Democrats stumbled in to 2015, tripping over their own hypocrisy and landing flat on their collectivist faces.  Locally, the party that adored high-ranking Democrats from within the Ku Klux Klan demanded that a New Hampshire Congressman call for the resignation of a guy from Louisiana who briefly spoke at a hotel where White Supremacists would later gather — twelve years ago.

A bit less historically distant, PETA and the professional liars on the left (The Democrat party) blasted Sarah Palin for posting a picture of her son Trig using the Dog as a step stool.  The Dog clearly did not care, but the left did.  The Palin’s were horrible parents, blah blah blah. The left and PETA cared so much they forgot that PETA’s woman of the Year, Ellen DeGeneres, posted a similar picture to oohs and ahh’s from the ranks of the Obama-Loving Palin haters.

Palin’s response to it all?   ‘Chill. At least Trig didn’t eat the dog. ‘

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New Hampshire Democrat chair Raymond Buckley supports raises for public union employees regardless of the state of the economy.  He has never once complained nor concerned himself (to my knowledge) about Congressional raises under Democrat majorities.  But now he is appalled at the idea that Republicans in the US Senate opposed a minimum wage increase (7 months ago) but will accept a 2800 dollar cost of living increase they could not possibly have repealed under Democrat Harry Reid.

I should point out that I don’t think anyone in congress should be getting any kind of adjustment to their compensation that is not on a steep downward slope in both pay or benefits.   In exchange for a significant and “generous reduction” I would accept a substantial decrease in hours spent in Washington DC.

As for Mr. Buckley, his new found pretend-outrage over congressional pay comes with a different cost of doing business.  It appears that he would exchange the $2800 dollar cost of living increase for votes that would actually cause financial harm and hardship to the people he claims would benefit.

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Per usual, Steve has had the entire show’s audio podcast up for a while; keep watching as he breaks it out to each segment and I’m betting there’ll be a few GrokSHOTS! outa this one as well.  In the mean time, here’s the video from the show and as you can see, a new format for a new year:

• Segment 1: Right to the meat of things:
  • Legislative Update from the NH House from NH State Rep Guy Comtois – hijinks at play; are we seeing a stealth takeover by the Democrats from the Republican Majority running through the Democrat appointed Speaker Jasper ALREADY?  This will be a recurring segment on GrokTALK! this new year
  • Second Amendment Update from Grokster Susan Olsen – are the NH gun groups now presenting a united front on the gun bills moving through Concord?  Sacre bleu!

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The NH GOP Annual meeting is coming up this next Saturday at the Pinkerton Academy in Derry.  One of the duties of the newly elected State Committee members is to vote on new officers (e.g., Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, Treasurer). The other is to vote on changes to the By-Laws.  The Groksters that are duly elected State Committee members (I, not so much this cycle – methinks I’ve been too bad of a gadfly (in part) as a thorn in the side, so I’m told) each got an email listing those amendments which got forwarded to us all:

Submitted bylaw amendments can be found below:

Bylaw amendment 1
Bylaw amendment 2
Bylaw amendment 3
Bylaw amendment 4
Bylaw amendment 5
Bylaw amendment 6

Amendment 1 is rather interesting (underlined words are the additions, bolding mine):

County and City Committees may prescribe in their bylaws the conditions under which a member of such committee may be removed for failure to attend meetings or other good cause. Any such bylaws provision shall become effective upon approval by a majority vote of the Executive Committee. Upon a member’s removal under any such bylaws provision the member shall also be removed from the State Committee and a vacancy shall exist.

So if the local committee (city, town, county) removes someone, they are booted from the State Committee as well.  But here’s the rub that I pointed out:

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NH Senator David Watters (Democrat from District 4) took a trip to Washington D.C. recently for a Planned Parenthood legislative session.  He proudly posted a photo of his little trip to visit with the young teen abusing organization on Twitter.  While Watters was in D.C. he also decided to partake in a ‘Die-In’ to protest the Ferguson grand jury ruling (and the police because… #blacklivesmatter).  Ironic because black babies are aborted at astronomical rates by Planned Parenthood every year.  An organization that was started by racist Margaret Sanger.

