NH Pajama Boy Harrell Kirstein Might Want To Ask Dem Chairman Ray Buckley…

obamacare_pajamas_boy_as_che_12-22-13-3New Hampshire Pajama Boy, Harrell ‘Jersey Shore’ Kirstein, might want to ask Ray Buckley if he still wishes Hitler had bombed the Hague?  Sure, I’ll explain.

One of NH Democrat Party Chairman Ray Buckley’s most famous quote’s is “Hitler should have bombed the Hague.”  Harrel Kirstein, being the OFA spokesperson (OFA created Pajama Boy) and Democrat Chairman Ray Buckley’s press-bitch, it seems like, given this most recent bit of news…Buckley’s exhortation might have saved the professional left more difficult moments in a year full of them.

The Dutch have just announced a massive reform of their welfare system, designed to reduce dependency and put a new emphasis on work.

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GrokTALK! 12-21-2013 With Leon Rideout, Kevin Kervick, and Pete Ingemi (Da Tech Guy)

GrokTALK! New Hampshire's Conservative PodcastThis week our guests are NH Republican House Rep Leon Rideout, SNHU Professor and author Kevin Kervick, and conservative talker Pete ‘Da Tech Guy’ Ingemi.

First we welcome our newest affiliate station –  Cream City Radio in Milwaukee Wisconsin.  Then we we move on to Democrat trackers, Scott Brown (and last weeks rally), protecting the unborn–specifically for women who have chosen life, the US Senate race in New Hampshire from a Massachusetts perspective, …
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The Ghosts of Minimum Wages Past, Present, and Future

minimum wage cartoon payneNew Hampshire Democrats, at both the state and federal level, are looking for a distraction from the lump of coal that Obama-Care put in America’s stocking this holiday season.  The misdirection they have settled on is an increase in the minimum wage.

According to the Valley news local Democrats are looking to promote a state minimum wage set to 8.25 per hour in 2015 that would rise to 9.00 per hour the year after.  At the Federal level Ann ‘Where is Benghazi?’ Kuster and Carol SEIU-Porter (along with Jeanne “Screw the Veterans” Shaheen) are supporting a national minimum wage hike to $10.10 per hour.

So the liberal lackey’s at every level appear committed to screwing over the people they claim to be helping….again.

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Duck Dynasty: Much Ado About Nothing

“An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.”  —Michael Korda

Phil_Robertson2Duck Dynasty Patriarch Phil Robertson “initiated” a firestorm with his recent comments featured in a GQ article. Well, not really….Here’s why. The largest purveyors of so-called tolerance speech is the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual Community and the pop culture community. Millions upon Millions of dollars have been spent by the Hollywood elite to tell America, “If you do not ascribe to the LGBT lifestyle, you are not tolerant…you are ignorant…you are homophobic…you are bigoted.” That is the script, the template, the message and the mantra. the verbiage might change, the nuances made less obvious, but the message remains the same.

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GrokTALK! – Will Be Posted By Morning…UPDATED- Audio Posted

Thanks to some unpleasant technical issues this weeks podcast took, is taking, a bit longer to process than usual. Our apologies for the delay.  I should have it posted later tonight or tomorrow morning. I’m working through a crippling laptop virus that did nasty things to my system.  (I’m typing this on a a different … Read more

GrokTALK! for the week of 12/21/2013 – The Video

While we wait for the audio (we have a backup plan in case that virus continues to overpower Steve’s laptop), here’s a tease of what happened on the show.  While we talked on the phone with with NH State Rep Leon Rideout in the second segment and Pete “DaTechGuy” Ingemi in the fourth, we had … Read more

Guest Post by Spec Bowers: “Free people get to decide – not the government for them”

The following is in response to Lisa Kaplan Howe’s Op-Ed (after the jump) on Obamacare:

Lisa Kaplan Howe informs us that people “were allowed to keep” old insurance policies. But this turns on its head the relationship between a people and their government.

Free people in a free society aren’t allowed to keep things – it is their inherent right to keep what they think is best for themselves. The question should not be what the government allows people to do; it should be what the people allow their government to do.

Should a woman have the right to choose what insurance is right for her, or should government make that choice for her? Obamacare interferes with a woman’s right to choose her insurance; now many women have lost their choice of doctors.

Howe warns us that we “may be paying more than you need to.” Does she not know that the new Obamacare policies have much higher premiums and higher deductibles? She tells us that “assisters won’t keep any of your personal information.” Is she unaware that the assisters (navigators) have not had background checks and that some of them could be felons? Has she not heard of all the security flaws in the website that make it easy for hackers to obtain private information? Obamacare has proven to be a disaster. The solution is more freedom of choice. Let people decide what is best for themselves, not what the government will “allow” them to have.

Let me amplify spec’s main point: It was said that Obamacare would fundamentally transform the relationship from a people that have a Government to a government that has subjects.  If we are “The Land of the Free”, why is it that Government, more and more, is making the decisions that we once made for ourselves?  Such a government can be considered and become an oppressive or authoritarian one quickly.

And yet, why is it that people like Lisa Kaplan Howe are all to willing to turn over that responsibility (and more) to Government – and in doing so, abdicating all sense of self-responsibility?

