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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.

GraniteGrok on WGIR AM 610 this morning

GraniteGrok was on the Morning show with Justin and Jennifer (Jeff was feeling under the weather) promptly at 6:08am.  Topics: Well, there IS a good use for that $600 Million the Fed spent on $1 Billion on dollar coins no one else wanted – Frequent Flyer Miles! Is the homosexual agenda trumping First Amendment Rights … Read more

GrokTALK! Special – CNHT Annual Picnic

       This past Saturday was the CNHT (Coalition of NH Taxpayers) Annual Picnic.  The videos are up of the speakers (just keep scrolling down) but we also had the chance to interview a number of folks (in order): Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI, Presidential Candidate [and yes, he DID follow me around all weekend – heh!]) … Read more

A powerful message

Even if it is a campaign ad, this first one from Congressman Ron Paul is well timed, given the the debt ceiling debate in DC: Of all issues, the fiscal one is his strength; this has a message that will resonate beyond his campaign followers and into the mainstream. (H/T: The Corner)

GrokTALK! – Podcast page for 07/09/11

Podcast – week of 07/09/11 GrokTALK! Streaming Live! from GraniteGrok To play (or "stream") a clip now, just click on it.  To download it to your PC, right click on it and tell the process where to save the file for you. When we are live – join in by emailing us at GrokTALK@GraniteGrok.com or … Read more

GrokTV Event: Rye Republican Family Fair

OK, if CNHT was the second event of this past weekend, the Rye Republican Family Fair was number four.  Hey, ‘Grok friend Diane asked and who could turn down an event located at an old fashioned grass airstrip (think old style Piper Cubs, tricycle landing gear, small Robinson helicopters, and a sport biplane – Hampton Airfield!).

Introductory Ceremonies:

  • Organizer: Diane Bitter
  • Master of Ceremonies: Jeff Chidester (& a wee bit of help from your’s truly)

Speakers:

  • Pam Tucker, Deputy Leader of the NH House
  • Bill O’Brien, Speaker of the NH House
  • Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), Presidential Candidate
  • Brian Murphy, NH State Representative
  • Nancy Stiles, NH State Senator
  • Chris Sununu, NH Executive Councilor
  • Jack Kimball, NH GOP Chair
  • Ovide Lamontagne (future candidate for NH Governor)
  • Will Smith, NH State Representative

Intro Ceremonies here; the rest of the videos after the jump

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GrokTV Event: CNHT Annual Picnic – Presidential Candidate Surrogates

Along with Congressman Thaddeus McCotter speaking at the CNHT picnic this past Saturday, a number of other candidates had "surrogates" (designated people, be they volunteers or paid staffers / consultants / operatives) stand up and speak for them.  Again, this event is all about the politics and each of the candidates knew that they had … Read more

GrokTV Event: CNHT – NH Speaker Bill O’Brien

OK, I THOUGHT I was going to be able to live stream the Coalition for NH Taxpayers annual Picnic on Saturday.  Well…I have to apologize as right after I posted this, people started coming over to our table, sat down, and expected to yak with us.  So, we talked – and I never got the … Read more

GrokTV Event: CNHT Annual Picnic – NH GOP Chair Jack Kimball

Another speaker at CNHT’s annual picnic was NH GOP Chair, Jack Kimball: Note: he was one of the speakers that command the attention of almost all of the activists gathered at the Hillsborough VFW (down some from last year, but still a VERY respectable couple to three hundred turning out to meet, greet, gab, and … Read more

GrokTV Event: CNHT Annual Picnic – NH GOP RNC Committeewoman Phyllis Woods

Continuing on with those that spoke at the CNHT annual picnic was Phyllis Woods.  While she is the NH GOP’s Committeewoman to the RNC, Phyllis is revered in the Conservative movement in NH for her dedication to Conservative ideals and her efforts to get more Conservative women to become candidates and to run (and win) … Read more

GrokTV Event: CNHT Annual Picnic – Ovide Lamontagne

Another speaker was Ovide Lamontagne.  Narrowly losing to (now US Senator) Kelly Ayotte in the Republican Primary, Ovide has not left the political stage – he has continued to be present at Republican and Conservative events all over the State. And yes, as was said yesterday "Lord willing and Betty’s approval", he may well be … Read more

Entitlements spending far exceeds that on the Military

Over the years, the Liberals have had this thing about spending on the military has always been put above that of helping the poor.  During the last Presidential, we ran into "The Cookie Lady" (sponsored by NH Priorities who in turn, was funded by the ice cream barons, Ben and Jerry) who would hand out … Read more

GrokTV Event: CNHT Annual Picnic!!

