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…according to some recent research, at least. You can read all about it in The Wall Street Journal HERE. Marijuana prohibition is essentially the same thing as alcohol Prohibition. Neither have worked, and both have succeeded in creating HUGE social problems that are worse than the supposed harm caused by people exercising their inalienable American … Read more
Well, to make the play here, take a gander at Mitt Romney’s self-declaration when he was running for a different elected position: Now, certainly people change over time, but is yet another showing of Mitt Romney’s willingness to be pragmatic (re: what has to be done to get elected?). I understand “shading a position” depending … Read more
City slickers may be scratching their heads, but any rural person knows the phrase “gotta get the septic pumped”. Out here, there is no sewer system, so all grey and black water goes to a 1,000 gallon tank and then onward to a leach field for “further processing”. Well, given that the tank is buried … Read more
Well, on yet another email thread I’m on, just before I decided to be a rock Fool, I got the question (else I would have posted earlier):
Tim, Johnson’s likely to run 3rd party, due to the media freeze-out. Cain is now out. So who’s left? Or perhaps, who’s right?
What’s the Granite Grok crew going to do now? Skip?
Good question – what are we going to do? (edited slightly)
The video seeks to resolve the question of whether men and women can ever be “just friends.” A platonic relationship without any aspirations of hooking up. Given that this “research” was conducted in a University Library, the outcome seems obvious but it is still instructive to see the parade of college-age women who think … Read more
John Sununu’s ears must be bleeding. Yesterday Hot Air reported on the Sununu dig at Gingrich and what looks like a twenty year old grudge between them about Newt not supporting the Elder Bushes tax hike deal. (The one that cost him the oval office.) The problem is that by drawing attention to it, Sununu makes Newt look more conservative, with history putting Gingrich firmly on the proper side of the argument.
Meanwhile, New Hampshire is supposed to belong to Romney, and Governor Sununu has lined up all the right endorsements (including his own) to make sure it stays that way. But most of us know Kelly Ayotte will never be Romney’s pick for VP (if Mittens even gets the nomination) and that this is just more establishment chain-yanking and game playing to make sure the ‘right people’ get elected.
Sununu is all about that. Just ask Jack Kimball.
Yesterday at approximately 9:30 AM, an unknown person kicked in a locked door of an apartment residence in Merrimack As reported in the Union Leader… A forced entry. The female resident of that apartment, alone…was awoken by the intrusion. She consequently confronted the intruder, armed with a handgun. The intruder fled. The intruder fled.
Sharing the “indiscretions” of the opposing party are the foundation of blogging and, in fact, politics in general. Not sharing them, when they occur among your own party leadership, members, supporters, or factions your leadership have embraced, might be construed as bias or hypocrisy.
Case in Point: The criminal elements among the #Occupy movement, a movement that the left and its leaders (even some libertarians) had quickly embraced, have been summarily ignored by both local and national Democrat party blame-stormers, including the case of Justina Jensen who was arrested for trying to pimp a 16 year old girl she met at #Occupy Manchester as an on-line teenage prostitute.
“Gingrich reminds me more of a Steve Jobs or a Richard Branson than he does of a politician, and that is a good thing because politicians these days are the kind of people that make me want to bang my forehead against the desk.” That from Roger Simon, a Hollywood guy, at PJ Media today. Read … Read more
My wife is watching Television. I’m reading. And what to my wondering eyes should appear…but a commercial for something called Forever lazy. It looks like a snuggie -jumpsuit with a hood. Dr. Denton’s without the footies. And it comes in several unflattering shades. My only question after seeing it…does it come in convict orange, because it should.
The Ad shows grown-ups wearing mostly fuchsia Forever Lazy outfits, lounging, doing minimal tasks around the house, and even appearing in public; and I’ve got this image of every 70s (ish) Hollywood and TV future-state where everyone wears the same outfit, color-coded to identify your station in direct contradiction to the finger-nails-on-the-chalkboard-equality-memes pumped out by the leftist-Hollywood-utopian-future-statists.
If the latest issue of National Review has graced your mail box (or you read the digital edition) you’ve probably read this already, but I can’t help but share it. “The case for Newt is that he is nothing like that guy who used to be governor of Massachusetts. The case for Romney is very … Read more
Democrats are hypocrites. I call them hypocrats. They cry about government spies, burning the Constitution, and trampling on our rights, except when their party is doing the trampling. They then institute speech intimidating spy on your neighbor “trial Balloons” like #AttackWatch and go “What?” if anyone dares complain.
