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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.

Grok Special Interview: Jane Cormier,Candidate for NH House – Questions 3 & 4: Too many uninvolved people? What are your values?

Having gone over the preliminaries questions of “have you done this before” and ‘why are you running” with Jane Cormier (running for the NH House in Belknap 8 – Alton, Barnstead, and Gilmanton), from her answers came the next two questions (heh!  It is ALWAYS better to ask questions from what people themselves have already … Read more

Well, while Judith Spang wants Government to take your water rights right from underneath you (literally), she sold her share to the Govt for $500K

Subtitle:      Once again, Progressive hypocrisy…..Do I say and not what I do, and never mind that other hand….

OR:                    Ya gotta love it – siphoning off taxpayer money for private interest groups for their hobby.

OK, just one more (I promise):   FOLLOW THE MONEY!

And in this case, LOTS of money followed Judith Spang, (NH State Representative from Durhan, Democrat). While Ken Eyring of the Southern NH 9-12 group is defending our property rights against Durham Democrat Judith Spang, I got a tip in from a loyal reader concerning NH Rep. Spang:

The US Agriculture office 2 Madbury Road, Durham, NH paid Judith over $500,000 for a wetlands easement on her land in Merrimack County so if we all own some of the water draining from her land do we get paid also?

Really – half a million water-bucks? She gets to “sell” her private property for sake of keeping water clean!  So, I googled her (all emphasis mine) and found a pattern:

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Notable Quote – Milton Friedman (on the occasion of the birth of this Nobel Prize winning economist)

What the market does is to reduce greatly the range of issues that must be decided through political means, and thereby to minimize the extent to which government need participate directly in the game.  The characteristic feature of action through political channels is that it tends to require or enforce substantial conformity.  The great advantage … Read more

Irony – do you see it?

Aw, cry me a river of tears!  I got this from a friend (wink, wink) from the National Director for Socialist Youths division of the Democrat Socialists of America.  Does anyone else see the irony in the plea ( reformatted, emphasis mine) Invest Your Socialist Cash in the Future: Youth Scholarship Fund Running Low If … Read more

NH Rep Judith Spang replies to Ken Eyring – defends the taking of water rights from property owners. Ken rebuts

Earlier this week, I had put up a Letter by Ken Eyring concerning Gov. Lynch’s Water Sustainability Commission that without any authorizing legislation or statute, is in the process of taking away your water rights.  I wrote the following preamble to that Letter:

Did you know that there is an executive commission that was set by Gov. Lynch to talk about water?  No big deal you say – yes it is.  Many homes in NH, if not most, depend on the water on their land for wells – or to be more technically correct, under your land.  Common law has been that what resides under your land belongs to you.  Period.  How do you think all those “shale millionaires” are now rich?  Wildcatters and energy companies are paying big bucks to explore and to frack the natural gas that lays under their land – and because they own it.

This “Lynch’s Last Gift” (“LLG”) wishes to administratively change this.  No House debate.  No Senate debate.  Just poorly noticed “listening session” (mostly during the day when ordinary people are working – but certainly attended by those that have NO problem in determining that your water belongs to them, er, all of us – the Collective.  THEY may not own the water, but they, sure as shootin’, are going to be the ones that will make the rules on how you can (or cannot) use that water.

That is under your property.  That you paid for when you bought your property (know it or not).

Well, Ken got a return letter back from the Commission: NH Representative Judith Spang (Democrat from Durham in Strafford District 7, NH Rep since 1998) and presents the basic argument of “it’s for the common good” (another one of the basic Liberal philosophies, like “You don’t need that” and “But it’s good for you”):

Dear Ken,

I believe you are misconstruing the statements made by the Commission, which are pretty broad and not aimed at your private well, by and large.

I have been the Chair of the 6-year legislative Groundwater Commission that looked at many of the same issues.  We found that:

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More on Obama’s ” If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen” – Progessive collective need

I’ve been wanting to put this post up, but it just keeps being one of those that just slips away each evening.  Certainly it is clear that there is a divide, nay, a chasm between those of the Left and those on the Right.  That chasm is for the future direction of the United States.

  • Liberal / Statists / Progressives / Socialists want the country to move forward – to a utopia that holds the Collective as the highest ideal
  • They also want self annointed experts to make the major decisions for everyone else.
  • Conservatives / Constitutionalists / Libertarians wish to move the country forward – but know that to do so, we must first go back to Constitutional values as elucidated by the Founders.
  • We want you to be able to make your own decisions.

Obama famously said that “we are five days from fundamentally transforming the United States”.  His vision is clear:  unlike all of US History, he wishes to completely subsume all of Society under the thumb of Government.  Why is this a fundamental transformation?  Remember your history – the Declaration and the Constitution were all about protecting Individual Rights against an encroaching Government.  Society was to have a Government that served it and not the other way  around.

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Grok Special Interview: Jane Cormier,Candidate for NH House-Question 1 – Why are you running? 2-Why is “where’re we going” dangerous?

A little while ago, we were directed to a video that was taken when the “Values Bus” rolled into NH (sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council).  While I recognized Karen Testerman and Phyllis Woods in the video, the person that was behind the podium at the time was someone that I had never seen before.  As I listened to her, I realized a couple of things:

  • This person speaks well
  • This person knows her mind and what she believes
  • She’s a first time candidate – this could be a good thing!
  • My gosh – she’s a female version of Jack Kimball!

