(US Senate) Democrats Still Running From The Budget

Hot Air: Only three Democrats bothered to show up at all, out of a dozen assigned to it.  Republicans showed up, prepared to cast votes to finally bring the ignominious streak of 1,085 days (as of yesterday) without a budget resolution to an end.  Sadly, Democrats — who control the committee, the chamber, and the … Read more

(Repost-Flashback!) Seth Marshall Discovers Property Taxes

As part of Remembering Democrat Rule – another post from the past…

Seth Marshall Discovers Property Taxes

Originally posted Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 09:04PM

Hat tip out of the gate to fellow NHI front pager Richard Olsen Jr. for this fine bit or wordsmithing on Democrat Rep Seth Marshall’s brief letter to the Nashua Telegraph about a pamphlet on the burden of property taxes.  Mr. Marshall (it appears) feels blessed as if the contents of said pamphlet revealed the answer to a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma (which he discovered in the shadow of some penumbra no doubt.)  What’s the revelation?  That New Hampshire relies more heavily on property taxes.

That’s quite a discovery for a General Court lurker from the Fish and Game committee whose been a rep for four years.  Just figured that out Seth?  Oh, but not by himself–he’s got a pamphlet.  Hard to believe it hasn’t come to his attention sooner.  Seems to me it would be all the rage on the left wing.  So I guess Nashua Rep Brian Poznanski doesn’t invite him to the House parties–where it probably comes up all the time.  You know, the deal, drinking with minors, writing laws to get minors off if they get caught drinking, talking about property taxes.  Did you know New Hampshire apparently relies heavily on them?  (Property taxes, not drunk underage State Reps–well, actually have you seen the budget?) Did you also know that New Hampshire still has one of the lowest tax burdens in the country because it relies more heavily on property taxes?  It’s true.  That wasn’t in the pamphlet was it?

Want to know why?

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Long read regarding socialist statism and voting Democrat….

Kiddy Socialism: Obama Redistributes LegosI regularly get into political scrums with leftists in various venues.

What follows is one where I got set off enough to pen a major lecture to a local socialist (I’ll call him “Chuck”). He was going on about what a successful President Barack Obama is, and how he truly deserves to be re-elected, and how all the “minorities” and “groups” targeted by Obama will vote for him.

So it began like this. I told him….

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“Negros With Guns”

Ann Coulter relaxing on back porch....

Ann Coulter, despite her recent foolishness in attacking Newt Gingrich, is nearly always, ahem, “on target.”

As with her recent column, “Negros with Guns,” which starts out like this:

Liberals have leapt on the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Florida to push for the repeal of “stand your ground” laws and to demand tighter gun control. (MSNBC’S Karen Finney blamed “the same people who stymied gun regulation at every point.”)

We don’t know the facts yet, but let’s assume the conclusion MSNBC is leaping to is accurate: George Zimmerman stalked a small black child and murdered him in cold blood, just because he was black. If that were true, every black person in America should get a gun and join the National Rifle Association…

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GrokTV Special Event: AFP/NH 2012 Conservative of the Year Award – Intro ceremonies

This past Friday, we live streamed the Americans For Prosperity / NH’s Conservative of the Year Award given to US Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) for those who could not be there (either for scheduling or financial reasons).  Well, if you missed it, the entire live stream is after the jump.

Sidebar: On GraniteGrok 1.0, I could more easily put in multiple videos into a post in a side-by-side format.  I have YET to figure how that technique would work here in Grok 2.0 so I’m just going to do two or three videos per post (mostly two).

Here are the intro ceremony: Invocation, Pledge to the Flag, and the singing of the National Anthem (led by Kevin Smith, candidate for the Republican nomination for NH Governor).

Kevin also introduced Corey Lewandowski, Executive Director of AFP/NH, who served as the Master of Ceremonies:

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GrokTV Special Event: AFP/NH 2012 Conservative of the Year Award – AFP/NH Executive Director Corey Lewanowski’s introductory remarks

“It’s my party and I talk if I want to!”  Heh!

Of COURSE Corey got to speak – he and his assistant Joy Lutes put a lot of time and effort into setting this up right and I think it came off well – I believe that every seat was filled in the large ballroom at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord, NH.  And while the night was all about US Senator Kelly Ayotte receiving the award, make no mistake, Corey let some chips fly concerning issues that are near and dear to AFP’s heart.  He had no hesitation on letting loose about the NH GOP SuperMajority in the Senate failing to back issues as RGGI (Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative), Right To Work, et al (good for him and well deserved whacks at NH Senators Bragdon and Bradley)

The Presidential candidates (including Obama, which draw guffaws from the crowd) were invited.  However, no one showed up (as opposed to last year’s award for Ovide Lamontagne) other than former NH Governor John Sununu who acted as a surrogate for Romney:

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From the Democrat Socialists of America: We are working like crazy…………………..Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC: oh, really?

