Was at another event last nite and was rather tired when I got home so only a wee bit of surfing was done. I did note that one post (somewhere) noted that a chartered plane had flown from Boston, landed in Chicago, and then made its way to an airport near Congressman Paul Ryan’s home town. Typical caveat was given – head fake or real?
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A Community Organizer? In Paris? Naturally.
Sometimes the New York Times delivers. I’m not a fan of the New York Times, but I do occasionally peruse its site for interesting tidbits. Although, most of the time while doing so I find myself reflecting back to the actual usefulness of its well-absorbent newspaper edition (being a dog lover, it came in handy when we had pups), tonight its digital version made me smile.
In reference to hearing about the 75% income tax proposal from their newly hired Socialist French president, things like this echoed through streets of Paris:
“Should I be preparing to leave the country?”
Query: If a campaign ad simply tells the truth…
…can it still be called a “negative” ad? Like this one? I don’t think so.
How about a justification for slavery?
Last Friday President Obama gave a speech in Virginia where he said, among other things, “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own….If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute blog “Ideas” observed that the underlying meaning of those statements is this:
Well Isn’t This Rich. (Or Not, Actually.)
Has it occurred to anyone that the Democrat’s “Tax the Rich™” agenda (coming soon in “Middle Class” sizes) isn’t so much a goal of taking more from those who have more (to give it to those who have less) it is to keep people who are not connected to the government power structure–from becoming rich … Read more
Let’s Play Spot The Socialist Dullard
New Hampshire has it’s share of obvious Socialist thieves. Democrat candidate William ‘Hud’ Connery is an admitted socialist. Folks like Catholic Socialist Peter ‘Can’t wait to get Connery on the team’ Sullivan, are a half-shade less obvious; Sullivan is an anti tax pledge guy as well and a supporter of Jackie ‘Tax and Spend us” Cilley so tax and spend or spend then tax are job one–complete with the class warfare tax the rich meme that has become a prominent feature of Democrat rhetoric everywhere you shop for flavorless-left wing political pablum–with a Marxist twist!
So I’m sure this is just a coincidence then, that.. “In 1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels frankly proposed “a heavy progressive or graduated income tax” as one of the measures by which, after the first stage of the revolution, “the proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeois, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state.” And doesn’t that just mesh so well with what I just wrote here? and tried to simplify here.
So what about the other socialist hiding in the proverbial New Hampshire bushes? Now that we have the Outsourcer in Chief channeling Elizabeth Warren, insisting that anyone who is successful didn’t do that on their own, we have another opportunity to play ‘Spot the Socialist Dullard.’ It’s validation from on high for left wing big government pragmatists everywhere.
Bill Whittle on Obamacare: “One For The Team”
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” —Thomas Jefferson Bill Whittle give us his perspective on the recent Supreme Court decision on Obamacare. In the wake of the decision, it serves us well to listen to a true American Patriot Like Bill…enjoy. H/T billwhittle.net
Healthcare Mandate Ruling: IS The Dust Settling?
“Who needs enemies when you’ve got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?” —Michelle Malkin
Eleven days have passed since the Supreme Court Healthcare mandate ruling. And with breakneck lightening speed pundits on both sides took to the airwaves, spinning, expounding, pontificating, analyzing and finger-wagging. What was shocking to many in the pregnant pause of waiting for the decision was that it was Justice Roberts who was the swing vote to uphold the law.
