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Manchester TV News is reporting that former Speaker Bill O’Brien has elected not to run for Congress is New Hampshire Congressional District 2. They are reporting that he plans to take a job in the private sector. There are no other detials at this time.
Bumped from Sept 28, 2012 because this post dredged up “LGOP” ************************** Especially the “…and lack serious adult supervision…” part. I have learned wisdom in growing him up – he could be terrifying when mad, too. Glad to see others see that as well in those kids. But God watch over them all as they … Read more
I’m working on re-associating myself with Twitter. As part of that commitment to wasting more of my time–in all honesty I have collected a decent news feed through my Twitter acquisitions–sometimes I wander off onto other peoples streams to see what they are sharing in 140 characters or less.
I found this very entertaining.
http://twitter.com/kaytaa/status/369966423436959744
No kidding.
Maybe you missed the ‘Justice For Chris Lane’ Rallies, didn’t hear about the marches, or didn’t have CSPAN during all the speeches about Chris on the floor of the US congress wearing whatever Chris was wearing before he was killed. Chris Lane was gunned down by three bored teens, shot in the back, from a … Read more
No, Duval didn’t call me, or other “extreme right-wing” bloggers” a Nazi – but Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC) did. Duval called out several groups in his application for a replacement armored tank (a new Lenco Bearcat) like Occupy NH, Sovereign Citizens, and Free Staters (and probably TEA Party and Second Amendment supporters went through his mind as well) thinking that these were people who presented a clear and immediate danger to Concord (like that tank would get lots of usage in a town of 43,000 – daily! Weekly! Monthly! OK, maybe one every couple of years when in years past, a few squad cars would have sufficed). But no, he did not declare that this groups were Nazis or Nazi-like.
But Clyburn did meet up with Godwin’s Law and jetted right past it:
Democratic representative Jim Clyburn likened conservative media and websites to the propaganda outlets of Nazi Germany in a radio interview today. The South Carolina Democrat at first seemed to be going after the American media as a whole, but went on to target “extreme right-wing” bloggers for supposedly ginning up “manufactured controversies.”
Would he be talking about…..us? Naw, not a chance! Right Wing? Patriots, for sure. Extreme? Only in that we want to return to real Constitutional values and not “manufactured” ones. Really – calling Right of Center bloggers to be the same kindred kind as ….Nazis?
I have been on Howie’s email list for a while and this recounting of CSP’s “promoting” is posted with his permission (certain emphasis mine):
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I was able to make the Veterans Town Hall meeting this morning, organized by congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, and I am glad I did, though I think some of those on the Podium are not so happy I did.
They had a panel of people from various support organizations at the head table and each gave a presentation of what their organization was about and what they are doing for Veterans – when I got my chance to speak I addressed that as nothing more than a Dog & Pony show, as to me it was more important that they listen to us than us to them. I suggested to the Congresswoman that she do such a Veterans Town Hall meeting in the future, in an evening session, with an open forum microphone where she and her staff, and any invited guests listen to us talk about what is important to us rather than have them brag about their accomplishments while Veterans are still hurting, and many have lost faith in these organizations. It is sad to hear and understand that our new generations are just as disheartened and neglected as us Vietnam Vets, so my hair stands up on the back of my neck when he hear all these people talk about all the money they are spending on taking care of Vets when I know much of what they say is only the rosy picture they want us to believe.
Rich Girard is a local talk show host in Manchester on 90.7 FM WLMW from 6-9am weekday mornings. This morning, in a segment called “A Question Of Voter Fraud: No Proof of Address Required“, Rich had Ed Naile on to talk more Voter Fraud here in NH. You can download it here, or listen to … Read more
Vote Fraud overwhelmingly favors Democrats for elected office which is why Democrats insist it cannot exist.
“I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‘hopey-changey’ stuff, she was right,” said the MIT linguistics professor. “There was nothing there.” … “[Y]ou’re looking at Obama’s programs, the part that really did surprise me—and I don’t, frankly, understand it—is his attack on civil liberties, which is extreme,” … Read more
We have long argued that there is a great deal of hate being manufactured by the left. It is their stock in trade, if not as kindling for the fires that drive them personally, then as accelerant to divide the nation into bits they can then pander too in pursuit of power. Well here is what may well be a premier example of Democrat hate at work.
Since last February there has been an ongoing debate about Race and Hate at Oberlin College after a series of…well, see for yourself…
Daily Caller: One of the two students removed from Oberlin College earlier this year for allegedly circulating virulently racist, anti-Jewish and anti-gay messages around campus is an ardent leftist and committed supporter of President Obama, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
NH Democrats Running Away From Obamacare…? No. Just running away from people asking questions about ObamaCare…
For those who like choices, while GrokTALK! is always available on Granitegtok.com, we are also podcasting on Spreaker.com (under my spreaker page name “Steve Mac Donald). You can listen here at Spreaker or download the program for later. Reminder–live event acoustics from this week’s program…can at times be challenging. You can also catch past programs … Read more
Powerline has a post up titled, ‘Is Clean Air The Cause of Global Warming?“
You’d have to have had some sustained warming for that to even be true. But let’s play along because this is actually devastating to the infinite number of Donkeys with the infinite number of “typewriters” (or their modern digital equivalent). Charged with repeatedly re-branding the moving-target-Liberal-Democrat narratives as they collapse under the weight of inconvenient things like facts.
