Big news in New Hampshire, below the fold, on the front page of the Manchester paper. The state supreme court, deciding on the question–“Does the definition of a “loaded pistol or revolver” (under RSA 159:4 (2002) encompass … a firearm with no cartridge in the firearm, and no magazine in the magazine well(,) but with a loaded magazine located next to it and easily accessible?“–ruled it did not.

The pertinent part of the statute, according to the court, is: “A loaded pistol or revolver shall include any pistol or revolver with a magazine, cylinder, chamber or clip in which there are loaded cartridges.”

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The court said for a pistol or revolver to be considered “loaded” under the state statute, it must contain a cartridge in the chamber or must contain a magazine, cylinder, or clip inserted in or otherwise adjoined to the firearm such that it can be discharged through normal operation.

While I found this encouraging (and painfully obvious) and consider it a win for common sense for gun owners , and since when does a liberal not understand the difference between second base and home plate, that was not precisely why this article caught my attention.

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The Left in NH, and in general, has snapped over a web-game on a super PAC website that allows you to slap Hillary.  I’d agree, that is not productive.  But naturally the identity-politics-sky-is-falling-Democrats have to run around claiming the entire NHGOP must be to blame.

Someone claiming to be a Republican might be to blame.  That’s about it.  (Did we all forget that a registered Democrat shot and killed Trayvon Martin?  Ruh-Roh!).

The real story is this; that these are the same Democrats who either aided, abetted, encouraged, or simply refused to denounce things like TEA Party Zombies must die, where players got to kill prominent Republicans, including women.  (That sounds like a War on women, if you ask me.)

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I’m just going to put this out there and let the wind take it where it will.

In MH Reporter’s continued research into homicide and mass killing in America, it is hard to escape the fact that that the overwhelming majority of homicides occur in the same locations and that these locations have been run by Democrats for generations. So MH Reporter took the voter registration % of Republicans and Democrats and compared it to the homicide rate in each California County with the exception of LA County.  Since LA County is so large (~25% of the state) we broke it down into individual cities.

Our research shows that if you want to improve your odds of not being a victim of a homicide, then you should move to an area with high Republican registration. 

Graphs on the jump.

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So your uncle, let’s call him Sam, comes to you and says, “Hey!”  He actually says ‘hey.’  “I got an idea.   I know I owe more than I can earn.  I know I borrow 40% of every dollar I spend already every year.  I know I’m deep in debt.  I know that I’ve not been terribly good lately at being productive, and the value of the  money I do have is sketchy at best.  And, yeah, I manage to do a lot of things that actually kept people from being able to start businesses or find work, or good work, and my spending habits are epic.   But how about I offer to pay for your insurance for you?   Not only that, I’ll pay for extra, and you won’t need to even earn the money to pay for it.  I’ll front you the money to get started, and promise to pay most of it, well, forever.  What do you say?

You’d have to be a complete idiot to think that your “Uncle” could keep that promise and a fool to take it.

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State Senator Martha Fuller Clark has some explaining to do with regard to Ellen Rose Whelan-Wuest.

Ms. Whelan-Wuest makes no mention of New Hampshire on her LinkedIn profile as a place of employment or even interest.  Chicago, Durham (North Carolina), Brooklyn NY, even New York City, where she is working presently.

We have her tracks in all of these places, Duke University, a romantic interest in Middlebury VT; working for the Town of Durham, NC; employed as a staffer by a New York State Senator from Brooklyn.   And I bring all of these up because while away from North Carolina, in these various roles, she voted or early voted in North Carolina even though she was working elsewhere in the country at the time.

But isn’t expecting someone to do that, or even something similar, like mail an absentee ballot…vote suppression?

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Cool interactive map for data wonks over at the Washington Examiner – they went thru pretty much every county in the country and mapped out how the County level employees did against those that they serve with respect to incomes.  Of course, California had the biggest gaps between the two with county government employees sometimes making 200% (on average) more than the residents in that county – or more.  NH did pretty well in that, IMHO, government pay levels , +/- a tad, are in line with the earnings of taxpayers that are paying for that Government.

