Ah yes, the IRS’s version of the Washington Monument Syndrome

When the Citizens decide to remove even a teeny tiny amount of their hard earned money from Government, the reaction is generally swift, vindictive, and done in a way to say “go ahead, and we will hurt you by taking away stuff that we really don’t have to – but we can, so we will”.  That is the Washington Monument Syndrome – let’s deprive all those families to whom a trip to DC might well be a once-in-a-lifetime moment, or a school year ending trip.  The Government turned into the Soup Nazi: no <interesting thing to visit> for you!

Now, on one hand, I don’t have ANY problem with this Washington Monument moment – or days!

The IRS will shut down entirely for five days this year in order to try to meet its slimmed-down budget under the sequesters, a labor union that represents Treasury Department employees said on Friday.

The IRS will close its doors on May 24, June 14, July 5, July 22 and Aug. 30, and employees are being told there could be two other days as well.

“On those days all public operations of the IRS will be shut down, leaving taxpayers without access to information and assistance from frontline workers,” the National Treasury Employees Union said.

Right – completely closed.  Waiting for a return?

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This Week On GrokTALK!

In just a few hours we’ll be recording this weeks podcast- aired Sunday on GraniteGrok.com and Tuesday 7pm EST on AC Nation Radio. This week we talk to Seacoast Liberty activist Max Abramson about next weeks Seacoast Freedom Festival. Dr. Julianne Cooper from Liberty Acadamy will be on the program to discuss Common Core and … Read more

A meditation on abortion in America…

Why, exactly, is this woman smiling?
Why, exactly, is this woman smiling?

…and the hubris-laden Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade in 1973. But wait. It does read in part that “If abortion is evil, almost everybody is at least a little bit guilty. There have been more than 50 million abortions in America since 1973….Maybe you’ve had, or facilitated, one. Very likely someone you know has had one, and do you want to call her a murderer?”

The entire essay can be read below.

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The Respite

“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”  —Dale Carnegie News, day and night is awash with the Boston Bomb tragedy. Three people, one of whom is a kid…perished…No need to rehash the whole sordid thing, its plain tragic and horrific. Nobody will come right … Read more

PETA To Use Drones to Track Hunters

“People should go to the store and buy the meat they make there, not kill animals for food.”  —PETA

drone-huntingPETA is actively looking into a drone program to surveil  hunters. PETA has taken notice of the ever- increasing use of drones for nonmilitary purposes. Drones are now used in  fighting wildfires and in search-and-rescue missions.  PETA is now planning and forming capital to purchase a drone to spy on hunters. PETA claims it will be

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Hey Baucus No Running from YOUR Train Wreck!

Credit:misscellania.blogspot.com

How convenient to awaken in the bar car, stinking of gin, cigars, and $30.00 hookers, and then slither off, shower, shave, and return just in time to shame those still hunkered down in wrinkled suits, shriveled ties and soiled pride.

Well, that’s what Sen. Max “More coal man! We need to get this rattler up to speed” Baucus just did yesterday when he waxed sanctimonious at the Engineer he helped put in charge of the unwieldy locomotive he helped put in place before he left to get his wild on.

He lectured Secretary Sebelius whose currently struggling to keep a grip on the throttle of the O.C Express.

“I just see a huge train wreck coming down…”,

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Lest we forget…

  238 years ago tonight at midnight, Paul Revere mounted a horse and took off to Lexington to warn Sam Adams and John Hancock that they were about to be arrested by British troops.  At dawn the next morning (19 April) the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War began within the towns of … Read more

An NH GOP State Committee Member, computer bag, and tripod walk into a Merrimack County Repub meeting……Part 2

….and voted off the island at The Draft tonite.

So tonite was the Merrimack County Republican Committee meeting and given what happened Monday night, I wanted to report on what people would be talking about, so I drove down (spent a while trying to find a parking spot)

Sidenote; Andy and Laurie, you gotta get some more parking spots!! Heh!

and went upstairs to see that the meeting was already in progress.  I quietly went to the back and set up my camera.    Surprise – apparently some people weren’t all that appreciative that media was there.  Or some Democrat tracker, 0r that it was me / GraniteGrok (I had to laugh, I’ve only been wearing that “meeting attire” of a ‘Grok shirt, cap, and vest for HOW many years now?).  Either way, it was a bit surreal thing to hears several calls that “he helps elect Democrats” (along with some derisive “that Granite Grok”) as well – I laughed. I do admit that we all try to get BETTER Republicans elected – if there is a Republican that is voting more like a Democrat, that’s what a primary is for and we take full advantage of that….but really, helping the Dems?  Only if one believes the meme of “anybody with an R next to their name IS a good Republican” and that NEVER should one Republican attack another? Sorry, we don’t believe that – for if you believe that anything is possible, well, you may find Rs voting like Ds and acting AGAINST the Republican Party Principles (and too bad if it is your friend).

Well, it certainly felt like was a bit of payback time for our pitchfork times by some who haven’t like the idea that we at the ‘Grok don’t accept that meme.

Yeah, we who try hard in defending the Party Platform (and the “brand”) with Flashlights are extremists and the bad guys – go figure that “we try to elect Dems”.

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Blogline of the Day – Obama and the TEA Party

“Ironically, the only populist mass movement on domestic-policy issues Obama can claim credit for creating is the Tea Party, which I think we can all agree isn’t what he had in mind.” Indeed – Obama has this as part of his Legacy.  Enjoy! (H/T:  The Corner)

Yeah, food fight on the other side – and THEY have MONEY!

