Earlier today, Grokster Steve alerted the rest of us that Kathy Sullivan tweeted out my post describing and opining on the talk that Scott Brown gave last Wednesday:

1. Usually don't read Granitegrok but this post on @Senscottbrown house party hate to admit is must read. #nhpolitics http://t.co/VcA8hVAmTL

— Kathy Sullivan (@NHKathySullivan) April 2, 2014

Or as Steve paraphrased: “I don’t always read GraniteGrok, but when I do…it’s about attacking Scott Brown“. She’s wrong about the attacking part; after all, we’ve done more on attacking Shaheen than we have commenting on Brown.  She also gets it wrong that she thinks we’re necesarily Republicans (heck, so do the Establishment Republicans).  Scott hasn’t been here long enough to understand who we are and what we represent – bad tutalege by Andy “The Muscle” Leach for that.  You see, we don’t defend Republicans just because they are Republicans and we don’t attack Democrats for not being Republicans.  In fact, we could care less which Party (e.g., Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Socialist, Communist, Green) anyone belongs to.  Not at all and not a tittle.

Rather, our allegiance is to 

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Let’s just say that while Congressman Annie Kuster (D-NH) put in a magnificent political performance here, she kept that same upstanding level on WMUR’s 6pm news for the event that today was the last day for Obamacare sign up.  After all, don’t do it and you invoke the fines and penalties (although with the many Royal Decrees and unilateral Changes that His Highness Obama has handed down since Obamacare was actually passed, who really knows when it really ends – Steve is right, it IS Lawlessness)!

Josh McElveen (having just commented that Healthcare.gov failed not once, but twice this last day of signup):  “While supporters have taken heat since the launch of that website could only grin and bear it”

Congressman Annie Kuster (D-NH, see mark at 1:10): Honestly, I just think it was so much interest.  Two million people went online this weekend.  You know, we’re a nation of procrastinators, that’s the bottom line. So, I think its important to do everything you can to get online today and start that process…

Interest?  Or “hide saving” time?  After all, Congresswoman, 

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Otherwise known as “Stack’em and Pack’em” – SCI wants zoning changes such that higher density living will be mandated – high rise living for all with retail on the first couple of floors, sidewalks galore, and if you like public transportation, you will be in love with your only source.  The single family homes of suburbia will simply be now over-densified and remade into little urban areas and rural areas may well be eliminated so that “green space” will hem in humans into certain areas and no further.  Think of it as TreeHuggers writing housing and living policies for the rest of us – freedom of choice will be regulated away. So if that happens, what happens when this happens (emphasis mine, reformatted):

7.5 quake on California fault could be disastrous — kill thousands, cost billions

The shaking from a 7.5 quake at the Puente Hills thrust fault in the center of urban Los Angeles could be so intense it would lift heavy objects in the air, could kill 3,000 to 18,000 people and cause up to $250 billion in damage.   Experts say a bigger earthquake along the lesser-known fault that gave Southern California a moderate shake could do more damage to the region than the long-dreaded “Big One” from the more famous San Andreas Fault. The Puente Hills thrust fault, which brought Friday night’s magnitude-5.1 quake centered in La Habra and well over 100 aftershocks by Sunday, stretches from northern Orange County under downtown Los Angeles into Hollywood — a heavily populated swath of the Los Angeles area.

A magnitude-7.5 earthquake along that fault could prove more catastrophic than one along the San Andreas, which runs along the outskirts of metropolitan Southern California, seismologists said.

As a dyed in the wool New Englander who used to visit California fairly frequently, 

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(Emphasis mine, reformatted):

Terrorists could knock US electricity grid out for 1.5 years, but more solar power could help protect it

The idea that the US electricity grid could be knocked out for 1.5 years is a bit shocking. But that’s what the agency in charge of protecting it has revealed.  It may have all gone under the radar and unnoticed, but someone at the Wall Street Journal took notice of a number of warnings put forth last year by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (following an attempted “terrorist attack” on a California substation) and recently wrote up a story about the matter.  The essence of the risk was pretty concisely put forth by FERC officials: “Destroy nine interconnection substations and a transformer manufacturer and the entire United States grid would be down for at least 18 months, probably longer.” (Note that many substations are protected only by fences and cameras.)

Well, the actual stats Shahan put up seem to jive with what I’ve seen elsewhere.  But then he runs towards the cliff: 

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The Shaman’s at the United Nations Intergovernmental Plunderers for Climate Cash (IPCC) have eyed the computerized goat-entrails yet-again and determined that the failure of sinners to repent will result in even greater global pain and suffering than all previous predictions combined, or something.  (Pick up your environmentally friendly ‘The end is Near” sandwich boards at the nearest participating-Nation embassy.)

On the other side of this absence of debate (sorry, there was vigorous IPCC debate over how to explain away the lengthy cooling period we are in), we have the NIPCC.  The Nongovernmental International Panel scientists, which are not funded by the UN or governments seeking power and taxpayer dollars to battle the chimera of Climate change, also releases a report for policy makers, to give them some contrast to the entrail-reading Shaman’s at the UN.

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The media pundits have declared ObamaDemocratCare “unrepealable” because it reached the phony milestone of trapping a couple million registrants who were kicked off real health insurance by ObamaDemocratCare.

The idea behind this new media mantra is that the Republicans will adopt this lie as their own marching order into the next election and learn to live with an unconstitutional, unsupportable, socialist scam – forever.

I know there are a lot of RINO heads bobbing up and down accepting their plight.

Not so fast.

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Small clip of Scott Brown’s own words on he got along in Washington, DC.  Play it here or…

…click / download here.  Transcript after the jump.

