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Quick Thought: HB 1319 – asked and answered

hb1319womanhoodAs to Gov. Chris “Supporting the Democrat Agenda Identity Group politics against the NH GOP” in signing HB1319, I was asked earlier today:

Where do you stand?

Answer:  It demands coerced speech and behavior from those that do not believe that a man can simply announce that he is a woman and MUST refer to him as such (contra our lying eyes). It now sets up transgenders as a whole as yet another special interest group, another “protected class” that now has “elevated” privileges not available to the general public.  With Sununu’s signature of Friday, they have risen to the top of the Progressive Identity Totem Pole ranking at least for the weekend (as that ranking seems to change every few minutes than a pachinko ball changes its direction; said ranking seems to be in constant flux based on the “political opportunity” at hand and it is their club.).

It also places half the population, females, into a lowered status physically; the two examples are from Connecticut and Texas where trans girls winning girls’ state championships simply because they announced they are now girls and not boys. What is the fairness in that? Is it the goal, for Political Correctness / Cultural Marxism reasons, to wipe out any commonsense differences between the two sexes?  After all, you can’t call it a “social construct” on one hand and “Patriarchy” on the other at the same time.

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NY Senate Advances Speech Suppression Bill Disguised As Anti-Bullying Legislation

CyberbullyThe New York State Senate, under cover of protecting under-eighteen year-olds from ‘cyberbullying’ have advanced a bill that presents the government with a far-reaching tool to silence a wide range of speech it decides has violated their law.

I’ll let you explore Eugene Volokh’s examination of potential issues for speech suppression here, but I wanted to make the point that this exercise is no different than the progressive motivations on health care. Expand Medicaid. Expand Medicare. When they meet, you’ve got single-payer health care.

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One More Wack At Dartmouth and the Ruling Class Elite

Ruling ClassA recent survey of Dartmouth Students got ample attention from me here and here, but Jack Kerwick, writing at Townhall.com, combed through it here and I wanted to share his conclusion because it distills the noisy narratives down to a moment of clarity.

In summary, the Dartmouth survey establishes the truth of three propositions:

(1)Republican students are overwhelmingly outnumbered by Democrats at Dartmouth.

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We Stand at One of the Major Turning Points of History…

A notable qote: “We stand at one of the major turning points of history. Two powerful forces for regression threaten to drag us into a dark past. On the one hand, Islamists want to bring back the subjugation of women, female genital mutilation, sex slavery, beheadings, and dhimmitude for non-believers. On the other hand, their … Read more

New Hampshire Is No Social Experiment – Thank You

Burning USS Raleigh on NH State FlagI know politicians often feel they must balance principals against results. Once elected (once) conservative candidates become more practical. They surrender the issues they ran for office on to the ability to get “things done” or to “save what they have won.” I the this entirely. It is a basic human instinct – except for liberals. Liberals, progressives, socialists, whatever you want to call them, go even more radical once surrounded by power. They try and eliminate all opposition, that is in their evil nature.

The best of all worlds for progressives is to get their intended victims to help them along. It is an easy task. Plenty of appeasers will side with progressives in an always unsuccessful attempt at satisfying progressive anger and deflecting attacks. This plan never works for long.

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Has the Professional Left Silenced You? They Will if You Dare to Disagree

Conservatives vs ProgressivesDemocrats don’t know what they don’t know and they only have themselves to blame.

Why are so many Democrats shocked when a Republican is elected president? Because, as they themselves say, they “don’t know anyone” who voted for the Republican. The primary reason for this is the people in their life who voted for Donald Trump — professional colleagues, and even friends and relatives — are afraid to tell them.

Sadly, this treatment works in a much broader sense to advance liberal narratives and often promote progressive policies, especially at the local level “where get out the vote” means find ways to keep your opposition at home, so they win by default.

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Ah yes, the only…

…thing that Socialism is REALLY good at is violence. (H/T: Powerline)

Isn’t it just absolutely wonderful that…

…Progressives have this crazy idea of what real choice is? This is supposed to be the height of intellectual honesty? And how crazier is it that we let them get away with it? (H/T: Powerline)

Antifa’s War On Some Women

Antifa- we will tread
Antifa – Going after women that disagree with them.

