New Hampshire Public Radio (NHPR) published a report yesterday titled, Gray Seals, Once Hunted, Are Thriving In New England.

Once a popular target for hunters who could collect bounties from Massachusetts for their kills, the species swelled after hunting the beasts was outlawed.

“Past surveys based on traditional methods of counting, using occupied aircraft to survey seals on beaches, islands and seasonal ice cover, counted about 15,000 seals off the southeastern Massachusetts coast,” David W. Johnson, a professor of marine conservation ecology at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment, said in a statement.

“Our technology-aided aerial survey, which used Google Earth imagery in conjunction with telemetry data from tagged animals, suggests the number is much larger — between 30,000 and 50,000,” he adds, calling it a “conservation success.”

Does that mean that this 2012 climate change collectible flash card from Defenders of Wildlife is rubbish?

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Remember when the Climate Cult said our children would never see snow in New Hampshire because of Global Warming but the snow wouldn’t cooperate, so it was decided that all that snow was caused by Global Warming? The same thing is happening with sea ice in the Arctic.

Large Canadian Arctic climate change study canceled due to climate change (ISYN)

“Considering the severe ice conditions and the increasing demand for Search And Rescue operations (SAR) and ice escort, we decided to cancel the BaySys mission.

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A white male with a rifle took a few shots at Republicans yesterday in Virgina.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress during a baseball practice near Washington on Wednesday, wounding several people including senior Republican leader Steve Scalise before he was taken into custody, police and witnesses said.

Phil Kerpen has been sharing the contents of “alleged shooter” James Hodgkinson Facebook page, and he sounds like your average, narrative spewing, cookie-cutter, rubber-stamp, run-of-the-mill Democrat.

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STATE SENATOR ANDY SANBORN ANNOUNCES RUN FOR CONGRESS
A proven conservative Republican who can win and keep the seat

BEDFORD, NH – State Senator Andy Sanborn (R – Bedford), Chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, announced Tuesday that he will run for United States Congress in New Hampshire’s First Congressional District. His announcement video can be seen here.

A reluctant politician, Sanborn’s efforts in the legislature have been founded on not wanting to be like all the other politicians, but wanting to defend everyday people from the heavy hand of government and the political class.

“I’ve gained New Hampshire voters’ trust by listening to their real needs and working for them,” Sanborn said. “You can be a proven conservative and win if you deliver results that put people before politics. That’s what I’ve done.”

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“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me”  (John 14:6)

Apparently, with Govt as his God, Socialist Bernie decided that his secularism was going to trump a Christian that has been nominated for the Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director that had to come before him for confirmation.  He has decided that Christians, standing up for their faith in living and expressing it publicly, should not be permitted to serve (Apparently Bernie doesn’t seem to care much about the First Amendment’s “freedom of expression” nor of the Constitution’s Article VI that expressly prohibits any kind of religious litmus test for serving:

No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

Russell Vought is such a Christian and is an alum of Wheaton College – a small Evangelical Christian college that has a Statement of Faith which also included that Jesus is the Son of God, died for our sins on the Cross, and that only by accepting this sacrifice can one go to heaven. This is not secret stuff – it’s pretty much standard Christian orthodoxy.  As an Evangelical, I do believe that my theological faith matches up with it well but certainly put Sanders into orbit.

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Americans’ Net Worth Hits $94.8 Trillion, Up 1.4% in First Quarter of 2017

In the first quarter of 2017, Americans’ net worth hit $94.8 trillion, which was up 1.4 percent, the Associated Press reported. According to the Federal Reserve, stock and mutual fund portfolios increased by $1.3 trillion in value and home values were up $499 billion.

Before the recession, which began in December 2007, household net worth stood at about $66.5 trillion. Household net worth has greatly increased since then.  “Record-high stock prices are the primary driver of greater household wealth,” the article states. “The Dow Jones industrial average has more than tripled from its recession-era low of 6,547 to 21,174 on Wednesday.” “Yet just 10 percent of the U.S. population owns 80 percent of stock market wealth,” the article explains. “Meanwhile, middle-income households derive most of their wealth from their homes.”

We are a rich nation but to be sure, private debt is also sky high as well (about $12T).  What bothers me the most?

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The Declaration of Independence

…We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…

To secure and preserve these Rights – what other country was founded to protect Rights and the ideas surrounding those Rights?  The answer, plainly, is none ( in the case of many “passed” Communist countries that tried to profess the same, they turned out to be shallow if not outright false if you read their former Constitutions).

