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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.

Notable Quote – Thomas Babington Macaulay

Just for Steve on the 17th-century Scottish Highlanders: It is not strange that the haughty and warlike MacDonalds, despising peaceful industry, yet envying the fruits of that industry, should have fastened a succession of quarrels on the people of Inverness.  In the reign of Charles the Second, it had been apprehended that the town would … Read more

Occupy Wall Street – the Supporters list!

Well, Steve had the Occupy Wall Street rap sheet.  Now in accordance with my previous post, keep this in mind:     You can tell a lot about a person by the people they keep around or, those that support them. Well, here’s a list from Big Government of those that are going all in for … Read more

Occupy Wall Street – showing its true roots?

From the NY Post (emphasis mine):

Some 50 Occupy Wall Street protesters saw red yesterday — giving an enthusiastic welcome to a genuine communist.

Alex Callinicos, a professor of European Studies at Kings College in London, announced to his rapt audience, “I am a Marxist.’’

Asked if the upcoming revolution can be non-violent, he parroted the party line of the demonstrators, who call themselves the 99 percent of Americans lined up against the “1 percent’’ with power and money.

He said violence could be avoided only if the “1 percent accept the decisions of the 99 percent,’’ which he predicted would never happen.

True to form, this Leftist walked up to "the line" and let his audience listen between the syllables for the true message.  If he had really been truthful, he would have simply said "yes", but just couldn’t resist the Class Envy that Marxists (and many academics) posses.

"Accept"?  The entire underlying premise of this movement can be summed up in one phrase:

They stole it.  We’re gonna take it.

(notice I didn’t say "back") That is it. Simple, isn’t it?  And that makes everything leading from that perfectly legitimate.  Prosecutor, witness, jury, and judge – Marxists love to wrap these roles all up into themselves, and he does! 

Therefore it follows, since the 1% are thieves, they should be demonized.  And once demonized, they have surely already been convicted, right?  The final step?  They, the 1%, must be punished.

However, here’s their magic key – the good Marxist Professor provides for the ultimate "out" – on your knees and beg forgiveness.  Give us what we demand, and we will let you go (yeah, we saw how this worked out in the French Revolution and the Bolshevik one as well).  Give us what you have – we’ll let you quietly go. 

This is, in their terms, what Democracy looks.  We make the demands, you acquiesce.  Just like a Jr. High bully picking on a 4th grader on the way home.  How is this any different than the mobster saying "pretty store you have here – pity if something were to happen to your Mom".

In this Marxist mindset, the 1% must be punished but again, in their minds, this "out" allows them to feel blameless if the trigger needs to be pulled (or the bat swung or knife sharpened.  And WHERE is that darn guillotine!) .

Thus, being thieves and therefore must be punished, it marches lockstep to the next which is the taking.  And the good Professor Callinicos is the one issuing the call for it.

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“Maggie the Marxist” – she choose diapers over students??

I just shake my head at stuff like this; from the Daily Caller: “Diaper Need Awareness Day” comes on the heels of Connecticut Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s introduction of the “Diaper Investment and Aid to Promote Economic Recovery Act (DIAPER) Act,” which would provide diapers and supplies to low income families via child care providers … Read more

Let the NH Governor campaign begin (heh!)!

I have a feeling that this is gonna be a long (and fun) campaign with stuff whizzing back and forth.  It seems that Maggie Hassan is the front leader on the Democrat side (taking into account some of the undeclareds) and may well be the nominee.  Problem is, we believe her to be the antithesis of what the spirit of New Hampshire to be (and fits rather well with the Progressive mantra that Government should be as big as it has to be in order to make sure of equal outcomes vs equal opportunity (e.g., healthcare: MaggieCare, free market be damned), making sure Government gives you stuff instead of being self responsible and acting like an adult ("Diapers R NH Govt!"), and if you don’t like it, we’ll regulate your speech instead of honoring your right to free speech (HassanSpeech here and here). Live Free or Die makes no sense to the Progressive mindset.

Well, there was a spat in the Union Leader between Shrill Kathy Sullivan and Pat Hynes over that free speech (complete snippet after the jump) part:

Granite Staters will begin hearing from Hynes’ version of the Forum today when it unveils a radio ad going after the new Democratic candidate for governor, former state Sen. Maggie Hassan, just two days after she announced.The spot accuses her of supporting:

"more than 80 taxes and fee increases, including the LLC tax."

"Hassan even hatched a harebrained scheme to have state bureaucrats take control of our hospitals," the ad charges, saying "it’s no wonder" she lost a bid for reelection to the Senate last year.

Right after that, I got a "boo hoo, they’re attacking me!" email:

Dear Friend,

As you may know, I announced my campaign for governor of New Hampshire on Tuesday.  It did not take but two days for an extremist PAC to start running radio ads attacking me.

But what’s worse is that they are doing this because they want to direct attention away from an out of control legislature with an extremist agenda and the right wing gubernatorial candidates who would be a rubber stamp for their policies.

But you can help fight back against these attacks by contributing $10, $25, $100 right now.