When the left tells you that women are a protected class, they are lying. Women who march in lockstep with the left’s narrow agenda are protected as long as they keep up. This is true for blacks, gays, trans, cis, Metrosexual-pajama-boys, bearded-Marxists, or any designer state of being manufactured by the liberal ministry of identity and progress.

You are not ‘protected’ based on who you want to have sex with or the color your skin. You are only special if you advocate one set of ideas which they define. It’s their Dogma or the dog house. Failure to comport excommunicates you to slave-class status. You become less than human, no longer entitled to your own words, thoughts, or even the rights they define and dispense.

They’ve even got stormtroopers to make sure everyone knows this and women don’t get a pass just because they are women.

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GraniteGrok: Conservative? Check! ‘Grok: TEA Party? Check! Bill O’Brien supporters? Check! Mark Hounsell seeking out the ‘Grok as a platform? Hypocrite!

Mark HounsellDuring the Womens’ Defense League of NH‘s annual Gun Rally, Mark Housell ( now FORMER candidate for US Congress in NH’s CD-1) actively sought me out (not hard to miss – ‘Grok hat on, camera in tow) almost as soon as a “late arrived) to have me do an interview.  We tried to do it right then but the volume of the PA system was too loud so he waited until after the event had concluded – which took quite some time.  Then he waited as I interviewed several other people first so it was clear that he craved the publicity this Conservative, TEA Party, Bill O’Brien, multiple AFP award winning site could provide him.  Yet, this is what he told the Laconia Daily Sun as he exited the race (reformatted, emphasis mine:

Hounsell did say that those pushing a liberal agenda are making “blatant and unabashed attempts to buy New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District with out-of-state money,” while the state’s Republican party “is hog-tied by right-wing extremists passing as conservatives.”

Hounsell disagreed with the “big tent” analogy [of NH GOP Forrester’s big tent analogy -Skip]. “The people who are in that big tent are doing all they can to change it from a big tent to a pup tent,” he said, naming Bill O’Brien and Americans for Prosperity. “If you don’t pass their so-called purity test, you’re not really part of it. I don’t fit their definition of what a conservative is; that is, neo-con, Tea [sic] Party.

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The Moral Equivalent of War

We discuss the purpose of the war economy and the progressive moral equivalent of war, starting with Wilson, then examine what is happening today and consider why it still works.  

GrokTALK! What If You Don’t “Love The One You’re With?”

We explore the progressive habit of using immigration to supplant the uncooperative populations with those more inclined to vote for Democrats. This naturally leads to the question of property rights, as government needs to milk someone to finance it’s Welfare State Get-out-the vote immigration policies. Bill O’Brien Guest Hosts.  

The Minimum Wage is Racist

During the progressive era, there was a movement among progressives to create a wage structure within the nation.  A minimum wage.  Their desire for this arbitrary sum assigned to the cost or value of labor had a particular purpose.

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Congressional Democrats – you DON’T deserve to be tax exempt

“It’s everybody’s right to participate in politics, and well you should,” Blumenauer said on Tuesday at the House Ways and Means Committee hearing into allegations that the IRS targeted conservative organizations, including NOM. “But I think having organizations parading as being social welfare organizations and then being involved in political combat harkens back to why the (IRS 501(c)(4) statute – a hundred years ago – said that they were prohibited, and I wholeheartedly agree.”

NOM – National Organization for Marriage.  It is a conservative group that educates and advocates for traditional marriage.  It’s Chair, John Eastman answered back:

“The notion that defending traditional marriage doesn’t qualify as a defense of the public good is beyond preposterous,” Eastman said. “And how sad it is, Rep. Doggett, how sad it is that efforts to educate about our Constitution have become a partisan political issue that you think people ought not to get tax-exempt status for that.”

In his opening statement, Eastman said the IRS had released the NOM’s tax information in 2012 to the gay rights advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign, and although much of the tax documents were redacted, the names of donors were left in place. The HRC posted the documents on its website, Eastman said.

Now, the Human Rights Campaign organization (HRC) is the leading militant Gay rights organization in the US.  It does way more than “dabbling” in politics itself – and is also a tax exempt organization.  But that is not my point – it is what Progressivism has done to Civil Society: “…then being involved in political combat harkens back to why the (IRS 501(c)(4) statute – a hundred years ago“.

