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One of the great things about my chosen home of New Hampshire—like a majority of people in the state, it’s not where I grew up—is the extraordinary number of friends and people I get to visit and talk to (thank you RLCNH and GraniteGrok.com and NH GOP).
One such conversation recently was a true eye-opener. Scary even….
Heh! Mike is out at a tradeshow where there is a cartoonist, Doug Shannon, hard at work – and Mike got cartoonized: Not bad, Mike, not bad at all….I think his smile is MUCH broader in real life. But I do think the cartoonist caught his mischeviousness, though….
“Let me get this straight. We’re supposed to show tolerance and respect for a religion that doesn’t know the meaning of either word and goes out of its way to prove it every day?”
“All week we’ve heard Muslims telling us that we in the West need to understand how important the prophet is to them. We do understand, and we don’t care… we don’t give a damn about your feelings. Our feelings are more important, and our feelings tell us that we’re sick to the back teeth of hearing about your religion, so stick a sock in it.”
Respect is earned in the West – not demanded. It is also a two way street – when Muslims think it is one way only and that our Rights are something to be sacrificed on your Alter of an Honor-Society. Of COURSE there are Dhimmis in the West that will bow so low that you Islamists might think they are showing respect. Or, at least the Dhimmis think they are showing something akin to “respect”. You Islamists know better – their Neville Chamberlin show-alikeis merely a mask of something more dangerous to us: fear. You smell weakness in our elected American leaders, Barry and Hillary – you’re smiling as half of your work is already accomplished. That commercial that the State Department ran in Pakistan of President Obama and Sec. of State Hillary prostrating themselves over an American exercising their First Amendment Right was not just a waste of $70K of taxpayers monies, they merely showed us how partisan they are – and not on the side of the traditional American way of life. Free Speech means being able to say what we want, when we want, where we want, and about what we want – and whether it offends you or not.
And they are embarrassed about it. And that is the saddest thing of all.
With the now “down the Memory Hole” Obama Flag (as observed by Grokster Tim), there has to be words for that Flag, right? OK, a 15 second off-the-top-of-my-head one-off (and I really don’t want to think about it any longer than that – the whole idea is just plain cultish-creepy) along with this campaign’s Pledgers to Obama:
I pledge allegiance to the “O”
of the United cult of Obama,
and to the useful idiot collectivism for which it stands
One Kingdom under the Organizer,
Divider,
with redistribution and socialism for the rest of us
And if after that, you can’t remember the real thing (given that some schools and teachers no longer believe in filling young skulls full of mush such nonsense), go after the jump. In the meantime, here are a bunch of those cultists (otherwise known as “entertainers”) who actually did pledge allegiance to Obama back in 2008:
I guess he’s sitting in a heavily Conservative district or in one with a WHOLE BUNCH of Obummed voters (who will not be stating the same pledge as last time). (H/T: Maggie’s Farm)
Note: the time limit for Obama to keep blaming Bush has expired. The time limit has been reached and expired in which Obama can keep blaming what he inherited – he campaigned for the job. Note: this is a result of his Administration, his ideology, his grasp of systematic economics, and his skill as a … Read more
Not quite, sport: Obama has lowered your premium by -$5,500 (for those of you in Rio Linda, that means instead of saving you $2,500 a year, it is now costing you $3,000 MORE a year (a difference of $5,500 that is no longer in your pocket or your employer that helps to pay your premium) … Read more
We remember back to the Declaration of Independence: “pursuit of happiness”, which the meaning of the Founders for the word “happiness” was Private Property. The founding philosophy was that Government was to be a neutral player; it set the table in a flat, even handed fashion in creating the rules and then backed out of the way and let citizens go about creating their wealth in a manner they saw fit, with the intensity of effort and innovation that fit them and their goals.
Winners and Losers picked by Government as a matter of course? Nope!
