Carlee87, these polls are for you!

And they don’t exactly help your supposition, do they? Quinnipiac:   NYT / CBS:     Steve’s post (“Did NH Democrats Encourage Erica Lafferty to Crash Kelly Ayotte’s NH Town Hall?“) has a fair number of comments and we acquired a new one calling herself Carlee87.  She keeps insisting that we are all wrong about … Read more

Reid: “Government is inherently good”. SSA goes after son after they overpay Mom (who is deceased).

Really?  Let’s put aside the continual slur laid upon the TEA Party by Reid as he continues to assault anyone or any group that poses a threat to limit the growth of Government (for if it is good, then more MUST be better, right)?  Problem is, how’s these apples, Harry?   This, is good governance?  That an agency as large as the Social Security Agency can take someone’s tax refund willy-nilly after deciding that person needs to pay for SSA’s mistake to another (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Imagine if your parent received an over-payment from the government but decades later, the government took the money out of your tax return.   Gilbert Stokes, 60, of Jacksonville, said it happened to him.   “I’m angry,” Stokes said Wednesday morning.  Stokes felt the same way when he received a letter from the Social Security Administration in January.   “[The letter] said [SSA] was going to withhold my taxes unless I contacted about this social security over-payment,” Stokes explained.

Forty-two years ago in 1971, Stokes’ mother Ruby Lee received an over-payment of $895 while he was in the Navy.

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Dr Seuss and Gun Grabbers

You can not, shall not have a gun,  This banning craze has just begun…  Guns and bullets make me ill,  Pass the Kool-Aid if you will…  You don’t really need a gun,  From violent criminals you can run!  And when the violent felons come …  You have scissors, but don’t you run!  And to defenseless … Read more

There is No Ball

Do New Hampshire Democrats have their priorities straight?  Think about it.  The economy is creeping along.  No one is projecting even moderate growth.  Employment is likely to remain flat which means unemployment is as well.   All in all, the best we can hope for, according to all the ‘experts’ is to drift along for a while.  So what are New Hampshire Democrats doing?

In one of the safest states in the nation, with some of the most–dare I say liberal–gun laws in the country, they are investing their energy on harassing a Republican Senator (Kelly Ayotte) who doesn’t even have to run for office until 2016, over a vote that wouldn’t even do much if any good to solve the problem they claim it is meant to resolve; while at the exact same time,  asking New Hampshire taxpayers to let them grow the size and cost of government as much as 10%.

Economy sucks, maybe 2% growth if we’re lucky over the next few years–New Hampshire Democrats want to give the government a permanent 9-10% raise.

Talk about not keeping your eye on the ball.

Wait.  This is supposed to be like the Matrix, right.  There is no ball.  Look- Ayotte!

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Who wrote “The Battling Bastards of Benghazi”?

Several months ago I posted a poem written in tribute to the American fighters in Benghazi who disobeyed orders to get into the fight and to save American lives (and by all accounts former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty did save many lives). You can read my first posting HERE. But it appears I may have misattributed the author of the poem.  I’ve recently received an email from John Roberts, a former SEAL himself, who says this:

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So Every New Hampshire Democrat Will Be Running on Background Checks in 2014?

The New Hampshire Democrat party is all-in on their background-check thing.  They’ve got out of state money, out of state influence, out of state victims as props… So I guess this is pretty important to New Hampshire Democrats then?  And to hear them talk, it is mighty important to New Hampshire citizens as well.  Or is that just talk?

Can we expect every Democrat in the state at every level run for reelection on this issue?  Will every New Hampshire Democrat running for office  in 2014 put background checks at the top of every palm cards, flyer, mailer, and campaign web-site?

If New Hampshire citizens are behind this idea to the degree that New Hampshire Democrats claim, (just ask them, ‘everyone is talking about it’), then you’ll be running strongly on this issue, in all 400 house races, and all 24 state Senate races, the Governors race, plus the US Senate and Congressional races?

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Notable Quote – Common Core

Common Core is just the secular-humanist-educational equivalent of Shari’a Law, implemented by controlling, secular-humanist, anti-religious socialist, personal-choice-bigots who insist we spend billions more every year because every child learns differently but then can’t seem to see the hypocrisy of wanting every state, county, and School district across the fruited plain to follow a one-size-fits-all nation-wide curriculum, implemented by statist fatwa, advanced through an organized campaign based on guilt and intimidation, … Read more

White House Changes To Benghazi Talking Points Revealed

Compiled from emails exchanged between the White House, State, and other Federal entities, The Weekly Standard reports on details compiled and released that show what the White House knew, when they knew it, and what they ended up saying.  (Image of talking points before and after on the jump).

Synopsis?

The first, at 4:05 p.m. (all times are Eastern Standard Time), indicated that the compound was under attack; the second, at 6:08 p.m., indicated that Ansar al Sharia, an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group operating in Libya, had claimed credit for the attack. According to the House report, these alerts were circulated widely inside the government, including at the highest levels. The fighting in Benghazi continued for another several hours, so top Obama administration officials were told even as the fighting was taking place that U.S. diplomats and intelligence operatives were likely being attacked by al Qaeda-affiliated terrorists. A cable sent the following day, September 12, by the CIA station chief in Libya, reported that eyewitnesses confirmed the participation of Islamic militants and made clear that U.S. facilities in Benghazi had come under terrorist attack. It was this fact, along with several others, that top Obama officials would work so hard to obscure.

