OK, I’m later than normal.  Posting has been real light as my old laptop had “severe issues” after last week’s remote at the Londonderry Fish & Game Club & GrokShoot – had to spend most of last week trying to recover from that.  Thankfully, I had done a full backup the week before so most of my time as been spent trying to recover emails, email rules, and the assorted documents received from pre- to post crash.  It also has meant that my responding to emails and other inquiries, well, has gone by the board in trying to go from barely functional to mostly operational (yeah, in trying to process video, this new Windows 8.1 Essentials Live Movie Maker decided that the audio from “videos to be processed and posted” was going to be turned into mere “audio clicks”.  In the Grand Scheme of things, all in all, worse things have beset me in the past but man, talk about frustrating!  Hopefully things will get back to some semblance of normal this week and back to “posting regularity”.

In the meantime, here are the videos that accompanies Steve’s audio posting of this week’s GrokTALK!

Pre-Show: NH State Rep Marilinda Garcia (Candidate for NH GOP nomination for US Congress, NH CD-2) comes on to promote her “Race to Congress” event at the NH Motorspeedway in Loudon, NH and offer two GOLD VIP passes to the event to GrokTALK! listeners.

GraniteGrok went to the event last nite – will post up the video later on today.

The Pre-Show – which, btw, almost didn’t come off as it might – 5 miles outside of Concord, I get a call from Steve “Hey, you ARE going to be here – I sent you email that Marilinda Garcia was calling in early for the GOLD VIP Ticket giveaway (and YOU HAVE THE HEADSETS!!!!!).  Heck, I was just happy that I could resurrect my old laptop to do the livestreaming as it was a bit recalcitrant in attaching to the UStream servers.  Oh, and did I mention that TMEW’s laptop ALSO died this past week, so I had to reset up two new systems…..Rest of the videos after the jump. 

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Kerrie Diers (Exec. Dir. of the Nashua (New Hampshire) Regional Planning Commission) doesn’t care much that your land gets in the way of her planning (for your own good as in “WHY do our perceptions of the needs of the Collective have to give way to what Individuals own?”):

• “Private Property Rights get in the way of good planning“
• “Private Property Rights won’t let us have the discussions“

That is correct – I went to the LRPC’s (ye of the dealers of the Feds’ effort to federalize local zoning ordinances and land use by dangling “crack money” to the Regional Planning Commissions) Law Lecture held this past week at the Bean Conference Center in Laconia, NH.  There were two lawyers that discussed some of the changes to the law and what planning / zoning boards should be mindful of in rendering decisions.  Here is Bernie Waugh – Part 1 with the second and third parts after jump:

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A rather astonishing remark by Obama’s Rasputin (the power behind the throne), Valerie Jarrett on today’s Meet The Press:

I think what the President said was “look, let’s start with the premise that every American should have paid leave and then let’s have a conversation on how to get there.”

The assumption left here is that this is no assumption at all; that she holds that this premise (that all Americans should have paid sick leave for themselves, paid leave to care for family members or other “important people in their lives” and paid leave for maternity / paternity leave) is reality, that the President has the authority to merely declare that this is set policy.  All that is left to the rest of us is how it is to be implemented – and with these communitarian / socialist / redistributionists, the only “discussion” that we in our formerly Constitutional Republic are now allowed amongst us formerly sovereign citizens is who is going to be gouged.

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 “A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.” —Larry Elder

There is never a time when gun-banning liberals cease to work to completely and totally remove firearms from our society…That is, to completely remove from law-abiding citizens the right to have and own firearms. On February 25, 1995 Senator Diane Feinstein told 60 Minutes, “If I could have banned them all – ‘Mr. and Mrs. America turn in your guns’ – I would have!”

“Who needs Machine guns anyway? There is no practical purpose for Machine Guns,” say those who fancy themselves as a moderate and

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Once again, I can rely on Meet The Press to throw up some blog fodder from Socialistic Communitarians that believe that there should never be Liberty in action – you WILL be made to care (as Erick Erickson from RedState puts it) and contribute.  Former President Bill Clinton on the idea of raising the minimum wage:

So I think it should be raised because I don’t think that, and I think that all consumers should be prepared to pay for it, because I think somebody that works full time and has kids they ought to be able to raise their kids without being in poverty

Lest you have not heard, this is the guy that has lived almost entirely on the taxpayer dime his entire adult life and has made over $100 million for flapping his gums since his Presidency was over (given his proclivity of NOT retreating into history like most ex-Presidents, I cannot say “since his Presidency faded into history”).  And trust me, I do not begrudge him making that fortune even as I may question the sanity of those that provided it, but that is one of the narrowly focused results of Big Government. 

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NH State Rep. Sandra Keans (R, now D): “I don’t try to justify anything by the Constitution, it’s not my job and I don’t want to do it”.

NH State Rep. Susan Almy (D): “Well, you don’t get to decide what is Constitutional and I don’t get to decide what is Constitutional, the judiciary decides what is Constitutional”.

Actually, it is my job, and it is your job, and it is the job of those we elect and those that have chosen to be public servants. The Constitution(s) underlie everything we do governmentally and in that sphere, it determines how we are to govern.  It is NOT simply the job of the judiciary – it is the job of everyone concerned with governance and politics to know and to hold to the Constitution’s Letter and Spirit.  Else, we have anarchy and no longer The Rule of Law but will pass (have already passed?) to The Rule of Politics and the Dictatorship of the Ruling Class / Strong Man?  Certainly, Progressive Democrats dearly wish to “progress” past being Constitutional – but that will end up being regressive in result and for certain end up back into an Aristocracy mode of Rule – but with them at the helm.  Sadly, we see many Republicans (like the Rogue Republicans in the NH State Senate, chief among them NH State Senator Chuck Morse, NH State Senator Jeb Bradly, NH State Senator Bob Odell, NH State Senator Nancy Stiles and NH State Senator Dave Boutin) outright ignore these precepts as well.  Ditto for erstwhile, self-proclaimed “conservative” Scott Brown.

I come from a software background, the last 18 years dealing with manufacturing companies.  The difference between the winners and the losers organizations can be attributed to

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