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Welcome families that are awaiting the State-side landing of your 1st BCT Soldiers. Having correlated inbound flight info patterns, our soldiers will be landing at approximately 8:08 pm here at Bangor International Airport here in Maine (no, the flight is not publicly listed). Having obtained airport mgt permission, we will be live streaming their arrival … Read more
We are live at the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC’s TEA Party Event in Rochester, NH (at the Rochester Community Center if you are in the area and want to stop by). Live streaming video as we can and will be commenting on things as they happen – fellow Grokster Mike Rogers will my wingman … Read more
Home made sign held by a student(?) hoping to save their ‘Pubic’ education, in Los Angeles.
His "father served in World War II"…. Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (the President’s father) was born on 4/4/36, and died on 11/24/82 at the age of 46. He was 5 years old when WW II started, and less than 10 years old when it ended. Lolo Soetoro (the President’s step-father) was born on 1/2/35, and … Read more
Thanks to Ann Marie Banfield, Grok contributor at large, for posting this link on Facebook. It is a letter to the editor, in the Hollis -Brookline Journal, that needs no further exposition on my part:
HIGH SCHOOL — 1957 vs. 2010 Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck’s gun rack. 1957 – Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.2010 – School goes into lock down, FBI called, … Read more
Can You Spell I.R.S.? Sure you can! Do you know what it means? Sure you do! Can you think of other words that start I.R.S.? I know you do….and here’s some more: (H/T: Big Government)
We told him: "Go Big or Go Home". From $100 Billion to $61 Billion to $38 Billion to $15 Billion to $350 Million – seemingly, the will to start chopping up the Federal Leviathan is evaporating as fast as the numbers are heading downward. Sigh…. Not sure which has faded quicker: … Read more
?Contemporarily, governments all over America, be they national, state, local or municipal, have come to recognize that spending is outpacing revenue. The 2010 elections were a message that we as a nation need to become more fiscally responsible and stop spending ourselves into bankruptcy. Consequently, budgets are being slashed, expenses trimmed and austere measures are … Read more
Nancy Pelosi’s mad hand puppet, the Socialist-progressive democrat Carol Seiu Porter, has just formally announced the obvious. No, not that she is a Pelosi marionette; she announced that she is going to run for congress in 2012. This is not surprising, not breaking, not even interesting, except to those who like easy blog material of which Shea porter is a redolent horn of plenty. Porter is blogging gold. Better than Biden, who is a total ass-hat but who at least has thoughts he can call his own, such as they are.
The announcement, we were talking about that right, is anti-climactic. It was inevitable given that Carol Che-Porter has not yet, to the best of my knowledge, called Congressman Guinta to congratulate him on his win 162 days ago.
That means, in my mind, (aside from being a sore loser of historical magnitude) that she has yet to mentally concede the seat she lost back in November. (D-Denial) (She is even now, likely casting meaningless votes with her party in some secret Pelosi shrine in the back of her bedroom closet.) But to win back her “birth-right” Kandidate Karol Kannot hide in her progressive bivouac and hope to attract more than the devoted leftists. She needs to engage the independents to get enough voters to actually win, and will have to face hard questions in abundance about her record and its consequences on the country.
So the Q and A with the people she called ‘tea-baggers’ may not go well. But her feeling of entitlement remains, the arrogance is not gone from that sour puss, and she never stopped thinking she was still the congressman from CD-1. So she is compelled to run–if for no other reason than that she can’t get the lifetime, taxpayer funded pension and benefits unless she gets back into office for one more term.
The Financial Times is reporting (free sub. req.) that E-books have surpassed print books in total sales for the first time.
Rumor has it Mr. Obama gave a speech yesterday about something. I didn’t watch it and with good reason. Been there, done that. Two faced, self contradicting, tired, and repetitive. Put another way, Big Ben, Parliament.
There is a city in Georgia that outsourced just about everything. The result? Better services, low taxes, no pension bombs, and money to spare.
Late last week, Congress reached a deal to keep the federal government funded until the current fiscal year ends on September 30th. When it is passed, the lengthy headache caused when the previous Nancy Pelosi-led Congress failed to pass a budget for this year will finally be over.
The deal also contains $38.5 billion in spending cuts. That’s the largest spending cut in American history, and it officially slams the brakes on the “stimulus spending binge” of recent years (which doesn’t seem to have stimulated much of anything beyond our national debt).
It’s a good start, but there’s much more work to do. When we’re facing a $1.6 trillion dollar federal deficit, trimming spending by $38.5 billion is barely a drop bucket. We need to cut trillions of dollars, not billions. And that’s where the new GOP budget enters the scene. The House Budget Committee, which I serve on, unveiled our spending plan for Fiscal Year 2012, which starts on October 1st. Where the Pelosi Congress failed to provide leadership, we delivered — and we delivered the major spending cuts that Granite Staters are rightfully demanding.
Congress now gets to choose between two very different spending plans, President Obama’s and ours. When you stack the two side by side and compare them, you see a stark difference.
Our budget, called the Path to Prosperity, takes a machete to spending and sends it spiraling downward. It cuts a whopping $6.2 trillion over a decade compared to the Obama budget,…
Pelosi stood against reforming a bankrupt retirement scheme, and now she is taking the same tack here: Medicaid should not be reformed lest it appear as if it needs reform.
