This week on GrokTALK! our guests are Kevin Bloom and Kirk McNeil, Dr. Julianne Cooper, and Shane Vander Hart.

Some of the Topics, in no particular order…the Concord city Council, Obamacare, Lumber Liquidators and Gibson Guitar, Suspicionless Checkpoints, Common Core, Asset Forfiture Reform, the Bearcat, Ray Chadwick, Industrial Hemp, the Nairobi Mall Attack, an actual racist shooting in North Carolina, Poker, ‘Law-abiding Illegal immigrants,” Common Core (again), License Plate Readers, and a detailed look at the Iowa US Senate Race situation.

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In foreign policy, this means cozying up to our enemies while putting “the nose in the air” when dealing with our “former” allies.  Yes, the scare quotes are intentional. To be specific, if you were Israel, would this be all that comforting?  This from the This Week with [Clinton’s former wonder boy] George Stephy’s interview with Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif  on the “game changing” 15 minute phone call between Muslimphilic Obama and Rouhani, the new Iranian President who, as I point out, serves the Grand Ayatollah of Iran.  Yes, the President that reports to what Democrats here in the US are always screaming about here (an incipient theocracy by those of us that cling to our Bibles), an actual Theocracy.  Yet, does Clinton’s former White House wonder boy, George Stephy, bring that up?  No, in fact goes 180 the other way:

STEPHANOPOULOS: It’s been a long time.

This week, analysts in the Middle East have called the events a game-changer, one even likening it to the fall of the Berlin wall.

RIIIGHT – let’s inflate this A WHOLE LOT!  Seriously, the Wall?  A wall that was built to keep its citizens INSIDE a totalitarian form of government (er, once again, isn’t that what the Dems call a theocracy – totalitarian?  Oh, never mind – they can’t acknowledge the irony here).  I digress – let’s continue.  This was kinda cute – right up what the “Blame America Firsters” just love to hear!  Sure, Iran is ready to bury the hatchet IF the US is willing to repent.  This guy has the Democrat “I am a member of a victim class” down to a T: 

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The same bureaucratic group-think responsible for the long term suspensions of children playing with toy guns on private property, chewing pop-tarts, pointing pencils, playing make-believe (see list after the jump), is the same buraucratic mind-set that will be “manageing” your health care–and by extension your quality of life, your aging parents and grandparents lives, childrens lives, everyone.

Why you would let these people manage more than absolutely necessary is beyond me; why you would let them run your health care, and by extension your quality of life, is just insane.

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Here in NH, we have heard the NH Dems cry “SETTLED LAW!  SETTLED LAW!” when they thought that  Republicans were going to “re-legislate” the homosexual marriage law.  And a bunch of others.  And yet, when they took control this session, immediately they started in “re-legislating” in either watering down or removing laws that the Republican majority had passed – Deputy Dawg’s try at removing Stand Your Ground being a good example.  Rumors have other laws in their sights. The case has been proven: Democrats do not care for “settled law” arguments unless it is their own laws that are under the microscope.

Yet, from DC, we are hearing the Democrat lamentations over Obamacare – “passed legislation!  passed legislation!” as the US House may send up a Continuing Resolution that WOULD fund absolutely every function in the Federal Government.  But NOT Obamacare.  You know something?  That would be perfectly legal AND Constitutional – it is the HOUSE that is, by Constitutional mandate, decide what tax funds are to be raised and appropriated (regardless of what Reid in the Senate believes and the incipient tyrant (or at least, tantrum prone) President has declared by fiat.

Me?  The Republicans are well within their rights to do EXACTLY what the Democrats are decrying – after all, isn’t the current debt ceiling AND the current spending regime results of “passed and SETTLED law”?  So really, aren’t the Republicans just agreeing with them (heh!)?  Mario Loyola from The Corner has a good observation on the Dems constant wailing that Republicans should not do this – that it would hurt Republicans badly in the next election (and appeasement Rs as well) – this is not the same time as the 1990’s (emphasis mine):

There is a crucial difference between what’s happening now and the budget battle between House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton in the 1990s. Clinton repeatedly vetoed budget bills that contained measures he vehemently disagreed with. Had he done otherwise, he would have been accepting GOP policy on crucial items such as how regulations are enacted. From his point of view, the House bills contained poisoned pills he couldn’t swallow.

