Mention the words, “Uranium One,” and many Americans shrug their shoulders, either blissfully unaware of the controversy or convinced that it’s a Republican ploy targeting Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. Others see a major scandal with far greater impact than Watergate. They see the covert sale of 20 percent of our uranium deposits to a Russian-owned company in exchange for bribes at the highest levels of our government.

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Do we still embody it, are mindful of having such an attitude, or has Progressivism wiped it off the face and soul of our country? Emphasis mine:

…At the end of the Proclamation, Washington implores Americans toward modesty regarding our own powers, reminding citizens that we live in an order that may be mysterious insofar as God possesses superior knowledge of what is “best.” But are all peoples capable of gratitude? In the present time it has become fashionable to espouse if not open atheism, then at least antagonism toward religion. These opinions come forth in various, sometimes obfuscated, forms.

Part of the left’s recent fanaticism originates from the fact that progressivism’s quasi-religion lacks any understanding of gratitude and humility. Progressivism precludes belief in these since progress as an alleged cosmic force is neither merciful nor beneficent, but is merely abstract and all-powerful. As such, it does not encourage its believers toward either humility or gratitude.

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The city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire has denied a couple the right to rent a property they own on Air BnB. Matthew Beebe and Barbara Jenny bought the home next to theirs for their Daughter who travels and planned to use short-term rentals until her return, but the city has issued a cease and desist order.

[City attorney] Sullivan explained on Thursday that unless something is specifically allowed under Portsmouth’s zoning ordinance, it is not permissible.

Does Martha Fuller Clark know about this?

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Grover Norquist will be Keynote Speaker at the GST Christmas Meeting!
Grover, President of Americans for Tax Reform, will discuss Tax Reform legislation in DC.

Join Us at the GST Christmas Celebration Meeting!

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 from 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Murphy’s Tap Room & Carriage House, 393 Route 101, Bedford, NH 03110

Free hors d’oeuvres with cash bar.

Bring your friends. You DON’T need to be a GST member to attend. Join us at the GST Christmas Party & Meeting to:
– Celebrate the Holidays with friends.
– Hear Grover describe Tax Reform legislation in Washington.
– Learn more about GST and our efforts in 2017.

We welcome Members, friends and future members of GST! Click here to RSVP.

Agenda:

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US Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in an op-ed says that while she didn’t support the Obamacare repeal votes earlier this year, she does support the tax reform bills having a repeal of the Individual Mandate that Government / Obamacare put in place for people who just wished to not purchase healthcare.  Once again, look at the high cost of Government mandated plans that RedDiaperBaby and Jeemo are blaming on Trump and refusing to acknowledge that it is the structure of Obamacare itself that is driving costs soaring (emphasis mine):

Alaskans pay the highest price for premiums in the country. That is why the number of people enrolled on the exchange in Alaska has shrunk every year since the ACA was passed. People have been forced out of the market by the high cost of insurance, with some often forced to pay a tax because the price of insurance was too high for them to afford.

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Well, I’m back on my hamlet’s Budget Committee and we are now going over the town budget with the school district’s budget right behind it. Arguably, it is the most powerful committee/commission/entity  in what is known as an “SB2 town” where SB2 stands for Senate Bill 2 – the legislation pass a few years back that created the ability for a town to swap out the traditional NH Town hall voting to one that splits the deliberative session and a ballot voting process.

My town also adopted the formal Budget Committee that came with it. The Town Selectmen must present their budget to us. The School Board has to present theirs as well. We deliberate, change it (or not), and then present both budgets to the townsfolk (not the Selectmen or the School Board) for deliberation/voting.

We are the last line of defense for the taxpayers. And an issue showed up two weeks ago on the Town side.

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John Conyers settled charges of sexually harassing staffers during the time his wife was in prison for taking bribes on the Detroit City Council.

The perfect Democrat power couple.

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) November 21, 2017

While the MSM is giving a LOT of attention to conservative Republican Roy More for sexual stuff 40 years back (and Fox News beforehand), it has gotten so bad on the Left that New England talkmaster Howie Carr is running a “Perv Pool” – who will be the next notorious Leftist / Socialist / Democrat to be outed as both a hypocrite (“Republicans are bad for women”) and a sexual harrasser / abuser for HIGHLY inappropriate actions toward the fairer sex (or in the case of Kevin Spacey, other men).  The parade of pervs seems to be never ending and other than more, one thing is true:

Each and every one of them is a Progressive and spouts the Progressive line

It seems that everywhere that the Left has invaded and taken over (e.g., Entertainment,

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Both the FBI or Special Counsel Robert Mueller (mostly both) have been fishing in Lake Collusion for over a year now, with a big staff and a bottomless budget, and what do they have to show for it? The Clinton campaign and the DNC paid for a third party to create a dossier on Trump. But,

“…according to the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, FBI and Justice officials recently told congressional investigators that after spending nearly a year and a half looking into it, “they have not been able to verify or corroborate the substantive allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign outlined in the Trump dossier.”

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The moderators at Granite Grok have allowed trolls to gum up the works of the comments section for a long time. These trolls have a pattern of behavior which is easy to see. It is tedious, repetitive, repetitive, and repetitive.

The saddest of our trolls live in Boulder, Colorado, couch surfing at a private home of some poor woman who appears to have as many emotional problems as our troll.

I took up countering this troll’s pathetic comments and attacks against Doug Lambert when he started in against Scott Morales. As an education tool in showing readers who have not dealt with mental cases, who pose as real commenters, my goal was to expose what they do as well as the pattern. When it came to Kevin Beck and his alter-egos I was merely going to let him do the work on his own.

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The Washington Times Reporting,

CBS News has fired Charlie Rose after several women accused the veteran newsman of sexual misconduct.

Rose has been one of three hosts of “CBS This Morning” since 2012 and is also a contributor to “60 Minutes.” PBS and Bloomberg also suspended airings of Rose’s nightly interview show after the Washington Post published an article Monday about women who said he groped them and walked around naked in front of them.

The New York Times just terminated former Politico Reporter and White House correspondent Glenn Thrush.

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I guess the New Hampshire Democrat Party is going to meet on December 2nd to discuss changing the name of their Jefferson-Jackson Kennedy-Clinton biggest annual fundraising dinner. I’m not sure why. JFK and WJC are perfect examples of Democrat priorities and politics then and now. And that worked great until Democrats started using Bill’s sexual assault history to push Hillary off the political stage.

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