NPR is dodging bullets at a time when it was already facing an uphill battle to justify continued taxpayer funding. So having an executive expose the network culture on hidden video is the last thing they needed.
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Defining Blue Dog Democrats
Once you have written over 1000 of these things, you forget some of the finer points you’ve made. Oh, I don’t mean on positions or policy. I’m a conservative. I base that stuff on a set of fixed standards. Say it 100 different ways but it is still based on the same core values. No, I’m referring to past rhetorical flourishes that strike me as amusing when I come across them. Case in point.
GrokTalk! Saturday March 5th, 2011
Kirk McNeil, the new director of “Common Sense for New Hampshire,” will be our guest to talk about HB 442, the Medical Marijuana Bill; and Jordan Ulery the prime sponsor of CACR 6 (2011) which would require that a 2/3 vote is required to pass legislation imposing new or increased taxes or license fees..
GrokTalk! Saturday February 26th, 2011
Live Streaming local and National News with opinion you could only get from GraniteGrok.
It’s GrokTalk!
This Saturday from 9-11AM…
Ed Naile, the chairman of the Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers (CNHT), and Steve Mac Donald Grokster and vice-chair of the NHRVC help co-host as we cover a range of New Hampshire bills and issues.
John Kalb will also be our guest filling us in on the status of Right To Work and Right to Work Legislation heading to the State Senate.
and Andrew Manuse, NH House Representative from Rockingham District 5
Learn More About Our Guests after the jump
Bay State Bathroom Bill Bi-Pass (Get it? Bi-pass!)
I’m here to tell you that there are 188 very happy current and former state legislators from New Hampshire today. That’s right, 184 democrats and 4 republicans must be beside themselves with envy after Deval Patrick executed an order that bi-passes the MA legislature and does for public employees in that state, almost exactly what HB 415 -2009 tried to do to the entire State of New Hampshire..
HB 415 – 2009 was the infamous bathroom bill, no not the $72,000.00 bill taxpayers paid when the democrats remodeled the State House ladies room just a casual saunter from former Speaker Norelli’s office door; I’m referring to the ‘Gender Identity and Expression’ bill that would require (among other things) equal access to all public ‘accommodations’ regardless of gender identity or expression–by law. Feel like a girl today (sex offenders)–well go get one and hello ladies bathroom, shower, sauna…it’s the law. Well, not here in NH. The State Senate killed it.
But HB 415 -2009 was one of those bills the democrats wasted days and days debating (strong-arming no votes to ‘don’t votes,’ and democrat fence sitters to vote yes) while in the midst of the Worst Recession in historyTM. You know, something to distract us from all the taxes and fees they had to come up with because democrats always spend first and tax you later.
And now with a flamboyant stroke of a pen, Deval Patrick has mandated that all public employees have equal access to same, regardless of sexual identity or expression. Public schools are full of government employees. How’s that going to work exactly? (Democrats don’t think that far ahead.)
But for our Bathroom Bill supportes and the “NH House 188,” there is an opportunity at hand. They can all move south to the promised land, get jobs in state or local government, or go into a public government facility, and use whichever bathroom they feel like identifying with, at any time.
So let us reminisce about the halcyon NH House days in the "spring of 09," and review the final Roll call from the NH House passage of HB 415 – 2009 (on the jump.) because it is always good to remember who it was that was wasting time on social issues during a growing economic recession. Or so I hear.
Enjoy.
The emerging clash of civlizations: Islam in France
This from CBN.com:
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."
Dammit! Don’t watch this video!! Who IS this guy anyway!!!
Um…oh! A…"history teacher"?
Super Bowl Commercials
I somehow missed this one. I’ll rank it as my second favorite so far. My first is on the jump.
Is This The Worst Bagel Ever?
Making things taste like crap on purpose in not something the free market traditionally rewards unless it is popular-trendy “tastes like crap,” in which case all the finest people are buying it which encourages lesser mortals seeking aimlessly for some kind of identity to follow suit in the hope that they will become “better people” by association.
Loser 2: “Hey look, Chantelle puts blow-fish droppings on here arugula.” Loser 3: “Wow, she is so hip.”
Into this confused world comes the Weight Watchers Basic Bagel, which I purchased not because I or anyone in my family is watching their weight, but because they were on sale. How was I to know what would happen next?