Besides the keynote speaker, Dr. Betsy McCaughey, two other ladies also had speaking opportunities during the meeting:

• Karen Testerman, conservative activist and exploring a run for the NH GOP nomination for US Senate
• Ann Marie Banfield, math whiz and educational liason for Cornerstone Policy Research, on Common Core

Karen Testerman (with whom we had a “pre-meeting” interview here):

Ann Marie Banfield on Common Core:

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Political Scoop – every Friday (mostly – he’s not as prolific as we are) Pindell puts up his Political Standing weekly and it generally has a Questions of the Week in it. Given that he mentioned us, I’ll play along with it:

• What are we to make of the Union Leader linking to Granite Grok on its homepage?

Well, thanks for the mention and I have a great answer for you, although many MSMers might lift an eyebrow (given the natural ideological bent of the newsroom)…

Here’s the snap shot.  And here is the link to Grokster Steve post.

For me, this is the money quote from the post: The states have an excellent opportunity to take back their responsibilities from Uncle Sam and give them back to local agencies, municipalities,  and the people who pay for all of it; who may then see what it is that really needs doing, and reapportion those funds accordingly, even if that means giving them back to the people who earned them.

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The government has shut down 17 times. Obama is the first president to ever issue an order to lock veterans out of military cemeteries.

— Steve Stockman (@SteveWorks4You) October 4, 2013

Washington Examiner:

…The American Battle Monuments Commission attributed the closure to the government shutdown. “Due to a lack of funding for ABMC operations (U.S. Government shutdown), ABMC cemeteries and memorials are temporarily closed,” the commission said.

…Ferguson told the Washington Examiner that the commission has $85 million left over from fiscal year 2012.

Remember – if Obama is willing to use Veterans in an Alinsky action:

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OFA Ballot Box Stuffer Melissa Shohet’s LinkedIn Profile is gone.  Vanished.  Disappeared.  Who is Melissa Shohet?  Allow me to remind you.

When Melissa Shohet votes in New Hampshire, she claims to live at 5 Stone Post Road in Salem New Hampshire, the home of Michael and Christine Brown.   Michael K. Brown.  Michael K. Brown is a Sr. Assistant Attorney General for the state of New Hampshire.  The same attorney General’s office that…all together now; just exonerated New Hampshire Democrat State Senator Martha Fuller Clark for having what? For having a number of OFA campaign professionals registered to vote from her home in the historic voter-fraud district in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, one of whom is a Lawyer from Arkansas who voted absentee….from her Portsmouth address.

Given that she was one of many rising stars in the OFA vote stealing firmament, dumping her LinkedIn profile is a bit suspicious.

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First on the Socialists – an observation from El Rushbo:

Let me give you an interesting observation on William F. Buckley. It’s a quote, but it’s more an observation. Buckley pointed out that in the ’30s we were told we had to “collectivize the nation,” i.e., big government. Go socialist. We had to collectivize the nation because the people were so poor, and now we’re told that we have to collectivize because the people are so rich — and he’s right.

Back in the thirties, FDR, all the boys? “Oh, yeah, we got way too many poor people! We need to go socialism so that we can raise standards of living.” Today why are we doing it? “‘Cause we got too many rich people, and they’re stealing everybody’s everything, and we gotta take it from ’em.” I think it’s a great observation.

And from the Globull Warmists?

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“Koch Brothers 30 year Plot to Destroy Public Television…” is a great headline because it will attract progressives haters the way blood attracts sharks.  Maybe we’ll even get some of that Democrat civility we always hear about.  You know, the rhetoric about arsonists, extortionists and terrorists, and that’s just from Democrats in congress and the media.  The full-blown left-wing-nut-roots crowd who are  just one twig-snap away from being the next Adam Lanza, Andrew Engeldinger, or James Holmes, all Democrats who committed mass shootings, could very likely write some very entertaining things from which we can milk posts for weeks.

So why that headline?  Well, there is an ellipses so let me finish it, and yes it is about the Koch Brothers and Public Television and a protest.

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Latha Mangipudi isn’t just a Nashua Democrat running for the New Hampshire House (in a special election on November 5th, 2013), she also aids and abets vote fraud by letting an out of state campaign worker claim residence in her home at 20 Salmon Brook Drive in  Nashua, New Hampshire.

The out of state campaigner is Alysha Marie Tierney (pronounced like “tyranny”).  Alysha lives at 5 N Arthur St Ludlow, MA 01056-1849.  She is currently a Staff Assistant at Harvard Kennedy School of Government (according to her LinkedIn page) but before that she was a college student at the University of Virginia.

Massachusetts, Virginia, Massachusetts….

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I’ve written before about how Obama’s puerile self-impressed and vain nature precludes him from persuading anyone, but it also manifests itself in other more repugnant demonstrations by himself and his acolytes.

Whether it’s accidental or intentional, acquiring the 800 numbers to spell 1-800-****-YO is consistent with the class level and sense of respect and propriety that this community organizer and his wretched minions have. You can take the Organizer out of the community, but you can’t take the bedraggled crime riddled community out of the heathen Organizer. I have no doubt, if it were up to him, there would be graffiti and filth all over the White House.

Funny, just a few weeks ago I read about the infestation of rat and cockroaches scurrying the floorboards in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Whether the Organizer brought them or not he probably feels right at home just like in his provincial estate in the murder capital of the country. It’s like being back on the blood soaked streets shadowed by rats fattened by the blood, filth and flesh, and roaches so grotesquely engorged they appear more as walking shot-glasses than insects.

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WE own it – not you!  WE own it – not Government.  You are MERELY the caretakers of our stuff – learn your place!

We often show much deference to those that work in Government – and generally more to elected officials (I think more so the higher the office and the further away they are – which makes NH so special as we just treat them just like the folks down the street).  But certainly, from my view point as one of those citizens that the DC based politicians love to lay the Hate on (um, a probably more than a few, on both sides of the aisle, here in NH ’cause I seldom keep quiet) simply because I stand for a limited government that spends within its citizens’ means and within Constitutional boundaries and values.  And a government that knows its Proper Role – which it does not seem to understand anymore at the Federal level.  From what I see of Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi (and yes, some on the Republican side as well) et al.

Another story like that of Obama refusing to let the WW II Vets into their own memorial – Great Smokey National Park (emphasis mine, reformatted):

So, we still plan to hike in Great Smoky National Park, but we have chosen a trail where we can park outside the park on private land and then hike into the park. We intend to defy any ranger we meet who tries to stop us, but by not putting a vehicle in a vulnerable position under their control, we give them less power over us in such circumstances.

Finally, I want to make one more point. This is the United States of America, supposedly “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Yet, in my essay above I describe how American citizens are either hiding from or protecting themselves from agents of our government, even though they have done nothing wrong.

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This is an excellent example of the hubris of Obama and the Democrat run Federal Government.  These Demo-brats are so mad that they didn’t get their way–that ‘way’ being the unsustainable continued and unobstructed growth and debt accumulation of the Federal government–that they are sending Federal Park Officials to shut down “parks” that are not funded by the Federal government.

These are places that have no reliance on Federal money.  None of their employees work for the Federal Government. Obama might as well have set up Barry-cades around all the Home Depot’s or McDonald’s in the country as an expression of what can happen when his government has a partial shutdown.

I have kids.  They were toddlers for a time.  This is a temper tantrum.

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