Frankly, Gillibrand is being true to her brand – Democrats/Socialists believe that Government has been instituted, since the time that German socialism infected America, strictly to “help” people by giving them things with the dirty little secret

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As Conservatives, we are used to knowing that the MSM is biased both on the news they report, the way they report it.  However, we generally only hear “oh, we are objective!” knowing full well they are lying through their keyboards.  That said, it has been clear that they have moved on from being the “who, what, where, when, and how” journalism to one of “The Narrative” – what is the end they wish to push and achieve and the articles are written to that standard.  We’ve suspected that for years but this last Prez election, they all seemingly dropped the facade and their red eyes blinked on – and many outwardly said as much.

John King of CNN (I’ve written about his anti-Republicanism non-objectiveness here) let it drop again over the John Comey testimony this week (emphasis mine):

While the Comey hearing into Russia was and remains a big story, CNN’s John King admitted Thursday afternoon that the media will not give much (if any) attention to Jim Comey stating that he was disturbed by then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch telling him in the midst of the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal that he should refer to it as “a matter,” not “an investigation.”

“A number of significant things. One, this won’t get much attention because it’s in the rearview mirror but a pretty damming account from Jim Comey there about Loretta Lynch, the former Attorney General in the Obama administration and her handling of the Clinton e-mail investigation. It won’t get much attention, but that was pretty damning,” King admitted.

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 A Professor at a Kansas College is leaving her post because a law permitting people to carry firearms on campus is taking effect.

A Wichita State University professor is resigning over a Kansas campus open-carry law that is set to take effect this summer.

“Clear, open, critical discussion cannot take place in an environment of threat and fear,” Deborah Ballard-Reisch wrote in a letter to University President John Bardo. “Guns on campus will make it that much more difficult for them to feel safe,” she wrote.

How long has Dr. Ballard-Reisch tolerated Diversity, Inclusive Excellence, and other Social Justice programs on campus? These curricula exist to prohibit ‘clear, open, critical discussion‘ by not just encouraging an “environment of threat and fear” but tolerating it.

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People like NH State Rep Katherine Rogers don’t believe that phrase “Good guys with guns stop bad guys” should ever exist, is really just “fake news”, part of a mythology that has to be put down, and never misses an opportunity to advance the cause of killing off the Second Amendment and Article 2A here in NH.  Unfortunately, real examples of that phrase actually do happen and I’ve posted a few here at the ‘Grok from time to time.  This one, however, is different; this time, it’s personal.

No, not me – this happened not once, not twice, but three times with The Eldest and I just heard his story this past week as we drove down to pick up the now elderly Saab from the garage.  They took place just after he finished his hitch with the Marines and came home.  A friend of his, female, was working the overnights at a local convenience store that, at the time, was the object of a number of robberies.  The Eldest has ALWAYS been very loyal and protective of his friends so knowing the manager well, he used to dub around the store doing little things (not an employee) to help out, especially in the coolers but always keeping an eye on his friend at the register.

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Evergreen State College has been SJW moonbat central for the past two weeks, where the inmates have taken over the asylum.

The public state college near Olympia has become a national caricature of intolerant campus liberalism in both The New York Times and Fox News. At least one professor has been harangued and classes disrupted by shouting mobs of students accusing the famously progressive campus of “systemic racism.”

That coverage apparently has incited anonymous threats of mass murder, resulting in the campus being closed for three days. In the critical last week of school, students have been deprived of learning by extremes on the left and right.

So “impressed” are the parents of potential future caricatures of liberal intolerance that Evergreen might be nevergreen. Enrollment has plummeted. The school is fighting for its life.

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Today, in a letter to the editor of New Hampshire Business Review, Peter J. Griffin, the NH Railroad Revitalization Association President, considers what at first appears to be a rhetorical question. “How will tourists get to New Hampshire?” How is this a problem?

Mr. Griffin bemoans the loss of days past when public transportation (trains) brought “tourists” into the Granite State.

I wanted to get to New Hampshire. I could not because there were little or no public transportation connections to New Hampshire tourist destinations, so I took the train to Rockport, Mass.- where I spent money.

That is how it remains. There is not a tourist destination in NH accessible from the Boston area by public transportation.

Not to belittle the larger point but how did New Hampshire manage to report 38.4 million tourist visits and $5.4 Billion dollars in revenue in 2015 without public transportation?

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