Bumped:  We getting ready to saddle up and head downrange to Dover for the event: BE THERE!

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From the Democratic Socialists of America in the language of Occupy Wall Street:

The 99% Spring Offensive is coming. Will you be there?

Groups from every corner of the progressive movement – inspired by the everyday heroes of Occupy Wall Street and Madison, Wisconsin – are planning a massive campaign of bold nonviolent direct actions to explain who REALLY brought on the Great Recession, and make the voices of the 99% impossible to ignore.

Their stated aims are aligned with Obama – the total transformation of the United States of America (where one goal is that Government, not Citizens, are in control).  And they are energized and working hard at doing just that.  Well, there is one group here in NH that is saying “Over our dead bodies!” – The Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC!  Jerry Delemus, who took over the PAC (in addition to his shepherding of the Rochester (NH) 9/12 Project) as Chair when Jack Kimball decided to run for NH Governor, has returned those reins to Jack Kimball.  And at a meeting of the GSPLPAC last night, Jack made it clear that the group is regrouping and come out fast and furious:

Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC logo

The Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC

sponsors a

Save-Our-Republic

Tea Party

Saturday, April 21

2-4 p.m.

Guppey Park

168 Portland Ave. (Rt. 4), Dover

ALL Patriots, Liberty Groups, 912 Groups,

And Tea Parties are invited to participate

For additional information

www.GSPLPAC.com

The ‘Grok will be there to cover the event – see you there!

Updated: a message from Jack Kimball, Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC Chair

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It Isn’t Getting Easier Being Green

I can’t recall how many leaders in the Republican’s War on Women have called on their misogynist foot soldiers to burn down Sandra Fluke’s house (or any of her defenders) for demanding we pay for her contraception; probably because there is no war from the Right, but even if there were, no one on the … Read more

(Re-Post FlashBack!) Introducing Rep Kevin Hodges (D-Awesome Cool)

(Originally posted April 20th, 2010, this is–I think–one of my classic rants and worthy of a re-post)

Introducing Rep Kevin Hodges (D-Awesome Cool)

Ah, the arrogance of youth.  Not long ago it was Brian “I have an LSR to get minors off for getting busted for possession of alcohol” Poznanski who was the whelp–having then gotten himself busted as a minor in possession of alcohol in front of a house full of minors and his LSR subsequently pulled.  That was fun, and illegal, but so five months ago.  Now we have Kevin Hodges (Hillsborough7) who hasn’t done anything illegal that we know of, but based on a chance encounter documented below I think we can draw a pretty picture of Mr. Hodges.

I’m just guessing but I bet Kev-Bo is wicked sick when it comes to the general court, and he’ll probably tell you as much.  But when you look up his voting record, he’s really just another BORG wired into Norelli’s hive.  He’s a big spender (No spending caps HB 1522), wants to make sure he can tax you as much as he needs to after he spends your money (Killed CACR 26) he’s not interested in the constitutionality of the general courts activities (voted to ITL HB 1343), and he seems more than willing to let the facilities committee pass judgement on things of a decidedly constitutional nature like banning guns from places (voted to kill HB1693) even though when given the chance to ban them legislatively he voted against it. (HB 1654).  Afraid to vote for it, but you’ll let them paper push it into existence, I see how you are.  And I didn’t look, but I bet he’s against parental rights.  Most young healthy men his age are.

What attracted my interest in Kevin–if you are wondering–was a recent encounter between Mr. Hodges and a new voter, (She’ll be 18 before November) documented in a letter to the editor of the Goffstown News.

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GSLPAC Tea Party Event – Live Streaming…

Granite Grok is Live at the Granite State Patriots Liberty PAC Tea Party Event at Guppy Park in Dover New Hampshire. Speakers include… Cliff Hurt Jack Kimball, Chair, GSPLPAC Ovide Lamontagne (Candidate, Republican nomination for NH Governor) Dennis Lamare (Candidate Republican nomination for Congress CD-2) Brendan Kelly (Libertarian Candidate Congress CD-1) John Hikel (Candidate Republican … Read more

Data Point – Taxmageddon

Well, Obama DOES want high gas prices and high taxes!  And if the Democrat Harry Reid led Senate continues their do-nothing ways, this will be the Democrat Party’s New Year’s gift to us all. (H/T: Business Insider)

Remembering Democrat Rule In New Hampshire – Part 1

New Hampshire Democrats treated your money like toilet paperIn the 2006 Elections Democrats took control of the New Hampshire House for the first time in 95 years (giving them complete control of State government for what would end up being four years).  What happened after that must not be forgotten, for it is the doom of men that they forget.

They forget that the House Democrats first move was to turn budget policy on its head.  Instead of estimating realistic revenues so that the governor could have a guideline for his budget, they would let the governor request a 14% expansion of state government in February of 2007, to which they would pad or add their spending spree agenda items before figuring out how to tax New Hampshire citizens to pay for their wish list.

