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From my friend (and loyal reader) out in Chicago Dayton, Ohio land:
Instapundit: He’s a “white Hispanic” – never heard of it before Zimmerman either. But she – how DARE we white dudes disagree with a womyn American Indian minority. Only the Left will bend the meaning of Political Correctness in amazing ways so as to save a “favored” identity group (not so ignore the attempted cloaking … Read more
No – if you are a guy, you are often judged to be automatically guilty without the ability to defend yourself with Political Correctness being the prosecutor, judge, and jury. From Charlie Martin at PJ Tatler (emphasis mine): My Sexual Harassment Reprimand Back in the early 90′s, I was teaching at Durham Technical Community College … Read more
Here it is: Peter. Schiff. For. President, okay? Here’s why: He’s GUTSY!
How does one become an Occupy Wall Street Protestor? A quest for understanding in a somewhat complicated topic. Why? Because there are some who seem to demonstrate a modicum of intelligence and articulate usage of the language when the camera is rolling. And, there are some who dress reasonably normal (normal meaning, no obvious hygiene challenges, maintaining a groomed appearance). Those folks are in the vast minority. And certainly it would not be an accurate statement to say these slackers are all “youth generational.” The camera has caught some old enough to be peers of my parents.
But the task at hand is an immediate one. How do I blend in? How do I become an OWS protestor. I suppose I should start with something superficial. Ah yes! you say, “Things aren’t always as they appear.” and how right one might be to make such a characterization. But any good leftist will tell you, honesty is a relative term. “Your views are your views.” Kind of akin to calling people racists because they don’t like Obama… Yet, when it is pointed out that these same “racists” like Herman Cain, the argument shifts to, “you only like him because he gives your racism cover.” Rank dishonesty is the domain of the left. And outward appearance is what we first see from our friends in the lame stream media.
As a segue into my OWS protestor journey, I neither shave nor shower for an extended period of time. (if I wish to wholly embrace this slacker look, I don’t brush my teeth, either..If a casual observer spies a chive stuck in my teeth when I smile, I have arrived) It is important to engender that, “rail against the establishment” appearance. Smelling ones’ own smell, is sufficient validation one has achieved parity with the OWS appearance.
“Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.” —Thomas Sowell The collective voice of “Occupy Wall Street” has … Read more
“The two pillars of ‘political correctness’ are: a) willful ignorance; and, b) a steadfast refusal to face the truth” —George MacDonald “Reform school” was a euphemistic term used to characterize what amounted to a penal institutions for teenagers, most often boys. Social reformers of America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries decried the … Read more
“Remember the first rule of gunfighting… ‘have a gun’.” ~Jeff Cooper founder, the American Pistol Institute The opening paragraph of the Portsmouth Herald Editorial reads, “A Portsmouth police detective was recently lauded for defusing a July 4 incident in which Stawbery Banke Museum officials asked a couple openly carrying pistols to leave a ceremony attended … Read more
From across the fruited plain come the hues and cries yet again declaring, “racism and bigotry!” Isn’t free speech a real gem?
A former New York State prison official gave testimony Wednesday at a second Homeland Security hearing in Washington asserting that radical Islam is making in-rows into the American penal system. In a report by Fox News, A New York prisons official testified that radical Muslims have made “sustained efforts” to indoctrinate inmates in America, at a second hearing on Islamic radicalization held by Rep. Peter King.
And as with King’s first hearings held on back in March, Wednesday’s hearing was just as fraught with cacophonous protests and cries of racism. Representative Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi and ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, says, “The threat of terrorism from U.S. converts in prison is ‘small.'” Enter Laura Richardson, a liberal, Kool-Aid drinking Democrat from California who suggested the hearing was “racist,” further asking why Muslims in prisons are being targeted as opposed to other religious or ethnic minorities,” reports Fox News.
An imam who works as a chaplain in a county jail on Long Island was one such protestor of the King Homeland Security hearing. says this imam, “I have seen no evidence of terrorist recruitment at the jail.” Yet this “peace-loving” imam goes on to tell Fox News, “If we found anyone in our community committing an act of terrorism, by the time the police got there the matter would be settled and there would be one less terrorist,” can you feel the brotherly love?
So, what did the cops all have to say?
Patrick Dunleavy, a retired corrections official in New York told the committee that radical Muslims have been trying to convert U.S. inmates to their cause for decades. “Despite appearances, prison walls are porous. Individuals and groups that subscribe to radical Islamic ideology have made sustained efforts to target inmates for indoctrination.”
Former California federal prosecutor Kevin Smith cited the cases of Kevin James and Levar Washington, who both plead guilty in 2007 to “conspiracy to levy war against the United States through terrorism.”
