6 October 2013 - Granite Grok

October 6, 2013

GrokTALK! 10-5-2013 The video – speakers Karen Testerman and Ann Marie Banfield

Besides the keynote speaker, Dr. Betsy McCaughey, two other ladies also had speaking opportunities during the meeting: Karen Testerman, conservative activist and exploring a run for the NH GOP nomination for US Senate Ann Marie Banfield, math whiz and educational liason for Cornerstone Policy Research, on Common Core Karen Testerman (with whom we had a …

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GrokTALK! 10-5-2013 The video – Intro ceremonies and remarks

Yesterday, the ‘Grok was pleased to have been invited to the NH Federation of Republican Women’s annual meeting yesterday in place of doing our normal GrokTALK! podcast recording.  Even with the smallest room (and, as it turned out, a smaller PA system), they graciously gave us space to set up our normal “tv studio in …

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Debt Ceiling – are YOU comforted by Obama’s negotiating skills? Banks aren’t.

From the Washington Post’s Wonkblog: Wonkbook’s Number of the Day: 20 to 30 percent. That, according to a senior US bank executive quoted in the Financial Times, is how much extra cash his bank is delivering to ATMs to prepare for the risk that a breach of the debt ceiling sets off a bank run. …

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GrokTALK! 10-5-2013 Guest Segments w/ Diane Bitter and Karen Testerman

We are doing things a bit differently this week.  I took the day off while Skip and Mike did a live stream at Saturday’s NHFRW meeting in Concord. While at the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women event Skip and Mike recorded speeches and did sit-down interviews which we’ll be editing for this week’s edition …

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Oh The Infamy And Ignominy: “BARRYcade” Makes The Urban Dictionary

We don’t have to make this stuff up, it only took a few minutes after the first stories of the WWII memorial being blocked before citizens dubbed the barriers “BarryCades”, and now, as Twitchy.com reports, the term has entered the Urban Dictionary! 1. A barrier (usually temporary) that exists for no reason. 2. A barrier …

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Welcome Home Melissa Shohet

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Non-resident voter and 2012 Obama for America worker in NH, Melissa Shohet, has taken down her LinkedIn page! (Still on the NH checklist as far as we know.) Call it a slim victory so far for a grassroots effort to slow the tide of illegal voting in our state but we take what we …

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Tyranny Expands – Rangers Evict Seniors From Homes

Democrats made a big deal out of Paul Ryan’s proposed sensible budget, with granny off the cliff advertisements, but that’s nothing compared to what Democrats will do with power when they have it. BarryCading memorials, Blocking access to scenic views, closing the WWII cemeteries in France, and now – actually kicking seniors from their homes …

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Follow-up: Alysha Tyranny – Voting From the Home of A Nashua Democrat Candidate

It’s been a few days since I reported that a Democrat Candidate running for office in Nashua this November harbored an out of state campaigner who voted absentee in New Hampshire using that candidates address.  The candidate is Latha Mangipudi, Democrat, from Nashua.  The vote stealer is Alysha Tyranny Tierney.  And isn’t it about time …

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