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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.

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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Kevin Landrigan of the Union Leader is blowing it out his other pie-hole – The Demand

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

Well, of course I wasn’t going to let this go by the boards.  Nor am I the type to be silent.  So you do know what I did, right? Of course you do: I sent an email to both Kevin Landrigan and Trent Spiner (the Executive Editor of the Union Leader) (emphasis mine):

From: “skipdcm” <Skip@GraniteGrok.com>
To: klandrigan@unionleader.com; TSpiner@UnionLeader.com
Sent: 7/24/2018 9:26:24 AM
Subject: Retraction of a falsehood

I wish to bring this to your attention: http://www.unionleader.com/Kevin-Landrigans-Granite-Status-Self-financed-1st-CD-GOP-hopeful-suddenly-drops-out-07192018

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

Kevin Landrigan, you nor anyone else from the Union Leader, ever contacted me for this deliberatively false statement. I hereby demand a retraction from you and the Union leader both as a separate post on your front page as well as a retraction within the article itself.

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Kevin Landrigan of the Union Leader is blowing it out his other pie-hole

Update: I just left a scathing vmail for the UL head honcho and Publisher, Joe McQuaid demanding retractions on the UL front page, within Landrigan’s article, and in their print edition.  Let’s see what happens.
Update 2: From Trent Spiner, Exec. Editor, UL @ 1:36pm (my email was at 9:26am) – “…we certainly understand you have not endorsed this cycle and I appreciate you bringing the issue to my attention. We will be issuing a correction shortly”.  I’m still waiting for it…
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I want a retraction from Landrigan and the UL and will be demanding such.

Kevin Landrigan

What am I talking about?  This: “He’s got Rand Paul, the federal Gun Owners of America, and leader of GraniteGrok on his side.”

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Question: GraniteGrok Meetups – Poll results

GrokSignal

Ok, ok – I’m a bit late with the results so here they are!  I asked four questions about doing GraniteGrok meetup where we Groksters would set some times up to physically meet with our readers:

  • When should they be held?
  • Chaos/ad hoc or slightly structured / agenda’d?
  • Location, Location, Location: where to have them?
  • Wallet time: would folks be ok with a cover price to meet expenses?

Hey, we’d do these for you – you OUGHT to have a say in these, right?  Well, here’s the answers you gave so let me tell you what we’ll do!

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“How are you responding to the pressures of life?”

This past Sunday, Pastor Brian Green had an apt object lesson in his sermon – I thought I’d share this all with you. “…by being in the water, they changed the water.” The full sermon, for context, is here.

CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic – Ed Naile, Chair of CNHT

Ed is the Chair of the Coalition of NH Taxpayers who puts on the Annual Picnic (aka, “Old Home Day for Conservatives). For decades, he and CNHT have been champions for taxpayer issues be they local (e.g., fighting the “good ole’ boys” networks in small NH towns, or local school boards / municipal committees that have gone off the “RSA reservation”, or local politicians seeking to enrich themselves as taxpayers expense) or state-wide (the foremost expert of voter fraud in NH).  In fact, that’s how he led off

After the jump are the other videos, especially about Keith Hanson and The Winslows (and what the town they live in is doing to them illegally):

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RRftSotRP – I get stuff. Third lesson: “I won’t participate with Republicans…”

NH GOP Republican State CommitteeToday is going to be a very busy day, so just a quick continuing thought on the missive I received that was ‘preached’ at a still fairly recent GOP meeting.  The author, I remind you, admonished the assembled crowd that they were “not allowed” to audio or video record their speech……then left handouts of the talking points on a table.

This is how I and the other Groksters end up getting stuff because stupenagels still believe that when you ask, secrets are kept.  Yeah, especially in this Internet age. And when you leave stuff openly on a table.

RRftSotRP Missive - back - 600 Part 2

To the first part: let’s make this real easy and get to the root cause.  It is not because people don’t support Trump, do support Trump; it does, however, all come back to this basic fact:

Winning is only a precursor; what you do afterwards is more important

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CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic – Kimberly Morin

The Fiahcrakah (that’s Firecracker to you Flatlanders) – Kimberly is a lady that is never still or quiet.  Proprietor of NH Political Buzz, she also writes for us here at GraniteGrok and is the current President of the Womens’ Defense League of NH (“WDLNH”).  She is never a lady without a few bon (as well as mal) mots floating on her lips nor from her keyboard.  She is “on” all the time and served as the last speaker of the day at the CNHT Annual Picnic (aka “Old Home Day for Conservatives”) and you will enjoy her talk!

Previous video:

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NH GOP – just GIVING money to the opposition. Again. Once again, the phrase “The Stupid Party”…

motorcycle circle of death…is running circles in my head like the above motorcycle of death circle.  WHY is the NH GOP so self-defeating?  Do they not even care about what the “campaign battlespace” looks like?  Wasn’t NH GOP Committeeman Steve Duprey (owner of five hotels in Concord) willing to step in to host such an event (er,  skuttlebutt is that he doesn’t cut much of a deal for hosting things like this, especially for allied conservative groups.  Then again, he gives money to Planned Parenthood, supports other Democrat issues; and we’re back to “The Stupid Party” again in electing people that don’t care much for what the NH GOP Platform says it stands for but I digress.  Again.):

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

Chris SununuThat from an ally over NH Gov. Chris Sununu signing HB1319, the latest Bathroom Bill (aka “today I feel like a women even without the lady bits so I’m going into the ladies room”) and HB587 (gotta let gays be gays and no talking them out of it) which is a sop to the gay lobby and is an affront to both the First Amendment and NH’s Constitution in the matter of denying free speech and free conscious. I wrote this at the time:

So Governor Chris Sununu just told his Conservative and Faith-Based base to buzz off. You just told those that brung you to the dance that you’re in love with another. OK, buzz off we shall – like a buzzsaw. You asked we’ll deliver.

So how do I tell him and NH State Rep Mindi Messmer apart, who is running for US Congress with pretty much the same message

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Data Point – CO2 emissions: who loves us, baby!

Certainly not the rest of the world that seemingly looks to government to solve their problems.  Here in the US, we look to ourselves and the entrepreunerial and innovative frackers that have unleashed technology to spring God’s energy gift, natural gas, to us are to be thanked – they’ve made it possible to lead the … Read more

Dr. James H. Kelly, M.D. – candidate for NH State House, Hillsborough County District 27

Note: Lt. Col Dr. Kelly is running against  dinosaur RINO, Carolyn Gargasz.  More on this pestilent RINO after the jump.  In the meantime, PLEASE vote for Dr. Kelly!

James Kelly Hillsborough 27

James H. Kelly, M.D.

84 Crestwood Drive, Hollis NH 03049 cell 603•204•7897
jimkellyvictory2018@gmail.com
Republican candidate for State Representative, Hillsborough County District 27

  • 66 years old, originally from Levittown, New York
  • Bachelor’s degree, University of Vermont
  • M.D. University of Bologna
  • Residency in Family Practice, University of Wisconsin
  • Primary care physician began practicing in Hillsborough county in 1989, Hollis resident since 1999
  • Lieutenant Colonel, New Hampshire Army National Guard, commissioned 2010
  • Deputy Commander for Clinical Services for the state of New Hampshire
  • 2012 deployed Operation Enduring Freedom; 2015 Operation Spartan Shield

Supports:

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