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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.

CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic – the Advocacy groups

CNHTOr non-profits.  Or special interest groups.  Whatever you wish to call them, right or left, people have interests and these groups are the essence of what de Tocqueville was so amazed about when he toured America back in the 1830s – the ease and speed in which ordinary Americans voluntarily banded together to solve a problem without government needing to get involved.  This has been part of the hallmark of American Exceptionalism – people governing themselves and doing for themselves and others without being told or outsourcing that interest to government.  Here are the groups:

603 Alliance: Jim Kofalt

 

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So, what exactly does PeopleFinders do?

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Well, PeopleFinders can help you with a range of information that can prove invaluable to many people. This includes everything from public records and criminal records through to reverse phone lookup information. This has become an invaluable service that is used by both professionals and individuals that need to look up information or even trace a person or phone number.

With the evolution of technology and our growing reliance on the internet, it comes as no surprise that this type of service has become so invaluable. Imagine you are a company director that wants to find out more information about potential job candidates. Obviously, you want to ensure you take on the right person for the job but this isn’t always easy. When you have access to public records and criminal background check facilities, it suddenly becomes a whole lot easier to get this information. You then have far greater peace of mind with regards to whether this is the right candidate for your company.

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Quick Thought: CNN gets it wrong again!

SHOT: CNN Sports Says Social Justice Warrior Athletes Seen as Less than Human CHASER: Wrong.  It’s not “…Less than Human“. It IS “More annoying than Humanly possible” Again, I used to watch as an ESCAPE from politics rather than being preached at from a Socialist viewpoint.  Why would I lend my eyeballs and money in supporting … Read more

Yeah, here’s the real Democrat Socialist position

Yet, they are supposed to be the “nice” brand of Socialism? Believe that and I’ve got a whole LOT of bridges that I’d like to sell you. They ARE the lipstick on the pig and the only freedoms you’d have are only ones they’d deign to give to you.  On a good day. If they feel … Read more

Blogline of the Day – What they fear most they first seek to destroy

Democrats Don’t Fear Brett Kavanaugh. They Fear the Constitution. OK, let me try to write short on this one for a change: Do I really need to explain why? When the Left is reduced to calling him a “frat boy” because of his first name, you KNOW they got nuttin’ and he isn’t the real … Read more

CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic – the NH State Senate candidates edition

CNHTFive (out of the possible 24 NH State Senate District) candidates showed up (listed alphabetically):

  • Gary Daniels is running for NH State Senate District 11.
  • Carla Gericke is running in NH State Senate District 20
  • Dan Hynes is running for NH State Senate District 9.
  • Bill Kuch is running for NH State Senate District 16.
  • Ruth Ward is running for NH State Senate District 8.

Here is Gary – the others are after the jump.

There were a number of no-shows (although Bob Guida (District 2), while absent, at least sent in a Letter to be read).  Which left the following no-shows:

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CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic – “Send us your stuff!”

CNHTNo, I wasn’t on the roster of speakers but I decided to try anyways – and Keith Hanson of WNTK, the MC for the CNHT Annual Taxpayer Picnic, allowed me a few moments.  As I pointed out here, I’ve been making this offer for a while:

So, knowing the reach of GraniteGrok, why not use it?  So, if you didn’t catch my message here – listen again!  So far, only Becky Bailey for NH House Grafton 15 (as far as candidates are concerned) and Constitution Camp (as far as non-profits are concerned) have taken me up on my offer.  Still there, still exists, but start sending them in!

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CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic – NH’s Executive Council candidates: Jane Cormier and Jim Beard

CNHTTo be honest, I would have thought a few more prospective Republican candidates would have shown up at the CNHT Annual Taxpayer Picnic:

  • Like my Exec. Councilor, Joe Kenney who has a primary with Kim Strathdee in District 1 (yes, my personal “please vote for Joe Kenney”)
  • Russell Prescott (who went to the Dark Side by proposing a whopping increase in the highway toll taxes – maybe that’s why he was a no-show)
  • Ted Gatsas – guess “His Honor” decided that CNHT was a bit too low to visit

BUT!  Jim Beard who is running unopposed in District 2 showed up and Jane Cormier, the soon to be “Singing Councilor” (Sidenote: She will be singing the national anthem at the beginning of the Manchester Fisher Cat game on August 3rd.) were present and willing to speak to the crowd:

   

Previous video:

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Rick Notkin – candidate for NH State House, Belknap County District 2

Rick NotkinRecently I was asked why I was running for NH State Representative. The easy answer would be that I was corralled into it. Really, there was an open seat as one of the reps was not running for re-election so I had an opportunity to “put my money where my mouth was”, so to speak.

One of the main reasons that my wife and I moved to New Hampshire was the lower level of government intrusion into people’s lives. My overall view is supporting free-markets and individual liberty. I believe that when people have the freedom to engage in capitalism, the free market can solve many problems that arise. I also believe people should be able to run their own lives, as long as they don’t interfere with the rights of others.

Proponents of government programs and projects usually proclaim that given problems will be solved. “Leave it to us” actually seems to mean “you can’t handle it yourselves”. More insidiously, the actions (or inactions) of bureaucracies that are put in place to run the program often can’t reach the goals that were set.

