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Co-founder of GraniteGrok, my concern is around Individual Liberty and Freedom and how the Government is taking that away. As an evangelical Christian and Conservative with small "L" libertarian leanings, my fight is with Progressives forcing a collectivized, secular humanistic future upon us. As a TEA Party activist, citizen journalist, and pundit!, my goal is to use the New Media to advance the radical notions of America's Founders back into our culture.

I Get Stuff – the NH Firearms Coalition threat: fill out our Survey or you’re ANTI-GUN!

NHFC Anti-gun if no responseThis is just plain stupidity, tone deafness, and threatening all at the same time.  The NH Firearms Coalition (“NHFC”) has been sending out their survey (of course, isn’t every political / advocacy group?) to candidates running for office.  I have no problem with this at all and I’ve been advising Conservative / libertarian candidates not only which ones to fill out and which to ignore but also with answers to questions on some of the surveys because the questions are clear for what they are looking for with those answers.  The problem is that sometimes, a possible ally of the group has a more nuanced answer than what is allowed on the on-line surveys that have set answers that clearly don’t reflect someone’s real values – and the candidates I help aren’t going to lie simply to get a recommendation or keep from being slammed for a “wrong” answer.

But the NHFC has really stepped into it with the above image – I took the top of their Letter and combined it with the bottom. It is that “sign off” that is really a kiss off.  I’m ticked over it and *I* have a larger voice with GraniteGrok than they do; they need to be called out over it. Seriously, calling out potential allies as anti-gun simply for not returning a survey?  This is nutcase territory and Alan Rice should be pelted with eggs, rotten tomatoes, and dead fish over this bone-headed threat.

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Do Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Supporters Understand Socialism?

UPDATE: THAT was weird!  When I first posted this up, instead of the intended video, it showed Mike’s video of Steve Negron! What the HECK??? It seems fine now but please know Negron is NO fan of Ocasio-No Cortex. Apologies for raising anyone’s blood pressure or morning coffee spewing…

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She is the wonderkid from Queens, NYC that beat 10 time incumbent Crowley (rumored to be the next in line after Pelosi’s demise) on a platform burnished by “Democratic Socialism” (which is to say, no difference than plain socialism except cleaned up and dressed nicely – but same despair underneath).  Here, Campus Reform does the “man in the street” with some rather simple questions to younger voters that are enamored with her and her foreign political philosophy, proving once again they have no real clue other than they LOVE the idea that somebody is going to give them a free ride.

How are we going to pay for them?  Oh, Gawd! When asked about these:

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-ism and stances

OK, from my previous post, you know a bit about her political philosophy/campaign stances from this 28-year-old barista with a Boston University double major in International Relations and Economics that is now the Democrat candidate for Congress in NY-14 (Queens)

Sidenote: oh dear, how low has my alma mater dropped in rigor.  They ought to be disavowing her forthwith but I guess the Howard Zinn-sim, Noam Chomskyesque, and the other hard core radical professors have gotten worse over the years. As I continue with her here, I am gratified by my decisions over the years not to give my hard earned monies to this spawning den of everything I find wrong.

Anyways, I digress – let me unpack my pile of stuff here. Just remember that no less a luminary than Tom Perez, Chair of the National Democrat Committee, says “she is the future of the Party”.  Go ahead, keep shoveling that out there!

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Let’s see I have this straight – Injection needles for drugs good, plastic straws for toddlers and young children bad?

Yeah, I think I have that down pat.  All over the nation in the bigger cities I read of “needle exchange programs” for people using illicit drugs who then drop them all over the place, including where young children play in parks and playground and schoolyards.  There’s even talk of setting up “shoot up rooms” so that illegal drug users can shoot up “in safety” – all the Progressives are perfectly fine with this. You know, “helping” those that are doing criminal acts so as to do more of it.  Hey, “No Stigma!” is all the rage.  It’s like taxes in reverse – tax that what you want less of while removing yet another brick in the Wall That Is Society; it’s just flashing yet another green light for yet more bad behavior. Add in condemnation for us that rightfully call out these accessories to illegal behavior for being wrong and you certainly get more of it.