Obama seemingly has never had that as a grounding philosophy – raised by a mother who had a philosophy, by all accounts I’ve read, of an anti-Americanism, fathers / husbands that left she and Barry after some period of time, spending formative years in Hawaii at the “Red Church”, and mentored by outright Socialists, Marxists, and Communists. By his own hand:
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structured feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpets or set our stereos so loud the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling conventions…
And in my opinion, never truly learned what American Exceptionalism is all about; instead, he was taught to despise it. And he became the President without really understanding in his soul what America was all about – only a black Marxist nightmare doppelganger of it. I will say one thing – he hid it well until it was too late for us. Now, in yet another piece of vetting (that the MSM should have done before the LAST election), it comes out that ““When you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody” in 2007 was being formulated well before that in 1998:
What that means then is that as we try to resuscitate this notion that we’re all in this thing together, leave nobody behind, we do have to be innovative and thinking what are the delivery systems that are actually effective and meet people where they live. And my suggestion, I guess would be that the trick, and this is one of the few areas where I think there are technical issues that have to be dealt with as opposed to just political issues. I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level to make sure everybody’s got a shot.
which can be found here concerning the RNC, delegates, Ron Paul speaking / not speaking, nomination, and the like. His problem was not with Ron Paul but with his supporters. I concur (having had to deal with nastiness of some even back in 2008). So he (and I) expected some commenters in opposition and our expectations were met.
Given the set up here at the ‘Grok, I also get notification (and have to approve / disapprove) of comments inbound on all the posts. Given that Steve’s post was almost a month old, when a comment by RageFury came in today, I spent the time reading that long comment in which much time had to have been spent. But one line:
“I previously thought you guys were better than this…”
caught my eye and of course I had to answer:
“nor will I vote for Obama who only gets a potential 4 more years of horrible country crushing policy” and ” I previously thought you guys were better than this.”
To the former – to use that old phrase: “You ain’t see nothing yet!” Obama has figured out that with the Senate locked up by Reid, and the House Rs cowering behind the idea that they’d be responsible for a shutdown if they even thought about growing a spine, Obama has become enamored with doing what he wants without Congress – an FDR on steroids by issuing declaration upon decree. He has become addicted to being a dictator – he knows that he can do what ever he wants NOW and when the Courts nullify a Dept decree, the Secretary of the Dept just uses another way to do it all again (e.g., Salazar in stopping drilling in the Gulf, the NLRB’s actions, and the FCC at doing Net Neutrality by other means, just to name three). Recent History is very much predictive of what he will do the next four – only much faster, much bigger and FAR more Liberty destroying than this first term. You think he’s packed on the Debt thus far? His next target, already under attack, is Liberty and Freedom and he is well on the way to destroying that.
And you, RageFury, among others that will not pull the lever for Obama’s enemy…
(H/T: Chronoscapes)
Steve has the info on Romney’s tax returns – consistently outgiving, percentage-wise those that have been yammering for his returns to be made public. From Instapundit, reflecting on the ReProgressive definition of Charitable giving: “If you really care, you don’t give money yourself. You get the government to force other people to give. That’s what … Read more
‘Grok friend Chan over at Weekend Pundit has a quick succinct summary of Barack Hussein Obama’s 4 years: Despite the water-carrying the MSM is doing for Obama, the narrative has been shifting from Romney’s perceived ‘deficiencies’ to Obama’s failures, both foreign and domestic. His Middle East foreign policy has been shown to be a disaster … Read more
Because they can’t stand seeing their fellow citizens ignoring their bleats of “You shouldn’t do that” in some cases (like, you know, use electricity to live a modern lifestyle, or be allowed to drive a car that can, like, you know, can actually hold all of your family members and the grocery bags needed to feed them for a week – in 1 trip). So, they’ve convinced elected politicians (or increasingly, the unelected bureaucrats that doing the pols’ job). They certainly are in favor in taking away choice in little ways as in what kind of light bulbs you may purchase.
And when it comes to industries they like, like all things green, they are bound and determined not to let “green go dark” simply because the Free Market hates their ideas. From that ever amusing, ever complaining, bastion of Watermelon Environmentalism (otherwise known as TreeHugger), the denizens are complaining about the Federal Venture Capital spigot being turned off (gee, and I thought ALL forms of conservation was good – including conserving our tax dollars!).
