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Everyone knows Good Cop, Bad Cop.
You have gruff and uncompromising on one side, and then someone else shows up sweet as pie. The goal is to get something you want that they do not want to give up.
So is Mr. Obama’s compromise on stopping a tax increase part of the good cop bad-cop formula?
The Walking Dead, which just ran its initial 6 episode release, could use a few zombies with PETA shirts when season two comes out next fall. “Flesh is for Zombies” PETA shirts on an actual zombie would be funny but not nearly as funny as regular PETA shirts on Zombatized Vegan wackos, bent over to chew on some some poor bastards slimy organs.
Once again, the Monitor shows its willingness to have Government be a wedge between parents and a minor child over the issue of abortion, even as it makes the attempt to have it look otherwise. From their editorial:
…The issue might seem like common sense if it’s framed only as an issue of parents’ rights. After all, advocates say, they must be told before their kids are given an aspirin by the school nurse – why shouldn’t they be told before their daughters receive something so momentous as an abortion? No one wants to imagine their 15-year-old in trouble and themselves out of the loop.
"only as an issue of parents’ rights"? Really – only? This is simply a "mind brushing" here a la Star Wars ("…there’s nothing to see here…", as if the Force is with them). Frankly the major premise of the argument, Planned Parenthood pro-abort aficionados aside, IS parental rights and from the get-go, are trying to down play the importance of the issue with a "put-down" (er, shove-down?). The only reason why the "framing" schtick only makes sense is if one is trying to "re-frame" the issue to something else.
Which, indeed, what the Monitor is trying to do. As you read the whole piece, it seems that the Monitor has also gotten into the farming biz as they later throw up so many strawman arguments, they must really be farmers (good thing, given the current state of the print media biz – unless the loonies at the FCC get their way and start to subsidize the news-biz as heartily as they do agri-biz)
However, instead of stopping at the last sentence of the ‘graph (and which would have given them some semblance of sanity , they decide to play "Titanic-iceberg tag" with logic.
But we encourage legislators to think hard about the rights of vulnerable teenage girls whose fear of confiding in a parent or a judge – perhaps misguided, perhaps chillingly justified – would keep them from seeking help at all. It is their health and safety that must be paramount.
And that "right" that a minor child would have in this situation is…what? The only one that can come to mind is that normally given to women who have achieved the age of majority – and sadly, that is the Right to kill an unborn child. I keep listening and reading this blather of…
All those years of left wing class warfare about cuts for the rich but none for the rest of us we’re liberal lies. Plain and simple. You can’t extend something that does not exist.
Politco has the scoop. Thank you Governor for taking my advice, not that you necessarily took it from me. And Thank you for your service. Now let us find a worthy replacement.
The first batch of US currency with Tim Geithner’s name on it has been quarantined. About $110 billion in newly printed hundred dollar bills (loaded with new anti-counterfeiting features) were so hi-tech the printing process got screwed up, leaving blank spots on some of the bills. Rather than try to sort them, which an article at Yahoo! News claims would take at least 20 years to do by hand, they will have to set them aside for a year while they work up an automated method of sorting out the bad bills.
Tom Fahey quotes our confused friend Harrell Kirstein, Spokesperchild of the New Hampshire democrat party in regard to Bill O’Brien’s choices for leadership positions in the NH House. (I have to call Harrell the Spokesperchild from now on. Spokesperson has the word ‘son’ in it and we know how sensitive Harrell’s spleen is.)
This Wednesday, December 8, Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph Petrone cordially invite everyone to join them at a Holiday Reception, in honor of Jennifer Horn, with special guests, Ovide Lamontagne and John Stephen.
The Petrone’s ask you to "please join us to ring in the holidays and honor Jennifer for her commitment to the people of the Granite State and congratulate her on bringing character and integrity to politics."
In addition, you will have the unique opportunity to fill out Christmas cards for the members of the New Hampshire National Guard who are serving our country in Afghanistan. This is a great way to show your support for our brave citizen-soldiers – who are also our neighbors.
Wednesday, Dec 8th, 2010
Sky Meadow Country Club
6 Mountain Laurels Drive, Nashua, NH
6:00-800pm
A minimum admission contribution of $50 is suggested.
Please RSVP Michelle@jenniferhorn.org
Our friend John Hawkins over at RightWingNews is very fond of polls and lists – pretty much I read everyone that he puts out either on RWN or in his Townhall columns. This one, The Right Wing News Bloggers’ Choice Conservative Of The Year For 2010, is an aggregate of 66 of the blogs that responded to him:
The bloggers were all provided with a pre-selected list of 20 candidates that I chose. Out of that list, they were allowed to choose up to 3 names. All 20 candidates will be listed, the top 7 will get an extremely brief profile, and the top vote getter is the Right Wing News 2010 Conservative of the Year. Enjoy!
Close, but no cigar:
Honorable Mentions (Alphabetical order):
* Dick Armey/Matt Kibbe (Freedomworks)
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* Haley Barbour (Governor of Mississippi. Chairman of the Republican Governors Association)
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* David Bossie (Citizens United President. Citizens United v Federal Election Commission)
* Jan Brewer (Governor of Arizona)
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* Erick Erickson (Redstate, CNN)
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* Bobby Jindal (Governor of Louisiana)
* Tim Phillips/Phil Kerpen (Americans for Prosperity)
The "Almost There"’s:
The Runners-Up
5) Allen West (11 votes): West is a newly elected Congressman from Florida. He stands out, not only because he and Tim Scott are the first two black Republicans in the House since J.C. Watts left Congress in 2003, but because he’s a fiery, outspoken Tea Party favorite who has no qualms about standing up for conservatism or speaking out against radical Islam.
