GraniteGrok

Starting Saturday morning at 9 am!

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As usual, this week's broadcast version of GraniteGrok and AnkleBitingPundits brings an array of items and guests for your consideration-- ALL STARTING AT 9AM! As always, thanks to the technical wizardry and analytical skills of Skip, if you are beyond the broadcast area of Newstalk 1490 WEMJ, simply click here for instructions on how to connect and listen on the Internet via livestream. (Podcasts here)

• We will review Sarah Palin's debate performance with Jane Swift, the former Governor of Massachusetts. A Republican, she was the only woman to ever hold that position, serving from 2001 to 2003. At the time she became governor, she was the youngest person in the country to hold the position. Previously she was Lieutenant Governor. In 1990, at the age of 25, she became the youngest woman ever elected to the Massachusetts Senate. Surely she will have some interesting insight given her similar background at the state govenment level.

• Skip and Doug will continue the discussion about the debate and the campaign in general. It's hard to believe the election is now just one month away. What WILL we talk about after?

• Governor Lynch is asking state workers, according to the Union Leader, to point out ways New Hampshire can save money in order to help close a $100 million dollar budget deficit.

Top ranking state officials have three weeks to come up with ways to save money in their departments, Gov. John Lynch said yesterday.

Lynch met with heads of state agencies yesterday in a first round of talks aimed at closing an estimated $100 million budget deficit for the fiscal year that ends in nine months. Lynch said he wants to get ideas into practice as soon as possible, but will present a package to the full Legislative Fiscal Committee in November.

State Employees Association president Gary Smith and his staff met with Lynch, too. Smith said Lynch wants to see money-saving ideas from workers who know the details of their jobs.

Hmm. I'm sure the union will be a great help! We'll try to see if we can come up with some ideas of our own that we can suggest to the Governor... We'll also analyze his lame-o definition of the NH Advantage...

• The "bailout" and the economy. No experts, Skip and Doug will give their take, anyway, as they will be among those paying for it. That entitles them to an opinion, if nothing else...

• J.D. Tuccille’s warnings that the folks tasked with protecting us may be just as worrisome as the people they're protecting us from have been quoted by media including Wired and the New York Times. Published by newspapers such as the Washington Times and the Denver Post, he has written professionally about civil liberties for over a decade, most recently for Examiner.com. In his latest piece he writes

We're in for a new round of business regulation, if the current political climate is any indicator. Both Democrats and Republicans are excoriating Wall Street, blaming the financial meltdown on business decisions made beyond the guiding hand of the state. Never mind that Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron points to "ill-conceived federal policies" and reminds us, "beginning in 1977 and even more in the 1990s and the early part of this century, Congress pushed mortgage lenders and Fannie/Freddie to expand subprime lending." Congress will take time off from the difficult task of running up the national debt to tell the business sector how to order its affairs.

And that's a problem not just for economic freedom, but for civil liberties too.

Yikes!  JD will explain. We'll also discuss TASERS, given the injured officer in Gilford and the NYC death as reported on GilfordGrok here, here, here , here and here. JD writes on TASERS

Intended to save lives, and with the potential to do just that as a less-lethal weapon that can be deployed in situations that would otherwise require the use of firearms, the Taser too often suffers from mission-creep. Instead of being used as a replacement for a gun, it too often becomes a hammer in a world full of nails, deployed in inappropriate circumstances that suddenly, through the introduction of thousands of volts, become lethal.

• Etcetera...

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