Why that comparison? Forceful, a take no prisoner style of speaking, and you’d be hard pressed to not understand what she is for.  So, we got in contact with her and did an interview with her.

  • Question 1: From the Values Bus talk, you seemed well at ease behind the podium and in front of the camera; where does that come from and how will that translate in answering the question of “Why are you running”?
  • Question 2: “A Change of Course”: Where did we start from and where are we heading to, and why is where we are going, dangerous?

  

Why Running?                                 Why is “where we are heading” dangerous?

Jane’s campaign website is here: Jane4NewHampshire.com

The “Value Bus” video is after the jump:

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Death Penalty and the cult of Fame and Celebrityhood – and James Holmes

James Holmes in CourtMake no mistake – our pop culture is wrapped up in the thrall and cult of celebrityhood.  The quote “”In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.” by Andy Warhol can be very true for little or no reason at all for the person who has been thrust into the limelight by circumstances beyond their control.

However, with the advent of media outlets like US and  People magazines, the normal assortment of tabloids newspapers, and TV shows of dribble like Entertainment Tonite and the Insider, people like the Kardashians can be famous for, well, being famous.  Sex tape-tress Paris Hilton has made her moment in the sun last way longer than the tape that first made her infamous; being an heiress to the Hilton fortune did not hinder but she has made some accurate business decision that have given her a standalone career.

However, there are those that will be “stupid”and do much to gain and retain that spotlight – even if it means being remembered for acute evilness:  think Charlie Manson.  All these years after the Tate Murders and he still is famous.  No, he’s still in jail and having been denied parole so often, he will most likely die in prison.  But he will draw his dying breath knowing that he is (about to be “was”) famous and that his name and actions were famous during his lifetime.  Sometimes, that is all that is needed for a loser.

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Mental Doodlings – Really? In celebrating Britian’s vast history, the National Health Service (NHS) is a cultural pearl for the Olympics opening?

NHS Dancing Nurses Bed jumping kidsFor whatever reason, I am just not “into” the Olympics this year – but TMEW is.  In fact, the cable box DVR is getting an upgrade to a multi-room simply for being able to store more HD content AND the ability to record more than two channels at once (as multiple outlets are reporting on different sports).

She made a big deal of having to watch all of the currently recorded content to clear the disk for the Olympic shows, especially last night’s opening of the Games.  For me, it was a waste of time – a mishmashed jumbled of ideas that just didn’t flow well together – this from an Academy Award winning director?  Dennis Boyle had to have been on some strange stuff to dream up this disaster.  Worse, TMEW agreed with me.

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Where’s the Freedom in all this “perfectible union”?

Obama:

“And I confess the progress didn’t come quickly, and it did not come easily,” President Obama said about his time as a community organizer in Chicago. “Sometimes it didn’t come at all. There were times where I thought about giving up and moving on. But what kept me going day in and day out was the same thing that has sustained the Urban League all these years. The same thing that sustains all of you. And that is the belief that in America, change is always possible. That our union may not be perfect, but it is perfectible.”

“That we can strive over time, through effort and sweat and blood and tears until it is the place we imagine. It may come in fits and starts, at a pace that can be slow and frustrating, but if we are willing to push through all the doubt and the cynicism and the weariness, then yes, we can form that more perfect union,” Obama said.

A more perfect union.  The problem is that this lies at the heart of Progressivism – they keep believing that THEY have the ability, that THEY should have the power, to form that more perfect union. A more perfect union – and what would that be?  In a nutshell, it is a collective utopia – that everyone shares the same values, that all share goals, and that all share an equality of outcomes.

In essence, it is the antithesis of  why and how our Founders wanted or designed for our Republic.  Equality for them was for equality before the law and opportunity; Progressives want equality in all areas along with a libertine culture.  Yes, circumstances can prevent the Founders vision from happening but a Law is a law – judges and juries should be slicing a case according to meeting or violating that law.  Unfortunately, it has becomes a “win at any cost” – it seemingly has lost sight of “the truth and nothing but the truth”.  Still, the State was to be a neutral observer in all this and its primary role was to protect our individual freedoms, liberties, and Rights.  Sadly, we seemingly have lost sight of this as Progressives have morphed government from being an umpire to that of being one that determines what behaviors are correct and which are wrong.

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GrokTV Special Interview-NH State Senator Andy Sanborn (District 9) – Question 4: Administrative based taxes: have all taxes, fees, and fines set by the Legislature?

Increasingly, we see NH State Agencies setting their own level of taxation (fees, fines, et al) outside of authorization of the Legislature.  It is the Executive Branch to self-fund and making itself independent of the taxation authority of the Legislature.  And of course, it goes without saying that while Legislators are accountable to the voters, … Read more

EMail Doodlings – Presidential warning still relevant, part 3

Yeah, I may be getting repetitive, but remember – when education actually accomplished something, you memorized the facts and THEN started the “critical thinking” part of the education.  Consider class in session for those that don’t want to vote for Romney because “their guy” lost in the Repub Prez Primary: It was said, halfway through … Read more

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