5) Jim DeMint (11 votes): This South Carolina Republican is widely viewed as the prototype of what a conservative Republican should be like in the Senate. Not only was he a ferocious defender of conservative values in D.C., he was an impact player both in the primaries and the 2010 general elections.
The actual contenders for the title:
The Big Three
3) Marco Rubio (23 votes): When Marco Rubio, a young, exciting, conservative, charismatic, Hispanic Republican tossed his hat in the ring for a Senate seat in Florida, the grassroots instantly warmed to his candidacy. However, when Charlie Crist got into the race, the establishment Republicans immediately rallied behind him. That didn’t sit too well with conservatives all across the country who immediately rallied to Rubio’s candidacy. In the end, Rubio’s star power was too much for Crist, who abandoned the GOP and ran as an independent. Happily, Rubio smashed both Crist and Kendrick Meek in the general election and a new conservative star was born…
What, you think I’d give it away? This is what he says this about #1:
Simple: He’s a charismatic, bold, and pugnacious fiscal conservative who has absolutely no qualms about taking on Democrats, the unions, the media, and anybody else who tries to separate ..
of course, GRTWT (Go Read The Whole Thing)
My answers after the jump:
Yes It’s GrokTALK! 120 minutes of Live Streaming local and National News with political insight you could ONLY get from GraniteGrok.com On this week’s Program… Free State Project Founder Jason Sorens will be on the air with us Well look at the effect that FSP has had on New Hampshire Tim Condon, GraniteGrok contributor … Read more
Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, agrees that Dartmouth has a drinking problem, but that prosecuting underage drinkers is not the answer, Melanie Plenda reports in today’s Union Leader.
This comes on the heels of yet another incident where someone served alcohol to minors. So right away we can see the error of Dartmouth college President Jim Yong Kim. The problem (in this case) is not so much that the police are punishing underage drinkers, but that they are trying to punish people on his campus who serve alcohol to a minor, in this case a seventeen year old high school student.
Perhaps Dartmouth would like to follow Harvard’s lead?
Podcast – week of 12/04/10 GrokTALK! Streaming Live!from GraniteGrok To play (or "stream") a clip now, just click on it. To download it to your PC, right click on it and tell the process where to save the file for you. (Click here for the promo page) Hour 1 Hour 2 Tim … Read more
I am growing weary of this game. We can no longer wait for the current NH State GOP chairman to tell us once and for all what his intentions are. I’m not even sure why we are waiting. GraniteGrok has video of the announced retirement from the Cornerstone Dinner.
Governor Sununu announced that after this election he was retiring. What happened on November second that does not constitute a complete political coup? The only office the democrats hold is the governorship, but our victory was so complete that this no longer even matters.
So what is left for a seasoned New Hampshire politician to do?
TEA Party: Taxes Enough Already. A general philosophy that Government has become too enthralled with using other peoples’ money. That it has become too big, too intrusive, too cumbersome, way too inefficient, and too far removed from the principles enshrined in our Founding documents: protecting individual Rights and property and a limited government.
Earmarks have certainly been in the news – those "small" incidentals added by our Federal legislators that tack on costs and direct spending. While small only in comparison with the humungeous Federal spending overall, they became a focal point as an indicator of the crass indifference to what most TEA Partiers believe to be the jobs to which these folks are elected.
First there was "November is coming". Now, it is "Hold them Accountable", and indeed, we shall. Especially true in the case of those legislators that have self-identified themselves aligned with TEA Party philosophy.
In this case, of calling for "no earmarks" yet asking and receiving such. Smooth move? Not really, Jackson. Sure, there are those within this caucus that have called for no earmarks and have walked the talk:
| NAME | AMOUNT |
| Bachmann (R-MN) | 0 |
| Broun (R-GA) | 0 |
| Burton (R-IN) | 0 |
| Coffman (R-CO) | 0 |
| Luetkemeyer (R-MO) | 0 |
| Lummis (R-WY) | 0 |
| Marchant (R-TX) | 0 |
| McClintock (R-CA) | 0 |
| Myrick (R-NC) | 0 |
| Neugebauer (R-TX) | 0 |
| P. Sessions (R-TX) | 0 |
| Pence (R-IN) | 0 |
| Roe (R-TN) | 0 |
| Shadegg (R-AZ) | 0 |
| T. Price (R-GA) | 0 |
| Westmoreland (R-GA) | 0 |
But alas…
The Sullivan 501(4)c, as yet unnamed, we are still talking to powerful people in DC, boy-oh-boy you’re gonna be sorry you messed with us, non-profit has not made any recent news but that is no reason not to discuss it anyway. And we should discuss it because it looks like we know who here secret donors are going to be.
(H/T: Paul)
For people seeking jobs, that’s not a happy tale to tell. But it’s not the only tale. Texas is creating jobs. And New Hampshire has an opportunity to charge after Texas, even do them one better, and become the beacon of the Northeast. It’s something we need to do. There are people out there looking for work. We just need to give them a reason to come here to find it.
Remember way back when, as Obama announced his support for the Stimulus, that the word was that we HAD to do the Stimulus as soon as possible, otherwise unemployment would just shoot out of sight! Well, THAT worked well, didn’t it? And nothing says "FAIL" like a chart: (H/T: BigGovernment) Yup, the "We’re in the … Read more
This is the picture that has replaced the mug shot of former House speaker Terie Norelli on the General Court Web Site. I’m already pleased with the direction New Hampshire has taken since the election.