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Please, Anthony Weiner, don’t

Anthony Weiner sexting“Lean forward”

That’s the watchword for MSNBC (you know, the cable news channel that finally admitted that being on its knees for the Obama agenda is not really “covering news”).  “Forward” was the watchword for Obama’s 2012 campaign.  It’s also the word used by Socialists and Communists all over to cover up which direction they really want to take a country – which is backward to a time when only a ruling elite would make the decisions for everyone else (as opposed to those crazy radicals known as the Founding Fathers and TEA Party / 9-12ers / Constitutionalists / Libertarians who want YOU to make the decisions for yourself).

“Lean Forward”

Certainly, while MSNBC thinks that is what it is doing (or at least its Marketing Dept believes that it is) is moving forward, the only thing that can be said is that its audience rating is doing what Socialists and Communists actually do to countries – taking them backward and downward.  So, do you thinks THIS guy can make NYC “Lean Forward“?  Not so much, from a recent campaign stop (emphasis mine, reformatted):

“How dare you?” Brooklyn political activist Chris Owens asked, according to Politicker. “I’m a parent. I’ve got two sons. I represent the Democratic Party. I am outraged and disgusted by you, both by what you did and by the fact that you have the arrogance to run for mayor now.”  Weiner calmly answered, “I appreciate the question, Chris, and I know that some people will feel that way.” But then the brash, scandal-scarred pol went on the offensive, accusing Owens of holding a grudge over a past political slight, BuzzFeed reported. “Well listen, Chris, you have a right to grandstand, and I have a a right to answer the question,” a bristling Weiner said, according to BuzzFeed.

“If my mistakes, and the way I compounded them by being dishonest about them, disqualifies me, then so be it,” he added.

“But I am still gonna be out there leaning forward and talking about these ideas.”

So, Anthony Wiener, better known as the CongressCritter who tweeted his junk to lots of folks and who NOW believes, a mere two years later, can “Lean Forward” to victory to become the next Mayor of NYC?  From a twit of a Nannyist to twitter of a real Sexter – maybe NYC deserves such a mayor.

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A New Kind Of Vicious

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”   —Sir Edmund Burke

D'Marquis Elkins - Brunswick Georgia Baby Killer
D’Marquis Elkins – Brunswick Georgia Baby Killer

This is 17-year old D’Marquis Elkins of Brunswick, Georgia. Elkins is a criminal…a young criminal…not even eighteen years old yet. In early March Elkins needed some cash so he decided to do what his skill set allows…a Robbery.

Sherry West was pushing her stroller along when she was confronted by Elkins and 15-year-old Dominique Lang. Elkins demanded money. West told him, she didn’t have any money. He fired a shot, grazing her ear. Repeating his demands, West again pleaded with him that she didn’t have any money.

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Wouldn’t this be a violation of the Scout Oath and Law? “Morally Straight”?

New Boy Scout OathTo set the stage, the Boy Scout Oath:

On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.

And the Boy Scout Law:     A Scout is:  Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent.

So how does the following square with the above? Especially when it is a Scout Leader deciding that the rules do not apply to him? From Big Government (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Despite a directive from a leader of the Great Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), prohibiting scouts from advocating political or social positions, some scouts and adult supporters of Scouts for Equality wore their uniforms Sunday as they marched in Utah’s gay pride parade. The Utah Pride Parade in Salt Lake City came just a little more than a week after national delegates of the BSA approved allowing gay youth to become scouts. NBC News reports that Kenji Mikesell, an 18 year-old Eagle Scout and high school senior still active with his troop, said of his decision to wear his uniform in the parade, “It just feels like the right thing to do.”

Sigh.  This is not a rant against the Boy Scouts nor against “gay pride”.  It IS about the further co-opting of traditional groups and their values by an increasing militant pop culture that cannot allow such things to continue to exist.  Of course, the latter has no problem being draped in those values – especially as they know that they are actually hollowing them from the inside – out.

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Another case of Government “Fine for me but not for thee” – IRS edition

I really can’t add much more than the title – from Washington Free Beacon (emphasis mine): The IRS spent over 4 million taxpayer dollars on a conference in 2010, CNN reported Tuesday evening. The actual amount wasted is unknown because the IRS was not required to keep its receipts, something that they require taxpayers to … Read more

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