Well, this ought to be interesting for the Democrat Party LGBTQ (and whatever letters are now Politically Correct) – I’ve given up on PC as I have MUCH better things to do, like washing my dogs a coupla days ago (yes, as the saying goes, I wanted friends), and buying some bologna yesterday…you know, having a life built on the important things instead of one built on grievances.  But it is clear – the first modifier should be MUCH more important than the second.

Yes, Stacie Laughton is trying to return to state level politics – in effort if not indeed.  Steve covered him/Barry /her/Stacie /the felon here, here, here, here, and here (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Stacie Laughton, the first openly transgender legislator elected in the U.S., said she’ll ask the state election tribunal to rule on whether she can run for a Ward 4 seat in the state House of Representatives.The saga over Laughton’s eligibility to serve in the Legislature after a 2008 felony conviction for credit card fraud and other charges continued Friday when Secretary of State Bill Gardner reiterated that Laughton can’t be a candidate.  Laughton, of Nashua, said she will write to the Ballot Law Commission to issue a final judgment in this case. Under state law, the commission is the final arbiter on all candidacies, as its decisions can’t be appealed to state courts.

Laughton was sentenced to 7 1/2 to 15 years for the credit card charge, but it was suspended pending 10 years of good behavior. She received a sentence of

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“With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.”—Otto Von Bismarck

Remember Lorin C. Schneider Jr. of Carver, Massachusetts? Schneider plead guilty to voting illegally in New Hampshire. “Trunk Monkey” Schneider, the court found,  was not legally qualified to vote in New Hampshire, but did so three times since 2008. Schneider  received a prison sentence of one to three years, however he will spend no time behind bars as the court saw fit to  suspend the imposition of that sentence

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“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”  – President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09

And that has been Obama’s and the Progressive mantra – size of Government doesn’t matter but if it “works”.  Progressives have placed all of their belief into the [misbegotten, from my standpoint] view that Government is full of non-partisan experts that can run our Society in an efficient manner.  Remember, Progressivism began in the Industrial Revolution, when machines were mechanical, big, and wondrous things.  They reasoned that Government should be so – and in charge of the even larger machine of Society.  Which, as I have said before, reduces the rest of us to mere cogs in that machine – and they are OK with that.  But is that machine working?  No, because after all, we ain’t cogs.

When I went over to Newsbusters (quoting a National Journal piece) and saw this, I nearly plotzed when I read this:

“Questioning why the Veterans Affairs Department hadn’t been overhauled months ago as promised by Obama (actually that was seven years ago, plus six other times, Ron — Ed.), a senior White House official conceded privately to me, ‘We don’t do the small stuff well. And the small stuff is the important stuff.'”

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In our quest to keep you connected to the New media GraniteGrok is always looking for ways to make content delivery seamless.  We want you to have options.  That is why we made our podcast available on iTunes, iHeart, Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, Spreaker, and of course here, at GraniteGrok.  It is why we live stream, why we use Ustream, YouTube, and Blip.tv.  And it is why we just tried to optimize the site for mobile O/S (again).

Our last attempt got buggy, like sitting in a lawn-chair watching a New England sunset in May (assuming it’s not too damn cold).  Black flies, mosquitoes…you know, buggy.  (Swat!)

Not a reason to give up.

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When our “Meet the New Press” radio show was around, that was an oft said saying as a take off of what Massachusetts pol (and later US Speaker of the House) Tip O’Neil used to say “All politics is local”.  We extended it as it seemed that all of the political problems we talked about locally about our hamlet and surrounds, we also heard about in other areas.  Also, we have seen the Democrat model replicate itself: what happens in DC is tried locally in Concord (especially if the Progressive Dems can’t pass the desired legislation in DC).

Well, our original mantra still holds true as we see, once again, politicians unwilling to make the hard decisions that we send them to Concord and to DC to do.  Remember a few months ago when everyone in Concord was wailing that our Highway Trust Fund was running out of money and that we had to raise more money to fix our “failing bridges and roads”?  I do, and it was clear that Progressive politicians (both Democrat and Republican) were unwilling to make the hard decisions we expected and failed to seal up the leaks that stole money from that Fund. 

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Last Fall, when I heard that the TV show COSMOS was coming back, I was a bit excited. I enjoyed the original, way back when, and was hopeful for the reboot.

But the first episode of the new COSMOS wasted no time demonstrating that axe-grinding propaganda would be part and parcel for its entertainment experience. “Science” would be at the beck and call of the writers, who proved themselves to be liberals, likely funded with money from liberals, who were going to use the show to promote ideas that secured funding for liberal mythologies rather than unbiased science.

I turned it off and walked away. I already know about liberal ‘science.’ It is all politics and little else. Revisiting it with splashy CGI would not make it less the lie.

I am not watching COSMOS, but as an observer of culture and media, I am still aware of the show, and it continues to use its claim at being about science, to lie to the public.

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