A very good show, in my estimation (which makes two good shows in a row)!

Segment 1 – Groksters Steve, Mike, and Skip yak with Kimberly (on the phone) about the News of the Day and Week

Segment 2 – Keith Carlson comes in to talk about the Health Compact movement; a way for States to get out from under the strictures of Obamacare?

Segment 3 – Michelle Levell comes in to talk about some of the Educational bill that Gov. Maggie “The Red” Hassan vetoed as they took power away from government and returned them to where it should be – with parents.

Segment 4: started up with more Grokster banter as we waited for former NY Gov. George Pataki to come in (parking in Concord is all screwed up right now).  He did show up but certainly we did not get to all the subjects that we would have wanted to  – but a decent start.

Segment 1                                       Segment 2

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Rad Mod had left the following as a comment to my post that called out to him: This one is for you, Rad Mod!.  So, I figured that if he had the time and inclination to write it, I’d elevate it to its own post.  Emphasis mine:

Thank’s for the shout out Skip, but I would never be able to enjoy using the public soapbox if it wan’t for the good graces of those at GraniteGrok [You’re welcome, Rad  -Skip]. I sincerely appreciate the opportunity to engage in public discourse.

The American Thinker column highlights the fact that both parties are attempting to take America down a specific path regardless of the wishes of the remnants of traditional America. Two key definitions from the article;

Progressive Democrats: “The people who adapt these ideas to current needs are not the Democratic base, but a small group of intellectuals drawn almost exclusively from a handful of elite universities.”

Establishment Republicans: “They provide the illusion of a contest to events that have been carefully choreographed in advance.”

What do these to descriptions have in common? They indicate the existence of an external force or ‘idea’ guiding both parties in a common direction

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Attached is an invitation for your pastor and their spouse to attend a Pastors luncheon on Monday, July 27th at noon in Concord New Hampshire.

This is not a political event.  Pastor Cruz will be sharing his life in Cuba under the Batista regime, how he came to the US, and what lead him to become a pastor. A short bio is included on the invitation.

You may give a copy to your pastor at church tomorrow and if they are interested they can RSVP per the invitation.

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You just can’t make this up.  First it was non-criminalization, then civil unions, then gay marriage, now transgenderism, and soon to come will be polyamory and polygamy.  Many of us said that will be not the end point.  Only total embracing of and full throated embracing and celebration of “life decisions”.  This observation from the ESPY awards (which I intentionally decided not to watch in the privacy of my own home – let’s see how much longer that lasts) PROVING our supposition about the culture totalitarians:

In a truly surreal display, NFL great Brett Favre is being denounced by the left’s new cultural commissars for not clapping long and hard enough at ESPN’s ESPY awards, as Bruce/“Caitlyn” Jenner received a “Courage” award for his efforts to become a woman.  Oddly, Favre did applaud – not doing so would have been a grave heresy to America’s new church of progressive inquisitors.  His sin was not applauding enthusiastically enough.

The New York Post placed a video of Favre’s blasphemous insufficient clapping, juxtaposed with Jenner’s celebratory ascent to the stage.  The video repeatedly replays Favre’s cruel, disgraceful, calloused political-ideological-cultural faux paus for the stunned amazement and universal condemnation of the New American masses.  Yes, Mr. Favre, you’re guilty – we caught you on tape!

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Radical Moderate is one of our more prolific and thoughtful commenters and I thought that he’d like this on the nature of the Democrats and Republicans.  Angelo Codeavilla calls them the Ruling Class (or as other say, the Political Class).  From the House of Eratosthenes (emphasis mine):

Excellent stuff. One E. M. Cadwaladr, whom I intend to research & follow now, writes at American Thinker:

The representative model is now defunct, destroyed in somewhat different ways by the two political parties. We will start with the inappropriately named Democrats.

The Democratic party of today is not a representative party, but a top-down political machine organized around a reformulation of traditional socialist ideology. They are not a party of the popular will, but a party of a particular set of ideas. The people who adapt these ideas to current needs are not the Democratic base, but a small group of intellectuals drawn almost exclusively from a handful of elite universities. Trusting the public will is a laughable proposition for academics, who consider themselves a superior breed — like the philosopher kings of Plato’s Republic. They may adapt their rhetoric as required for the sake of harvesting votes from the lowly herd, but the core concept of public sovereignty was dropped from leftist thought long ago — about the time it passed from the hard hands of embittered revolutionaries into the soft hands of tenured professors.

