In response to our post on Dover having to receive 3000 “refugees” being plopped here courtesy of our kind, caring Federal Government (that Democrats said that “Government is the only thing we all belong to” (no choice at’all)), a new blog to me sent a link:  Refugee Settlement Watch and they did a commentary on our post – so we are far from being alone on this:

Forget what you hear about local communities having no say, whether tiny historic Dover or surrounding towns will become new resettlement sites for Africans, Asians and Middle Easterners will all depend on the turnout and the questions asked (and answers given!) at an upcoming public meeting scheduled for Dover city hall August 13th, 7 p.m.

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Well, it seems that the notice of the Federal government, probably via some “Social Services Organization” (formerly a charity that has lost its way and has been “captured” by the lure of taxpayer money) trying to move up to 3, 000 refugees into Dover (10% of the population – you think that amount of folks would not “fundamentally transform” that city?) has caught a bit of the viral stuff.  From an interested reader, an link on some stories.  I found this one, sent along as well, to be more informational:  January 2014: Cultural Orientation Resource Center, The Congolese Caseload (begin page 3): http://www.resettlement.eu/sites/icmc.tttp.eu/files/CAL_CongoleseBackgrounder_013014_highres.pdf (I have downloaded the doc):

DEMAGRAPHIC — The Congolese caseload is relatively young, with nearly 55% under the age of 18 and an additional 18% between the ages of 18–25. Only slightly more than a quarter of the caseload is over the age of 25, and only 3% of the population is 50 years of age or older, a stark indicator of the hardships this population has suffered. There are slightly more females (51%) than males (49%) in the caseload. …

UNACCOMPANIED MINORS — The Congolese minor caseload includes unaccompanied and separated minors of all ages (below 18 years of age). 

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“…but they won’t move them to new communities where its citizens demand answers to the all important questions“

BREAKING – I got a little birdie singing in my ear that the planned meeting with the Dover City Council has been called off: “…GraniteGrok has moved the needle again“.  From my earlier post comes the above line from Refugee Resettlement Watch – now we know it is true.  Which also means that, once again, when ordinary citizens shine big powerful Flashlights on a concern that they feel is wrong, they can accomplish EXTRAordinary results.  Flip that around – isn’t rather sad that our Elites, our own Government, feels that they must sneak around in the dark corners and hallways of our country to do things.

Sidenote: Wasn’t it President Obama who proclaimed that HIS Administration would be the most open and transparent EVAH??  Guess that got “fundamentally transformed” as well, huh?

Anyways, this is just BREAKING – we are awaiting more confirmation on this news.  It also seems that I was right about “formerly called a charity now a mere Social Services Organization” being involved with this.  According to the birdie, it may well be the Lutheran Social Services bunch out of MA – I call them a “Seagull

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As I have stated before, I rarely put up the entire posts of others but there are times that it is hard to abstract snippets without destroying some of the meaning.  This post by David French over at The Corner,  is such a post.

We have posted much on how Federal Agencies, especially during this Obama Administration, have shown that the Party of Government has become the Government for the Party of Government.

David is sounding the caution alarm that even if a Republican is elected President this next go round is no guarantee that we will have a Conservative government because what used to be mere political spoils by a winning Party has calcified into a “Government for the Government and by the Government”; his two main points:

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From the Union Leader comes this Editorial on Andrew Hemingway who is competing with Walt “No Apology for Teabagger” Havenstein for the NH GOP nomination for NH Governor – couple of snippets (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Republican candidate for governor Andrew Hemingway will have to read this column online. On Wednesday afternoon he flew to San Francisco to participate in the Coin Congress, a gathering of Bitcoin advocates. Its slogan: “A culture of individuals ready to break the mold.” Hemingway presents his campaign the same way.  Gov. Maggie Hassan, whom he hopes to unseat, “has no plan, no agenda,” he said in an interview on Wednesday. “Her State of the State speeches are all Skittles and rainbows.”

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An observation specifically about the writing of the Obamacare Law:

…So that’s what happened: in between the “conceptual language” and the actual legislative text, some experts who were writing the law thought it was a good idea to try to coerce states into creating their own exchanges by withholding tax subsidies from the federal exchanges. The actual legislators who voted on the legislation didn’t know how the law would work, but they trusted the experts they hired….

…Tom Carper (D-Delaware), who also served on the Senate Finance Committee,insisted that the legislative language wasn’t important:

“I don’t expect to actually read the legislative language, because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I’ve ever read in my life.”

So, the Senate Finance Committee voted on “conceptual language” that established subsidies for exchanges without mentioning who those subsidies would apply to. They then hired experts, as Baucus said, who did intend for subsidies not to apply to federal exchanges, and those experts plainly wrote the law in the way that it wouldn’t apply to federal exchanges. Democratic leadership then refused to post the legislative text for people to read in an adequate time period before passing the law, and as a result, Congress voted on legislation that was written by people who, yes, intended for tax subsidies only to apply to state-established exchanges…

But that’s NOT the main problem. 

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Ellen Kolb has been a guest on GrokTALK! several times and we’ve had a splendid time.  She also runs Leven for the Loaf – a solo blog that concentrates on issues surrounding the Right To Life.  She had the opportunity to interview former NH State Rep Jane Cormier who is now running for NH State Senate in District 16 (and GraniteGrok Approved!) – reposted here at the ‘Grok by permission:

Jane Cormier’s neighbors elected her to the state legislature in 2012. She earned the Republican nomination for the seat the hard way, defeating an incumbent. She did it as a political newcomer, in a year when many GOP candidates were clobbered. Not a conventional candidate, by any measure. Proudly pro-life, too.

This was no “stealth” candidate. Jane Cormier was (and is) right up front about who she is and what she believes. “Being outspoken, telling the truth, has no ‘R’ or ‘D’ attached,” she said to me when we spoke recently.

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Like all politicians, NH State Senator Jeb Bradley sends out eblasts all the time.  Now that it is campaign season, everyone should be expecting a whole lot more from all the candidates.  So, why the title?  I think I know – and I believe that Bradley makes it glaringly obvious (reformatted, emphasis mine) in this eblast that came to my attention recently:

Dear Friends:

Today my Democrat opponent attacked me in a letter to the editor for standing by my pro-jobs, pro-taxpayer principles.

He attacked me for supporting business legislation requested by a large employer in Conway, for working for pension reform that reduces the unfunded pension liability and protects property taxpayers across NH, and for supporting more educational choice and opportunities for parents and students.

I am proud of my record.  I have led efforts to kill tax and fee increases introduced by the liberals the Senate,

Er, what about the HUGE tax increase that you just gave us? 

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