For months, we heard a regular smorgasbord of talking heads on television, radio and in blogs predicting the mandate would fall and be declared “unconstitutional” by the nation’s highest court. The court’s upholding of the mandate drew a shockwave throughout the land. “Surprise, Surprise…”
Manchester Democrat Peter Sullivan Admits He Is a Socialist
This has to be one of my favorite screen caps this year. It is a facebook comment by Manchester Democrat Peter Sullivan. In it, he is simultaneously suggesting that an admitted atheist has more doctrinally in common with the Catholic Church than “Anything you will see from those homophobic nuts at GraniteGrok.” That is so … Read more
GrokTV Event: GSPLPAC presents Rosa Koire on Agenda 21 – Parts 6 and 7
I’ll tell you, the more I hear about the subject, the thoughts of “are you serious”? Yet, when I look at the example in Portland, Oregon where “sustainable development” is the end-all-be-all of urban planning, I start to think “mmmm, maybe there is something to this” (here, here, here, and here). Skyrocketing housing costs have … Read more
GrokTV Event: GSPLPAC presents Rosa Koire on Agenda 21 – Parts 3, 4, and 5
Rosa Koire continued to talk this past Tuesday night about how the UN Agenda 21 program has made its way into the Federal bureaucracy and what it means for New Hampshire citizens, their private property, and the traditional NH town life. She outlined how representatives from the EPA, DOT, and HUD are out to change … Read more
GrokTV Event: GSPLPAC presents Rosa Koire on Agenda 21 – Parts 1 & 2
Tuesday night, the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC presented Rosa Koire, author of the book “BEHIND THE GREEN MASK: U.N. Agenda 21” – The Agenda for the 21st Century Sustainable Development.
She spent two hours talking about how zoning laws have been targeted by those wishing implement mandatory high density housing, the community data compiled by local towns and cities that would be used against them in attempts to “provide justice against institutionalized racism”, the attacks on personal property by calls to move to a commutarian philosophy (where the “common good” outweighs any Rights of the individual), and a forced move from personal cars to an all public transportation model. Governance would go from elected and accountable officials to an unaccountable and unelected bureaucratic regionalism model.
Here is Part 1:
Part 2 after the jump:
GrokTV Event: Brookfield Planning Board – presentation on “Sustainable Communities Initiative” – Part 3
In addition to Ken Eyring and Eileen Mashimo testifying to the Brookfield Planning Board, NH State Representative Lou Vida was also present and asked if he could speak as well:
After the testimonies were given, the Board went into their official session – and promptly started asking questions (after the jump):
GrokTV Event: Brookfield Planning Board – presentation on “Sustainable Communities Initiative” – Part 2
Ken Eyring continues and finishes his presentation of some of the paperwork that just never seems to stop once a local community signs onto the “Granite State Future Plan” (the NH adaptation of the Federal program called “Sustainable Communities Initiative” operated by a consortium of the Federal EPA, the Federal Dept. of Transportation, and the Federal Housing and Urban Development).
Sidenote: viewed from one angle, that last department’s name is indicative of the goal – to fundamentally transform how Americans will be allowed to live by creating “urban development” villages with high density housing and just public transit: not just bringing the city to rural areas but making rural communities into “micro-cities” where everyone is forced to live together instead of the types of town NH has historically had).
Some main points, overall:
- The endpoint has already been established
- Local control will be a thing of the past
- Why is taxpayer money being used against taxpayers best interest?
- Those presenting “the plan” are not being honest – they are not upfront about what towns are about to get themselves into and not honest about the techniques being used to do so.
Part 3:
Part 4 (and last) after the jump:
GrokTV Event: Brookfield Planning Board – presentation on “Sustainable Communities Initiative” – Part 3
Eileen Mashimo next addressed the Brookfield Planning Board and added some of the connections to some of the groups that are behind the scenes of this initiative, how the people and the groups all interconnect, and the methods by which this “Granite State Future Plan” is being rammed through the process (it is rather manipulative). All said and done, it is clear that those behind this do not have the standard model of democracy in mind, nor values that our Founders would agree with or give their blessing to them.
Part 1:
Part 2 is after the jump
GrokTV Event: Brookfield Planning Board – presentation on “Sustainable Communities Initiative” – Part 1
Monday night, the Brookfield, NH Planning Board heard a presentation by Ken Eyring and Eileen Mishimo on their research concerning the Federal Government pushing their Sustainable Communities Initiative (called Granite State Future Plan here in NH, a “massive entitlement / welfare program”). Those that are pushing this agenda are doing so by making it seem innocuous in the beginning but based on the hundreds of hours of research that Ken and Eileen have done on primary documents, it results in a virtual takeover of local communities by land use and zoning changes and collected demographic studies that are then used in lawsuits when Federal “standards” are broached by local communities (i.e., how local towns give up their sovereignty via “Federal money with invisible strings attached” and “strumg up” by their own efforts to comply with ensnaring federal regulations and mandates).