But use a plastic bendy straw with which to suck on a cool libation…oooh, that’s BAD! You Polluter you, you hate the Earth, you hate turtles who get stuck with straws up their noses

Sidenote: my extremely dry humor Eldest quiped – “well, it shouldn’t have been doing a line of coke in the ocean, should it?” to which my rejoinder was “how’d it stay dry?” But I’m off topic.

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Notable Quote – Tom Palmer

“As you go through life, chances are almost 100 percent that you act like a libertarian. You might ask what it means to “act like a libertarian.” It’s not that complicated. You don’t hit other people when their behavior displeases you. You don’t take their stuff. You don’t lie to them to trick them into letting you take their stuff, or defraud them, or knowingly give them directions that cause them to drive off of a bridge. You’re just not that kind of a person.

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Notable Quote – Mona Charen

(emphasis mine):

…What Valenti and other feminists do not see is that many of the traits they despise in modern men — for example, their expectation that they are “entitled to sexual attention” and their attraction to misogynist websites — are outgrowths of the sexual revolution that feminists themselves promoted. By devaluing marriage and family, feminists helped to create a world in which many men grow up without fathers. About 50 percent of American children will now spend some or all of their childhoods in a single-parent home.

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Kevin Landrigan of the Union Leader is blowing it out his other pie-hole – No, it didn’t

Kevin Landrigan“Thanks, Skip. That should have gone up a while ago but let me know if you’re still seeing an old version.”

Ayup. Er, no.  That was Trent Spiner, Executive Editor of the Union Leader telling me that, like in Animal House, ALL IS WELL! Nothing to see here….move along. It went up a while ago. Again, nope. I started to get that feeling someone was trying to do a stonewall stand. Open and transparent?  If that were true, the following didn’t have to be written:

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You’d think that having a plastic straw would be as bad as having a modern sporting rifle

Liberals think the two are the same.  After all, like all of us who cling to our Bibles and guns, we’re all (supposedly) saying the same thing about straws.

(for the uninitiated, the saying is Molon Labe; search for it here on the ‘Grok).  And horror of horrors, there’s another way that these evil, nasty, plastic straw and “assault rifles” (as opposed to

“assault hags” who strike senior citizens simply because POLITICS) are the same:

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Speaking of Straws and “assault rifles”, the Laconia Daily Sun decided to pull a Union Leader

In the same way that the Union Leader decided to change the common language concerning past and current, The Laconia Daily Sun tried to deflect from their bad wordsmithing by blaming it on others.  To wit, this article with “assault rifle” (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Judge finds probable cause in felony weapons possession case
By Michael Mortensen

A Superior Court judge found Thursday that Laconia police had probable cause to arrest a Laconia man in June on multiple counts of being a felon in possession dangerous weapons. Thomas Coelho Jr. is charged with possession of an assault rifle, four handguns, and a pair of metallic knuckles. The weapons were taken on June 12 and 13 from an apartment on Strafford Street, in Laconia, which Coelho shared with Katelyn Stimson, also known Katelyn Lewis. Judge James D. O’Neill III issued the ruling shortly after the conclusion of Coelho’s probable hearing which had been continued from July 10.

Really, one of those EVIL assault rifles?  A fully automatic rifle (which the military would use) or select fire (semi-automatic, 3 round burst, or full auto) assault rifle?  After all, words have SPECIFIC meanings…

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So when Republican Governors advance the Democrat agenda, the expected thing happens

“I’m so angry that he put us in this situation. I’m in no mood to help him right now.”

