31 August 2014 - Granite Grok

August 31, 2014

LTE – Andrew Hemingway ‘He gets the job done’

A letter from Bruce Van Derven, about Andrew Hemingway.  (Please Share it.) One candidate for governor of New Hampshire has the financial resources (millions of dollars, largely his own) to plaster the airwaves with self-promoting propaganda, 30 seconds at a time. The other candidate, Andrew Hemingway, can afford to run some ads during the last …

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The Result of Relaxed Gun Laws in Illinois

The Daily Signal is reporting crime rates in Chicago after the state of Illinois ‘Relaxed” its gun control laws.  Illinois is issuing concealed carry permits to law-abiding citizens, even though all the Liberal ‘lights’ continue to resist. The data will  mean nothing to them because crime has nothing to do with liberal gun policy.  But …

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Taxes For Thee But Not For Me:
Warren Buffet Bankrolls “The King’s” Jailbreak!

A few years ago, Warren Buffet thought Obama was the messiah, and even campaigned for the nebulous ‘rich’, which always seems to include the middle class, to pay more in taxes, “Because my secretary pays a higher tax rate than I do”. What a difference a few years makes! Turns out that Buffet was never …

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Warren Buffet Bankrolls “The King’s” Jailbreak!
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Kuster Must Have Sent Her Staffers…
Out To Look For Common Ground

When I first saw this I thought, yeah, sure you are all at the office… blah blah blah, no one is there you lying bunch of….but then I read the last sentence. Annie says that “Serving in Congress is not about partisan politics, it’s about finding common ground….” Really?  Common Ground?

Do Not Pass Go; Forfeit $9000 to Maryland

Kudos to Rep JR Hoell for the meme. Opponents, especially Democrats, were very quick to point out Walt Havenstein’s use of the “Homestead Exemption” to reduce his property taxes at his ‘pied-à-terre‘ in Maryland during his stint with those “exceptional people” at SAIC.