The vote has been cast.   New Hampshire Democrats want you to finance in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. Slap!

(Full breakdown of the Roll Call available on the jump)

HB 474 passed 188 Yea 155 Nay, with 8 “republicans” joining the Democrat majority.  The usual suspects, of course, Kidder, Gargasz, Lockwood, and a few others.

It moves to the NH Senate now where last years much more reliable stop gap for left-wing stupidity has crumbled heading into this session.  So there are no guarantees that they will stand up and stop it.

If you ask me, if UNH want’s this they can fund raise.  They can eat the difference.  Better yet.  Since Democrats want it so bad, how about some of those very well-funded liberal NGO’s and the so-called non-partisan non-profit groups that get all that out of state money (and spend it on electing Democrats), create a scholarship reimbursement program to help fund the difference for in-state tuition for illegal aliens in NH?

No?  You’d rather put taxpayers on the hook for that?

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HB474 just passed the NH House, which would provide illegal immigrants the benefit of in-state tuition rates, provided they have attended 3 years of NH High School and have been domiciled in NH, and “promise” to gain legal residency.

The Roll Call for this bill shows that one of *my* Republican Reps, Bob Willette, voted “YEA”.

I am shocked and in disbelief why Rep. Willette and a handful of other “Republicans” voted for such utter nonsense.

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Joe Bastardi, along with Joe D’Aleo, were the impetus behind the creation of The Weather Channel but have since moved on to less tin-foil-hat infested waters.   (MSNBC and GE Bought it years ago to mainstream and legitimize the progressive scheme of climate crisis, and no doubt the political funding mechanisms set up to address their alarmist agenda.)

Since then, Joe and Joe have continued to do what they love–investigate and report on the science of weather and climate and its real effect on us–and taken their lumps for opposing the politicization of weather and its step children, Global Warming, and Climate Change, and now…”The Pause.”

The Pause is the past 17 years of flat and now declining temperatures, the global failure of their “settled science” climate modeling and dire predictions to come close to anything resembling the truth.  To explain the Pause, the PR climate modelers have stepped in beside the egg-faced politically “motivated scientists” who live well on the taxpayer-fed milk of the cash cow to re-brand the scheme (yet again) in an effort to explain away how “udderly” wrong they have been about…mostly everything.

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Ted Cruz.  Love what he says, loved his Senate filibuster, and love his recent voting record.  And I hate writing this story.

But something is wrong with the picture.  And it feels eerily familiar.

This story about Cruz and his wife has been out there for about 5 months but it got by me.  Fortunately, others didn’t miss it and pointed it out,  Another story (here) covers it from a slightly different angle.

Essentially, Cruz’ wife Heidi once worked for Merrill Lynch and is a Goldman Sachs Regional Manager, which is a little concerning, given, you know, the massive bailouts and their involvement with the Federal Reserve in deflating our currency and killing our economy.  However, she was also a member of a CFR task force that produced a report in 2005 called “Building a North American Community“.

This.  Is.  Very.  Concerning.

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You can’t claim to be the tolerant ones when you use religious bigotry to put someone out of business, quite often when there are dozens of other businesses that provide the exact same service within a reasonable distance in modern America, just because you think you can.

Well Sweet Cakes by Melissa agrees with me.  The state of Oregon charged them of violating a lesbian couples ‘civil rights’ when they refused to make a cake for their wedding on grounds that it violated their religious conscience, to which they responded…

“We still stand by what we believe from the beginning,” said Aaron Klein. “I’m not sure what future holds, but as far as where we’re at right now … it’s almost as if the state is hostile toward Christian businesses.”

“Oregon is hostile toward Christian businesses.”

You should put that on a bumper sticker.

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Londonderry Fish & Game President, NH Wildlife Federation President, and GraniteGrok’s own Rick Olsen was the next speaker.  A prior Chief Warrant Officer in the US Marine Corps, he’s a straight ahead take-no-prisoners, you-know-where-I-stand (or soon will) type of guy.  Here, he talks about how our Freedom own and use our Private Property. He talks about the process of how much it costs ($38,000)  and how much Government inserts itself into process “of enjoying your own Private Property” – the hassles and hoops the LFGC had to jump through to put in a new range.

