Stated another way, that’s $34,200 per year.

UPDATE: I was at a meeting in Manchester and ran into a old friend of the ‘Grok and without prompting, he brought up that his Obamacare plan, bought on the exchange, is mirroring my aquaintance’s below: it has just from about $1,000/month for his family to over $2,000 / month.  He makes too much as an independent engineer to receive any kind of tax subsidy – he has to float his own boat.  He’s now wondering if he has to go bare.

Commenter Jeemo has called me a liar and that I’m making this up – sorry Jeemo, but life is sucking badly when Government actions have all but destroyed the individual healthcare marketplace and made life miserable for million whose only purpose, in the Saul Alinsky word of wealth transfer from Haves to Have-Nots, is to fund others.  For the recipients of the tax subsidies, life is now better.  For the rest of us that were happy with our plans, life sucks.  And Jeemo makes fun of my friends.

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I’ve known him for years and have had him come over to house as a contractor on a number of cases; he was here a couple of days ago.  Usually I leave contractors alone to let them do their work and only wander in just because I like to admire peoples’ skills to do work that I can’t do (being a software engineer, I can build castles in my mind but you never want to put a saw, hammer, and a screwdriver into my hands at the same time).  However, he smiled as I greeted him coming out of his truck and he exclaimed “great, a fellow conservative to talk with!” as he deals with a lot of public housing projects owned by “public service organizations” that trend rather liberal.  One of the topics that came up, as he is self-employed”, was the cost his Obamacare plan; his frustration was BEYOND frustration.

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I Don’t Know, But This One’s Leader Isn’t Sectzy

I have to say, Donna Brazile’s interpretation of the Clinton campaign team as a “cult” is precious and childlike. Oh, if it was only true and they were your ordinary, everyday cult.

The Hillary for President 2016 campaign was run by what was supposed to be America’s first openly homosexual, winning, campaign manager, Robby Mook.

His dad was a Dartmouth professor – the NH connection.

Robby runs the Mook Mafia.

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Over on a certain Facebook page where a group of small government activists is promoting a fundraiser with a polarizing, anti-ruling class speaker, the lazy left finds solace in such words as Nazi, white supremacists, and hate group. Words that like brick walls are meant to end any effort to penetrate their true meaning because they have none, nor do their users.

These are the tools of people so incapable of defending what they believe that they bring sledgehammers in hopes of ensuring that no one will dare to challenge them or go to hear someone speak who might challenge them, or who might speak themselves.

The same is true at Georgetown University, a Jesuit University with a distinguished history that is rapidly declining under the weight of the social justice and diversity stormtroopers who have gone out of their way to try and prohibit debate about love, sex, and marriage.

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The Democrats won two more House special elections in New Hampshire yesterday improving their numbers in the legislature.

Two special elections were suited as tests to see whether the Republican Party could stem its series of defeats in the General Court.

So far in 2017, Republicans have lost eight of 10 special elections, including seven of nine in the General Court. Ultimately, the Democrats took seats on the ballot in Hillsborough District 15 as well as Sullivan District 1.

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Alexa users can now access podcasts and podcast networks like GrokTALK! when they enable the Spreaker Podcast Radio Player on their Device.

Once enabled just say, “Alexa, open Spreaker” – “Find GrokTALK!” or ‘Play the Steve MacDonald Show’ (which may be how Spreaker sees that feed), or search for any of the thousands of other podcasts available.

Spreaker’s description from Amazon.com is on the jump.

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Senator Rand Paul was seriously injured last weekend when his neighbor, an anti-Trump Democrat attacked the Senator on his property. Senator Paul has several broken ribs and may not be able to attend to his duties for some time.

Neither New Hampshire Senator has made time, that I can find, to say anything about the unhinged, Trump-hating, registered Democrat who attacked their colleague.

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That’s apparently what CNN was doing when it published a story Monday under the headline, “Trump feeds fish, winds up pouring entire box of food into koi pond.” How is that newsworthy? Well, it’s newsworthy if Trump acted like a boor and pounded the precious koi with an overabundance of food. Such appears to be the case if you look at the video below, which starts with a shot of Trump, alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, flicking spoonfuls of food from a wooden box into the koi pond below. Then the shot narrows to Trump himself, and he empties the entire box.

Another instance of presidential boorishness abroad? As Mediaite pointed out, that’s how it played out among some media types. There’s that CNN headline, for starters, which places outsize significance on the president’s handling of the box. Jezebel headlines, “Big Stupid Baby Dumps Load Of Fish Food On Japanese Koi Pond.” The New York Daily News: “Photo of Donald Trump dumping fish food into koi pond during Japan visit draws Obama comparisons.” And more than one prominent journalist wrote tweets fixated on the fish-food box-dump.

However, what the MSM is portraying is, once again, not quite the real reality.

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We have the inevitable purge, by comfortable American communists, of anything traditionally American extending to statues in our parks, schools, and other public places. All things Christian have been, for the most part, eliminated from Christmas, especially nativity scenes.

The Left has been busy following the traditions of all known totalitarian regimes of the past except they don’t hide out in the mountains as a gorilla army would. No suffering for the well fed and paid provocateurs we have. Our temper tantrum totalitarians hide out in plain sight – if you are looking, in law firms, college campus lounges, safe Federal jobs, Congress, even some of our churches give sanctuary to leftists.

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As the worm turns – I hope I see some legs!

Liberal Hillary Clinton staffers go after the liberal DNC Chairman in the print media while everyone else gets to watch. This is some sort of political soap opera on steroids, and about time.

The Mook Mafia, is about to have the duct tape wrapped around their empty socialist skulls since the sinking of the “Bad Ship Hillary” last November, explode.

The Democrat’s Mother Theresa, Donna Brazille, is unflinchingly calling the Clinton Crime Sub-family of campaign workers – racists.

What will the millennial nitwits respond with, you might wonder?

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I have a tip for Special Prosecutor Robert “Harvard” Muller. That is if he wants to investigate collusion, real collusion. That would be the multi-level scam to hide US State Department documents.

The scam is an old one and near and dear to the Clinton Crime Family.

Here is how it works.

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There are a lot of elections tomorrow, most of them not in New Hampshire, but of those in the Granite State the municipal election in Manchester may be the most watched.  Democrats hope to unseat Mayor Gatsas and but before you go out and cast a ballot ask yourself where do these liberals stand on the following issues?

Democrat state party chair Ray Buckley called a broad swath of voters in our state white supremacists. As a Democrat for public office do you support the state party chair’s remarks and if not, why have you not denounced them or distanced yourself from this ridiculous narrative?

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