We are LIVE at the annual CNHT Picnic – a MUST be here for any NH Conservative or Conservative Group.  Steve is here, so we will be doing our usual gig of live streaming and interview. Speaking of LIVE – last year, there was no access.  In looking over (having JUST arrived), we have access!.  … Read more

I don’t want to compromise! Stop the spending!

The chuckleheads in DC are talking about making a deal on the debt ceiling – $2 – 4 Trillion over 10 (or is it Obama’s 12) years. RIGHT, YOU SAPS, LIKE THAT’S GONNA WORK??? That’s in the range of $2-400 Billion / year. HEY, DING-DONGS, HOW’S THAT PLAY AGAINST EVEN THIS YEAR’S DEFICIT OF $1.6 … Read more

The Grok on WGIR – Friday morning edition

Audio:

Once again, the ‘Grok was on the Morning show from 6 – 6:30 with Jeff Chidester and crew to talk about what’s going on in the blogosphere. 

We talked a little about:

  • We also started on education with the erupting scandal that Atlanta’s teachers and administrators have put themselves into over cheating on standardized test scores and why is that any different than the capitalists in the Enron fiasco:

"The Left castigates capitalist for being greedy about profits, and breaking the law and cheating to get them?  So, what’s the difference between that and teachers and administrators lusting after high test scores and breaking the law and cheating to get them?". 

  • How to solve that? The phrase that teachers unions hate to hear:

Students do not deserve a public education; students deserve a publicly funded education.

  • That brings up the other thing that teachers unions hate to hear, Competition, for that’s what will have to happen to rectify our poor national educational scores (and why federalizing schools over local control is a train wreck in process).
  • Intertwined in the above was the discussion that it isn’t capitalism that is to blame, it isn’t the teachers / administrators to blame, but it IS about a lack of individual morality (thank for starting this, Boomers!).
  • Ah yes, the Federal Govt "wisely" using other peoples’ money

On top of the fact that the Stimulus saved jobs but at a cost of $278K, now we hear that some Montana residents have broadband hookups at $7M per household

Other stories I flooded Jeff with but we didn’t get to (the EPA ones are ones that I wish we had had time for) after the jump:

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GrokTalk! Saturday July 9, 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…   Grokster Rick will be join Skip as co-host in Liberty Studios for the show.  We’ll be talking about his latest issue of the RINO Report as well as the travesty in … Read more

GraniteGrok on PJTV’s The Conversation with Tony Katz

The Conversation with Tony Katz is doing a series on the 2012 Presidential Primary with GraniteGrok in NH and Craig Robinson from TheIowaRepublican in Iowa.  Click on the image below to go to the PJTV site and watch the installment:    

The ‘Grok on WGIR – interest rates

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Was on with Jeff Chidester and his sidekick Justin McIsaac from 6 – 6:30 this morning (and will be again tomorrow morning) and we talked about the NH House passing SB 2 as elected politicians have lost the trust of the voters to do the right things in terms of spending.  We also talked about OUR national debt and annual deficits, and how a few percentage points difference in the rates the US pays on our financial obligations would absolutely put a stop to social spending.

I mentioned that Portugal, as one of the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain; the clump of Euro countries all in dire straits), is already showing what will happen to us if our politicians do not clamp down on the spending fiasco coming out of DC:

Our debt payment would easily go from number four on the list of largest US payment items (exceeded right now only by Social Security, Medicare, and Dod) to number two or first if the bond markets found that we, as a nation, just weren’t sufficiently trustworthy and presented a risk of default.  As I said on the show, look what has happened to the price of money to Portugal:

Very steep, and very quickly.  This, in financial terms, is a "cliff".  Fear it.

Yes folks, if the chuckleheads in DC do not finally look disaster in the eye and make the hard decisions we sent them to do (and to which they have thus far punted on), this will be us.  And while this is seen as a Conservative issue, this ought to be a Liberal concern as well, for if all the money is going to service the debt (because of your wastrel spending in the first place), you are going to have to wave your New Deal / Greatest Society dreams of the biggest welfare state in history goodbye.

Links on stories that we did NOT get to after the jump:

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