GrokTALK! Rewind Weekend..to June 20, 2013

We actually did a two hour show this morning and it was damn good, but for some reason or other it didn’t record so we did a show and have no show. So this week, sorry, I am reposting a previous program for our mutual enjoyment.  It comes to us from June 22nd, with guests … Read more

Did an Out of State OFA Staffer vote in NH From the Home of a Sr. Asst. NH AG’s Home in 2012?

If you could just stop letting out of staters vote from your house that'd be greatThe short answer is yes, it looks like an OFA Campaigner did register to vote, and then voted in the 2012 general election from the home of a Sr Assistant New Hampshire AG.  Some context?  Happy to provide it.

We recently introduced you to Melissa Shohet.  Melissa went to High School in Hawaii, has been interning for a Democrat US Senator from Hawaii in 2013, Mazie Hirono, in DC.   She also worked on Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s campaign in Virginia this year, and will likely be heading back to College at McGill University in Canada where she attends.  I dn’t think she has graduated yet.

There is at least one other McGill Student or former student who worked for OFA in NH (follow the Link above for more on him) but other than that thin link to a college in Canada, Melissa is not tied in any way to NH, nor ever would appear to have a reson to stay in NH, which makes her temporary domicile situation a bit dicier given recent declarations by the NH AG’s office about out of state voters and…domicile at Martha’s Motel in Portsmouth.

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Threat Levels

The US has its terrorism threat levels with which we are all familiar; other governments have other ways of putting it:

The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Syria and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from “Tiresome” to “A Bloody Nuisance.” The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.

The Scots have raised their threat level from “Pissed Off” to “Let’s get the  Bastards.” They don’t have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300 years.

The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from “Run” to “Hide.” The only two higher levels in France are “Collaborate” and “Surrender.” The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France ‘s white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country’s military capability.

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A question to ponder

Don Boudreax, Professor of economics and blogger at Cafe Hayek flips a standard question on its head and pulls it inside-out sideways:

Last night and this morning your news anchors introduced your report on D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray’s ambivalence toward the pending “living-wage” bill with this question: “Will the District force large retailers to pay their workers more?”

A more illuminating introduction would be “Will the District force low-skilled workers to demand wages that make many of these workers unprofitable to employ?”

Socialism is the New SlaveryThe SEIU is the union that is principly behind the Fast Food Strikes held all over the country yesterday and the impetus behind the question.  Frankly, while the leadership there is pretty much all in the tank for Obama and would more at home in a Communist regime (“Workers Unite!  Death to the 1% (or at least force them to downsize to a single bedroom condo)), they are not stupid.  There is no way that those strikers are going to get $15 / hour.  The short term goal is, with the confirmation of Obama’s newest Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez, is to begin to shape the battlefield for “wage reform” and “work rules” – here is his “supportive fire“:

 Perez said job creation is a focus and that he views the Labor Department as “the quarterback in the workforce system,” bringing together workers, businesses and labor unions to build a “demand-driven” workforce that has the skills needed to meet employer needs.

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Notable Quote – Heather Mac Donald

The New Racism whose name cannot be mentioned (emphasis mine): Children on Chicago’s South Side are escorted to school through a phalanx of “security workers in neon vests, police officers on patrol, an idling city fire truck and, briefly, a police helicopter hovering above.” Similar school escort programs exist in other cities. It’s no longer … Read more

Making sport of Obama: Who knew that Syrian Dictator’s 11 year old son read Alinksy?

This is absolutely rich – the Most Powerful Man in the World is ridiculed by an 11 year old boy whose Dad happens to be Syria’s Bashar Assad’s son, Hafez al-Assad.  Worse, he taunts O’Bam by saying “Yo, Emperor, where’s your clothes?” After all, how bad can it get when Obama’s indecision and mishandling gets the opprobrium and disdain of a preteen – and it goes viral worldwide?