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“Straight up racism”: Democrat Federal campaigns pay Blacks and Hispanics less than Whites

Inconsistency – and hypocritical as well. Nice to see that Democrats are adding to their own faux outrage of “Income Inequality” even as this issue is low on the “Big Issues” totem pole.  For all their jawboning that it is Republicans that are discriminatory, that Republicans don’t care about “the oppressed”, “the poor”, and “the … Read more

Notable Quote – Arthur R. Hogue

The doctrine of the supremacy of law implies that all agencies of government must act upon established principles; even the highest bodies and officials are not permitted to act upon arbitrary will or caprice. The supremacy of law means that all the acts of government agencies are subject to examination in the courts, which are … Read more

Blogline of the Day – Infantilism

“A constitutional republic caters to adults.  A socialistic democracy dictates to children. “ Go read what Marc Ruov has to say about  John Adams.  And look at what the Obama Administration thinks of us – a flannel onesie and a hot cocoa: What we are “allowed to do” – diktats?  See here, too.

Obama ‘Repeals’ Obama-Care

If ever there was a case for the benefit of ‘Rule of Law,’ where regardless of how constricting a law is at least everyone knows who and what it applies to and can predict how the law applies–the Progressive Pandora’s Box that is Obama-Care is it.

It also serves as proof that the conservative position wins again.  Slow and careful consideration is superior to the chaos deployed by desperate Democrats ramming through thousands of pages of something because they think they have the votes to pass it.

Now we have an executive branch re-writing laws with every vile wind that blows a stench across their polling data.   Rule of law is gone.   No one knows what to expect, whether they are complying or not, will get fined or not, jailed or not, and whether some arbitrary objection could alter their circumstances at the whim of their political opponents.

This mystery status includes the people, insurance companies, business owners, HHS, legislators, the super-bureaucracy erected to manage the paper being pushed into the burning pyre, essentially all of America, including the president himself. No one knows what is and is not the law.

Even the media cannot decide if calling it Obama-Care is praise or racism–which is dependent on the reading from the rectal thermometer of populist dudgeon, a measure being frantically filtered by progressive partisan pollsters clamoring for a demographic “rectum” that will favour their next public relations push.

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Oh James? Methinks you owe Karen Testerman a bit of an apology!

Umm, I didn’t see you, Mr. Pindell, over at the “Second Amendment Corner” either!  Not all that hard to have found it – all that Hunter Orange and such.  So I found this a bit, well, silly: “If Karen Testerman, Gary Lambert and Marilinda Garcia had any political instincts whatsoever they wouldn’t have walked inside … Read more

Pro-Second Amendment / Anti-Scott Brown rally – a couple of thoughts

I learned a couple of things last night while at the rally:

  • The folks that came out last night are fired up – they DO take politics personally because politicians have been making legislation more and more personal
  • I think politicians on the Right are going to get caught by surprise at this – because while it has been the politicians on the Left that have made it personal (Progressivism: the personal is politics, politics is personal), they blame the Republican politicians for going along and allowing them to do it to them.
  • They feel they are being dissed by the Party that they feel should be standing up for them – a lack of loyalty.
  • They ask the question: “Why should I vote for you, or work for you, when you celebrate someone who does not respect ALL of our Rights?  Why should we sell out to you?”

And taking this personally, they personally are going to go out and let their family, their neighbors, and their friends know of their ire.  They are the influence makers that naturally should belong to the NH GOP – and the NH GOP absolutely needs them.  Instead, last night happened: 

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Pro-Second Amendment / Anti-Scott Brown rally – regular folks have a message for Scott Brown

I also learned one other thing last night – I realized how old my vidcam is given how fast the battery ran down in the cold – thus, the paucity of interviews from last night.  However, before it died, I did get the chance to ask a few folks two questions:

  • What question would you ask Scott Brown?
  • What would you tell Scott Brown if he came over?

Here is “Steve” whose sign caught my attention:

(Note to self – next time you interview someone with an interesting sign, please remember to at least take a pic of it, moron!)

In the mean time, a couple of other folks had something to say:

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Oh, one last thing from last nite – US Senator (R-NH) Al Baldasaro??

Maybe!  I didn’t get a lot of the speakers last night – hobbled by Nashua’s Mayor Donnalee Lozeau (R), there was no staging, podium, or lights (heck, no snow was supposed to be moved – hmm, it did look as if that snow moved itself).  Given the traffic and the parking, a number of the … Read more

Blogline of the Day – Scott Brown and Pork Chops?

Lots of reporters were at the Pro-Second Amendment / Anti-Scott Brown rally last nite and the Blogline comes from a report from Politico: His coming here is calculated disrespect, just as if he went to Saudi Arabia with pork chops in his suitcase,” said Jay Simkin, a 60-something economic consultant who lives in Nashua. “If … Read more

Left in Extremis

Democrats make emotional proclamations about who hold views outside the mainstream of American thought.  (Hint – it is always those who pose any threat to their political power.)  If you do not agree with them you are an extremist and having a majority control of the media and entertainment allows them to get away with this.

What is an extreme view according to the left?  Thinking that you own the property you work to earn.  It is their opinion that income and property exist because they let it exist.  You didn’t build it, you didn’t earn it, unless you vote Democrat, and then there might be a waiver as long as you are on good behaviour.

Abortion is another issue where anyone who disagrees with the left is out in left field–or is that right field?  Once again, nothing could be further from the truth.

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Notable Quote: Claude Frederic Bastiat

It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist.  On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist before hand, that men make laws. … Nature, or rather God, has bestowed upon every one of us the right to defend his person, his liberty, and his property, since … Read more

GrokTALK! With Guest Marilinda Garcia

Marilinda Garcia joins us  in Studio to talk about her enrtry into the Republican Primary to challenge Ann Kuster for the congressional seat in NH CD-2. We discuss states rights, the role of government, marijuana, ObamaCare, spending, and even the potential advantages of incrementalism. We also touch on the differing roles between state and federal … Read more

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