I mean, what is WRONG with these people? Led by political-hacks in Washington, DC, the Republican Party is looking just as bad as ever. For instance, last year BEFORE the election (surprise, surprise) the DC Republicans came out with a "Pledge to America." It had lots of pretty color pictures, and in it they made promises. Lots of promises, including this….
The emerging clash of civlizations: Islam in France
This from CBN.com:
Jack Kimball, NH GOP Chair, addresses the Belknap County Republicans
Last nite was the monthly meeting of the Belknap County Republicans; here is the new NH GOP Chair giving his first address to the BCRC members: >
Yes, More US Energy Use Equals More Output
This is not a theorem, or a rule, it is more of a guideline. That US Energy consumption produces equals output. I made this case back in 2008 when wackadoodles like Jeanne Shaheen, Paul Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter (among others milking the teats of the earth-mother for green votes) complained about how America used 25% of the worlds energy–or something close to it, and we were evil for using all that energy. The narrative was that we were domestic abuses of a child named "resources."
My point, proven time and again, and again, and again, is that we took roughly 25% of the worlds energy and turned it into 25% or more of the worlds wealth and prosperity. The US GDP as a percentage of global GDP was almost identical to our percentage of energy consumption.
But we did it cleaner, faster, better, with more freedom and choices than anywhere else on the planet. And the end result was the richest nation with the fewest poor, the best health care, and almost a better everything else. Even our poor are better.
Liberals and progressives in the democrat party however hate that, just like they hate this; more proof that we do more good things with energy by 6AM than the rest of the world does all day.
It is a chart (on the jump), that shows GDP output compared to energy consumption. Follow the link, and you can play with the interactive version that shows you who, where, what and so on. Press play to watch use and growth. Try the tabs and check boxes, and have a grand old time–for about 90 seconds. Then share it with your annoying liberal friends, and make them buy you another drink for being wrong yet again about something else they will continue to insist is true despite evidence to the contrary. (There is no settled science but global warming after all.)
Can You Smell The Campaign Fires?
After two years of extravagance on the taxpayer dime. Week after week of high priced parties with expensive food and high priced entertainment. Date nights that shut down cities. Frivolous trips (in his and her jetliners complete with entourage) to various parts of the globe. Vacation, after vacation, after vacation. And despite the glamor of a designer wardrobe, pimped by the adoring media for the past 24 months, we are now supposed to be impressed by this?
Supporting A Corrupt Business
Would you stand up in a public hearing and defend an organization implicated in aiding illegal activity, sexual abuse, statutory rape and sex trafficking? What kind of people would? How about democrats, union members, and greedy corporate stooges on the take? (oh, my!)
If it was anyone but Planned Parenthood, the national media sensation that admits it has a ‘training’ problem, the professional left would be storming the castle not just to demand why taxpayer dollars were begin given to these criminals, but when the bastards were going to be rounded up and put on trial.
There would be bus loads of angry folks protesting outside executives homes, harassing staff and customers.
Left wing bloggers, even at that sad little web site Blue Hampshire, would be disconnecting their brains from their keyboard, bellowing about the injustice and abuse, the violation of civil rights, and another destructive association by a political party full of hateful bigots and misogynists who view women as second class citizens. A few of them might even ponder running a few people down in the crosswalk.
But this is Planned Parenthood, a national business, a big business, that makes plenty of money while using its status as a “health care provider” to milk taxpayers for money it does not even need. And there are still a few people here in New Hampshire willing to stand up and say incredibly stupid things in defense of a business model that seems incapable of protecting the interests of the young girls it claims to champion from a life as an underage sex slave.
“Retard” Makes A Comeback
In a moment of honesty, John Gage, the head of the American Federation of Government Employees Union (AFGE), calls elected officials who want to cut government pay “Mentally Retarded.”
Justified- Season 2 Starts Tonight.
Justified Season Two Starts tonight at 10 pm on FX. Fans will already know why that matter. If you are not a fan yet, you should be. This show kicks ass and takes names.
A civil dispute: “…and in this cornah….” –
Guest Post by Robert Jursik – a refutation of Steve’s post:
Rare it is that I would find myself on the contrary side of anything in GraniteGrok, populated as it is with genuine New Hampshire Patriots always ready to contend for individual freedom. Nor would I expect to argue against the formidable Steve MacDonald, with whom I have been happy to rhetorically stand elbow-to-elbow in the grand work of re-claiming limited government for all. Yet, here we are, diverging at last over the question of marriage, and the state’s authority to regulate it.
Steve expresses support for HB 569, a proposed statute sponsored by nine libertarian-leaning Republican State Reps that would accept the term "domestic union" as the legal equivalent of marriage. It would attempt to deftly avoid the question of extending state recognition of homosexual marriages by removing government authority over the topic altogether. His claim is that "HB 569 creates real marriage equality and removes any state-based religious prejudice." However, it does no such thing and it deserves rejection.
To assert that HB 569 "removes state-based religious prejudice" is to presume that current government regulation of marriage is mired in it. Yet, New Hampshire – along with every other state in the union – has certified Justices of the Peace to perform marriage ceremonies outside of any religious construct and has also permitted judges to do the same. To participate in religious marital ceremonies is and always has been the prerogative of the parties and has never been a required ingredient in state regulation.
Nonetheless, the state has always insisted that marital…
Dammit! Don’t watch this video!! Who IS this guy anyway!!!
Um…oh! A…"history teacher"?
I thought I’d leave you with this picture….
As it is Town Deliberation night in my hamlet (all the townfolk go to yell at each other deliberate solemnly concerning the zoning and fiscal issues for the year (heh!). Fortunately, we HAVE to balance the budget – unlike Obama: (H/T: MediaBistro)
Straight? Republicans Want To Meddle In Your Marriage, Too
That is the title of Kathy Sullivan’s most recent contribution to the Union Leader. "Straight? Republicans Want To Meddle In Your Marriage, Too." And I must confess that my initial reaction after trying to wade through her editorial and then through HB 569 to see if she was just making stuff up again was, "what the hell is this bill?"
And then it dawned on me. (or maybe the coffee kicked in.)
The sole purpose of HB 569 is to preserve existing civil unions and Marriages while removing the State almost entirely from the business of marriage altogether. HB 569 does not dissolve your marriage, it simply (well, not simply) re-defines the state’s role in the decision of any two legally eligible persons to form a domestic contract, with or without a religious ceremony referred to as a marriage.
It’s like a union between "State" and "none of your damn business."
Guest Post: Richard Olson Jr. “Send In The Clowns”
While the UL’s Mark Hayward story gives a description of some of the things the bill would allegedly do, the story also contains statements that the leadership disavowed this piece of legislation. Regardless of where one stands either supporting HB 523 or HB 330, it is clear that Republicans agree to disagree on some levels.