GrokTV: Congressman Frank Guinta Townhall – Q1 – Collective Bargaining?

Last night, GraniteGrok went to the Hooksett Public Library for Frank’s first Townhall since voting on the Budget Control Act of 2011 (raising the debt ceiling).  Given that he has riled up both his Right side base and his Left side opponents, I at least give him kudos for walking into the arena. This clip … Read more

GrokTalk! Saturday August 6, 2011

Live Streaming local and National News with opinion you could only get from GraniteGrok. EMail: GrokTALK@GraniteGrok.com  or Call us!  603-524-7478 This week, 9-11AM… Grokster Rick will be join Skip as co-host Also joining us in studio for co-hosting duties is special guest, Tom Pauken, long time Conservative / Republican activist to talk some more on … Read more

Thanks, President Obama and Democrats AND Republicans, you have a First that you will never live down

UPDATE: here’s a link to the S&P statement on the WSJ site. =================================================== Standard and Poor’s is the first of the major ratings companies to downgrade the United States of America’s financial rating: from AAA to AA+ with a negative rating outlook going forward. It says: You can’t keep your financial house in shape.  Worse, … Read more

Multiculturalism

“What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.” ~Thomas Sowell Far too many people define themselves in a hyphenated Status. This was virtually unheard of up until the 1970’s. Americans were, well…just … Read more

193,000 Leave The Workforce

Bloomberg News (c/o Hot Air) reports that 193,000 more people have stopped looking for work in the Obama economy, taking 156,000 off the ‘Unemployed’ rolls.  This has effectively diminished the news that payrolls added 117,000, an anemic, lateral shift in an employment picture that sees more people giving up than finding work.

But people bailing has it’s statistical advantages.  With fewer unemployed on the books the rate of employment looks better, if you can call 9.1% better.  Another problem?  Debt management.  With such a large percentage of the available work force idle, that’s a natural resource wasted.

Meanwhile, Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary, reminded us that the White House does not create jobs.  It creates the conditions for job creation.

Yes it does…in China, India, Mexico, Brazil, just about everywhere but America. 

 

But is that the real plan?  After all, remember what joblessness means for the economy…(on the jump)

 

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Notable Quote – Neal Stephenson

“But more importantly, it comes out of the fact that, during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the … Read more

Obama’s New Re-Election Poster!

(Above: "Obama Surveys the Health Care Industry," courtesy of "Are We Lumberjacks?" ) "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."    — Winston Churchill

545 People Are Responsible For The Mess, But They Unite In A Common Con

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.”~Plato, Ancient Greek Philosopher

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Charley Reese retired July 29, 2001. Who was Charley Reese? He was a columnist, serving 30 of those years at the Orlando Sentinel.  Characterized best by his plainspoken manner and conservative views,  he was with the Sentinel from 1971–2001, serving as  a writer and other such editorial capacities. King Features Syndicate distributed Charley’s column, which published up to three times a week.

 On February 3, 1984 Charley originally published the column below. This column additionally republished as his final column. Rightfully so and despite being 27 years removed from its orignal publish date, it is no less relevant. 

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

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I believe the Debt Vote is going to turn out to cut our way

True, it’s a terrible defeat for America, for the Tea Partiers, and for all rational Americans. BUT…the fact is that no matter how hard the lamestream media is trying to spin the whole thing, the truth is coming out all OVER the blogosphere, on the Internet news outlets, on Fox News, on Talk Radio, and … Read more

SUPPORT LITERACY

“I know a lot of people think I’m dumb. Well, at least I ain’t no educated fool.”  ~Leon Spinks  Literacy is the vital to individual success in our modern world. The ability to read, write, and speak English enables people to get jobs, participate in children’s education, maintain family health, and participate in our society.  … Read more

We’re supposed to be overjoyed over this debt agreement…..because?

Let me see if I have this straight:

Congress just voted to add $3 trillion to the debt within a year so that Congress and Obama can spend even more money we don’t have later, and we’re supposed to be happy over that the pandering politicians (who are backslapping each other in having shown great courage to enable themselves to spend even more) can just keep doing what they’ve been doing for decades?

That is, they spend other peoples money, often resulting in much duplication, waste, and fraud, and then they campaign that they will stop the duplication, waste, and fraud?  All the while knowing what their real purpose is to merely get re-elected to do it all over again?

It’s like they’ve locked themselves into a party bus, blackened all the windows (including the front windshield), and in their self-assured incompetence, continue hurtling to the precipice, and still want us to love them as it is our kids and grandkids that are strapped to the roof that will have to pay for it all?

And trust me, they will pay, in one fashion or another.

And I am supposed to be overjoyed that:

Once again, these charlatans have voted to not carry out the job we have elected them to do – which was READ THE FREAKING BILL! 

Once again, we are hearing echoes "We have to pass the bill to see what’s in it" – and thanks to the slovenly way that they refused to take the time to do it right (was stalling the process until it was way too late a feature, a bug, or a deliberate act of public stupidity)?  They must be freaking great magicians or the living embodiment of The Midas Touch (you know, everything they touch turns into a rusty muffler?) because what seems to be there at the end of the vote is transmogrified into something different.  That’s because they refused to do the public hearings, the markups, the debates, the re-writes to get it right.  Instead, we get slap-dash and NOW, like Obamacare, like Dodd-Frank, and these other thousand page bills, the really terrifying and liberty destroying parts come out into public.  Unlike Barnabas Collins, they just keep going seeking more and more victims.  

And we’re supposed to turn a blind eye that:

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Is there a double standard here?

From Pindell’s site (emphasis mine): Newmarket Republican Chair Joe Barton will not resign from his position as state Republican Chair Jack Kimball requested following Barton’s Facebook post over the weekend that he would pay $1,500 to anyone willing to primary State Sen. Sharon Carson (R-Londonderry). Barton made the comment on the New Hampshire Republican Party’s … Read more

Terrorists And The New Civility

Outrage flooding in now even from overseas over former Vice President Dick Cheney likening some opponents of President Bush’s policies and administration to “terrorists.”

Decency?

it’s all about the mean.  I listened to the Ray Stevens video that Tim posted, and near the end of the video, this line caught my ear: "Once you renounce any sense of decency, it gets easier and easier!" Which, given the topic and butt of the video and adding in Rick’s post, translates as … Read more

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