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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GrokTALK! – the downloadable podcast!

Well, I got a quick email from a loyal reader / listener with a complaint: Hey Skip, Ummm, I see embedded player and that is cool but where would a person go to download an mp3 to stick in a portable player? I’m not parking myself in front of the ‘puter for 2 hours 🙂 … Read more

Gun Controls only save lives in Fantasyland

Washington politicians want to appear to be doing something against gun violence. Yet, while the Sandy Hook massacre is the excuse for gun controls, everyone acknowledges that the proposed legislation would not have stopped that horrible event.

People say, “If only one life is saved, gun control is worth it.“ Yet I am not aware of any evidence that these gun controls would have stopped any of the mass killings or save any lives.

Sane people know that criminals and terrorists can always get guns. Even with Massachusetts’ strict gun laws, the Boston bombers illegally obtained at least one gun.

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House Bill 135 Is All But Dead

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. —Plato

SYGLawGraphicSenator Sharon Carson (R) Dist. 14, Chair, Senate Judiciary (Londonderry), sent me a message yesterday afternoon that the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 4-1 on HB 135 to recommend, “Inexpedient to Legislate…”  legislative speak meaning the committee recommends the subject bill be killed and not pass on in the process.

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Say Hello to the Happy Train

Rick reported the news yesterday of the likely demise of HB 135 (2013)– Deputy Dawg Stephen Shurtleff’s  repeal of stand your ground for me but not for he. Most of us had an inkling of this last week, and I’m not about to go on about that or the bill’s demise because Rick has more to add (or just … Read more

Che Guevara: A Progressive favorite…

Viva la revolution, eh? This from a Cuban-American about the Regressive psychopath: Too bad there was no photo from when he murdered my great uncle and his 12 year old son in front of his wife and daughters in the front  yard of their home in Cuba. His crime? Refusing to turn over the keys … Read more

Never mind.

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The Union leader has just updated an earlier story about an 18 year old in Cocnord, New Hampshire who had been arrested and charged with criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon after a student reported that they had pulled a gun on them in the High School.

The evening incident resulted in an evacuation of the facility.  The report suggests that about 50 people had to leave the school, students involved in activities and adult education participants were all evacuated so a police tac team could search the building.  The student was found, off school grounds, where he was detained, arrested, and charged.

Tac team.  Evacuation.  Student charged with criminal threatening.

Wait.  Turns out the girl who reported it lied.

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Did NH Democrats Encourage Erica Lafferty to Crash Kelly Ayotte’s NH Town Hall?

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Who in the New Hampshire Democrat party reached out to Erica Lafferty–the daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung–to encourage her to leave her own state, which has all kinds of background checks for gun purchases that did no good at all, to come to New Hampshire and lean on our State Senator?

Talk about out of state influence.

With all due respect and deepest condolences to Ms. Lafferty for her loss, you are being played.  All you did was reduce your very real tragedy to a tragic comedy by coming to my state to intimidate my Senator for not voting to pass a bill that would not have done one damn thing to prevent what happened to your mother.  Or didn’t the Democrats, or the magazine editors, or the folks on the Today show, or whomever they’ve had you with or in front of tell you that yet?

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Transparent NH?

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A reader just wrote me to ask what happened to public employee pay transparency in New Hampshire?

Transparent NH, the state web site where you can search the pay of every public employee in state government, is supposed to be updated every February with the payroll data from the previous year.  The last year for which you can search data is 2011.

* Pay data is updated in February of each year. Ten years of data, starting at 2009, will be available to search.

For those of you who…may…not have noticed, tomorrow is…May 1st, 2013.  As every good socialist knows, May 1st is international workers day.  May 1st is a day dear to every Democrat’s class and wage-warfare riddled little heart.  Not so dear to the millions of Americans that gave up looking for work as a result of Democrat economic policies but I digress.  May is also not February.  It is past February.  Way past it.

So what’s up with that?