I clicked on the map to zoom in on NH to check out each county:

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We here at GraniteGrok consider Liberty and Freedom not only our watchwords but our political outlook as well; it is why we do what we do.  We don’t care if our elected leaders have been in office for a year, two years, or 25 years.  In the private sector, you have to prove yourself everyday that you are adding to the company’s profit (or at the very least, not detract from it).  There is no profit measuring stick in Government – but we can measure our elected officials by the similar fashion – do they help to enhance our Liberties & Freedoms (re: do they vote for laws that enhance or restrict our universe of Choice, regardless of the words that spill out of their mouths)?

If a worker does not do the work they are supposed to, if they are a drain, they are fired – NO one should ever believe that they are entitled to a job and a company is not responsible for your welfare (other than to pay your agreed upon compensation – anything else is a bonus).  Similarly for politicians – if you do not defend OUR Liberties & Freedoms, you are worse than a drain on Society and we will fire you – NO politician should ever believe that they are entitled to a Seat and we are not responsible for your welfare (or sense of entitlement to keep said Seat, getting voted back in should be viewed as a bonus).  Daniel Horowitz from RedState (adding on to my two posts from last night) has it right:

Gone are the days when every sitting Republican is the defacto nominee for the duration of his or her life, barring any egregious scandal. Every six years, each Republican will have to stand on his record and vouch for why he is the best person to represent Republicans, especially in a conservative state. If nobody comes along to challenge them and we are stuck with a weak Republican, then so be it. But if and when we find viable challengers, we will not sit back and rubber stamp another six years of rudderless leadership.

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Not satisfied with the spate of embarrassing escapades by some of the lefty leaders and celebrity mouth pieces, the blue hoi polloi are getting in on the act. As Mike posted earlier, there were throngs of people that held birthday parties for The One this past Sunday.  Complete with cakes, balloons and a heavy dollop of propaganda. Okay that may not be weird. Wait. No, that is weird. Who does that?

That’s up there with the “Life of Julia”, the “remember your first time voting for Obama” ad, and the solicitation asking your friends and family to contribute to Obama instead of giving you a wedding gift. Idolatry for a political hack is indeed nauseating even if the pol was particularly accomplished– and we know, O does not fit in the “accomplished” category, but more on that latter. First, the creepiness.

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Yes, it makes you dependent on someone – or something, right?  Grokster Steve relates that under the Obama Administration, we are becoming a nation of part-timers.  Here is an infographic from The Corner:

Obama owns this.  The Democrats own this.  The New Left (Socialists, Communists) own this.  Everyone that voted for Obama, to be their representative in the White House via our Constitutional Republic, own this.  His policies (the expiration date on Bush’s fault has run out) via your votes.  You own this.

“Determined Weakness” seems to be Obama’s watchword phrase.  “Fundamentally Transform” was his own.  In decades past, Americans were taught, encouraged, and expected to be self-responsible – and independent.  Yet, we are now seeing a high proportion of new college grads moving home; jobless or severely underemployed.  Youth unemployment is 25%.  Real unemployment is estimated at 15% – 20%.  Blacks and Hispanics are at levels well above whites.  50 million households are on food stamps.  Those on Social Security Disability (SSI) are outpacing the new jobs.  How can one be independent when one can’t support oneself?  Family, friends – may be in the same situation.  Churches?  Under attack already and being crowded out by other “social services organizations” mainly supported by Government monies.

Look up Cloward-Piven – a scheme dreamed up by two Marxists academicians that want to totally want erase America as it now is.  Their premise was to overload “the system” and almost did it in New York City by overextending the welfare system in cahoots with other like minded groups getting people to get the City to pay out.  Their plan, once the City went under, was to replace it with a socialist / communist style of governance (and hoping that it would spread around the country). It didn’t work then, but then, they didn’t have control of the White House and like minded Socialist Progressives pushing hard in the US House and US Senate.

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