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Executive Councilor Chris Sununu has voted to fund Planned Parenthood in the past so it is not unreasonable to think he’d do so in the future.  That is until recent revelations about strategic organ farming by its abortion doctors became common knowledge. That sort of thing might cause you to have a change of heart, (or liver, or lung).

Even the most mealy-mouthed, pandering politician with any lineage on the Political Right would be wise to think twice about backing this sort of commerce out of hand. But would they back it, hand out, with money from the pockets of taxpayers?

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From American Thinker:

• A liberal is someone who thinks tax increases on businesses are paid out of the secret stash of cash all businesses hide in their basements.
• A liberal is someone who wants stricter gun control but has armed bodyguards.
• A liberal is someone who wants guns out of honest citizens’ hands but who also wants more lenient sentencing for criminals who use guns.

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It’s early.  Too early to put all THAT much stock in these but I consider them, in part, a guidepost.  With Hillary, that guidepost arrow doesn’t seem to be pointing in the right direction; from The Blaze is the Quinnipac poll:

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And if you are supporting, if you are donating, you OWN part of this “baby organ crushing”.  And like the non-profits that Steve posted that support baby organ trafficking Planned Parenthood (spawn of the black eugenist Margaret Sanger), here are the the BIG for-profit Companies that also support Planned Parenthood’s activities (just like NH GOP Committeeman Steve Duprey):

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We have a similar problem here in NH – I’ve had this bookmarked for a bit but just had to post it after NH Gov Maggie “The Red” Hassan was on the news with her “I demand that everyone does what I tell them to”:

“None of us can do this alone,” she said. “It takes everybody in New Hampshire committed to coming together and recognizing the value of each and every one of us.”

No, not everyone has to take this one, not at all.  I refuse.  Just like the Greeks in this Zero Hedge post:

President of Greek Banks Association Louka Katseli appealed at the citizens to return their money to the banks. “Banks are absolutely trustworthy,” Katseli told Mega TV “as guaranteed by the ECB and the Bank Association, but they would have been even more powerful if 40 billion euros had not been withdrawn in the last months.

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From The Corner:

Within the past couple weeks, three separate national polls have been conducted on the issue of same-sex marriage. Interestingly, each of these three polls shows a decline in support for it. Both Ipsos/Reuters and Gallupconducted polls in early July — just days after the Supreme Court handed its ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. Both polls found a slight decline in the percentage of Americans who support same-sex marriage as compared to previous polls that each firm conducted earlier this spring.

Additionally, a third poll by the AP found that only 42 percent of Americans support same sex marriage. This is a decline of 6 points from the organization’s last poll on the issue in April. It also found a significant increase in percentage of people — 59 percent in June vs. only 52 percent in April — who said wedding-related businesses with religious objections should be allowed to refuse service to gay and lesbian couples.

Americans hate to see sore winners – that then go and beat up on others.  This isn’t over just like Roe vs Wade ain’t over; from Hot Air this:

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More from Erick Erickson who has some specific items to back up my broad brush strokes of late (emphasis mine):

The GOP told its voters that if they elected them, they’d stop Barack Obama. Instead, they gave Barack Obama a blank check to raise the debt ceiling to avoid a fight with him.

They told the base that they’d hold Barack Obama accountable. Instead, they did not blink in approving his replacement for Eric Holder.

They told the base they would stand up against crony capitalists. Right now they are set to reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank.

This included US Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).  I bet I have video with her saying otherwise, too.

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Kathy Dunton | GrokWatch News Desk

I am sure to tick off many of my fellow conservatives with this one, but here it goes…

It was very exciting a couple of weeks ago to hear him say pretty much what every American is thinking. But now, as they say, he is sucking out all the oxygen. I DO like that he is pissing off the establishment, but this thing with McCain is getting as old as McCain’s time in the Senate.

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Lisa Brady, M.Ed. | GrokWatch News Desk

Still Waiting for Justice!

7-13-2015

Dear Governor Hassan,

I am looking forward to a response from you with regard to the following matter that I am also sending to the press:

The New Hampshire NEA (teachers’ union) has gone on record, publicly supporting you and has referred to you as a ‘tireless advocate for New Hampshire school children.’ If that were true, then why would you allow a video that exploits a non-verbal autistic student, in the state of New Hampshire, to continue to be sold for profit at the NH Institute on Disability? I am left with the impression that you may be ignoring the violations because the New Hampshire Department of Education and the NEA are considered major funders of the video? After all, you have and continue to benefit from the NEA’s political support.

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