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Billy Baer was arrested in May 2014 at a Gilford School board meeting for speaking out about a book the school district gave to his 14 year-old daughter to read for class..  The book was ‘Nineteen Minutes.’  it included sexually explicit and violent content to which Bear rightly objected.  Baer was arrested and charged.  His case has just been thrown out by a Circuit court judge.

(Union Leader) Circuit Court Judge James M. Carroll said Baer, while said to be unruly at the meeting, was exercising his right to free speech at the meeting and should not have been arrested, an act that Carroll described as “chilling.”

“…individuals, from time to time, may be disruptive but the disruptiveness should not be cause for an arrest,” Carroll wrote in his decision.

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Heh!

1. If you believe that early snow and cold weather is a sign of Global Warming™…you may be a Liberal.

2. If you believe that conservatives who support Ben Carson do so because conservatives hate blacks….you may be a Liberal.

3. If you believe that Americans shouldn’t own guns, but think it’s okay to run guns to Mexican drug lords…you may be a liberal.

4. If you believe that the TEA Party is bad because they could be violent, even though they’re not violent…you may be a Liberal.

5. If you believe that the Occupy groups are good, despite their violence…you may be a Liberal.

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(Cartoon H/T: Liberty Unyielding)   And here’s some proof that Obama’s Progressive agenda (translation: we WILL tell you how to do everything and anything) is making life more and more difficult for everyone).  Each and everyone of these reduces Freedom (and you can’t tell me that even the majority of this is “for my own good”):

Report: 21,000 regulations so far under Obama, 2,375 set for 2015

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And I thought I had a problem with FairPoint?  As a former frequent flier, I am SO glad my longest biz trip lately is from the kitchen to my home office and that airports are not in my immediate future as they used to be (a weekly affair):

Over at The New Yorker, Tim Wu identifies the two little, insidious words that explain why airlines have made flying more and more awful: calculated misery. 

Perhaps you didn’t realize there was a name for the way that the airlines nickel and dime travelers, but if you’ve flown lately, then you know all about the effects of this economic strategy. Unless you’re a devotee of Southwest Airlines, the good old days of free checked bags are pretty much gone. But it’s not just bags: The airlines now extract huge amounts of cash by degrading the basic flying experience and then charging fees for priority boarding, slightly better economy seats, paid in-flight Wi-Fi, and other features that make the flying experience something less that totally unbearable. Delta and United each made more than a billion dollars in 2014 just from rebooking fees. Wu writes:

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“Our intention creates our reality.”  —Wayne Dyer

Democrat House Leader Steve Shurtleff engages on the Second Amendment. Shurtleff took to the pages of the Fishwrapper Concord Monitor on New Years Day to Champion the banning of guns in the Statehouse facilities. Shurtleff writes,

“The House chamber and visitors’ gallery is not an appropriate or necessary place for people to bring their guns.”

The manner in which he writes his opposite editorial, he makes use of the phrase , “widely regarded as commonsense restrictions.”

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What’s the difference between the Steve Scalise Story and The Terry Bean Story?

NH Democrat state party Chair Ray Buckley knows accused pederast Terry Bean.  They both serve on the Democrat National Committee.  They have been in the same room with each other more than once, had dinner with the president, and they may even have each others contact information.  Bean is accused of raping a 15 yer old boy.

Steve Scalise is not from New Hampshire but 12 years ago he spoke to a group in the same hotel, on the same day, where White Supremacists would later gather.   At least some of the latter were there to hear the speech and report on it back in 2002.

The Scalise story from 2002 broke Dec 29th 2014, and hit the NH Press Dec 30th.  Terry Bean, accused of sexually assaulting a minor on November 20th 2014,  has not yet been mentioned in the NH press.

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