Smith characterized the actions of both men as a “seditious conspiracy” hatched inside California’s prison system.
Top Los Angeles Police Department official Michael Downing, described the radical Islamic conversions as a “phenomena of low volume,” but holds “high consequence” considering the sheer size of the U.S. prison population. “We do have a problem,” he said. “Prisons are communities at risk.”
There are reasons why GraniteGrok sometimes uses different video sites to host our materials. There has always been tinges that YouTube (as a part of Google) that conservatives were considered second class citizens (troglodytes for thinking wrong thoughts). Well, John Hawkins just ran into that buzz saw. He does a number of short "Liberalism in … Read more
Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson’s remarks, as expressed in a Sunday Union Leader staff editorial, suggest that it is immoral to reduce what the government spends on health and social programs.
As quoted, "When sacrifice is perpetrated on the vulnerable and weak by the strong and prosperous, it is social abuse."
He goes on to include the poor, the disabled, the blind, the unemployed, the impoverished elderly, the uninsured and children living in poverty.
His point (one of them at least) is that by reducing government’s fiscal contribution to bureaucracies established to manage such things, that governor John Lynch and the New Hampshire legislature are considering immoral choices to balance the state budget.
So where do I begin?
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.
Being a New Hampshire democrat means never having to denounce anything. This only matters because the liberal-progressive whip holders who direct traffic leftward around the democrat’s rotary-of-hypocrisy like to tap the hair trigger on their own media Weapons of Mass Outrage (WMO) whenever they can manufacture the provocation. So if someone to the right of them puts together a sentence that could in any way be misinterpreted as racist, misogynist, bigoted and so on they create outrage, then pitch it to anyone who will listen.
But when it’s one of theirs no one has anything to say, including the local media whom I cannot recall claiming that "no democrat was available for comment" on the latest left wing outrage of the day.
So how about we ask? Ask both why there has been no comment and why no one has asked for any, after AlterNet had itself a picnic lunch of racist slurs that ended in calling a black man "a monkey in the window."
Bumped and Updated:I sent an email to Jeff wondering if the piece had ever been published – it was in the
Jan 27th version of the Hippo.
Fairly well done; all that one can ask is that you get quoted correctly and fairly – I was. It was amusing that the person chosen to be my ‘opposite’ was NH State Senator Lou D’Allesandro. BTW, when the Hippo didn’t work too well, Jeff suggested this
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Timing can be everything. Earlier yesterday, Jeff Mucciarone from The Hippo (weekly out of Manchester, NH) emailed me:
I’m taking a look at the political discourse in New Hampshire to see if folks think it’s changed at all in recent years. A lot is obviously being made of the tone of political discourse, particularly at the national level. I wanted to get your thoughts on how hostile or not the discourse is here in NH? Have you seen it change at all?
Certainly the "national pundit / political environment" is all abuzz about this. Indeed, here in NH is, at least on the R side right now, is a tad "heated" as well and I chuckled as I read the email. I responded "OK" but also informed Jeff that since The Hippo had not treated the ‘Grok all that well in the past, #1 ground rule was that I would be recording the conversation as a backup to what could be written. He said fine and we had a great conversation! Permission was also given to post it up, so here it is:
Summary and Links:
I had prepped a couple of links on…
And really getting out of control. What is this – a country where somebody can’t hold an opinion without someone demanding he get fired for it? Hey, Monday Morning Clacker – back off (that would be you, Christopher Potter Stewart)! So WHAT if Will Wrobleski expressed an interest in NOT voting for Tim Pawlenty for … Read more
Given how touchy the New Hampshire Democrat Party (NHDP) leadership is about comments relating to Jews and Nazis I wanted to wait a few days before addressing the words of Tennessee House Democrat Steve Cohen. Cohen made a few, lets call them ‘off-hand remarks’ about propaganda, Republicans and Nazis. He then did it again with spin. And again. (and..Zzzz)
Starting in 2011, public sector workers will no longer get days off related to any religious holiday, nor will they receive any compensation for these days unless they actually work. If as the liberals and secularists suggest, that we can’t have any God in government, then no one in government should get a paid day off as a result.
Politically incorrect, and funny. ( And just a heads up…the words a*s and n*ts, are each used once further into the routine, relating to the puppet, which has neither.) Jeff Dunham Achmed's 'Jingle Bombs'Uploaded by benjam015. – Click for more funny videos.
Gotta love having that P.C. Christmas Holiday! (H/T: Hot Air)
I’m feeling it….are you? By the way, it’s ok to say Merry Christmas!
One more, for laughs…after the jump