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This past Saturday, we had Dr. Cooper from Liberty Harbor Academy to talk about Common Core and how it really, well, a take over by the Feds of local control of education.  She also surprised us by bringing up this quiz that WatchdogWire found.  Go ahead and read the questions and how badly slanted they are poised – where do these stand against the Law of the Land – the US Constitution?  As well as if you were more Constitutionally bound, how badly does it portray you as a seventh grader taking this Common Core standard aligned quiz?

Question #1: “I would support a government increase of my taxes if the money were used to pay for expanded health and social programs.”

Question #2: “I think the government should impose stricter limits on access to guns.”

Question #3: “I believe organized prayer should be kept out of schools. Having students pray is a violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Question #4: “I would support drilling for oil in a wildlife refuge to help reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil.”

Question #5: “I believe that looking out for U.S. interests abroad must come first, even if that means the U.S. takes action without the approval of the United Nations or our allies.”

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The Corner captured this from the Majority Leader of the US Senate, Harry Reid, who has refused to compromise on any Continuing Resolution from the House:

Harry Reid shot down any notion at passing a short-term, one-week continuing resolution, telling reporters on Monday that the federal government cannot operate like a banana republic.

“If we can’t pass this, we’re only truly entering a banana republican mindset,” Reid said at a press conference shortly after the Senate tabled the House’s CR, which postponed the Affordable Care Act for a year. The Senate sent back a “clean CR” that stripped that stripped the House language.

I guess Harry has forgotten this wee little factoid:

The last time the Senate passed a budget was April 29, 2009.

Harry, if you had actually been doing your job, we wouldn’t be at this point.  Mario Loyola (who I quoted earlier today) had a great rejoinder / description to Reid:

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The previous parts to Ken’s talk at the Alton Business Association’s Workforce Housing Forum were kept to around 10 minutes each so I should let you know that this goes about 25 minutes.  The topic was Westchester County, NY – a “lower level of government” that actually believed the Federal Govt’s “Sustainability Community Initiative” was not legally binding – but turned out that the “crack” money dangled out by EPA / DOT / HUD had not just strings attached but steel cables.  Part of the length of this part is a video where the Administrator of Westchester County explained how the old “inch/mile” / “rug out from underneath” became a scary (and EXTREMELY expensive) proposition when the ideologues of “seeing racism everywhere” / “make wealth redistribution everywhere” within the Federal Government decided that what was a legally signed agreement could, willy-nilly, be arbitrarily broached and extended by those whose hubris of Federal Government power knows no bounds (how’s that fer ya, Kitch??).

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Sometimes, seeing is believing – or more fun!  To be fair, we do the video as a backup to our audio (sort of a “just in case”).  But some would rather see than just listen, so it is our responsibility to provide what people like!  Please note: as you heard during the show, I have to get the camera “mice” input switched over from the nice Rode shotgun mic that we normally use to the soundboard so that you all can watch us listen to our guests on the phone lines.

Sidenote: and THANK YOU to our donors for for helping in allowing us to purchase the new soundboard you see in front of Steve that is set up especially to handle phone lines!

Thus, the videos only cover the first three half-hour segments – the fourth WOULD have show us just listening to Shane Vander Hart calling in from Iowa.

Part 1:

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I received an email from Gary Krupp that I got permission to share below.  There is also an event posted on Facebook related to this: https://www.facebook.com/events/203995136445185/

You may have heard of the Common Core State education standards.  There has been quite a bit of press about it recently with the Alton, NH School Board voting to reject the standards and the Manchester School Board on the verge of a similar vote.  Many States accross the country are also slowing down or reversing course on using the new standards.  NH is just starting to have its public debate on the matter.

Whatever your opinion on Common Core, this is the most significant change to public education in the last 30 years.  The State Education Commissioner, Dr. Virgina Barry, is coming to the Bedford High School on Monday, Sep 30th at 7:00 PM to talk to administrators and school board members from districts in the South Central NH region.  This meeting was initially closed to the public but Dr. Barry reversed that decision thanks to prompting from the press (radio host Rich Girard from “Girard at Large”).  This means we have a golden opportunity to hear direct from the Commissioner with our own ears about NH’s vision for implementing Common Core.

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