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Palate Cleanser: Sometimes it’s nice to taunt spammers

Email Doodlings

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Really?  I know I have about 20 GB in email – I’m such a packrat!  But really, 99.9 GB? So I asked

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Yes, Jim Rubens and I had a bit of a dust up over his calling for Corporate Welfare

rubensSteve alluded to it here and I DID have the intention of putting up the thread but, well, with the start of putting in new technology, things rolled off my “table” as it were. It was all about Gov. Sununu doing the right thing and denying wood electrical generational plants a subsidy.  No, not one that would have come directly from the State of NH but one in which the State would force us all to give our own personal money to them via higher electrical costs.  The fact that the House and the Senate, and the Republicans therein, decided “This Is A Great Idea!” is awful, given the NH GOP Platform:

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Rebecca Bailey – candidate for NH State House, Grafton County District 15

Note: After 2 1/2 years, I am finally getting back “on the circuit” and getting to events.  When I do so, I have been offering to candidates that have been vetted to send me a quick blurb on who they are, what they are running for, and WHY they are running.  We at GraniteGrok have a decent sized voice here in NH – why not use it for the betterment of like minded folks?  So, Becky sent this so I’m keeping a promise made and putting it up

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Rebecca BaileyRebecca has lived forty plus years in Grafton County New Hampshire, fourteen of those years in the town of Piermont. Where she and her partner Robert, have raised five children.

Rebecca grew up in Lyme, New Hampshire where she was a member of the local 4H Club and showed cattle around the area. She was often seen on her grandparents farm and other farms in town, on construction sites with her father, and at church with her mother. These were the foundations for a strong work ethic, frugality, and the ethic of neighbor helping neighbor. Values that she holds to this day, values that she has passed down to her children.

Rebecca believes in small government, a government that works to protect peoples Constitutional rights, not infringe on them. She believes that government on all levels should use tax payers dollars with great care, not wasting their hard earned money on un-constitutional and frivolous spending. After all the government has no money, it is ours! Fiscal responsibility is paramount.

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CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic – The video!

CNHTActually, a whole bunch of videos – 32 to be exact.  That’s a lot of candidates and advocacy group that made their pitch to the assembled “family” members who were plentiful on Saturday (yes, it took me a day to process them.  Please note that “backups” were used to stitch things together as best as possible as sometime techie things didn’t quit go right as planned – apologies in advance). But hey, this is one of the main missions of the ‘Grok in doing the citizen journalism that the mainstream media refuses to do.

So, let’s start in the middle of the event and go right to the Chairman of CNHT’s first address to the crowd – Voter Fraud:

And we’ll circle back to the beginning of the event with the intro ceremonies including opening remarks by Keith Hanson, radio personality and host at WNTK (and now, a new Grokster!):

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CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic – Candidates for NH Governor

No, current GOP Governor Chris Sununu (only candidate in the NH GOP primary) was a no-show at this event (was it something we all said at an earlier “conservative Old Home Day meeting” that never happened?) but a potential rival did show up (albeit, late in the day) – Aaron Day and came well prepared to speak: … Read more

CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic – Candidates for US Congress in CD-1

Candidates aplenty during the CNHT Picnic (“Old Home Day for Conservatives” – you ought to be there next year!) and with Carol SEIU-Porter retiring (just long enough to get that beefy US Congress retirement plan!), the seat is wide open.  Boy, is it wide open: 6 Republicans – Michael Callis, Bruce Crochetiere, Jeffory W. Denaro, Eddie … Read more

CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic – Candidates for US Congress in CD-2

CNHTLike NH’s First Congressional District (NH CD-1), there are plenty of candidates to look at/worry over (depending on your political point of view) in CD-2. It is different than CD-1 where it is an open seat (again, Carol Shea-Porter has grabbed the Congressional retirement gold ring and bailed).

Self-proclaimed uber-Progressive Annie Kuster is gunning for another term. How quaint that term “uber-Progressive” as she was certainly that back when she first ran and now the Democrat Party is going full communism. After all, just ask the Berni-bros in the Democrat Socialists Of America wing. They are dumping ALL pretense of just being socialists and are loudly proclaiming the wonders and delights of full-on Communism while tactfully ignoring that the Full Monty version of their now beloved Communism also resulted in over 100 million deaths of their own citizens in putting it into place. But hey, that’s why they use that “broken eggs/omlette” stupidity.

But back to the Republican candidates running in CD-2.

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CNHT Picnic – Or as Thomas Edison once said…

dumpster fireYes, Steve set me up well (emphasis mine, heh!):

With almost no time to prepare we will be taking a test flight of some new equipment at this years CNHT Annual Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic in Hillsborough. If you are there, and you should be, we’ll be (most likely) set up in the far left corner from the main entrance (by the emergency exit). Come watch Skip wrinkle his brow as he looks over the top of his glasses and fusses with all the new stuff.

Well, a whole lot more than a wrinkled brow with hands waving and lots of muttering.  Back to Edison:

“I have not failed 10,000 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”

Or something like that as it seems he MAY have said something like that, or some derivative of that, or it’s just folklore.  Anyways, I found a whole bunch of ways to NOT make it all work (and spent an addition $900 in trying….sorta).  Sigh…good thing most engineers have backup systems in place.

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