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The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, “Hello.” … ”Mrs. Sanders, please.” ”Speaking.” ‘Mrs.. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes Laboratory. When your husband’s doctor sent his biopsy to the lab last week, a biopsy from another Mr. Sanders arrived as well. We are now uncertain which one belongs to … Read more
We should keep track of who among our Democrat ‘friends’ comes to the aid of Hillary Clinton. It is known that she knew it was an attack not a protest. A terrorist attack. It involved al Qaeda. That there were assets in range to help. And she did nothing. Obama did nothing. Unless orchestrating a cover-up counts as doing something. For weeks at a time. On National Television In ads played in foreign countries. Even in front of the caskets of those who died as a result of their….um…leadership.
“We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing do to with.”
Make note of who serves the left’s masters like ideological chattel so they can all go down together.
Video on the jump.
Jake Tapper of CNN interviewed Pat Smith. She is the mother of Sean Smith, who was a State Department officer killed in Benghazi on September 11, 2012.
I can’t say that I’m the least bit surprised that Mrs. Smith is not all that sanguine about the dilatory dissemination of information coming from the Administration that answers the questions we’ve all been asking about the attack on the U.S. Embassy. The attack that resulted in 4 dead, murdered Americans, including the first Ambassador to be killed in 30 years.
It’s simply a cover up, and it’s disgraceful. To call it anything else is mendacious. And Mrs. Smith knows who to blame: Hillary Clinton (at around 2:16 in the clip).
Excerpted text below courtesy of RealClearPolitics.com
HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator.
SMITH: Well, that’s what I want to know. Why did it happen? And she is in charge. Why couldn’t she do something about it? I blame her.
Show them this graph: Now tell them “Not until the student line slopes are STEEPER than the Total Cost one – or the Employee one at the least”. Otherwise, they are LYING THROUGH THEIR TEETH when they say “it is for the children”. (H/T: Cato via The Corner)
Update: I have been informed that this was written by Jane Aitkin of the NH TEA Party Coalition – I stand, corrected.
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Ever since Grokster Steve put up his post on SB11 whizzing through the NH Senate and the House Committee, there as been a lot of buzzing going on, and while it seems innocuous on the surface, there are a lot of deep down problems with this bill where the mischievous can go evil. One of THE experts (if not THE expert) on the Sustainable Communities Initiative being pushed by the Federal Government’s HUD (i.e., Federalizing local zoning ordinances) is Ken Eyring – here are his thoughts on this bill:
RED ALERT! SB 11 which passed the Senate, may affect YOUR WATER RIGHTS and will be voted on tomorrow in the full House.
BACKGROUND
In 2011 then Governor Lynch created the NH Water Sustainability Commission (WSC) by Executive Order. This UNELECTED group works alongside the Regional Planners, another UNELECTED GROUP, on the premise that water is a ‘limited resource’ in NH. We wrote about it in 2012. Note the use of the word ‘global’ which is a code word for control of all resources.
http://www.nhteapartycoalition.org/tea/2013/01/04/water-commission-report-is-must-read/
We all know that NH is a water-rich state and there is no water “crisis”. In fact, many of us are still cleaning up after 4 or 5 years of damages to our property due to too much water. Some NH counties were even declared a disaster area for those years.
Among the WSC’s recommendations and goals is to “enable legislation for regional cooperation”. Indeed one of the NH Association of Regional Planning Commission’s 2012-2013 Annual Legislative Action Priorities was: #12 – “Promote stormwater management efforts including public education and stormwater utility enabling legislation.” (As amended at the July 19, 2012 NHARPC Meeting) You can now see how RI residents were able to be subject to a tax levied on any water that runs off their driveways and rooftops!
Under the WSC category of “Storm Water Utilities” we find…
Terrafugia already has a flying car – a startup having done what many more well funded could not. However, it does look more plane than car. Now they have a better idea – they are talking about one that comes even closer to a real flying car (more car looking than plane looking). No, the … Read more
“The Secretary shall” do this and “The Secretary shall” do that…a recipe to irrelevancy for our Legislators in the US Congress and Senate. Senator Rand Paul gets it right (emphasis mine):
I, for one, am for immigration reform. … That being said, I’m worried that the bill before us won’t pass. May pass the Senate, may not pass the House. I want to be constructive in making the bill strong enough that conservatives, myself included, conservative Republicans in the House, will vote for this because I think immigration reform is something we should do. In this bill, I’m worried though… it says, well, you have to have a plan to build a fence, but you don’t have to build a fence. And if you don’t have a plan to build a fence, then you get a commission. I don’t know what happens if the commission doesn’t do anything. That’s the story of Washington around here. To me, it’s a little bit like Obamacare, and I hate to bring that up, but 1800 references to the “secretary shall at a later date” decide things. We don’t write bills around here. We should write the bill, we should write the plan, we should do these things to secure the border, whether it be fence, entry-exit, we should write it, not delegate it, because, what’s going to happen in five years, if they don’t do their job — it may not even be them, it may be somebody else who doesn’t do their job in five years — and the border’s not secure, we will be blamed for the next ten million people who come here illegally.
Do we need immigration reform?
