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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.

Fellowship Christian Academy – Voice of Democracy: Peter!

(Picture credit: Alan Glassman; Tom talking to the students) 

As I pointed out here, I met up and interviewed / was interviewed by students from the Fellowship Christian Academy.  During that time, they informed me that they were participating in the VFW’s Voice of Democracy; I offered to post their papers.  Here is the first paper.

Guest post by Peter:

Does My generation Have a Role in America’s Future?

George Washington, born February 22nd 1732, died December 14th 1799 from extensive blood loss.  Martin Luther King, born January 15th 1929, was assassinated April 4th 1968.  In his honor America has set up a national Martin Luther King Day.  Abraham Lincoln, born February 12th 1809, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14th 1865.  Looked at as one of the greatest American presidents, Abraham Lincoln is remembered for his honesty and Integrity.  By looking at these facts, we can come to the conclusion that these people played a great role in not only America, but the world.  One might ask, “How did these men achieve such greatness?  “What qualities or characteristics made them different?” More importantly, “How do we follow in their footsteps, and how can we have an impact on the world around us.”  So let’s ask the question, does my generation have a role in America’s future, and if so, what will the impact be?

The answer to this first question is clear; of course my generation has a role in America’s future.  However, the answer to the second question is not so easily understood.  In order to understand it, we need to look at the people who we know have impacted the world, and examine them and their lives.  What did people like Lincoln, Luther, Washington, Einstein, Joan of Arc, Churchill, Alvin C. York and many more have in common?  The answer is simple; they all possessed great ethics and morals, and were not afraid to stand up for what they believed in… 

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Friday Humor – YET ANOTHER Obama and a “Plane going down” joke!

Once again, our Hero – Barack Hussein Obama – is on a plane that is proving that even the Obamessiah has to obey the Law of Gravity: An airplane was about to crash; there were 5 passengers on board, but only 4parachutes. The first passenger said, "I am President Obama, the chosen one. The world needs … Read more

Hey Harrell – have a Happy Halloween!

Hi Harrell!  Since you, at the critical point in a campaign, have decided to go all Politically Correct on us (you pompous ass),I’ve decided to extend Friday Humor just for you.  Either you are: a complete nitwit for thinking this would be a Real Good Campaign gambit that would be the Golden Spike to the … Read more

Such a list…

Well, I am surprised – not! This election cycle has been nothing BUT the Dems all towing the same "anti-stuff" against their opponents: Kill Social Security Kill Obamacare Protect companies shipping jobs overseas By the way, on the expose on this last fallacy, here’s a decent "starter" article. Problem is,  they’ve been pitching this against … Read more

Remember this the next time your School Board is negotiating with your local Teachers Union…

The state-appointed authority overseeing Buffalo public school finances says taxpayer-covered cosmetic surgery rung up by the city’s teachers totaled nearly $9 million in 2009. The Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority reports that last year’s costs for such elective procedures as chemical peels and other skin treatments are up $8 million over the 2004 tab for cosmetic … Read more

November – CHANGE is coming!

Heh! Yes, I was rather jocular when I saw this: Here is a list of 82 Democrat-held House seats that you should be watching on election night, based largely on independent polling but also my sense of where things stand… …I’ve broken it down this way in part so that you can watch the fate … Read more

Data Points – Hey, Dean, my numbers are Scarier! I think they’ll have more impact on Tuesday than your’s will

Dean thinks that by running against Bush, the Dems should do well.  Well, I guess hope springs – and he is certainly Hoping for a Change in the Democrat immediate future.  His main graph is of job growth under Obama’s Admin vs that during Bush.  Got news for you, Dean, Obama’s economy has to create 100,000 jobs per month just to stay even.  Not better, not worse, just even.  And that ain’t happening – even the months that showed > 100K was temp hiring for the census – subsequent job growth is < needed. 

It’s the longer term future that scares most of us:  With the deficits he’s running, Obama’s Determined Weakness strategy is working.  When you vote on Tuesday, ask yourself:

  • Is the hard left Progressive Annie McKluster, whose policies demand more of you money, really going to be a "fiscal conservative"?
  • Carol Scold-Porter – she’s been a part of this Democrat spending spree right from the get go – and agrees with every penny that Pelosi is spending.
  • Paul Hodes – On this I agree with Kelly – he’s been a fiscal conservative for all of 20 minutes – like Scold-Porter, his watch in Congress is responsible for this disaster.

1) Debt payment this year = $414 Billion. 

That is the biggest expenditure, NOW, after Social Security, Medicare, welfare, and the military.  And it is about to explode.

2) Spending by the Democrat controlled Congress and Obama is out of control:

For all of their talk, and rightfully so, of the spending by Bush, the last two years cannot be ignored – this will definitely curtail not only our National Economic Liberty but our personal Economic Liberty as well.  The popular opinion is that we have spent a Trillion bucks with little to show for it (regardless of caterwaulling by the Dems).