Rep Ken Wyler, R-Kingston NH, took the Portsmouth Herald to task, in Fosters Daily Democrat, (Fosters.com) for its recent editorial on the cigarette tax decrease. The Herald would like us to continue raising tobacco taxes every year, just like when the Democrats were in power, essentially pimping the Democrat party argument that we need the revenue, and that the tax decrease was pointless.
I’ve been arguing for a much larger decrease of the cigarette tax than the Republican House settled on for years. It seemed obvious to me. We make a hell of a lot more on Rooms and Meals taxes and that revenue is shared with towns–(ironic considering how Democrats pilfered that tax for reasons that will become obvious in a moment.) Increased commerce overall is a benefit to the business community, profits, employment, wages, and the business tax revenue that grows as a result. Cigarettes are a draw, even as sales drop. Why don’t Democrats see it?
With the coming of the Holiday season, some conversations will invariably gravitate to politics. One particular assertion during one such conversation galvanized in my mind a rather flawed logic. A flawed logic that is at the very heart of the probable cause of why America is on the path to destruction that it is today.
This particular relative, one who describes himself as a moderate, condemned this President, the House and the Senate for doing absolutely nothing to improve conditions in America. His viewpoint is that neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are willing to compromise…to reach across the aisle, to, “work together.” He went on to explain that even though Democrats do not agree with Republicans and vice-versa, each should be willing to accept some policy measure that each doesn’t like or agree with. The time-aged honored principle of “horse-trading.”
2006 here, first half of 2007 here. Second half of 2007:
Back in May of 2011, the first stories about project Gunrunner and Fast and Furious started leaking into the blogosphere. American guns were used by Mexican drug gangs to kill a US agent and US made guns were turning up at other crime scenes involving Mexican Drug traffickers. But the story at the time was not the narrative the left was looking for. It was about whistle-blowers inside ATF claiming that ATF and other agencies were selling those guns to the drug dealers and letting them walk into Mexico. In May of 2011 I said this...
Being who they are, (Democrats) would demand that they short-stroke this ‘discovery” into expanding gun control legislation, and I’m not convinced that this was not a convenient side effect if not the entire point of the program.
And it turns out I was right. I wasn’t being paranoid I was prescient.
Via Twitter: “If you just woke up from a coma & this speech was playing in your hospital room, you’d have no idea Obama’s been POTUS for 3 years.” -Jonah Goldberg Goldberg is referring to Mr. Obama’s speech in Kansas the other day in which Obama admits, in far too many words as usual, … Read more
The Search For Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) had to shut down its Allen Telescope Array back in April. Not enough money. According to Mashable.com the Allen Telescope Array…
…consists of 42 20-feet-wide telescopes located some 300 miles north of San Francisco. Originally funded largely by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who donated $25 million to the project, the ATA had to go into hibernation after state budget cuts affected the project’s funding.
New funding has resurrected the project. The funding comes from private donors as well as the US Air force. That would be “the 1%” and the Federal government. Private donors, as we all know, sit atop their hordes like mythical dragons consuming members of the lower classes with dead-end, low wage jobs, and on occassion…let a few dollars slip out the cavern door to bribe politicians, bankers, and look for Alien life on other planets.
The Air Force just wants to test the Array for “Space Situational Awareness,” according to the article. Isn’t that just ripe with possibilities.
Adding on to my previous post – a reposte to a response (lightly edited):
Obama is a dictator, not a traditional political President
Obama is the epitome of the Progressive end-game: The High Administrator of the Administrative State that should decide for us all what is best for us instead of the Founders’ vision that we are the sovereigns and not the State; in that, you are absolutely correct.
Yes, Obama will have to participate in at least two debates, if not three. Simple Alinskyism – use his strength against him, which was his PREVIOUS speechifying and he didn’t do too badly in the Democrat debates. But you also have to admit that McCain was AWFUL in the debates and in the campaigning in between them, he refused to put on the gloves and beat Obama to a pulp (indeed, methinks McCain took a dive). If he REFUSES to debate, that will only exacerbate the meme HE has created that he is worthless without TOTUS.
Portsmouth Democrat Matthew Hancock announced this week that he has added his name to the list of primary pimping Progressives wishing to mount a challenge to the GOP held first congressional district seat in New Hampshire. But after reading Matt’s press release I’m not quite sure what he brings to the table that is any different than the left wing clone-troopers already running?