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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.

A Blogline of the Day. Plus taking the ‘Grok to the next level

First, just let me leave this here:

Lions Eat Suspected Rhino Poachers On South African Game Reserve.

Just(ice) desserts.

(H/T: Instapundit)

I have been busy lately.  REAL busy, so blogging has been light from me and my thanks to Steve and Mike for picking up the load.  Part of that will be see tomorrow at the CNHT Annual Picnic (consider it Old Home Day for Conservatives) – political issues, political speakers, candidates for political office, and a whole LOT of conservative activists yakking away during the event. We will be attempting to livestream the event.  Oh, before I forget:

12 noon to 3pm at the Young-Richardson American Legion #59 (538 W Main St., Hillsborough, New Hampshire 03244). Tickets are $15 for adults (go here or at the door)

About that “attempt”? Part (but only part) of taking GraniteGrok to the “next level”?  Yeah, this:

Livestream Studio

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Jay Matthews – reconsider your “Wood Welfare” please

Free MarketsI just read Steve’s post North Country “Wood Welfare” and went to the NHPR article he links to and pulled this additional quote from “beleagured” logger Jay Matthews

“I’m concerned with my electrical bill like anybody, but … I think we’d probably be better off paying a little more money in our rate and then still have the logging community working, [rather than] to put ’em all out of business,” Matthews says.

Note the assumed all inclusive “…we” part – only if you are a logger.  WHY should the rest of us pay more for your lifestyle/business model via enforced corporate welfare?  I’m out of work (but working on a plan) so why should you demand that *I* and others like me have to pay more for you to keep your company going?  Fairness?  I don’t think so. As a

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Kathy Sullivan tells us her Democrat Party’s don’t stink

NH Papers Please - No Free SpeechNormally I either bypass her Op-Eds in the Union Leader completely or just glance through them.  They generally are the usual drivel that would come from a former NH Democrat Party chair (and a DNC vice-chair). Don’t worry, I generally think JHo’s (former NH GOP chair) to be similar screeds.  In this case, though, I found at least the premise of the Op-Ed to be both true and false at the same time concerning campaign finance report.

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Oh, by the way Kathy Sullivan? About the fact that all Democrats are now Socialists?

Newsweek All Socialists now

OK, so Newsweek was only right about the Left – I dare say that only US Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) is about the only Blue Dog Democrat (think centrist, even if Left of that center).

So, Kathy Sullivan – tell me this: with respect to “truth in advertising” (a form of speech as well, right??), is the Democrat Party going to rebrand itself as THE Socialist Party of the US?  After all, look at all the hooha over Democrat Socialist of America rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? And that the current Democrat National Committee Chair Tom Perez openly stated that this openly Socialist candidate is the future of your Party. Add to that the ideas (and political speech) from YOUR Democrat candidates Levi Sanders and Steve Marchand who are right there with her? And that Molly Kelly isn’t all that far behind them?

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BlogQuestion of the Day – Can Kathy Sullivan answer this question?

If Socialists Understand the Free-Rider Problem, Then Why Are They Socialists? That being against “free-riders” when it comes to union dues but then, again,  going to the mat in that welfare recipients SHOULD be “free-riders”? (H/T: Cafe Hayek)

Notable Quote – Jacob Viner

Beyond, moreover, its material benefits, it is clear that for Adam Smith laissez faire had ethical or moral value in that it left to the individual unimpaired “liberty” to which he had a natural right. It is quite probable, therefore, that Adam Smith would have rejected an extensive program of state regulation of economic enterprise … Read more

I guess St. Paul Minnesota’s liberal mayor (Melvin Carter) never contemplated these words

Founding Fathers Pledge

Fomenting a rebellion against the most powerful country in the world at the time was no small feat or undertaking.  Realizing what most likely would happen to them (after the jump, from FoundingFathers.com) or their families (war was a full faceted endeavor – scorched earth).  They knew the seriousness of what they had just done and they knew the consequences.  Imagine their pain, sorrow, AND outright ANGER of an American elected official choosing to celebrate a failed State’s birthday while ignoring our own?  Heck, forget about their anger, what about OUR’S?

Melvin Carter should be shamed and be ashamed. And then not “permit” individuals to provide for a community celebration of the second most important birthday we’ve ever seen?

Folks, this is the insidious result of “multiculturalism” – the failed idea that every culture is morally

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Independence Firearm Week!