3) Now look at the future annual deficits that have been projected (if nothing changes): 

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“D” is for Drive – er, but not to the local Pawn shop

My response to Pat Wood’s Letter in the Laconia Daily Sun today (P 9):

To the Editor,

Mr. Wood in his Letter (10/28, p9) rightly points out that the voters took the keys away from the Republicans in 2006 for behaving like Democrats and increased the size of Government and its spending (contrary to Republican philosophy) and gave them to actual Democrats. Properly taken to woodshed and chastised by the distributed uprising of people supporting and sympathizing with the ideals of TEA Party / back to Constitutionally limited government movement, Republicans seem to be "getting it" (those not, have been "primaried out").

However, the "D" Pat defines is Drive to national bankruptcy (to the tune of almost $3 Trillion in annual deficits in two years) – not exactly a promising "progressing forward", is it? President Obama has said that he won’t give the keys back, that Republicans must "ride in the back" even when they retake the majority in Washington. 

Moral to the Progressive Democrats: taking the keys away was the right thing at the time;  Obama thinking it was alright to walk them over to the Pawn shop  is not. 

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Monday – TEA Party Express in Concord!

Americans for Prosperity - NH
TEA Party Express is coming to Town – Monday

AFP-NH is proud to host the Tea Party Express Welcoming Rally immediately preceding the Tea Party Express "Liberty At The Ballot Box" Rally on the State House Lawn on Monday, November 1st. Concord will be the Tea Party Express? last stop on its national tour and promises to be an exciting and well attended event.

During the day, AFP-NH will host events in Eagle Square in Concord and a volunteer phone bank and door to door staging center on November 1st from 11 AM to 9 PM at Tandy’s Top Shelf at One Eagle Square (directly across from the State House) in Concord, NH. A lunch and dinner buffet will be provided by AFP for volunteers throughout the day. AFP Tea Party events will also be held from noon until 5 PM in Eagle Square. Attendees to all of these events will be encouraged to come over to Tandy’s to volunteer, warm up, and grab a snack throughout the day’s program. AFP t-shirts will be given out to the first 50 volunteers. 107.7 FM The Pulse talk-show host Brian Tilton will be on live at Tandy’s from 1 PM to 3 PM.

PARTIAL EVENT SCHEDULE:

  • TANDY’S TOP SHELF, ONE EAGLE SQUARE, CONCORD
  • 11AM to 9PM – AFP’s Freedom Phone Bank Call Center.

· We are going to make 2010 calls at this phone bank!
· Free AFP T-Shirts for the first 50 phone bank volunteers
· Lunch and dinner buffet provided for all phone bank volunteers
· Special guests will swing by throughout the day to thank our volunteers

  • 1 PM to 3 PM ? Brian "The Bulldog" Tilton will host his show live!

· Special guests will appear on Brian’s show throughout the day. Stop on by to say hello to "The Bulldog."

  • EAGLE SQUARE, CONCORD (Behind the Bell Clock across from the State House)
  • Noon to 5 PM

· Eagle Square Rally Kick Off with Jeff Chidester of WGIR AM 610 and 96.7 The Wave, Corey Lewandowski, AFP-NH Executive Director, and Tom Thomson, AFP Honorary Chairman and son of former Governor "Ax The Tax" Mel Thomson.
· See AFP’s "Smart Car!"
· Local 9-12 group, Tea Party, and other freedom and liberty-minded speakers.
· Official Tea Party Express Vendors and Merchandise

  • STATE HOUSE LAWN, CONCORD

 

5 PM to 6 PM – AFP-NH "November is Coming" and Tea Party Express Welcome Rally

· A partial list of speakers include: Morning Talk Radio Host Todd Feinburg, WRKO AM 680 Boston, Jennifer Horn, Ovide Lamontagne, Jack Kimball, Kevin Smith of Cornerstone Policy Research, Corey Lewandowski of Americans for Prosperity and many more!

6 PM to 9 PM – Tea Party Express "Liberty At The Ballot Box Tour" Rally

· A partial list of speakers include: Conservative Radio Talk Show Host and former CEO of Godfathers Pizza, Herman "The Hermanator" Cain, Singer and Entertainer Lloyd Marcus, Tea Party Express Founder Amy Kremer, Fox News Commentator and NY Times Best Selling Author Tammy Bruce
· Expect a special additional guest or two!

 

Links after the jump

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Have had little time for actual blogging lately….

The live blogging / live streaming (and the travel to the sites) has taken up a whole lot of time lately – hard to put fingers to keyboard when eyeballs are on the camera, the sound VU LEDs, or the road. So, in addition to Steve’s correct assesment of Carol Scold-Porter (yeah, a scold…nobody likes … Read more

Heh! Another Obama and plane joke coming up for Friday Humor!