Ken Eyring from the Southern NH 9.12 Project presented first in his slow, quiet, methodical manner (hey, he’s a software engineer – what else would you expect!). Here are the first two segments:
Part 1:
Part 2 after the jump:
Why you need to be ready to move to New Hampshire….
Is America a “welfare state”? No. It’s a “special interest state.”And James DeLong at the American Enterprise Institute has explained why in THIS ARTICLE. What it boils down to is that the permanent political class has gained permanent power in America, governing on behalf of ubiquitous and multifarious special interests, which increasingly exist solely to loot the public treasury. Worse yet, special interests have no regard to the long-term damages and ultimate destruction that their appetites engender. In short, the iron triangle of the permanent political class, the special interests, and the dependent voters who keep them in office will eventually destroy us. That’s because…
G20 and Comrade Obama
“Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.” —L. Neil Smith
Needing an economic boost, President Barack Obama goes to the G20 Summit in Mexico…hat in hand…looking for some commitments from the European Leaders, trying to land assurances that Europe is fomenting a plan to bolster markets and prevent Europe’s challenges from sucking the rest of the world into its’ economic abyss. Hypocritically, Comrade Obama pressed the Euro-socialist leaders to hasten economic demand, while the Europeans want Obama to promise the United States won’t fiscally tank at the close of 2012.
EMail Doodlings – “You all owe me”
There are a few people with whom I converse with a lot – some agree with me all of the time, and some agree with me most (but not all) of the time. This is from a gentleman that used to agree with me hardly at all (in the beginning) but now keeps seeing the actions rather than just passively listening to the words. He complains (rightfully!) (emphasis mine):
Skip – twice in the last week I’ve heard comments about Social Security that made me realize how far apart our perceptions are.
The first was from an 82 yr old nurse, who bemoaned the fact she wasn’t part of a union and didn’t have a pension, and she was living off of SS and it just wasn’t enough.
Now I realize nurses aren’t treated the best, but I don’t understand why she feels we owe her a pension. Yeah, she’s a democrat.
The 2nd is from a pastor who wants to convert the amt a congregation pays into his synod mandated pension, into cash so he can pay down his student loans.
Sounds reasonable, except when he was asked about cleaning out his pension and the penalties incurred, he was ambivalent and said not to worry – SS would be there for him. And he didn’t want it counted as income – he just wanted the congregation to pay down his loan directly (tax avoidance). Ambivalent I understand – it wasn’t his money in the pension plan, and he wasn’t going without to plan for his retirement. Typical pastoral attitude – he expects to be taken care of. But just how smart is someone with a master’s degree and over $100K in loans, taking a career that pays $1K/wk? His wife also has a master’s with over $100K in loans, and stays home with a newborn.Yeah, he’s a democrat.
I am under the (misguided?) impression that SS is there to keep old folks out of the food pantry lines, and volunteering at the food pantry instead, for as long as possible.
Never did I suspect it was intended as a retirement or pension plan. My parents had a different take on money – 10% went to the church, 10% went to their parents, 10% went to savings, and the rest is what they lived off of. And my parents weren’t Rockerfellers – my dad never made more than the “average” annual income. And yet my parents sent 4 kids to college. hmmm
thx for letting me vent.
A socialist society is a selfish society – and as Government does more and more (notice that I did not say Society!), people expect and then demand more and more. And in the Pastor example above, the worth of other peoples’ money and contributions become meaningless and of little worth because, well, it is EXPECTED. Think of it this way – which is more appreciated? Something that you know should be part of life, that has become “the norm”? Or something that someone gives you out of the blue for little reason at all (and for the trifecta – something that you have actually had to go out and earn)? My response: