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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 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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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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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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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

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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