Chosen in honor of our beloved NH Democrat and Republican Communications Directors!  Enjoy this "Political Correctness free" brand of humor… See?  Due to a prior protestation, no names will be harmed in this profession of my undying love for our political betters….heh!

Live blogging – John Stephen Debate Watch Party

Yup, three nights in a row, the ‘Grok is on duty!  We are in Manchester at the Actor’s Loft as John Stephen will be debating John "Do Nuttin’" Lynch.  As always, tweeting (some) and Facebook updates (some). Live Stream (usual caveats):

Why I WILL Vote for Charles Bass

Guest post by Bob Southard (a reaction to Tim’s post):

Over the past few decades, we conservatives have seen a parade of Republican candidates and politicians who espouse individual liberty, freedom and government, yet ride herd on a grossly escalating Federal government budget.  Conservatives, you say?  Hardly.  The party of Reagan has lost its way.
 
From the first George Bush to his son and with Olympia Snow and a host of other "Rockefeller Republicans", we watched as our party of restrained gov’t and individual liberty shoved a steadily growing budget of entitlement programs down our throats.  The Bushes and all their RINO variants did not believe what we and Ronald Reagan and the Founders of our country believe.  At their core, they remain decent human beings who bought the fallacy of Government as the "Protector" of our rights.  In this process, they have very nearly destroyed our Republican Party.
 
The Tea Party has become the single unifying rallying cry for conservatives all over the country.  People who actually believe in our constitution, who pay their taxes, who speak English and who obey the law.  These are the people who must take back our Party and our nation.  What we must stand for and fight at every opportunity is any philosophy or thought process that permits the enemies of our constitution to become elected to office.  This must stop now.
 
There remain many principled conservatives and republicans who twist themselves up in anguished knots when reviewing candidates on Nov. 2nd.  They believe that some of our candidates do not pass a "purity test" for conservatism; therefore, they can not bring themselves to vote for the republican.  Nothing could be more wrong-headed nor harmful in our determination to return our country to its birthright.  In fact, this thinking has the potential to destroy the momentum generated by the Tea Party.
 
The Democrats have successfully…

 

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Live Blogging – Frank Guinta Debate Party Watch!

Ah yes, strains of "…On the road again…." We are back at Jillian’s in Manchester to participate in and cover the Debate Party that the Guinta campaign is holding as he debates Carol SEIU-Porter in WMUR’s televised debate to be held at St. Anselm’s Institute of Politics. The actual debate starts at 7pm, there are … Read more

Who has got the money?

I just heard on Meet the Press (yeah, but nothing else was on) that in toto, we will have spent about $3.2 billion this year on elections.  That is a staggering amount of money.  Certainly the TEA Party related amounts, given in normally small donations, have been the big surprise this year.  Given the "final nail in Conservativism coffin" that the Left crowed about (even as the same was said for the Left during Bush), this two year old movement has been the surprise of recent political history.

With the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court that allowed corporations to "speak" for their own self-interests, coupled with enthusiasm gap, the Progressives are wailing – who is giving the money???  They forget one thing – they’ve owned the Presidency, the House, and the Senate for the last two years – if they REALLY wanted to put the stopper back in the bottle, they could.

Simple fact: they don’t want to.  Of course they don’t!  They won’t tell you and they will hide behind the veil of disclosure for two mere reasons:

  • they wish to appear to be "for the little guy" in this area – even as they deconstruct, for example here in NH, the Right To Know law (elsewhere, known as FOIA, Freedom of Information Act).
  • they aren’t getting the same amount of money, the same way, this cycle

And it is those last two words, this cycle, that makes the difference.  The Dems know…

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Liberalism’s Intolerance…

Filed under Hypocrisy

For all of the vaunted "tolerance" demanded by the Left, if nothing else, the curtain has been yanked aside and the smoke has been drawn out of the room by NPR’s firing of Juan Williams for speaking what millions feel inside.  As a frequent flier for decades, after 9/11 you BET that I looked at every person coming onto the plane – unless you are a sheeple and will accept any multiculti stream of pap thrown at you, I can tell you that *I* was scanned by everyone else as well.  Why?

Families at home – "Let’s roll!".  When confronted by a threat, most Americans will weigh the odds and then respond. From those on the Left (or those that of the CAIR persuasion), I point out Jesse Jackson’s and Obama’s own words – it is human nature to evaluate threats.

But I digress – Political Correctness will be the death of this nation.  The organized march to control, not only speech, but actual thoughts, are the end game.  For simply expressing a personal fear, Juan was cashiered.  Further, there are those on the Left, are demanding another scalp – how tolerant!

(H/T: John)

The Right?  Well, there the head of NRP, Vivian Schiller, who said that Juan’s outburst should be between him and his psychiatrist – how Stalinist of her?  I’d make an exception there. 

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