And TreeHugger decided to demonstrate that, with clueless irony, all on their own. Yes, one more from TreeHugger that shows that Environmentalism has really left its roots of DOING environmental work and very much all about getting Big Government and its big teat (and very much, dependent on that teat) to do it instead as well as forcing lifestyle changes upon people that otherwise would not. This time, trying to go all yammering that Republicans not supporting Govt supported jobs is hypocritical and ignoring the foundation of their illogic:
Siemens Lays Off 38% of US Workforce – Cites Lack of Wind Power Support Romney Favors
That wind power jobs and installations in the US rise and fall in line with federal tax policy for the renewable energy source is solidly established,…
You’d think after decades of watching the “ups and downs”, and being tax experts (as all Big Multinationals are), some would learn to not play the game. Problem is, profits are to be made when the Government either directly or indirectly manages a marketplace via tax policy. And the writer of the post is surprised at this? Mere youngster that thinks history starts with his birth. However, he yammers onward:
…including that of Government Healthcare: (H/T: Instapundit)
according to their philosophy. And so say them directly – Hillary Rosen, Ann Kuster, and Barack Hussein Obama. If you are not using your money for the common good according to ReProgressives (presently, one’s money to be “in the economy”), they feel perfectly fine and capable to remove it from you and call it taxation. I remember when Democrat “strategist” Hillary Rosen made this claim back on “Meet The Press” (July 15) on a discussion on jobs and that silly argument that Romney wasn’t paying his taxes:
MS. ROSEN: Well, and that’s the problem. Right now the plan that we’ve seen from Mitt Romney is just mostly significant tax cuts for the wealthy. President Obama actually has put forth multiple plans that the Republican Congress has blocked. So, the only thing we have now is a choice. This conversation may not be what everybody wants, but we do have a choice between these two candidates. And when you look at something like what Mitt Romney has done, hiding his taxes, there’s– you– you know, if every American hid their money and invested it in overseas tax havens, where would this economy be? You know…
Well, Uber-Progressive Regressive Ann McKluster is making the same claim in a debate with Charlie Bass for US Congress in NH CD-2:
“It isn’t about millionaires against everybody else,” Bass said on the tax issue. “It’s about getting this economy turned around again. Raising taxes in the middle of this recession without having any comprehensive plan to turn the economy around is a bad idea.”
“If these resources were being used to create new jobs, then the small business wouldn’t be paying taxes on them,” said Kuster. “That’s a deduction.
“The point is, these people with this kind of income right now are not putting the money back into the economy,” she said. “They’re not hiring new people. Frankly, they’re not even buying new goods.”
You see, you do not own yourself. You are not entitled to the fruits of your labor – your wages, your salary, your income if you are not using it according to THEIR purposes.
That’s another tenet of Liberalism / Regressivism Progressivism to go along with “You don’t do the right things with it” meme. They look at the well to-do, the rich, and the uber-rich and think “we can take it because they won’t miss it and they don’t need it”. Really? You can take it because YOU feel they don’t need it? Really, how much closer to a bad rationalization do you have to make keep from letting your better side from realizing “er, isn’t that stealing“? Just because someone has WAY more than you have means that it is perfectly legitimate for you to just take what they own for your own Progressive purposes? Not only is this wrong, it is the absolute epitome of the definition of selfishness. How hollow it must be to publicly be saying “look at what we give to people” all the while working hard (or being very dismissive) to not square the cognitive dissonance that the possible freedom they give to some in a material way is far outweighed by the tyranny laid upon those from who they take on the other side of the equation.
Sure, it is always posed as “We are merely asking that the rich give a little more“. Absolute nonsense – as the top 10% of income earners pay 70% of all income taxes, how much more should they be paying? There is no “asking” (which implies one can say “no” as an acceptable answer) and there is no “giving” (which would be voluntary). Such sophistry and solipsism: any “asking” is really a legal demand while the “giving” is merely paying a tax bill – or landing in the Old Pokey with nice steel bars around you. There is no “voluntary” about it. Oh, to be sure, there will be commenters that will jump all over this with that silly “We all belong to the Goverment as the one thing we do” or we all have to pay taxes. Oh, to be sure, we do have to pay taxes – but Progressives want Government to overspread and take over Society such there there is only Government, and that takes more and more and more in taxes (in which, Progressives act just like, and are no better with respect to Private Property, Willy Sutton).
Truly, Progressivism is a morally bankrupt philosophy.
A loyal reader sent this in: Obama has made a habit of blaming everything that has gone wrong during his Administration on his immediate predecessor. This will be fun to watch for a little bit, as we all circle and swirl around the drain if Obama get re-elected… (H/T: Dan)
and we have three. Ivan and Kiah are in the pix; just can’t find one with them with Meeka, the newest that is inbetween the two in size. Ivan is 15 years old and we almost lost him about 6 months ago to what appeared to be kidney failure (which is why we got Meeka … Read more
John is one of the few independent professional bloggers that I know and his first blog, RightWingNews, was one of the first of the national level blogs that started linking to us when we opened the doors here at GraniteGrok. He was also a favorite guest on our radio show “Meet The New Press”. Since … Read more