This attack is a perfect example of what’s wrong in Concord.

Funny, during her announcement speech, you called both the Republicans and your announced opponent, Ovide Lamontagne, extremists.  So Maggie, if you are going to accuse others of inciting a food fight, it’s a done deal that you threw the first dish of chocolate ice cream.

Here’s the ad itself

This ad is extremist only if one thinks that one’s past actions (and her leadership in those actions) being read back to you. Let me give you a piece of advice – extremist is the new racist, and is entirely overused and not effective.

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I don’t want to hear another word from Mo Baxley about outside money

Ever since the Democrats so ticked off NH voters and replaced them with a super-majority of Republicans (BTW, Maggie,, the voters labeled the Democrats as the extremists ), I’ve been hearing about gay marriage being "settled law", complaints that outside money is coming in to defend traditional marriage and repeal gay marriage, and "why aren’t … Read more

Dodd-Frank: And how much innovation time does it cost?

Progressives are always all in on Government is benign and never a thought to how much Government costs the private sector (although they are always yelling about how much tax cuts, otherwise known as "allowing the money earners keeping more of what they earned, "cost" the Government. Already, Sarbanes-Oxley is costing medium sized companies in … Read more

TEA Party vs Occupy Wall Street

I ran across this at The Lonely Conservative – a perfect info-graphic showing the issue that binds the TEA Party and the Occupy Wall Street movements together…

(larger version here)

…and where they rapidly diverge on both the cause and the cure.  Sure, the problem is that of crony capitalism / corporatism:

The unholy alliance where politically connected biz people exploit politicians AND bureaucrats for both profit and advantages over their competitors, as well as the converse of politicians AND bureaucrats exploit the marketplace to both extend their political power as well as to attempt to achieve their ideological ends.

I have one more video to post from two weeks ago that aptly demonstrates this point:  The TEA Party believes that Government is too big; so big that there are too many "points of entry" for lobbyists (both for profit AND non-profits) to gain advantages that normal folks cannot.  By reducing the size of government, the number of points disappear and Government is easier to keep accountable (less "dark corners" have to be patrolled). Constitution?  The TEA Party believes that with its Checks and Balances, it is the most magnificent document ever created to protect the most radical idea ever conceived: that government exists to protect Individual Liberty and Freedom.

In essence, pushing government back into the bottle and lessening its reach – and thus making it less attractive for influence as Society re-exerts its traditional role of determining how Society will function (instead of being ruled from DC and its phalanx of bureaucrats).  Self-reliance is not an abstract idea.

OWS, while agreeing there is a problem, totally disagrees with the

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The 1% confronts the Occupy Wall Street

Tim has been putting up videos of Peter Schieff (Wall Street entrepreneur, radio host, and columnist) going down to the Occupy Wall Street encampment and trying to engagement them (and sometimes, with mixed results) here and here. Here’s a longer version of the 3 hours Peter spent at OWS, courtesy of ReasonTV (a tad over … Read more

Notable Quote – Alexis de Tocqueville

But I am of the opinion that a centralized administration is fit only to enervate the nations in which it exists, by incessantly diminishing their local spirit.  Although such an administration can bring together at a given moment, on a given point, all the disposable resources of a people, it injures the renewal of those … Read more

To Catch a Journalist – Part 1

One would think that with his notariety, James O’Keefe would be hard pressed, via his Project Veritas, to keep mining the seams of spheres of policy, influence, and action, but he does!  Now in his sights is one of the big influencers of the culture:Journalism.  This thread is all throughout those institutions that create the … Read more

First the bogeyman was global warming, then it morphed to

global climate change.  Now, according to #OWS, Occupy Wall Street, the primary worry is "income inequality" (brought on by those "bad people", the 1%ers). Sidenote: ever wonder why it is that the Left always seems to have  yet another "Other" when the current #1 World Destroyer problem starts to peter out with the general populace? … Read more

GrokTalk! Saturday October 29, 2011

Live Streaming local and National News with opinion you could only get from GraniteGrok. EMail: GrokTALK@GraniteGrok.com  or Call us!  603-524-7478 This week, 9-11AM…   Acting Chair Carolyn McKinney will be on to talk about the future of the RLCNH (Republican Liberty Caucus of NH) now that Andrew Hemingway has stepped down for the time being.  … Read more

But Tony, we JUST got rid of “Republicans for Lynch”- and yer gonna be a Founding member of “MaggieRINOs”?

Yep, that would be this guy: " former Republican state Rep. Tony DiFruscia".  he’s front and center for the first dump of 125 "community leaders" for Maggie "HassanSpeech" Hassan. We’ve written or mentioned him before (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here; he’s a Fav!).  He got rather peevish when these went … Read more

Notable Quote – Michael Walsh

Here’s the thing: They’re the 1 percent, but we’re the 99 percent. Their wealth may be much more than ours, but 99 is a much bigger number than one. So we should just gang up and take their money. When one person takes the property of another, that’s tyranny, but when lots of people get … Read more

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