12 hours we waited…48 hours they said, we’re waiting…they may have the best army in the world, maybe the best airplanes, ships, tanks than ours, but soldiers? No one has soldiers like the ones we do in Syria, if you ask me what rank would I rank American “soldiers” I wouldn’t rank them the worst because the worst are soldiers, but America doesn’t have soldiers, what it has is some cowards with new technology who claim themselves liberators, they said they supported the “revolution” but actually they made it, right now we’re all Syrian it doesn’t matter if your with or against because that’s democracy, the abilty to express yourself in your own way so when people say that they are against the “regime” it’s fine but there’s a difference between those people and the people who claim our flag green, it’s like an offense to the country, but the worst is people who accuse the army of killing them, they accuse these men who are willing to risk they’re lives and die to keep us safe, of killing us, well when these people say that “the army is gonna end because America will attack” I can say that when America attacks it’s gonna attack every Syrian, with, against, terrorists, the army.

Yeah, the Nobel Laureate Peace Prize winner, Cowboy Obama, is getting called out by a mere boy; is that the height of incompetence?  Boy, that Rule #5 got around quick, eh?

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Notable quote: The Woodpile Report

“Shock – The coming free fall  into   squalor and horror will be particularly shocking to those who  rely on designer  “resilient communities” and “sustainable life styles” of the five hundred acres and independence kind. There will come a time when they’ll wish they had less expertise in their pet’s dental hygiene and more in how … Read more

So Do Guns Obama Sold To Mexican Drug Lords Have To Stay In Mexico?

AP:

Vice President Joe Biden, Obama’s point-man on gun control after the Newtown tragedy thrust guns into the national spotlight, unveiled the new actions Thursday at the White House.

“It’s simple, it’s straightforward, it’s common sense,” Biden said in the Roosevelt Room.

One new policy will end a government practice that lets military weapons, sold or donated by the U.S. to allies, be reimported into the U.S. by private entities, where some may end up on the streets. The White House said the U.S. has approved 250,000 of those guns to be reimported since 2005; under the new policy, only museums and a few other entities like the government will be eligible to reimport military-grade firearms.

These are the same fools that wrote the orders that walked “military-grade firearms” into Mexico that resulted in hundreds of deaths.  This is why I have to laugh every time some Democrat or OFA-hole starts going on about stopping the gun violence.   Rubes.

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I Guess We’re not Hiding Weapons in Syria Then?

We couldn’t launch a strike in Benghazi.  No one could go in and rescue anyone.  The White House didn’t want more camel noses under the Benghazi Annex tent.  So they let those people burn. But we can send strikes into Syria.  So it follows naturally that we must not be collecting or smuggling weapons or … Read more

I’m Gonna Back Jen Horn on This One

So tell me again - vote stealing activists use NH Democrat Martha Fuller Clarks house to vote fromI’m no party hack, that is certain.  But as the left ponders the idea of a full out assault on NH-GOP Chair Jennifer Horn, after the NH-AG voter fraud division “cleared” Martha Fuller Clark’s home–in the historic vote-fraud district of Portsmouth–of any “wrongdoing,” one very simple fact remains.  While we’d like to say we helped out, if we’re just talking political parties, Jen Horn may have done more to get bad names off of voter checklists in the past month than the New Hampshire AG’s office has done in the past decade.

I think Jennifer Horn should turn up the heat, I know we intend to.

I think Horn needs to ignore the Democrats, ignore the NH-AG, and speak to the people; the residents and taxpayers of New Hampshire.  Ask them this question..every week, if necessary.

“Why is it OK for an Obama Campaigner, who happens to be an attorney from Arkansas, to vote absentee from Martha Fuller Clark’s house in the historical vote-fraud district in Portsmouth instead of from his own home in Arkansas?”

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Oh Look! A Cooling Trend

This was compiled using global satellite data.  No heat islands.  Best gauge of global temperature trends over long periods of time.  The longest trend (purple) is flat.  The last full decade (green) flat with a slight drop near 2010.  The last ten consecutive years (blue) are in decline.   And it is no coincidence that this … Read more

And Jennifer Horn Should Apologize?

Vote!And here comes the inevitable story from the old NH media (SeacoastOnline).  Now that liberal Democrat Martha Fuller Clark, who harbored out of state Obama campaign voters who have since asked to be taken off our NH checklist – as some were registered in several states, her “exoneration” by the NH AG is trotted out.  This is soooo NH AG – misunderstanding important words and phrases needed to do their official job. This tradition goes back several decades or more.