Independence Firearms Week

After all, it was the fact that the British Army was sent disarm the Colonists that gave rise to The Shot Heard ‘Round the World – leading to our Revolutionary War that helped gain us our Independence.  However, if the anti-gunners of today like NH State Rep Katherine Rogers (that are all about civilian disarmament) were alive and kvetching back then, we’d still be singing “God Save The Queen” as all males at that time either had their own “weapon of war” (including repeating arms) or the town had to supply one.  She would have confiscated them forthwith.

Oh, WAIT – that would have made her a RedCoat and a traitor to the nascent American country, wouldn’t it?

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Well, I guess this answers The Question of “what is the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist?”

This is the question that has been around for a while now that many high level Democrats refused to answer.  Now, as we are seeing, they’re fine in coming out of the Communist closet (as it were).  As Steve pointed out, “Democrat Socialist” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her Congressional District Primary in NY by knocking off a long term (and in line,perhaps, to replace Pelosi as the next Speaker of the US House IF the Democrat/Socialists take over the House). Hey, the “Progressive” (actually Socialists) Caucus in the US House is the largest group the Democrats have – and have been advocating for a stealth coup of the US Constitutional values for years. And this weekend, with all of protests of those that patrol and defend our border, the Democrat Left has basically got into everyone’s faces in telling the rest of us we are racists for supporting ICE and the Border police and if you have “evolved” away from American values, the Democrat Socialists of America (that Red Rose below is their logo – it’s red due to all of the Socialist victims that were collateral damage during their Long Marches to Utopias that never existed or attained) are demanding you vote for them:

DSA Abolish Prosecute ICE Vote Socialist

“Abolish and Prosecute ICE” – I don’t even get 

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And more words from a Democrat Socialist, Levi Sanders. Guess what’s missing from his rant?

Levi Sanders and Brother from another mother Barry-O
Levi Sanders and ideological brother from another mother Barry-O

“What you just heard is that Chris Pappas doesn’t believe in a ‘Medicare For All’ single-payer healthcare system,” Sanders said. “So I want to ask Chris and all the other people who don’t believe in it:  How do you plan to deal with the issues of co-payments, deductibles and premiums?”

“I talk to people all over the district and they tell me they have stomach aches and anxiety disorders from worrying about what’s happening with their healthcare,” Sanders said. “We need a health care system that is free for every man, woman and child. That means no co-payments, no deductibles and no premiums.”

Which translates to “no self-responsibility”.  In essence, a complete reversal of the American ideal of

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Data Point – And it wasn’t Socialism that caused this!

“In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%.”

 

…In the last quarter century, more than 1.25 billion people escaped extreme poverty – that equates to over 138,000 people (i.e., 38,000 more than the Parisian crowd that greeted Father Wresinski in 1987) being lifted out of poverty every day. If it takes you five minutes to read this article, another 480 people will have escaped the shackles of extreme of poverty by the time you finish. Progress is awesome. In 1820, only 60 million people didn’t live in extreme poverty. In 2015, 6.6 billion did not.

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Notable Quote – well, it sure ain’t Jeb Bradley or Chris Sununu

“Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?” -Barry Goldwater They LOVE spending other peoples’ money…and like I’ve said for years, don’t listen to what politicians SAY, watch what they … Read more

Does former Supreme Court Justice Kennedy know something, or

…just being observant? Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Age: 85 (5 years past average retirement) Stephen Breyer – Age: 79 (1 year before average retirement) Clarence Thomas – Age: 70 (10 years before average retirement) Samuel Alito – Age: 68 (12 years before average retirement) Sonia Sotomayor – Age: 64 (16 years before average retirement) John Roberts – Age: 63 (17 years … Read more

Thanks for sending more businesses to NH, Charlie!

Minimum wage ladder rungsAnd yet another Republican delivering a win for the Democrat / Socialist agenda.  Steve had the goods (paid family leave) in expanding the Welfare State in MA and pushing the Socialist agenda of “Don’t worry – you don’t have to provide for yourself as everyone else will be coerced to take take of you.”. Ayup, furthering the Progressive mantra that you don’t have to be self-responsible and plan ahead for you and your family. And they wonder why we constantly beat on the GOP?

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker Signs Bill to Raise Minimum Wage to $15

Gov. Charlie Baker (R) of Massachusetts signed a bill Thursday to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023.
The new law will set the wage to $11 per hour and then raise the pay rate in steps until it hits $15 in five years. The wage for tipped workers will also increase but at a lower rate, going from $3.75 to $6.75 by 2023, according to Mass Live.

The $15 wage will match California for the highest minimum wage in the nation by 2023.

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