It was only a matter of time!  The Dems, especially here in NH, have been calling we who hew to the US and NH Constitutions (and less, the R party platform) “extremists”

Sidenote: Again, when did complying with, and using them as a perfectly good standard of quality become extremist?  Oh yeah, when the Dems (and Establishment Repubs) didn’t want you to think “is this Constitutional and the Proper Role of Government?”

for quite some time.  They also have “complained” about the lack of bipartisanship from Republicans, as we “extremists” primary out “the moderates” from working with those self-same Democrats (er, WHERE does that Overton Window now sit – closer to ideals of socialism or to the ideals the Founding Fathers?).  But what they don’t want to talk about is that they’ve been doing the same.  Ask yourself – how many “Blue Dog” Dems are still left on the national stage (er, that would be moderates on the Democrat side)?  Well guess what the Smarmy Side is about to do:

The nonprofit advocacy group backing President Obama’s second-term agenda plans to mobilize constituents against the U.S. senators who on Wednesday helped defeat a measure to expand background checks – including four members of the president’s own party.

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MIT Officer Shooting Tied To Bombing Suspects

An officer at MIT was shot and killed last night leading to a chase and manhunt that has resulted in one suspect dead–a suspect believed to be one of the two persons being sought in connection with the Boston Marathon Bombings. Reports say the chase lead to Watertown where there have been reports of gun … Read more

Research Opportunity for Todd I. Selig?

Durham Town Administrator Todd I. Selig, according to this report, is in lock-down at Harvard.    He’s supposed to be there for an executive course in negotiations but perhaps this will afford him the opportunity to ‘research’ his next editorial? (see here, here, here, here, and/or here.) Remarking on his purpose for being at Harvard, and the lock-down,  Selig said… “Negotiation isn’t only asserting one’s … Read more

NH State Senator Peggy Gilmour – I demand who should control education dollars

And that would not be parents – From today’s Concord Patch: ‘Sen. Peggy Gilmour, D-Hollis, had urged her colleagues to overturn a committee recommendation and then pass the repeal bill. In a statement, she said, “The program has no accountability of public money. It allows private, non-profit corporations to determine where public education dollars are … Read more

“Go faster? No, you shouldn’t be driving at all!”

Little CarFrom the Telegraph yesterday:

“Gov. Maggie Hassan is now the only one potentially standing in the way of the first increase in state speed limits since the 1970s.

After little debate, the state Senate approved on a voice vote raising the speed limit to 70 miles per hour for about an 80-mile stretch of Interstate 93 north of Canterbury until the border with Vermont. Currently motorists can drive up to 65 mph on this stretch of road.

…The state Department of Safety opposed the bill and critics maintain it sends the wrong message when the goal should be to increase fuel mileage and reduce unnecessary travel.

“To be encouraged to drive faster is to encourage me to burn more gas resulting in higher gas costs and more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Rep. Kenneth Grossman, D-Barrington, during debate on the measure.”

I don’t have a problem at all with upping the speed limit – but I DO have a problem with Enviro-BusyBodies arbitrarily telling ME what is necessary and what is UNnecessary for my needs – based on what THEY think is proper.

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You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family…

… or countrymen.  Chechen edition. Another reason why this country is great, as expressed by the uncle of the Marathon “loser” bombers.  It’s heartening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1PIRkMoEous (h/t The Corner)    

Obomba

I don’t know.  As things progress, it just seems like we might be spelling it that way moving Forward. President Barack Obomba.

State Senate Votes 13-11 to Table HB 370 – The Education Scholarship Credit Lives!!!

HB 370, the government-school monopoly, anti-education-choice-bill from the union-owned Democrat House, that would have repealed the education scholarship tax credit that passed last year, has been tabled by the New Hampshire State Senate.    Tabling a bill is not legislative death but it is not unlike locking a prisoner up in a dungeon and forgetting they are there.  Someone might wander down to take a peek, but more likely  than not no one will ever visit it again.

Snidely whiplash - NEA loses as HB370 is tabled in NH Senate

There are several reasons for doing it, but more than likely this was to give cover for folks who would rather leave things as they are.  As a way to end the repeal effort without actually having to vote pass or fail..   Or maybe we got lucky.  I don’t much care what or why, just that it’s done, at least until Fred Lynn the ACLU, and the out of state wing-nuts who are planning to file suit at the bench of left-wing Judge John “I redefined domicile in time for the November Elections” Lewis….who will be asked to block the program on the grounds that it violates the separation of church and state.

Today we are victorious.  Tomorrow is another day.

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If you See Something Say Something…or something.

Now that Bill Ayers-like terrorism has reared its ugly head again, the same people who have asked you repeatedly to spy on your neighbors, share their emails, and report them to the government,  would like you be an extra set of eyes yet again.  “If you see something, say something.”  I guess all that previous spying didn’t work out that well.  That was probably because they wanted you to spy on Republicans, libertarians, bloggers like us.  But despite what you’ve been see something binoculars spyingprogrammed to believe, we’re too busy working and taking care of our homes and families.  And while we may not love the current leaderships, we do love law and order, and a society that is allowed to function freely.

That doesn’t happen when you blow things up.  In fact just the opposite happens.  But back to the problem of spying on your neighbors and fellow citizens.  The buzz phrase is “if you see something, say something.”  This is both asinine (as if you wouldn’t want to do that already) and hypocritical.  It’s hypocritical because the same people who want you to report your suspicions are the same people who will let their media and political guard dogs tear your limbs off if there is even the slightest chance that you said what you said because you are a racist.

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