I don’t CARE that GraniteGrok.com is supposed to be responsible. The team that got Bin Laden" needs to be recognized, regardless of the security consequences! So here it is….
THIS is a potential GOP Presidential Candidate who could win the Presidency…if he will get in the race!
He is a candidate that every freedom-lover—and every Ron Paul supporter—should be urging to get into the GOP primary race. Here he is on the issues:
- On economics: "I love von Mises. When I go on vacation and I lay on the beach, I bring von Mises."
- On the Troubled Asset Relief Program ("TARP"): Congress "just gave the Treasury [an unconstitutional] $700 billion blank check."
- On the U.S. Constitution: "The Constitution is government’s stop sign. It says you—the three branches of government—can go so far and no farther. With TARP, the government blew through the Constitutional stop sign."
- On the Chrysler bailout and screwing the bondholders: "We essentially watched over 100 years of bankruptcy law thrown out the window. President Obama eviscerated the private property interests of the secured creditors. He called them ‘greedy’ for enforcing their own legal rights."
- On the Federal Reserve flooding the world with printed money: "What has gotten us into deep trouble and has people so perturbed is the debasing of the currency."
- On Obama entering yet another war in the Mideast: "I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya."
- On the failure of government schools and getting into politics: "The kids were coloring posters in 11th grade algebra class. I decided to do my duty, go to the Republican convention…and gave a five-minute speech on freedom, economic liberty, and all the rest. And no one could believe it, but I won a supermajority on the first ballot."
- On federal taxes: "In my perfect world, we’d take the 35% corporate tax down to nine so that we’re the most competitive in the industrialized world. Zero out capital gains. Zero out the alternative minimum tax. Zero out the death tax."
- On the income tax: "I love the FAIR tax. If we were starting over from scratch, I would favor a national sales tax." BUT…the federal income tax must be Constitutionally repealed; otherwise "we would end up with a dual tax, a national sales tax and an income tax."
- On energy issues: "We need an America-centered energy policy [based on] drilling and mining for our rich resources here."
- On Obamacare: "You cannot have a pro-growth economy and advise, simultaneously, socialized medicine."
- On the looming economic crash: "People realize the crisis we face isn’t in 25 years or even 10 years off. It is right now."
Who is this man who articulates the same positions as Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, and other conservative leaders…one who could win the Presidency, IF he got into the race?
I’ll tell you who….
Cartoon of the day 6-12-11
Look Weiner!
Atheists Don’t Have No Songs
Steve Martin – Atheists don’t have no songs.
Jeanne Shaheen’s Sticky Situation
In the “stupid things said by former governors of New Hampshire who have become US Senator’s category,” Jeanne Shaheen (Greene Shaheen) dominates. As another hack of the environmental movement she has said some incredibly stupid things and intimated plenty of others, forever making us proud.
GrokTalk! Saturday June 11th , 2011
GrokTALK!
Palin v. Elites
There are plenty of Republicans and Independents out there who have either gotten lazy and simply adopted the lefts narrative on Palin or who are actual snobby-right-wing elites protecting the moderate Republican power base. I’ve not much of a stomach for either. So if you feel like tossing out some of that left wing elitist narrative just be prepared to back it up.
GrokTALK! – Podcast page for 06/11/11
Podcast – week of 06/11/11
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Hour 1 -None this week Hour 2
Grokster Steve and Mike were Skip’s cohosts for the first half hour of the show – unfortunately it and a wee bit of the next segment were corrupt when processing this podcast – apologies to all.
Robert Bluey of the Heritage Foundation came on to basically talk about anything he wanted to! We ended up talking about the influence of the Heritage Foundation, his relationship with the New Media, and the new investigative reporting done by the Right of Center think tanks and independant state-level bloggers. Part 1 Part 2
Following Robert, Don Overman, the NH State Director for the Fair Tax cane on and yakked with Mike and Skip about the Fair Tax: what is it, why does it replace the current IRS and income taxes, why politicians hate it, and why it puts citizens in charge of their taxes instead of the Government in charge of citizens’ income. Part 1 Part 2
Professor Bill Damon, Sanford University professor and investigative reporter and author of the new book "Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society" (Hoover Institution Press), joined us to talk about how our new citizens, our youth, are failing to learn about their heritage of American Exceptionalism and what it means to truly be American citizens. Why? We as parents and our educational system are not teaching basic civics (and at worst, working to subvert the fundamentals of our Republic Part 1 & 2 combined.