The Obama Admin went with the random riot and then YouTube video lies for what, a week or more–despite evidence it was an al Qaeda affiliated terror attack.

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Democrats and Communists…

Chicago May Day march 2013, credit: marathon pundit
Chicago May Day march 2013, credit: marathon pundit

… usually begets the hyperbole induced eye-roll from many, but stick with me.

Breitbart headline: “Dick Durbin at May Day Immigration Rally: Communists? What Communists?”

Together again, deluded communist rubes and a Democrat, what a surprise.

Senator Dick Durbin attended a May Day march in Chicago the other day. It turns out that it was decorated with what you’d expect: Che Guevara’s shaded visage, hammer and sickle flags, painted anarchist A’s on placards etc. The usual bouquet of symbols representing the wilted leftist ideas that resulted in blood soaked suffering over the past few centuries. Gripping the bouquets were rubes too long on idle, too short on history, or (maybe and) just too dumb to care.

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National Parks Service Still Acquiring New Land Post Sequester

Ask your congress critter why the National Parks Service and Department of the Interior are crying in their sequester boo-hoo towel while simultaneously spending even more money to expand the system and the costs required to maintain it. Sen. Tom Coburn says there’s “no shortage of potential savings,” pointing out that the department is nevertheless spending millions on … Read more

Could I “Bee” More Surprised?

A recent report released by the US department of agriculture and the EPA not only did not blame Global Warming for the colony collapse problem with the Honey bee population in the US. Imagine my surprise.  A collection of ‘experts’ gathered by the government, may have produced a set of conclusions with no immediate political … Read more

Where Treehugger doesn’t add the 1 + 1

cost-of-solar-power-graph-1980-2012(H/T: Treehugger) As most readers know, I used to go over Treehugger a lot and bring back “stuff” as a Doodling – rather easy when they have a big slant for Progressivism, Urbanism, and UberEnvironmentalism all wrapped up into a single package.  However, since they’ve been purging of the likes of ‘Grok commenters Cris P Bacon and C. Dog, it’s been rather barren over there (and they got sold, so there’s a “bit” of a different focus there).  However, I did venture over and saw the graph – they’re all going ga-ga over this as they all seemingly hate any kind of energy source, it seems, that has anything to do with it coming from beneath dirt or water levels.  “Soon!” they believe, “we’ll be free of hurting Mommy GAIA with our noxious need of hydrocarbons”.

They’re believing that all of this taxpayer funding of solar and alternative energy start-ups has been the primary driver of the lessening cost to PV panels.  Well, in a way they are correct, but from my layman’s eyes, probably not the way they think.  I’ve seen this play before, and I think this has more to do with it than not:

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The Whores of UNH

University of NewHampshire Seal

UNH held a conference on women in the sex industry in which it used donations and student organization funds to bring in prostitutes from across the nation.  No one knew that was where the money came from until AFP-NH filed a right to know request with the university asking how the travel and expenses of the prostitutes were paid for. They wanted to make sure that taxpayer dollars were not used for this purpose.

The same university that has engaged repeatedly in politicking itself, and the promotion of the left wing agenda, not to mention paying professors charged with sex crimes to do nothing while on probation, got a bit snippy in its reply.

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Maybe UNH Could Spend Some Tax Dollars to Solve this ‘Problem’

Some days posts just fall into each other like drunken wedding guests doing the chicken dance.  Today, those ‘guests’ are prostitutes, possibly having attended a conference on the sex industry at UNH, though they also may have been driven into the sex trade by Global Warming.  Wait for it…

A gaggle of Congressional Democrats, led by Representative Barbra Lee, has submitted HCR 36, a House Continuing Resolution that asks the House to recognize that Global Warming has a disproportionate (negative) impact on women who could be forced to turn to “transactional sex” to survive.

So much for bringing home the bacon and frying it up in the pan.  Global Warming just wrecked that.

That’s right.  Non-existent global warming could be responsible for an increase in prostitution.  (I bet even UNH didn’t see that coming.)

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Three Million Dollar Taxpayer Funded FRM Bailout?

Today there will be a House Committee vote on SB180, a bill establishing a taxpayer funded bailout fund for investors who got swindled by the FRM Mortgage ponzi scheme. I’ll be honest.  I’m not interested in any particulars on this.  The amended cost for the legislation is $3,000,000.00 dollars (initially) to pay off investors who read some paperwork  … Read more

Ask a Stupid Question and Get…

… affirmation or a new frightening clarity.

Depending on one’s observational qualities, the vide clip below will either: A) affirm your belief that many of your fellow Americans are dangerously uninformed sheeple, too happy-go-banality to know that they’re in trouble and unable to do anything about it; or B) eradicate the blithe faith that you share for many of your fellow Americans,  pummeling it with raining anvils and bulldozers to reveal a newfound, disturbing clarity.

Okay there is a C):  There’s a the slim chance that a Grok reader would be one of the happy-go-banality variety who would actually sign the petition.  If you are, then expect no such revelation but more of a feeling of laughter and bewilderment at your expense.

For me, I fall in the affirmation camp.

So from the provincial pages of “This would be hilarious, if it wasn’t so true”, comes an offering from Mike Dice entitled “People Petition to Confiscate Guns From Tea Party Supporters and Repeal the Second Amendment.” 

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