The NH Attorney Exonerator “exonerated” the bus load of Deerfield voters who voted from a nonexistent address on a nonexistent road – by ignoring it. They exonerated Supervisor of the Checklist, Ann Lorber, of Deering who sat at the tables of the town and school votes, in her official position, and told people not to vote for me when I was running for selectman. The only evidence they had was three affidavits from voters and reports from two moderators.

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Meet Melissa Shohet – OFA Ballot Box Stuffer and Transient Voter

If you thnk lrtting proplr from out of state Vote in NH if OK youre Gonna have a bad timeYou might not be at all surprised to learn that Daniel Barluschke was registered and voted (as a Democrat) from New Hampshire Democrat Mille Knudson’s home on 93 Noons Quarry Road in Milford, NH in the 2008 general election.  [Knudson (D-Milford) was actually running for the NH House while Daniel was voting from her home.

Daniel hails from Berlin Germany but went to college at McGill University in Canada and spends most of his time on foreign soil, though he did spend his time in New Hampshire working for Obama For America (and voting from Milli’s home).   He left in 2008 and came back in 2012, still with OFA, but he didn’t necessarily come alone.

Melissa Shohet may or may not know Daniel Barluschke but she also went to McGill University in Canada.

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Liberal Logic – “Obama Malaise Overload Syndrome

Suddenly we need to get involved with the war in Syria to save the children – like the Clintons did at Waco, Texas – by killing them all with an intentionally set fire designed to destroy the evidence. But at this point, what does it matter? Back to Syria and a current look at Liberal … Read more

The TEA Party is Left’s whipping boy – even for issues not involving the TEA Party

Gadsden FlagIssues that define the TEA Party movement?

  • Fiscal frugality on the part of Government
  • Constitutional boundaries – limits to Government (to protect us from Government)
  • Free Markets

So, in advance of yesterday’s March on Washington on the 50th anniversary of MKL’s “I have a Dream” speech, what topic did a nationally known feminist blame the TEA Party for?

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Data Point – Number of 100 degree Readings at all US HCN Stations

Democrats keep saying that they follow the Science; a large part of the scientific process is looking at the data.  Then interpreting it.  With two STEM degrees, I think this interpretation seems to fit the data: “This summer, the US has experienced the fewest number of 100 degree readings in a century. The five hottest … Read more

Who is Édouard Daladier; better yet – what?

The day after the November 2008 election I had a major Édouard Daladier moment. On that horrid Wednesday, I sat in my cluttered office at Main State in Washington, DC, in a deep, deep funk. Blinds drawn; lights out; a small TV on the far side of the office ran images of Obama’s victory celebration … Read more

The day I stopped listening to the Civil Rights movement

Pretty much, this from Glen Reynolds sums it up:

IT’S COME TO THIS: Tim Scott, nation’s only black Senator, not invited to speak at March on Washington.

I have a dream, that one day black Republicans won’t be turned into nonpersons by the establishment.

Nor Mia Love, Dr. Walter Williams, Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Thomas Sowell or SCOTUS’s Clarence Thomas  nor David Webb.  In fact, if you peruse the list of speakers, I didn’t see one black speaker that could be considered to be a conservative.  Or a white person.  Or even a person of color whose political beliefs vary from that list of speakers.

I’ve been reading the blogosphere with an eye to the recreation of the March on Washington – and pretty much got the idea of what was to happen.  And it did.  Most of us remember the sterling words of “they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” and have thought ever since that the first March’s purpose to look beyond a person’s covering and into their heart and mind.    Sadly, in reading the various reports about the event (no, I did not watch it), it seems that to further the efforts of Dr. King, the Civil Rights movement’s leaders have adopted every single Liberal / Progressive nostrum known to earth.  Not only that, the ONLY explanations that were given in response to the push-back to these Progressive goals is that Conservatives like me can only be rationalized by racism.  Pure and simple – and no other explanation will ever be listened to.  Nice to see that a broad swath of America is viewed in such a manner (and the Progressives say that only we act based on  stereotypes?).

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