In the now infamous shout heard round the State House, Democrat House leader Dan Eaton would later condense the entire four year budget strategy of the New Hampshire left into one sentence.

 ‘It makes sense to know how much you’re spending before you decide how much money to raise.’

Now that might just make sense for a school trip or new band uniforms but this wasn’t a fundraiser.  Eaton was talking about using the force of law and the power of the state to extract juice from the fruits of other peoples labors based on the whimsy of big government legislators with little or no regard for its affect on the state, our economy, or the people who would be paying, and that was exactly how the Democrats would govern.

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BE BREITBART: DoIT Right To Know Request : Outbound Internet traffic summarizations

We are a persistent bunch here at the ‘Grok:

Good morning,

We, as taxpayers in the State of NH, are requesting certain electronic records concerning the outbound Internet traffic emanating from the State of NH’s computer network.

Please review the following RSA 91-A request; we stand ready to work with you concerning this issue.  Please find a copy of the request below as well as two attachments (the same request, in Microsoft WORD and OpenOffice formats)

Kindest Regards,

-Skip

David “Skip” Murphy for myself, Steve Mac Donald, and Ed Naile (citizens of the State of New Hampshire)

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Right to Know Request
as per
RSA 91-A
April 20, 2012

To:     Stanley “Bill” Rodgers, Commissioner and CIO, Department of Information Technology, State of NH
Thomas S. Burack, C, Department of Environmental Services, State of NH

In light of the final response of April 19th concerning our first Right To Know request (re: political postings by State Employee Richard de Seve during regularly scheduled work hours contra to the policies of both the Department of Environmental Services (“DES”) and the Department of Information Technology (“DoIT”) filed on March 11, 2012), we are making the following RSA 91-A request.

As noted in that final response:

When a user enters a URL or IP address for a particular web page, the outbound request passes through the state’s internal network until it reaches the internal firewall. There, the request is routed through DOIT’s web filtering software. That software categorizes web sites based on historical content. Agencies establish filter policies that determine which categories are accessible or blocked. Based on a user’s login information, the software is able to associate a user with his or her IP address and based on the policy assigned to that user, determines whether the requested page is allowed or blocked. If allowed, the software permits the requested web page to be sent from the requested server to the user for viewing. The date, time, and destination of the outgoing request, as well as all IP information sent to the user from the destination web page, are recorded by the web filtering software. The actual content of what was either sent or received is not recorded.

We hereby request,

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Atheists to USMC: Take Down Crosses Or We’ll Sue

“Some people will spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.”  —Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985

Every Veteran ought to be disgusted. An atheist group is saber-rattling, threatening legal action over crosses erected on Camp Pendleton Hill, demanding the removal of the crosses. This group, calling themselves the, Military Association of Atheists and Free Thinkers, criticizes the United States Marine Corps Command at Camp Pendleton for not muting this heartfelt expression of honor by  individual Marines: A hallowed expression for those fallen in combat actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despicable! 

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Free Speech Rights? Not if you disagree with Greenpeace USA!

On their site, they have a page of “FAQs” about why you can’t believe any who is a “climate change denier”, and this page is calling Exxon their personal bogeyman (I notice that no mention of ClimateGate and the MBs of emails and bad data is mentioned – and I just giggled when I read … Read more

HB 1403 – an Act relative to International Baccalaureate program

In my little hamlet, we fought the implementation of the IB program in our high school mostly on the idea that we believed that our students should be American students first and then be knowledgeable “the world”.  But the biggest thing was the philosophy bias and that it would have meant a total loss of local control – use the SEARCH function with “IB” to see what we’ve written about the program in the past.  Well, there is a bill is now being considered in Concord – HB 1403:

HOUSE BILL 1403

AN ACT relative to providing pupils with curriculum and instruction regarding state and national sovereignty and establishing a committee to study the implementation of the International Baccalaureate program in New Hampshire.

SPONSORS: Rep. Pettengill, Carr 1; Rep. Cohn, Merr 6; Rep. Cox, Merr 6; Rep. Hill, Merr 6; Rep. Kreis, Merr 6

COMMITTEE: Education

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill requires that school curriculum and instruction shall only meet school approval standards if such curriculum and instruction promotes state and national sovereignty and is not subject to the governance of a foreign body or organization. The bill also establishes a committee to study issues relating to the International Baccalaureate program in New Hampshire.

I am all about local control, but I also know that the Educational Establishment in a lot of towns start pushing it in their towns – and don’t always take the truthful, the ENTIRE truthful, road in explaining what’s what with the program to parents that trust them implicitly (that implicit trust is oft not the right thing to have – instead, a bit of cynicism would better serve them).  Rep Seth Cohn, one of the sponsors, found out personally as he caught the “Educational Establishment” lying to him.

So in this case, I support this Act.  I also support this petition process:

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