(H/T: well, you know who you are, and so do I)

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President Obama and his supporters are celebrating their Obamacare achievements.  Great, so the 40-50 million uninsured are now insured?   No.

Their March goal was 7 million.  Well, insuring 7 million of the uninsured is a good start.  No, that didn’t happen.

Their goal was revised to 6 million.  Well, insuring 6 million of the uninsured is a start.  That didn’t happen either.

What are they celebrating?  That 7 million people signed-up for Obamacare.  But signing-up doesn’t mean they are insured now, or that they were uninsured before (apparently most who signed-up had insurance before). That’s confusing.

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Woman abuser and Atkinson Selectman, Phil Consentino’s CIRCLE of POWER raises its nasty head.

Without a small army of get something for free acolytes the thug from Atkinson, former Police Chief and now Selectman Phil Consentino, would have nothing but free time on his hands – instead of that small object he let do his thinking for him, which is why he left the Atkinson Police Dept. in secret disgrace last year this time. That lawsuit thing which cost Atkinson taxpayer $100,000.00 we know of had a lot to do with it.

But, like with the couple who penned this disgraceful promotion below on behalf of the abuser, the Atkinson CIRCLE of POWER that keeps this pervert, if what is in the Complaint filed with the NH Human Rights Commission that forced his pals in the Atkinson Town Office to pay up and shut up, is true, it is the CIRCLE of POWER that is really to blame.

Here is the best the CoP brown-nosers could come up with in the lap dog Lawrence Eagle Tribune:

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I often fume at Katrina vanden Heuval when she goes on the Sunday morning talking head shows (she is the Editor of the extremely Progressive magazine, The Nation – and no, I have no idea what nation is that her magazine is calling “The Nation”).  She hates Conservatives, hates the TEA Party, and pretty much everyone else that is for limited government, self-responsibility, and free markets.  So, like many of the Leftists that have decided that the Koch brothers are the devils incarnate (and pretty much refusing to see their own brands of Billionaire do-badders like George Soros and the Brothers Styers), she asked what turned out to be a very dumb question:

http://twitter.com/#!/KatrinaNation/status/450088170428694528

Well,

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Ah yes, back to TreeHugger.  They really are all about downshifting one’s standard of living to ensure that “Gaia” won’t be hurt from global warming global cooling climate change Mankind activities that would make us like Venus (or was that Neptune?) in temperature.  They also are all about Socialism (“we’re all in this together and we won’t let you out”) and the totalitarianism that you will live your life by their sacred proscriptions.  I call it “the cave and firepit lifestyle”.

Well, owning a big car?  Very much a mortal sin.  Electric car?  Well, maybe – as long as you use PV panel to recharge it. While they are all about cramming everyone into high density “walkable neighborhoods” (like the self-righteous do-gooders from the Federal Government EPA / HUD / DOT), they will allow that riding bicycles are OK and rate just a tick under forcing you to walk everywhere. And certainly, if those bikes are “communally owned” so much the better.  Thus, this bad news gave them a rather latte day (emphasis mine, reformatted):

Citi Bike is underwater and de Blasio refuses bailout

One of the most unique features of New York City’s bike share program is that it’s privately funded. In most cities, bike-share programs, like other forms of public transportation, are subsidized with taxpayer money.  But according to The Wall Street Journal, Citi Bike is in debt. Alta Bicycle Share, which operates Citi Bike as a subsidiary, needs to raise tens of millions of dollars to keep the program going according to WSJ’s off-the-record sources. 

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New Hampshire Democrats are attacking Scott Brown as if he is running for Senate in New Hampshire.  Me too.  Scott Brown should be running in Massachusetts where many Democrats and a lot of Republicans are just like Scott Brown; Blue dogs, or blue-collar Democrats.  But that’s not how the landscape is laid out.  For the time being the Brown RINO likes the smell of Granite and I expect he’s here until the primary.

So New Hampshire Democrats, fearful that the Brown Democrat can beat their Green one, are going after him with this thing called the People’s Pledge, a nearly worthless gesture that pretends to address the so-called issue of outside influence.  It doesn’t.  (And I only bring it up because it could appear in the face of whomever wins the primary.)  All the Pledge does is give embattled Democrats who can’t defend the destruction of the American health Care system an ‘Oh yeah?!’  as in, ‘Oh yeah?!, well why hasn’t Scott Brown signed the People’s Pledge?

Why?  Could it be because he isn’t even officially running for the Senate – yet?

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Bravo (or do I have to be PC / Spanish correct and go Brava?)!  ‘Grok friend Betsy McCaughey is one of our favorites – former Lt. Gov. of New York, Constitutional Scholar, and one of the nation’s premier experts on Obamacare.  She goes all around the country on speaking engagements, is on the radio, a Fox News Contributor – and I keep going through her books on it.  Well, she caught Kagan in a lie from the oral arguments for the Hobby Lobby / Conestoga Obamacare case this week in her New York Sun Op-Ed (emphasis mine, reformatted):

That playbook was laid out in a brief that had been filed by 19 senators and 91 members of the House, all Democrats , supporting the Obama administration’s legal war against Hobby Lobby, a chain of craft stores that provides health insurance to all employees but refuses to cover morning-after pills such as Plan B and Ella. The owners, the Green family, try to run their business according to Biblical principles, including closing on Sunday, foregoing hauling beer even when their trucks have to run empty, and not providing abortion drugs.  Senator Murray claimed that “What’s at stake in this case before the Supreme Court is whether a CEO’s personal beliefs can trump a woman’s access to free or low-cost contraception under the Affordable Care Act.”

And we see the 3 female (and more importantly, Progressive) justices spew this same nonsense.  We see three things at play here that have never been tried

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