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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New Hampshire Democrat Party Spokes-kid Harrell ‘Jersey Shore’ Kirstein, in response to State Senator Andy Sanborn apologizing for mistyping Governor Hassan’s name in a tweet, has questioned whether Senator Sanborn’s apology was sincere. (Hippo Press)

(Sanborn Typed Haggie instead of Maggie.)

Interesting tack for the Democrats if you consider that the Republican Sanborn’s Democrat opponent, Lee Nyquist, had a campaign manager (Kevin Hodges) who during the 2012 campaign said that Democrats should beat Republicans with a bat, with their hands, with their feet…to which then candidate for Governor Hassan said ‘That’s a good answer‘ …as a room full of Democrats in Goffstown laughed.

I confess to not remembering if Hassan, Nyquist, or Hodges, ever apologized at all…

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