“Rick Olsen, a Grokster at heart when it comes to freedom and our rights under the United States Constitution. Rick writes articles with GrantiteGrok.com and he is the President of the Londonderry Fish and Game Association. Catch up with Rick on http://www.GraniteGrok.com. It’s all about our freedom. Watch and listen to what Rick has to say during his presentment at the 19 January 2014 Gun Rights Across America Rally in Concord, NH.
Gun Rights Across America New Hampshire is an organization in New Hampshire and across the United States. For more information follow this link; http://www.gunrightsacrossamerica.com/ …. For the New Hampshire Chapter, follow this link; https://www.facebook.com/GunRightsAcr…
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A VIEW OF COMMON CORE

Do you know all the details of the

Controversy surrounding the

COMMON CORE CURRICULUM

in New Hampshire’s Schools?

How does it affect students? Why was it implemented?

Join our esteemed panel of experts

for the most informed and accurate information

Thursday, January 30

7-8:30 p.m.

Kingston Town Hall

163 Main Street

Featured speakers:

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot…”

– Robert Heinlein

One of my most favorite folks to read is VDH – a California Professor who speaks of today’s disintegrating culture in terms of the Classic Western history and philosophy who is not seeing great things in our near future as Political Correctness and cultural hubris of Elites can’t see the cracks, crevasses, and dark corners that are now dotting our landscape.  Go read the whole thing and get depressed, but here’s a few ‘graphs to get you interested (emphasis mine):

Rather our way of life is changing not with a bang, but with a whimper, insidiously and self-inflicted, rather than abruptly and from foreign stimuli. Most of the problem is cultural. Unfortunately it was predicted by a host of pessimistic anti-democratic philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Hegel and Spengler. I’ve always hoped that these gloom-and-doomers were wrong about the Western paradigm, but some days it becomes harder.

Over 90 million Americans who could work are not working (the “non-institutionalized” over 16). What we take for granted — our electrical power, fuel, building materials, food, health care, and communications — all hinge on just 144 million getting up in the morning to produce what about 160-170 million others (the sick, the young, and the retired who need assistance along with the 90 million idle) consume.

Given that the number of non-working is growing (an additional 10 million were idled in the Obama “recovery” alone), it is likely to keep growing. At some point, we will hit a 50/50 ratio of idle versus active. Then things will get interesting… 

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Peggy Noonan, from my standpoint and outlook, either is a major whiff or hits home runs.  Her latest column in the WSJ, however, is more the latter than the former.  I have oft complained that a major part of the reason we have the political disfunctions we do is:

• that the politicians we elect say what we hope to hear
• that then they turn around and simply run for re-election right after being elected
• and to do so, they avoid the major and important decisions, large and small, that we really need made BY THEM

instead of what we now know to be true – a bunch of partisan and ideologically driven bureaucrats (after all, there is a reason why the Democrats are called “the Party of Government”).  I say they’re political cowards (and seconded here).  She uses a different word: selfishness – putting themselves before their constituents.

Sometimes the most obvious thing is the most unnoticed. I find myself thinking this week about the destructive force of selfishness in our political life. This common failing is the source of such woe! Politicians call themselves public servants, so they should be expected to be less selfish than the average Joe ; their views and actions should be assumed to be more keenly directed toward the broad public good. But no one expects that of politicians anymore, and they know it and use the knowledge to justify being even worse than they’d normally be. “If I have the name, I might as well have the game.”

They are the locus of selfishness in the modern world.

We have heard our politicians rue

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David “Muddy” Watters bill (SB 244 ) to create the mental health equivalent of a “no fly list” for the feds so they can be told whom not to sell a firearm, has more problems than we can shake a fire-stick at.  Susan Olsen does most of this argument justice here and here, so I have no intention of rehashing that now.  But there is one point which I have not seen discussed that does need ‘airing.’  A detrimental side-effect that was observed in New York State, not that long ago.

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Yesterday afternoon a NH House Rep. sent me a “heads up” that the Nashua Telegraph’s political doodler Kevin Landrigan had made note (on Facebook) of the frequency of articles at GraniteGrok regarding the DuckGate case of Nashua NH House Democrat David Campbell–a case with a number of unanswered questions that suggest a police commissioner helped hide the fact that David Campbell was drunk when he hit some ducks and ran away from police.

Mr. Landrigan remarked “Very Conservative GraniteGrok stays obsessed with Duck Gate scandal.  7th item in two weeks.”  Then there is a link to a tweet of the same construction.

A rather brisk discussion ensued on his Facebook wall, to which I contributed, but I failed to make an important point that should have seemed obvious at the time.

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