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Some people in Colorado are upset! Awwww…

“Two billboards in which images of Native Americans are used to make a gun rights argument are causing a stir with some residents who say the image is offensive and insensitive.” (You can read the whole thing HERE.) It’s called the First and Second Amendments, all you politically correct chumps. This is still America, not … Read more

Listen to GrokTALK! Tonight from 8 to 10PM on AC Nation Radio

Tonight from 8 to 10pm Eastern Standard Time, AC Nation Radio will broadcast the latest edition of GrokTALK!   This is the weekly re-broadcast of our two-hour pre-recorded podcast for the AC Nation audience.  You can listen by going to ACNation.com and launching their podcast player form the left side of the page. This week on … Read more

One of many projects to destroy America…

This from Judicial Watch: “For decades the U.S. government has knowingly given illegal immigrants food stamps, according to a former certification case worker who denounced the costly practice back in the 1980s but was essentially ordered to keep a lid on it.” Meanwhile, “the nation’s food stamp program has exploded under President Obama.” Read the … Read more

THANK YOU, Senators Lee, Paul, and Cruz!

It’s about freaking time SOMEBODY forced other Republicans, you know, to have to rely on Principles! Once again, the political symptom is gun control and the filibuster but the Republican disease is   Heh!:

Texas senator Ted Cruz on Friday indicated that the battle among GOP Senators over gun control was so fierce that, at several points throughout the debate, some of his Republican colleagues yelled at him “at the top of their lungs.”

“I don’t know that there is an issue that has generated more heat internally in the Republican conference,” Cruz said at a Texas tea party rally. “We’ve had probably five or six lunches with a bunch of Republican senators standing up and looking at Rand [Paul] and Mike [Lee] and me and yelling at us at the top of their lungs, I mean, really upset. And they said ‘Look, why did you do this? As a result of what you did, when I go home, my constituents are yelling at me that I have to stand on principle.’ I’m really not making that up.

(H/T: The Corner)  Take away from that snippet – I betcha more of these Republican morons are more concerned with keeping their R-butts seats rather than defending the R-values they campaigned on.  Got that?  It comes down to saying one thing but doing another – and a lot of Rs don’t like hearing that and they don’t like the bony finger pointed at them or their friends.  Too bad – and with the rest New Media, we get the word out.

Oh you bet that I’ll hear about posting this – “there he goes again, bashing other Republicans” (just like when I “visited” the Merrimack County Republicans a coupla weeks ago and Mark Sanborn (according to someone sitting across from him who came up to me afterwards) yelled out “HE HELPS TO ELECT DEMOCRATS!”).  In response to that assflappery, I say this:

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“Proposed Democratic Resolution: Be It Resolved That Global Warming Is Going to Turn Women Into ‘Ladies of the Night’ ” and maybe even hoochie coochie dancers…

I swear you can’t make this stuff up: Via Ace “I think the Science (TM) on this is pretty sound. The resolution, from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and a dozen other Democrats, says the results of climate change include drought and reduced agricultural output. It says these changes can be particularly harmful for women.”[F]ood insecure women … Read more

Data Point: The Internet of Things

Or, as the post said: “What Happened When One Man Pinged the Whole Internet A home science experiment that probed billions of Internet devices reveals that thousands of industrial and business systems offer remote access to anyone” And he found some disturbing stuff about security, too.  Larger picture if you click twice (and go to … Read more

Gee, this is old news at Liberty Harbor Academy: Teens Do Better When School Starts Later.

I’ve known about this for quite some time – teens developing brains are naturally off-cycle time-wise from the rest of us.  I remember, back when, when it was quite easy to sleep late – like all morning long on a weekend or holiday if nothing was scheduled.  So when the President and Dean of Liberty Harbor,  Dr. Julianne Cooper, was on GrokTALK! two weeks ago to talk about education in general, she mentioned that Liberty Harbor starts at 9am because of this specific reason:

The Science of Sleepy Teenagers

“Making teens start school in the morning is ‘cruel,’ brain doctor claims.” So declared a British newspaper headline in 2007 after a talk I gave at an academic conference. One disbelieving reader responded: “This man sounds brain-dead.”

That was a typical reaction to work I was reporting at the time on teenage sleep patterns and their effect on performance at school. Six years on, there is growing acceptance that the structure of the academic day needs to take account of adolescent sleep patterns. The latest school to adopt a later start time is the UCL Academy in London; others are considering following suit.

So what are the facts about teenage slumber, and how should society adjust to these needs?

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You might be a Democrat if:

Heh!  I love it when the Democrat definition of “Consistency” is spotlighted: You might be a Democrat if you believe… Fighting against government-subsidized contraceptives constitutes a “war on women,” but when Islamists stone a woman to death because she was raped, it is just “cultural differences.” Fighting against government-subsidized contraceptives constitutes a “war on women,” … Read more

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