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Another reason why this bill had to die

September 30, 2008

You know, it ought to be a law that new laws have to be completely written in 10 pages or less.  Why?  So stupidity cannot be stuffed into dark corners and only be found after the deed is done.  As I wrote here "…This is why I’m glad that "quick is not good" is carrying [ Read more ]

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The politicians have spoken….and now Businesses will

September 29, 2008

And I am afraid that it will not be pretty.  I won’t speak for Doug, but this post from NRO may well be telling.  Wanted to share with you an arresting letter from a friend: Just thought I’d send some thoughts from small-business America. My husband’s business is a canary in the coalmine. When tax [ Read more ]

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How Democrats caused the present financial crisis: “Burning Down the House”

September 27, 2008

.. .. . This video is a fantastic primer on the nature of the present financial crisis and the root causes. But of course, you just knew it had to have been caused by the Democrats anyway… As noted by the Blue Collar Muse, For those of you interested in understanding exactly what caused the [ Read more ]

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A tale of two citi(zens)…

September 26, 2008

Unless, of course, you’re one of THEM… So I’m reading the caselog report of the local (Laconia, NH) district court in last Saturday’s Citizen newspaper and I came across this: Christopher A Gibbs, 29 of Mudget Hill Road, Loudon, pleaded guilty to reckless conduct for allegedly driving in a sleep-deprived state, resulting in an accident on South Barnstead [ Read more ]

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Defend NH? Nay – Zandra defends government over the folks that are taxed to fund it!

September 24, 2008

The ‘Grok believes that the People are the power, the goodness, and the strength of America.  It is the individual, sometimes voluntarily choosing to band together, that makes America work and thrive.  It is NOT its Government that makes America strong – it is the people, each one of us. This is but one reason [ Read more ]

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Sacrifice is more than from the top – all or nothing

September 24, 2008

Often, I have said that the Liberal call for sacrifice has often been for higher taxes…and have pretty railed against it and then left it at that.  However, Glenn over at Instapundit expresses something that has bothered me for quite some time: for some, having to give up more of the family income in terms [ Read more ]

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Not bad NH, but can the current leaders stop the slide (I doubt it)?

September 23, 2008

There is a group that does study for almost anything that you could dream of – our fascination with numbers and rankings is just incredible.  In this case, a ranking of how economically free each State in the US.  The group that produced this report  "U.S. Economic Freedom Index 2008"was the Pacific Research Institute, Here [ Read more ]

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Mums the word. Better than mumbo, jumbo, I guess, which is all we’d get if Obama did have something to offer on the economy.

September 23, 2008

New TV ad from McCain/Palin 2008:     I mean, really… what can Obama offer, save Jimmy Carterism, which is the LAST thing we need right now?

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Wow! Republican Lite? Obama?

September 23, 2008

  Be still my beating heart! Obama vows deep cuts in spending GREEN BAY, Wis. — Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama moved to claim the mantle of fiscal responsibility in a roiling economy, vowing on Monday to slash federal spending on contractors by 10 percent and saving $40 billion. Urging members of his own party [ Read more ]

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Now Chaz, you REALLY didn’t think I’d leave that alone, did you?

September 22, 2008

   Chaz Proulx and I were supposed to have a "blogger debate" a while ago as he was a Hillary supporter and I was defending enlarging the free market for healthcare and diminishment of the role of Government (or, at least getting it out of the way).   Now, he and I have talked on the [ Read more ]

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“That’s the point. Jeanne Shaheen has been a consistent opponent of nuclear power and oil drilling, where there is oil, for 25 years before her latest poll led to her switch of positions.”

September 22, 2008

.          Seabrook Station, no thanks to Jeanne…              Offshore drilling? No way! I’ll git you my little pretties… hehehe! .                       Refineries? Nope!                              Assault on Seabrook. May 1, 1977 Back in the 80′s, former NH House Speaker Marshall Cobleigh spent many a Sunday morning debating future Governor Jeanne Shaheen on a number of issues. At the [ Read more ]

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Glad to see that my numbers still stand up

September 22, 2008

   One of the problems in blogging, now that the ‘Grok has been around for a while, is that posts may need to be updated.  I once thought that healthcare was going to be at the top of the heap for this election cycle (it may well be but has been "swamped" in the news [ Read more ]

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Too bad ’bout yer doggies. Really. But it was, you know, “justified…”

September 22, 2008

Regular readers know that the rise of quasi-public "special operations groups" (SWAT teams) within the Granite State law enforcement community has caught our attention. In this prior post about a raid in Bristol, NH involving some 20 masked police officers, I mentioned two other recent events involving, what is in my opinion, an overwhelmingly excessive [ Read more ]

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They’ll judge you by the company you keep…

September 20, 2008

Our friends at Granite Staters for Employee Freedom (GSEF) – a group seeking to educate people on the dangers of passing the so-call "card check" legislation, the deceptively-named Employee Free Choice Act  (EFCA) doing away with secret ballot voting on the question whether or not to unionize– have discovered a few interesting facts as they go [ Read more ]

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What he says… is not what he does.

September 19, 2008

As folks grumble about the cascading financial woes, they would do well to remember who’s in cahoots with the "bad guys" at almost every turn: Democrats. Fannie Mae is, and long has been, for all intents and purposes, a "Democrat" operation. Here’s a new ad from the McCain camp reminding us of but one example: [ Read more ]

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Notable Quotes – Gilbey, Owen

September 18, 2008

  From WindsOfChange.net "We are not led to undo the work of creation or to rectify the Fall. The duty of the Christian is not to leave the world a better place. His duty is to leave this world a better man." – Monsignor Gilbey No matter how hard we try, nor how compelling the [ Read more ]

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Can you imagine? In Iran, they view access to the Internet by its people “as a direct threat to their existence…”

September 18, 2008

Here at the ‘Grok, like many Americans, we value this wonderful thing known as the Internet. Whether for work, play, or communication, its uninhibited use is something that all of us take for granted. Can you imagine being someplace where that wasn’t the case? Certainly many people got a small glimpse at Internet control during the Olympic [ Read more ]

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And the Dems say that they are for free speech? Naw!

September 17, 2008

First they want to bring back the Fairness Doctrine (an old policy from the early years of radio that forced stations to equalize air time for opposing viewpoints.  If a conservative bought air time to espouse their views, the station had to give equal time.  Consequence?  Free speech became no speech as stations didn’t want [ Read more ]

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Their Chutzpah is less than stunning….

September 17, 2008

Or they think our stupidity is far more… Sorry, unlike Joe Biden, I’m admitting that I’m partially plagiarizing Doug’s post words "less than stunning". Seems to be apt when discussing the Democrats version of an energy policy (emphasis on the word "less").  Again, plagiarizing from Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi: "No oil for you!".  The Democrats just [ Read more ]

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Jeanne Shaheen: Her lack of foresight and vision is nothing less than stunning…

September 16, 2008

I’ll git you my little pretties! Heheheheeeeee! When one visits Jeanne Shaheen’s website and reads her "solutions" for the US’ energy woes, you can only conclude that she is basically offering nothing but higher taxation, which gets passed onto the consumer, and perhaps lengthy litigation, helping nobody but lawyers. Don’t take my word for it— [ Read more ]

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