So we spent trillions more and added 7 trillion to the deficit, and all we ever really need was a Job Corps Center?
“The Manchester Job Corps Center will equip low-income youth with the skills they need to be successful in the workplace. The result will pay dividends for not only these young people but for our economy as a whole,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said.
CONCORD, N.H. —A Massachusetts sales tax applied to computer software design services may affect some New Hampshire businesses with a presence in the state. The tax took effect July 31. The 6.25 percent sales tax in Massachusetts now applies to “certain services relating to computer system design and to modification, integration, enhancement, installation, or configuration … Read more
It’s an old UPS tag line, What can Brown Do for You, but now it has so many meanings I’m not sure where to begin. Maybe we’ll just go with this: UPS is a Teamster shop, their pilots and their mechanics are all in unions. Unions pushed hard and spent much in blood and treasure to support the lie of ObamCare, and to support Democrats who would vote for it, defend it and implement it, and now the reality of what this all really means has come knocking on their door.
Parts of Obamacare have already been kicked to the curb (the CLASS act, the $600 thresholds for 1099 reporting). A number have been waived (illegally, I point out, for unions, “connected” cronies, training for the “navigators” has been cut along with background checks that would keep fraudsters out, the employer mandate and reporting, and a declaration that Congress is not subject to Obamacare like the rest of us) and some have been added (illegally, I point out, like the IRS now to provide tax credits for exchanges not run by the States). And we have certainly pointed out that employers have been cutting full time employees to part time and cutting hours to part timers so as to not trigger the Obamacare costs of either healthcare or fines. The government mandated state level exchanges where healthcare insurance is to be bought (I refuse to call them marketplaces because that would wrongly imply that there IS a true marketplace at work here) themselves are running way behind time and way over schedule to the point where they might be reduced to paper and pen. Doctors have already bailed on their practices to either become mere employees or wandering off to Galt’s Gulch (and we already are hearing noises that “other than doctors” will fill in the slack. As I pointed out here and Steve just did here, combined with the above, it seems that Obamacare is falling , falling fast, and falling hard. It seems that no matter WHERE one stands, it seems to be a house of cards that was erected on beach sand that is now collapsing into a sinkhole.
While many to most that have been against Obamacare from the get-go, thinking that it is the proverbial door shutting on our individual Liberties and Freedoms, are jumping for joy and like Steve saying “I told you so” at this chaos-in-process, I fear that this was figured out from the beginning and well may have been only a milestone on the timeline. Remember,
I don’t really much care if you are black, white, red, yellow, or purple with green polka dots. Really don’t – perhaps it’s because being an engineer, I really only care about results. Do you love your family, work hard to support them, are kind to your pets and other little animals, smile with your friends, charitable to those in need, and follow the law? Are you a help to your community? Do you think that MLK was right about being judged by the content of one’s character?
Or view people with a worldview that automatically says “the color of your skin demands that I think you are racist”? This REALLY annoys me (emphasis mine, reformatted) as it seems that some are just plain stuck in time either can’t see that 2013 is not 1963 – or depend that they can persuade the rest of us that nothing has changed. And it shows that racial profiling can go both ways:
Many Americans, even those who didn’t support Sen. Barack Obama’s policies, welcomed the sight of a black president in 2008 as a sign of racial progress.The director of Lee Daniels’ The Butler insists that election showed the country’s “true colors”–we’re still a racist nation. And it’s gotten worse since Obama first took office. Daniels, speaking with the low-rated Piers Morgan on CNN Monday night, gave this answer when asked if the country had become more or less racist since Obama’s 2008 election victory.
It’s harder to get the monkey off your back when it’s also a tireless, beguiling temptress determined to get you hooked on the dependency opiate. And once hooked, even the simple and mundane apparently become monumentally difficult. So much so, you choose not to do them.
A Hooksett woman apparently in dire need of a writing instrument, dialed 911 to see if they have any Bics they could throw her way. I’m not kidding; she dialed 911 for a writing pen. It’s not so odd. The article went on to say that another woman needed help ordering for Chinese food, so she also rang up local ones in blue to find out if the Pu Pu Platter was all it was cracked up to be.
What’s so funny about that?
It’s getting harder and harder to hide. Leviathan’s hungry, as always, and becoming more brash. It’s not going to sit idle doing nothing, that’s the plebe’s job. No, it must eat. It has ambitions. It’s going to slide its tendrils over farms, through fields, down main street, into shops, and homes of the individuals with the sole purpose of slaying the independent nature and enslaving the free.
Case in point: Leviathan’s quest to crush “mountain pride” in Ash County, North Carolina. This story aired last week on Fox as a part of a larger series entitled “The Great Food Stamp Binge”. In short, Ash County didn’t have enough people on food stamps. The government didn’t like that. The USDA gave an award to a “social worker” for changing that. Full video below, the relevant text of the transcript follows (emphasis mine).
As the federal government sees it, “mountain pride” is a problem.
The government keeps track of how many people in an area are eligible for food stamps and how many signed up for benefits. When a place, like Ash County, stands out with an unexpectedly high number of residents refusing food stamps, a network of social service types from local state and federal governments and non-profits too springs into action.
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