to 100,000 Haitians that aren’t even here yet – but will be soon based on Chain Migration.  Is this the kind of droids Amnesty you are looking for, Kelly?

Oh, and the news that President Obama is about to grant green cards to ANOTHER 34,000,000 Illegal Aliens?

USCIS Contracting will be posting a solicitation for the requirement of Card Stock used by the USCIS Document Management Division. The objective of this procurement is to provide card consumables for the Document Management Division (DMD) that will be used to produce Permanent Resident Cards (PRC) and Employment Authorization Documentation (EAD) cards. The requirement is for an estimated 4 million cards annually with the potential to buy as many as 34 million cards total

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“A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.” — Hugh Kingsmill

Watervliet, NY Police Chief Ron Boisvert asks applicants to logon to their facebook accounts, then peruses visited pages…  New York…The “Empire State.” Known to be one of the most restrictive and confusing places to own, possess firearms. A place where the second amendment is tenuous.

Robert Farago, writing for, The Truth About Guns, called Chief Boisvert. Boisvert told Farago he uses the form to gather the applicant’s Facebook deets 

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Jeanne Shaheen’s political legacy will be built on making health care more expensive and more difficult to get.  What she did to New Hampshire was bad enough.  But then Democrats sent to her Washington so she could double down on failure.  Aaaannnnd She did.

Patricia Wanderlich, a Chicago-area resident, experienced a life-threatening brain hemorrhage three years ago and has an aneurysm. Her (ObamaCare) health plan, however, comes with a hefty $6,000 deductible. Rather than pay for a much-needed yearly brain scan to monitor her condition, Wanderlich is going without. “To spend thousands of dollars just making sure it hasn’t grown?” she told The Times. “I don’t have that money.”

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On Union Discipline and Employee Rights

Unfortunately, most employees do not know or clearly understand their choices and legal alternatives vis-a-vis the union. On the one hand, it is common knowledge that employees have the right to join and assist unions. Less well known, however, is employees’ right to refrain from supporting the union. This “right to refrain” includes: a) the right to refrain from joining the union in the first place;(3) b) the right to resign from union membership at any time, and thereby escape any post-resignation internal union fines or discipline;(4) and c) the right to stop paying full union dues and instead pay only a reduced “financial core fee” which excludes the union’s political and non-collective bargaining expenditures.(5) Unfortunately, many employees are misled into believing, either tacitly or through outright misrepresentations, that they are required as a condition of employment to join the union and pay full dues as a condition of employment.(6)

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Changing the Paradigm: not just for a “win” but as an extremely valuable part of Speech concerning one’s values

Winning is merely a precursor; it is what is done afterwards that is most important

How often, as we stroll through life, are we insistent that things be “just barely good enough” or are willing to settle for even less?  Do we step up to the shopkeeper’s counter and roundly demand “give me something that doesn’t rise to excellence – sorta ok is swell with me.  Oh, and spare no price in doing so”!  Hardly.  We do not willingly settle for that which does not perform up to the task – or breaks under pressure.

No, we expect things to work, function, or taste to high standards (and if one is very well off, that “spare no price” really comes into play).  No, we do demand and expect the best that we can. Our standards in our personal lives (for most people)  are that once having expended time, talent, and money, that what we obtain will actually do the job for which it is specified.  It should work well, wear well, or taste well.  We expect our relationships with friends and acquaintances be healthy and satisfying.

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And these are just a few recent examples.  From Patterico…

We saw recently that Obama is mad about how the feds are handling Ebola:

“It’s not tight,” a visibly angry Mr. Obama said of the response, according to people briefed on the meeting. He told aides they needed to get ahead of events and demanded a more hands-on approach, particularly from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “He was not satisfied with the response,” a senior official said.

I thought I would review some other stuff he’s been mad about.

He was mad about the IRS Scandal:

“Americans have a right to be angry about it, and I’m angry about it,” Obama said.

“It should not matter what political stripe you’re from. The fact of the matter is, the IRS has to operate with absolute integrity,” the president said.

He was mad about the ObamaCare rollout:

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