Notable Quote – Ben Franklin
"The day you passed that [welfare] act, you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependance on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement … Read more
Bankrupting America – Is Washington creating our Jobs Crisis?
Class Of 2011 Faces Highest Unemployment Rate In History: Graduates Face 21.1 Applicants Per Job (H/T: Bankrupting America)
The ‘Weinergate’ Effect (On Congressional Tweets)
According to Mashable, congressional Tweets are down 30% since the Weinergate debacle unfolded. The lesson in the aftermath seems to be that less Twitter is better if your day job lands you in the Capitol building.
Cartoon of the day 6-10-11
Rescue?
Worth Reading
An article from The American Spectator, "The Coming Crash of 2013," by Peter Ferrara. Highlights from the article follow (you can read the entire thing HERE). "Obamanomics [has] doggedly followed the opposite of Reaganomics in every detail. The centerpiece of Obamanomics was the old-fashioned Keynesianism that was a proven failure and left for dead 30 years … Read more
ATF’s Project Gun Runner: An Object Lesson In Corruption, Lies And Cover-ups
“I don’t believe gun owners have rights…”–Sarah Brady, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, October, 1997; “Handguns in America“
What is Project Gun Runner? Project Gun Runner is a program implemented by the ATF for the express purpose of interdicting weapons used by the Mexican drug cartels into Mexico. Mexican drug cartels have emerged as the leading illegal gun traffickers in the U.S. First implemented in 2005 as a pilot project in Laredo Texas, the ATF went national with the program in 2006 with the objective of reducing or eliminating cross-border firearms and drug trafficking, as well as the high level of associative violence occurring on both sides of the border.
Project Gun Runner segued an expansion of the ATF’s eTrace firearm tracing software system to Thirty-two nations, a number of which have a demonstrative track record of police corruption anti-gun biases and overt fraud. eTrace results provides these nations complete and unfettered access to American gun owner’s identities, names, addresses and personal information. Now, why would some government hack in Guyana have some need to access Rick Olson’s ATF purchase trace data? Most likely, none. But having such infrastructure in place would certainly interface well with the machinations of the future U.N. Treaty on Small Arms.
It has also been found that Project Gun Runner has netted an inverse result to its’ original stated purpose. Senator Charles Grassley, (R) Iowa, initiated an investigation after he received credible evidence that the ATF had facilitated and allowed for the sale of over 2,500 firearms, consisting of AK-47 rifles, FN 5.7mm pistols, AK-47 pistols, and .50 caliber rifles in ‘straw purchases. Also determined was the destiny of these guns were Mexico. The Phoenix Field Division of the ATF now only allowed but facilitated the sales, despite objections and discomfort of law-abiding Federally Licensed Firearms dealers enlisted to participate following their reports of suspicious purchases.
On December 14, 2010, Customs and Border Protection Agent Brian Terry was on patrol along a smuggling route in Arizona when a firefight erupted and Agent Terry was killed. In the immediate aftermath, assault rifles were recovered at the scene, one of which was traced back to a gun Shop in Arizona. on February 23rd of this year, Insiders told CBS’s Scott Pelley, “(This incident) surpasses the shoot-out at Ruby Ridge and the deadly siege at Waco.”
Special Agent John Dodson accuses the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allegedly let gun runners walk off with weapons – thousands of them – to see if they’d end up in the hands of the cartels, in an ABC News interview. The Justice Department and ATF have denied it ever happened and Senator Grassley went on to further investigate allegations of Retribution against Dodson as a “whistle-blower.”
Cartoon of the day 6-9-11
Economy v Romneycare
Cartoon of the day 6-8-11
Drowning
The ‘Other’ Weiner
Before A. Weiner (D- Tweeterville), or more likely before during and after he was tweeting his wiener, the congressman played at advocating for women.
Finish the Lyrics to this Jingle
To the (Obvious) tune of the Oscar Mayer wiener song…finish or re-write these lyrics.
The Sargent Schultz Report 6-8-2011
Sgt D.W. Schultz ignores all that, ignores modern Democrat in-party segregation as well, and proceeds to go the record about how the GOP want’s to literally drag us back to Jim Crow, a segregationist mentality that Democrats fought so hard to keep then, and continue to promote as the party of division today.
How to Make Republicans Raise The Debt Ceiling?
Nullify this guy.