Notable Quote – Ludwing Von Mises

One of the great ideas of [classical] liberalism is that it lets the consumer interest count alone and disregards the producer interest. No production is worth maintaining if it is not suited to bring about the cheapest and best supply. No producer is recognized as having a right to oppose any change in the conditions … Read more

Two quick thoughts – Donna Brazile is wrong, and then is wrong again.

Brazile was the former campaign manager for my former (when I lived in MA growing up) Democrat Governer Michael Dukakis when he ran for President and got sliced and diced electorally.  She’s now considered to be a Voice, Strategist, and Consultant in the Democrat Party as well as a talking head and syndicated columnist.  She … Read more

Quick Thought: “One of the good things that has come out of this is that people are going to talk about race relations,”

Uttered by Sunny Hostin who is a CNNer. Again, from The BlogLine of the Day:

“So a Hispanic shoots a black and is acquitted by women, but it’s still white men’s fault.”

And add into the mix, Eric Holder’s line of “in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards“.  He took a lot of heat for that last clause, calling the people that he is supposed to serve “cowards” – THAT certainly shows “nose in the air” snootiness about the ordinary citizen.  However, I ask both of them:

Since late 50’s and early 60’s, when HAVEN’T we been talking about race??

Talking about race relations has gone on almost non-stop since this nation started to work to get rid of Jim Crow.  I can’t remember a time when it wasn’t part of the national conversation in one fashion or another – and I, and many others, really do resent Holder’s comment highly and, IMHO,  think that Hostin’s says a lot about her internalized sense of racism.  For some people, it seems, that if it wasn’t for racism identity fights, they’d have no identity at all (think: Sharpton, Smiley, and Jackson).

You know, almost all Conservatives are already “with” MLK’s line of “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”  As an engineer, I could care less what you look like – but how good is your code? Now as a political blogger, I don’t care if you are black, white, yellow, red, brown or purple with green polka-dots:  All I care about is how you think and believe with respect to the philosophy of what made this country great. Are you a good person, love your wife and provide for your kids, be nice to others, obey the laws and Constitution, and pay your taxes?  Remember, color IS only skin deep but stupid goes right to the bone.  And I believe that those that hang onto “White Privilege” as a crutch really need to get out of their own little talking group and talk to others.

For that stupidity, and all it implies and accepts as gospel, goes past skin, past bone, and right into the marrow.  DaTechGuy sums it up well:

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The two are not the same

Santayana: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. For those of us in the Boomer generation, the Cold War is still not all that long ago (or so it seems).  Yet, this clown can’t quite remember his history: An Arizona mayor is comparing a Border Patrol proposal to put razor wire … Read more

Nothing is Free

I was party to a conversation recently–I was occupied and not taking part–where someone suggested that the interstate highway system didn’t cost taxpayers anything when it was first built because it was ultimately  paid for with road taxes from truckers, trucking firms, companies that use the roads to transport goods. American’s may not have paid … Read more

Reflection

 

Obama - Mirror Reflection

The death of 6′ 1″  5′ 11″ Trayvon Martin was a tragedy as is the loss of any life but he chose to pin George Zimmerman to the ground and then attempt to
turn his head into meatloaf.

If Mr. Zimmerman had not then had to shoot Mr. Martin in an effort to save himself from additional injury or death no one would have ever heard of either of them and Travon’s trial for aggravated assault, attempted murder, or even the murder of George Zimmerman, would have never even registered on the race-baiter/anti-gun left’s radar.

The circus-left and their ring-masters in the media do not care about anyone’s life or their rights.

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“Weaponized news”

Because you can’t link directly to an individual post by Ace: No, Media and Left, the Zimmerman Case Had Nothing to Do With “Stand Your Ground” Laws “If that law was at play, they sure kept it a secret at the murder trial. You’d think they might have mentioned it once or twice. This is … Read more

GrokTALK! July 13th, 2013 Guest Segment – Joe Mendola

In Segment Two the conversation continues on energy, oil, battery operated cars, and the Middles East, then Guest Joe Mendola joins us to talk about sharing the conservative message with college kids, student loans, debt, slicing the pie vs. growing the pie, producers and those who won’t produce, and how to frame the American Dream. … Read more

GrokTALK! July 13th, 2013 Guest Segment – Max Abramson

In segment Four Max Abramson jumps into the guest-seat to share his court case details, a 911 call, on the prosecuter (not) sharing evidence, juries, the court, and provides some very specific details about the law with regard to self defense, brandishing, lethal and non lethal force, and how, sometimes, the prosecutor doesn’t care about … Read more

Your Declining Slice of the Progressive Pie

apple-pie
The Goal should be to make the pie bigger!

Conservatives understand that for regular folks to have the opportunity to achieve they need to be free to do so.  As GrokTALK! guest Joe Mendola in segment two and three, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Cuban, Lady Ga Ga, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, almost every great success story in modern America who has an influence on current popular culture started out as a 99 percenter.  They were just like you or I, but they had a dream or an idea, ambition, drive, and the personal and economic freedom to pursue it.

Democrats (Progressives, Liberals) insist that government must be free to deny personal and economic freedoms at will.

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Separation of The Climate Church And State

Liberals want to spend  your money to create energy “solutions” that can never deliver enough power to meet our needs, whose manufacturing processes are extremely harmful to the environment, that do not produce very many jobs, cannot be sustained without taxpayer support (many of which fail despite it), many of whose raw materials come from hostile foreign nations, that have significant environmental impacts themselves, whose output will cost you significantly more from your pocket every day, which will create a constant drag on every other sector of the economy.

Conservatives want something that actually works.

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Atmospheric Fertilization – Another Point in Support of A Climate Reformation

Co2 has been acting like an aerial super-fertilizer
Co2 has been acting like an aerial super-fertilizer

It is wise to question why the computer models of the environmentalists who cried wolf have failed so spectacularly.   We should ask how the data provided to justify climate fear-mongering in general has failed to produce any of the results claimed.  We should ask why limousine liberals who insist the seas are rising continue to pay top dollar for island get aways and beach-front property.  We should also ask if more CO2, or even a warming trend–which we’ve not actually had for 16 years now to the dismay of many, would actually be as bad for the world as the government funded, rent-seeking IPCC  fairy tale author’s claim?

What if fertilizing the atmosphere with co2 is actually good for the planet?

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BREAKING: Jury is coming back to the courtroom in the Martin – Zimmerman case

Update 4: Verdict:                 Not Guilty of all charges Update 3: Verdict is in….waiting for actual reading.  will it be a “manslaughter” conviction or “not guilty” verdict? Update 2: Well, THAT didn’t work out well – Jury want MORE clarification on what “manslaughter” is, even though both Defense … Read more

GrokTALK! July 13th 2013

This week on GrokTalk!… Skip, Mike and Steve open the program with Sturm Ruger, Unions, Right to Work, Teaching gun safety to first graders, RINO Chess, Cloward-Obama, Arbitrary Justice, Zimmerman, Trayvon, the DOJ, Anti-Gun nuts, Rule of Law, Power tools, and the abuse of executive authority. In Segment Two the conversation continues on energy, oil, … Read more

GrokTALK! and good Kentucky Bourbon

I can see that Grokster Steve is in the process of putting up today’s GrokTALK! podcast.  During the intro segment, I mentioned that the Administration is so scared that young adults aren’t going to sign up for Obamacare, it will go down big time (even as I also argued a Cloward-Obama strategy is going on … Read more

Blogline of the Day – a commentary of “diversity”

From Instapundit: “So a Hispanic shoots a black and is acquitted by women, but it’s still white men’s fault.” Prediction: How much you wanna bet that Eric Holder’s (“U.S. a ‘nation of cowards’ on race discussions”) Department of Justice (who, if you remember, dismissed the New Black Panther voter intimidation that the Feds had all … Read more

Abstinence – Misleading and Potentally Dangerous?

From the ever-serious and thoroughly researched Concord Fish Wrap: “And, quietly but significantly, the state this year finally stopped accepting federal money for misleading and potentially dangerous “abstinence-only” sex education programs. One new argument that held sway among lawmakers who finally pulled the plug: Such programs stigmatize gay teens by teaching that the only acceptable … Read more

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