… on Mark Sanford’s Special Election win in South Carolina (the disgraced Governor who left his wife for a South American hottie) (emphasis mine): I am glad the voters of South Carolina chose to give him a second chance. Mark Sanford wins again. I guess the Democrats will blame Busch(1). Already they claim the GOP, as … Read more
The party that is bringing civility ( see here, here, here, here, here, here (sigh) here, here, a big one right here,…) ran on the idea that the New Hampshire Republican House and Senate was leaving New Hampshire with a deficit, a presumption only “slightly” less dishonest than the notion that Democrats are civil, or half as dishonest as the idea that democrat Carol-Shea-Porter even knows the gun laws in her own state. Turns out, as usual, they were wrong.
“At this point, if spending levels come in as predicted, the state could end the budget cycle (the result of the budget passed two years ago) with a $43 million balance…”
Now to be fair, 63% of this projected Republican Surplus is from a lawsuit windfall, the rest is just taxes being caught up etc, but either way the Republicans leave the new budget writers without the need to pay for 800 million in fixed spending for which there was no revenue, with something extra for the rainy day fund.
So yeah, about that…
I can’t stand coercive statism. Neither can the lady on the left, it turns out. Slavery to the state these days is generally supported by left-wing hypocrites who champion their own self-aggrandizement while posing as “lovers of humanity.” The most murderous statists of all time—from Lenin to Stalin to Hitler to Mao to Ho Chi Minh to Fidel Castro—all claimed to love humanity, yet they created violent, tyrannical dictatorships. What motivates such people? English writer, sociological philosopher, and former Leftist Melanie Phillips explains it all:
Bwahahahaha!
Good thing he didn’t say pressure cooker. That could have been awkward. LeRoy ‘Cash-cow’ Carhart, famed late term abortionist, talks abortions with undercover Live Action reporters. He casually described the abortion as a “shot into the fetus” to ensure that “[i]t’ll be dead for two days before you deliver it.” He told her the injection also … Read more
With this whole Benghazi thing unraveling we have a huge opportunity to take advantage of the narrative. No, not the one where Clinton left her own embassy swinging in the Islamo-fascist wind before, during, and after 9/11. No, not the one where Americans under attack called for help and no one answered the phone. No, not the … Read more
Good thing I have the ‘Grok’ to report on – I’d feel so bad over being banned. Or, at least I think I’ve been banned – dunno why as I never use four letter words or sexual innuendos when leaving comments there (see, I’m consistent: I follow Rule#1 there just like I enforce it here). Such a down morning when I went to leave what I thought was a rather innocuous comment on Lloyd Alter’s post named “Just what we needed Dept: The 3D printed gun” and immediately got an alert that my comment would be moderated. I then left a reply to someone else’s comment and that got moderated. That was early this morning before work – and neither has appeared. Now Lloyd actually works there full time (Managing Editor is his full title), so it seems. It also seems that his post’s title sends the message that, unlike Grokster Tim (here and most of us Groksters would agree it is “wicked pissah good”), he is not all that enamoured with the idea that making the printing of a gun possible is a goodness in democratizing the value of self-defense.
Sigh, my little feelings got hurt (ok, perhaps just “lightly bumped” like a couple of the NASCAR cars yesterday). Hey wait a dang minute, isn’t it part of the the Liberal mantra, their Political Correctness way of life, that someone’s feelings are never to be hurt or even scratched? I guess I just don’t count; I suppose that the TreeHugger tolerance for conservatives takes on a different slant than for other Progressively blessed identity groups. Remember, Progressivism means you never have to say you’re Consistent. Anyways, back to the post:
Compared to many 3D printed objects, this thing is pretty crude. There is also a reason guns are made out of metal and not ABS plastic; It isn’t very safe, and eventually exploded, although not in Wilson’s hands. But hey, freedom is more important than safety; according to Forbes,
Really, Lloyd? At least his snideness is Consistent in the wording of the title to this line. So, I decided to ask him a question about freedom vs safety.
Full disclosure – unless the civil war in Syria crosses the borders into our allies countries (certainly Israel, to a lesser degree Jordon and downward from there), I don’t see as much of a National Interest in interceding. Yes, oil is a national interest but with the shale finds, fracking, and newer drilling techniques, we … Read more
You can steal from your children and your grandchildren with impunity because, after all, “In the long run, we’re all dead“. “We repudiated entirely customary morals, conventions and traditional wisdom. We were, that is to say, in the strict sense of the term, immoralists. The consequences of being found out had, of course, to be … Read more
Alex Jamieson was a vegan for 12 years, appeared in the movie Super-Size me, and has been a well-regarded prominent voice in–they actually have this–the vegan community, but she recently discovered that her body was asking her for things she was not providing. Animal protein. So she began adding it slowly back into her diet, … Read more
As an after-thought to my post on SB 11 yesterday–which has stirred up some interest around the Grokosphere and well beyond–I went looking for some details about the environmentalist/regionalist motivations with regard to water and sewer. It is a huge subject many parts of which we’ve touched on at the Grok already; you might say the socialist/central planner/ enviro-crowd is all-in on controlling water as the next best means to controlling us; so I’ll focus on the one thing that caught my eye while surfing (ha!) for details on the latest progressive New Hampshire-bureaucratic water grab.
