UPDATE and BUMPED:
(14) Vetoes Sustained: SB10, SB1, SB2, SB18, SB20, SB67, SB68, SB72, SB196, SB205, SB218, SB271, SB275, SB307
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(3) Vetoes Overridden: SB74, SB88, SB100, SB148
VETO Day in the NH Legislature – NH Senate’s turn
A fisking of US Senator Jeff Flake on the SCOTUS hearings
Two fortunate things came together – I found the charging cord to my Zoom Q4 camera (literally handsized) and found out that it makes a great camera with which to yank off clips from the TV (DVR’d of course) and that US Senator Jeff Flake decided to show up at St Anselm’s Institute of Politics this past Monday Night. Of course, WMUR just HAD (in their drift leftward) had to cover this “Conservative” who, they touted, derailed the confirmation of Brett Kavanuagh to the Supreme Court (even if just for a little mite of time). Of course, Flake is all pleased with himself and he made that quite clear to all. For not much at all, IMHO; let the fisking begin:
Oh, that picture and “who is that in that red circle?”. Note to Jeff Flake:
Quick Thought: Sorry, wrong number…
Heh! Just got this texted to me:
Hi Kevin, this is Benjamin with Mainers for Accountable Leadership, the Maine People’s Alliance, and Be A Hero. I’m writing today to talk to Mainers about stopping the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, the anti-healthcare, anti-choice Supreme Court nominee. Susan Collins is key to stopping him. And that is where you come in! Will you pledge to help get Susan Collins out of office in 2020 if she doesn’t stand with us and protect Mainers?
My response:
Blogline of the Day:
This is how the Left works: by covering its attack on the past by using the values of the present in order to command the dialogue of the future. The essence of Christianity is forgiveness, but clearly George Washington and Thomas Jefferson must be made to suffer for their sins, even if they weren’t regarded … Read more
Notable Quote – Samuel Adams
Jacqueline Blaszka Campbell falls into this failure: “A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to … Read more
UPDATE: The GOOD thing is that because of all of you readers and contributors, we raised $3,000; That struck out sentence is now wrong – it is now $4,000; a thousand dollars came in overnight!!!! I can’t tell or express myself well enough to tell you how grateful this ordinary schlub from central NH is for all of you.
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You will be seeing that image quite a bit, perhaps, in the near future – a new website is coming as I’ve just “pulled the trigger”. Why?
We are getting exploited by known hacks in the older version of WP (at least, that’s what I’m being told) that we are on. Our hosting company has looked and scanned things over and we did even a did database RESTORES in trying to move backwards to get rid of the malware. Unfortunately, nothing we’ve tried has worked. Add to that, I don’t have the skills to crawl over our WordPress CMS (Content Management System that drives GraniteGrok) to hunt down and kill the crap that need killing (I could have when I built GraniteGrok 1.0 on Moveable Type but that’s long gone now). The base problem is that we need a rebuild of the site to get it up to rev again.
Notable Quote – David Cole
“The bullies never go after people they can’t break, because to do so would make them look weak and impotent.”
On the outlook and actions of the Left:
But in the real world, there are times when one simply should not beg. And you’ll know those times by the character of your foe. If you’re up against the kind of monster who derives pleasure from hearing people plead for mercy, that’s when you cannot, must not, beg.
Today’s social justice leftists operate very much like that fictional serial killer. Their intended victims are people, sometimes in the public eye, sometimes average folks, who have written or said things that leftists find offensive. And if they mark you as an enemy, they will use every tool in their arsenal to destroy your life. If you have a job, they’ll try to get you fired. If you have a reputation, they’ll try to tarnish it. If you have a business venture, they’ll try to bankrupt it. If you have an online presence, they’ll try to get you banned from all platforms.
And certainly we (collectively and in some cases, individually) at the ‘Grok over the years have been subjected to this virtual “killing” simply for one and only one reason: we simply speak our minds and the Left hates it and looks for any opportunity for “a silencing”.
Did Dennis Senibaldi violate Election law as a Windham Town Employee?
BUMPED (from 3/27/15): Ah now, we’re getting a tad closer as to the activities of one Dennis Senibaldi last month during Windham’s town elections. No, not quite the same but of the same nature. More soon! -Skip
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During the recent Windham School Board elections there was a photo posted on Mike Joanis’ campaign Facebook page at the Windham Transfer Station that shows he and Jerome Rekart campaigning with a photo of Dennis Senibaldi. No big deal right?
