Another speaker was the NH State Senate Republican Incumbency Protection and Racketeering Act that will make it even harder and more convoluted  for the ordinary citizen(s) to speak their minds politically without The State smashing down upon them).  Certainly, he tried to make the case that the NH State Republicans upheld the best and greatest traditions of Republicanism.  Well, I hate to rain down upon the parade (gee, finally get to flip circumstances as it usually is politicians raining down upon us ordinary schlubs and the color ain’t transparent) but I’ve already listed the TWO (not one but TWO!) obvious actions that are the exact opposite of those Planks in the Platform.  That also contravene both the letter and the spirit of the NH Constitution.  This is not just me being a TEA Party, Constitutional loving extremist – it is being an ordinary citizen, reading our Foundational Law’s plain language and going WTF??  To remind you, here’s his speech and I’ve done a full transcript after the jump (of course, with commentary):

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Last week on GrokTALK! I remarked on a site that tracked donations to votes in congress and how New Hampshire Congress Person Carol Shea-Porter had a remarkable record.  Remarkable in that 93 percent of Carol-Shea Pay to Play’s votes could be correlated with cash donations to her Campaign within 30 days of her vote.

Out of 1227 tracked votes only 93 of them were cast counter to the interests of a donor who gave money within 30 days of the vote.

A complete list is on the jump.

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The Anti-Liberty Hate Group “OUR State Project,” “FreeStateWatch,” “ItWasAllAnFSPConspriacy,” or ‘Something-Something” is resorting to the Jedi Mind Trick as it runs away from itself.

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First it was no snow, and then it was yes snow.  We’d have extreme heat and no winters, but then it was to cause freezing cold and longer winters.  Rising seas, maybe not.  The Polar ice caps would melt except when they grew.  Tornadoes would happen except when they didn’t.  We’d have more forest fires, or maybe now it’s less.  And hurricanes–which were to be more frequent and severe–will now have to be re-globalwarmitized to be “fewer and less severe.”

Hey, when your theory about the weather is proven by whatever the weather is, who needs a theory, right? 

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Last Friday Skip took a few minutes to respond to James Pindell’s weekly NH Political Standing report.

Skip asks…

Isn’t it racist to think that just because someone has a Spanish derived surname that they should be able to  speak Spanish?

Being a part of the fourth branch of government might provide Mr. Pindell with a waiver on that, but does he get  waiver on this?

“If you watched Marilinda Garcia, the national Latino rising star, on CNN en Español to check out her Spanish speaking skills… well the station uses an interpreter because she speaks in English.

James refers to Marilinda as a “national rising latino star…”  Latino.  Marilinda is (I believe) half Italian, and half Hispanic.  The latter would, at best, make her a rising Latina star, which might have more weight to it if she actually spoke spanish.  Latino just seems a bit out of place.

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When the globe didn’t ‘warm’ the alarmists changed the name, and so it goes with ‘OUR State Project.’  These ideological alarmists are changing their name, probably because few to none of the handful of ‘members’ are from New Hampshire.  Or maybe it is because of all the negative attention they are getting after ideological xenophobe Cynthia Chase had her recruiting remarks scraped off Facebook, tying the group to the out of state funded progressive lobbying group Granite State Progress.

Out of state members, out of state money, a group named OUR state, trying to scare people into fearing the “uncertainty” of freedom and liberty.  Didn’t Vladimir Putin make the same case in Crimea and Ukraine?  They didn’t want liberty.  They didn’t want any semblance of autonomy from the centrally planned superstate.  They wanted serfdom at the hands of an elite ruling class directed by people from somewhere else.

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The other day I posted an article observing that the Anti-Liberty Hate Group OUR State Project (OSP) could not escape affiliation with the Progressive, out-of-state-funded GraniteState Progress (GSP).  The post was inspired by a screen grab of a tweet reported to have come from an OUR State project Twitter account.

The anti-Liberty hate Group OUR State Project does exist, or did.  Members included Democrats Cynthia Chase and Susan Bruce.  And they were using the GSP offices.  These things we know from Cynthia Chase herself.  Affiliation and coordination at that point were a given whether they tried to deny it or not.

Well, Susan Bruce felt compelled to respond to my post.

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