Governor Rick ScottThis still applies when Republican elected officials do things contrary to what their conservative bases believe in, especially if they were the edge that put their butts into said electoral seats in the first place. Yet, in effect, they make the political calculus that in the long run, it won’t hurt them and rely on that hackneyed phrase to get them through:

Where else are they going to go?

And then smirk.  Problem is, it doesn’t seem to be working for Florida Governor Rick Scott as he’s now vying to become a US Senator (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Scott’s approval rating topples after signing gun control bills

Gov. [Rick] Scott saw a sharp drop in approval in the second quarter of 2018, the latest Morning Consult poll shows, a plummet that political analysts are attributing to his decision earlier this year to tighten the state’s gun laws. …

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Funny, I never heard back from US Senator Elizabeth Warren when I emailed her back

333.  275.  185.  290.  124.  210.

That’s my latest sampling of how many days it took the National Guard to federally recognize the promotions of its servicemembers after those promotions had already been fully approved by their state command.   Just to be clear: these officers start doing the work of their new rank the day their promotions are approved – they just don’t get the pay increase or the time-in-grade credit until the Washington bureaucracy processes the papers.

120806_elizabeth_warren_605_apLike I’ve been saying lately, I get stuff from all over and from a lot of people.  Including a lot of Democrats.  You see, they all think I can be influenced because I’m a “registered Independent”.  Go ahead and chortle over that one – I’ll wait.

So, the US Senator from MA, Elizabeth “You didn’t build that” Warren sends me a LOT of emails.  Funny that, so do a lot of other Democrats; most of their names also keep being shoved into the Prez Wannabee mirror machine. But I digress. So Warren sent the above (in part) to me back on July 4th (full email after the jump)

So, she’s railing against the ineffectiveness of Government.  Big Government.  A Big, Sprawling, Paper Overridden, Slow as Molassas Government.  Imagine that….oh wait!

Huh? A rant from this Uber of Ubberest-Progressives (not many Progressives are to her Left, except perhaps that ninny 28 year old from the Bronx, but that’s another post)??? So I wrote back:

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Tales from the BudComm – So how do you rectify those two statements, Sean?

BudgetAs I said in the last issue in this Tales from the BudComm series, I became real concerned when freshman Joe Wernig first said, and then Chair Sean Murphy assented, that we weren’t supposed to be changing GL accounts – the line items in the “recommendations” (verbiage from RSA 32) that the School District / Municipality give to the BudComm.  The troublesome verbiage in the transcript is after the jump.

So this past meeting, I decided to pin Sean Murphy down on his assent on Wernig’s supposition that changing any amount is MicroManagement and that’s no our job.  Either we do change the GL Line item amounts because we think that the recommendations are too high (or too low), or what are we doing is a farce and waste of time.  And I told him that.  Here’s the snippet from the hour long meeting when Sean Murphy recognized me during the meeting to raise the issue.

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Kevin Landrigan of the Union Leader is blowing it out his other pie-hole – Initial Response….and the Retort

Kevin Landrigan“He’s got Rand Paul, the federal Gun Owners of America, and “the leaders of GraniteGrok” on his side.

Some of you already know the outcome of the Union Leader claiming, with no basis whatsoever, that “leaders of GraniteGrok” were already behind Andy Sanborn in the NH CD-1.  That would be me and as I said here, that’s an assumption that Kevin Landrigan, crack political reporter with decades of experience, made.  We all know what Ass-u-me means, don’t we?

For those that don’t, let me put out the email trail.

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Liberals believe in sex over God

Or is it that their god IS sex? No, that isn’t quite right. It’s just that they believe they ARE their own god(s).

Which CD-2 GOP Candidate said “Government’s job is to provide opportunity for all”?

Again, I get stuff.  Last Thursday, the Cheshire County Republican Committee held a debate for the Republicans vying to be the NH GOP victor in the primary in September for CD-2.  What was brought to my attention was this line (video starts at 11:45 into the event):

“Government’s job is to provide opportunity for all of us.”

Let that sink in for a second.

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