24 August 2010 - Granite Grok

August 24, 2010

Live Blogging – and the ‘Grok has been invited

Not far from the house – check! A good conservative, Liberty loving candidate – check! Open mic – che….uh-oh….not. on. your. life. Thankfully, being a teetotaler, I can’t be persuaded THAT way. However, Skip, Remember – you’re working on saying "no" to challenges…. Hunch over the keyboard, look busy, and maybe they’ll think you’re doing …

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Progressives – trying to replace God (big “G”) with an even bigger “G” Government

From a letter written by Economics (and political philosopher) Professor, Dan Boudreaux (emphasis mine): All income is earned by individuals.  It originates as their property and not that of any government or of some collective ‘us.’  Even if this money is deemed necessary to keep Uncle Sam solvent, remember that this government was created to …

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NH 9-12 Liberty Picnic – General John Stark Birthday Bash – Report Part 1

Jointly sponsored by the Rochester and Dover 9-12 groups, this past Saturday the ‘Grok was in Dover at NH’s Olympian Swimmer namesake outdoor complex, the Jenny Thompson Outdoor Pool.  While the crowd was a bit sparser than I had expected, we still had a good time – and a goodly number of speakers (including, as …

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Fun With Jan And Carol

Democrats like to make up rules for Republicans which I then do my best to apply to democrats.  In this example we have a donor to Carol Shea Porter who has been up to some questionable behavior.  If Carol doe snot denounce it she is complicit in it.  So pay attention. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill)–remember Jan, …

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“Candidates Should Pledge To Keep The NH Presidential Primary Law”

A guest post by Jim Splaine (D-Portsmouth), member, NH House of Representatives: Candidates Should Pledge ToKeep The NH Presidential Primary Law "Once upon a time there was something called ‘The New Hampshire First-In-The-Nation Presidential Primary.’" Hopefully that line won’t be written in a future history book, relating a long-lost election process that kicked off with our …

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This is a “How Not To Give A Ringing Endorsement” teachable moment…

I think that if George would watch this, he might agree: time, perhaps, to  contemplate getting another spokesman" "…If I don’t agree with you, I can drop you like a bad habit…" "…my way or the highway…" "…still get my way…" "…I may dump him and run after all…" Suffice to say that the Lakes …

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The Cost Of Education

When something doesn’t work, and you are a democrat, well you just keep doing it.  These graphs come to us courtesy of Andrew J. Coulson at Big Government. Graph one Public education employees vs. student enrollment numbers. Graph number two–on the jump–is the inflation adjusted cost of public K-12 education (that’s taxpayer dollars spent) compared …

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A Question for Bob Giuda…

  Bob Giuda has been running on the mantra, "I have the legislative experience, I’m the only one who knows the system". Ok, well, I’m not sure that THAT’s the platform you really want to run on this year (or highlighting a debate moment when Charlie Bass agreed with you @ 2:15), but let’s go …

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Comrade Carol Seiu-Porter

A few of you will now point out that one so-called congressional member of the socialist party who just happens to vote like Carol and then donates $1,000.00 to her campaign doesn’t mean anything. Fair enough. So how about twelve members of congress listed as members of the American Socialist Party who vote like Carol an have so far donated a total of $32,000.00 dollars to Carol Seiu-Porter?