Oh, they will never say it is is such – directly.  They’ll use other words to mask it, hoping (knowing) that the Low Information Voter (who knows more about Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy with “Daddy Babby” Kanye or what’s with American Idol / The Voice / America’s Got Talent than who their Senators or Congressmen are) will only “hear” the words and never ponder them.  Heck, answer me this – how many of these same folks remember from school how our government even works?  And with the current state of our Educational system, how many of them truly understand the difference between a Right, an “earned privilege” and an entitlement?  Words have meanings and these are all different.

Obama (and most Progressives are, too), however, is BANKING on the fact that most people don’t and that he can use a word outside of its definition to cement in a fundamental change to a word – and going backward, our Founding Documents.  As Grokster Susan pointed out (she beat me to it!), Obama had the temerity to say:

““Quality, affordable care is not some earned privilege – it’s a right

 No, it has never been nor should a Right be ever be defined as something that is simply given or afforded to someone:

• Right – an attribute associated to someone simply for being a human; in the US, our Rights are enumerated  in the Constitution (mostly).
• Earned Privilege – status obtained through work or via meritocrisy; not something that accrues simply for the act of being alive
• Entitlement – a government program providing benefits to members of a specified group; also : funds supporting or distributed by such a program

And that is where Obama wishes for the Masses to delude themselves in thinking that there exists a “Right” to healthcare.  Hey, if someone wants to go and purchase healthcare supplies and give themselves “health care”, but my guest.  Please note that it costs no other person anything for you to exercise that Right .  If you wish to speak, I am not obligated to pay anything for you to speak (including paying attention) – ditto for the other Rights accorded to us as being US Citizens.  However,  to believe Obama is correct that healthcare is a Right for you to independently exercise is to also believe that you have the Right to place someone else into servitude to provide that care – commonly called slavery.

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I could not leave it alone – Grokster Susan quoted a partial of what Obama said to Dem donors at yet another campaign stop, and given that I quoted it yesterday during our first half hour on GrokTalk!, I figured I’d requote it:

The truth of the matter is Michael and I — I know that there are a few Republicans here in the audience — if you talk to us, it turns out we’re pretty common-sense folks. We don’t think government can do everything. We don’t think that top-down solutions are the right way to go. We believe in the free market. We believe in a light touch when it comes to regulations. We don’t want to tax all businesses out of business. But we do think that there’s a role to play for government.”

I’m betting that any Conservative will get it right away.  If not, after the jump

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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”  —Ambrose Bierce

Nashua Alderman at large Lori Wilshire seeks an ordinance in Nashua that would ban new establishments from selling alcohol within 500 feet of a school. Wilshire openly admitted tot he Nashua Telegraph her  intent was to block the Nashua VFW Post 483 from placing its post in the  Crown Hill Fire Station, located next to Dr. Norman W. Crisp Elementary School. Wilshire finds it, “just terrible,”  that Veterans of Foreign Wars would engage in the selling of Libations  next to a school.  Just “terrible,”  oh the scandal…So much so that Alderman at Large Wilshire thinks Nashua should ban it and has put forth a measure to do exactly that. You don’t say, Lori?

Nashua Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire is also the business manager for the Nashua Children’s home.

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“You are a slow learner, Winston.”
“How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.”
“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
– George Orwell, 1984

1984 was published 64 years ago–64 years ago almost to the day when news began to seep into the nation’s consciousness that “The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon… under a top secret court order issued in April.” And with dusk on that same day, more Orwellian news stamped its imprint on the nation, the NSA and FBI are data mining and collecting data, and the collection is “…directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.”

Hmmm.. NSA seizing American phone records. FBI and NSA collecting data directly from servers of privately owned companies on who? Americans?

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Two more scandals, involving the same military agency, the NSA, erupted emotions and stirred suspicion in the nation last week. The same week when groups targeted by the IRS testified before the House Ways and Means committee on the abuses of power they experienced by that wretched department.  It was leaked that the NSA collected millions of phone records from Verizon last week and that it has be data mining in the servers of internet giants like Google,Yahoo, Facebook etc.  It was even reported that the “NSA mistakenly intercepted emails, phone calls of innocent Americans”.

What number scandal were we on when we started the week, and now we have what, two more? How much can this country take? I didn’t think Obozo could run the country (my goodness, how right were we who thought alike on this point?), but I also didn’t think things would atrophy so badly, so quickly on his watch either.  What is going right?

Before the fusillade of scandals started peppering the daily mind, we had the deficit problem,

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This morning we had the privilege of having as a GrokTALK! guest, Cornerstone Policy Research Executive director Ashley Pratte.  Ashley was sharing with us the different reactions she gets when people discover that a 24 year old young woman is…(gasp!) a conservative.  That she is not down with the progs femi-nazi struggle.  That she is not interested in wearing a birth-control pill costume or advocating for taxpayer funded birth-control or abortion.  That she is not a sex object for political play nor does she facilitate this personae by letting the opposite sex use her body as another whistle-stop on the hook-up culture express.

Smart, tasteful, literate, articulate, well-informed, disciplined, activist, and not at all a Democrat.

Needless to say, they are in high dudgeon over the possibility.  How could she, how dare she, what is wrong with her?

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We were having some fun this morning–actually I was having some fun–putting the Grok prefix to a host of suffixes for my own amusement.  The catalyst for this was a request from Skip to all the Groksters for some guidance regarding something Grok related that we’ve been working on for a while, that he will be announcing in the near future.  I took it upon myself to just invent a list of these things, some obvious, some with qualifiers, and at least one with a complete definition.

So here it is, the short list at least, to which I refer.

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