Did Windham’s Dennis Senibaldi violate the state computer crime law?
BUMPED: First posted on 3/24/15. Well, it seems that Dennis Senibaldi may have gotten himself into a peck of a place during this past election – and I’m not just talking about the blizzard we got. Our intrepid Kimberly was all over this – and it makes a great reminder of what current School Board member (and Windham Transfer Station guy) did – and how he may have acted during this just past election (birdies, birdies – they all tweet at me!). -Skip
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There is new information concerning the shenanigans pulled by Windham School Board member Dennis Senibaldi last week during the school board meeting.
Notable Quote – Bob Higgs
Socialism’s greatest appeal springs from its promise of economic equality. Many people, upon their first encounter with the ideology, find this promise the very heart and soul of justice. Yet, completely apart from whether such an outcome could or would ever be attained in practice, a great and insuperable problem remains: in a world where … Read more
Notable Quote – Ammo Grrrll
Every Friday a necessary read for me is Ammo Grrrll – a retired comedienne with a lovely sense of dry humor and lots of great turn of phrases. This Friday’s column was concerning the Parkland Kiddies; you know, “first I’m a high level Progressive Activist destroying peoples lives” – and when criticized – “How dare you pick on me, I’m a child!”:
But know this: the gun control despots will NEVER give up, as we can see with the well-financed Brain-Dead Blathering Teen Tour.
The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen
Prager U has just released another steller video and it does a wonderful job at explaining the problems when government gets too big: (H/T: Susan)
Notable Quote – Thomas Jefferson
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be … Read more
Notable Quote – Kevin Williamson
“The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a gun in your face, whereas under communism central planning begins with a gun in your face.” –Kevin Williamson (writer, author) (H/T: The Truth About Guns) And Susan notes:
Notable Quote – Frederick Douglass
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those … Read more
Notable Quote – Samuel Adams
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.” — … Read more
Notable Quote – Kurt Schlichter
…So, the Washington Post says that Donald Trump wants to honor the military with a parade, which the Trump-haters inform us is the worst thing that ever was because it’s Donald Trump who wants to honor the military with a parade. The very day the Democrats decided that they should make fun of Trump’s physical … Read more
Notable Quote – Mike Adams
…Put simply, the pro-abortion choice advocate is usually a secularist who believes that human beings are the ones charged with assigning value to other humans. In other words, they think our rights come from man rather than God. This position creates a necessary tension with one of the secularist’s other professed values. Christians need to know what those values are before they engage important issues with these secular opponents.
Notable Quote – David French
Emphasis mine:
…As soon as I read these words, I was transported back to a moment during my one appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher. Joy Behar and Maher lamented that Democrats were “too nice.” They’re echoing a common (though certainly not universal) refrain on the left. Progressives see themselves as tolerant, open-minded, and eager to engage with critics.
Yet this is precisely the opposite of the way conservatives experience and perceive progressive culture. Yes, of course there are progressives who “yearn for inclusion, civility, and dialogue,” but there are also progressives who despise conservatives, attempt to silence conservative voices, and systematically exclude conservatives from the “dialogue” they allegedly crave. Observe the campus free-speech wars. Is the academy evidence for proposition that lefties temperamentally yearn for civility? Observe late-night television. The cheering, hooting progressive crowds clamoring for more mockery and more derision are hardly yearning for dialogue. Observe progressive political arguments. The doomsday rhetoric directed against policies such as tax cuts or net-neutrality repeal is comically over-the-top. Dianne Feinstein even used the now-tiresome “people die” rhetoric in the government-shutdown debate. Her side lost anyway.
Notable Quote – Sarah Hoyt
Imagine my shock when I found out that the pussy-hat brigade was planning yet another “woman’s march” to protest the anniversary of the inauguration of our lawfully elected president. No, seriously, you could have knocked me down with a feather [sarcasm], I was that surprised.
I mean, after all, a movement that started off protesting the removal of vague, unspecified rights from women who couldn’t actually even name a single right endangered by the election of Trump wouldn’t leave enough alone when after a year no rights have been removed from any woman anywhere in US territory. In fact, it could be argued that the #metoo movement has not only righted some long-festering Hollywood injustices and misbehavior but has encouraged women everywhere to go on the hunt for male scalps, deserved or not.