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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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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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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I have a solution for companies confused by the New Massachusetts State Software services Tax that just went into effect.  Move to New Hampshire.

Miami Herald – According to the state revenue department, the state’s 6.25 percent sales tax now applies to “certain services relating to computer system design and to modification, integration, enhancement, installation, or configuration of standardized or prewritten software.”

Gloucester Times-  “Even the Department of Revenue doesn’t know exactly how this is going to work and what services it’s going to effect,” Rep. Randy Hunt, an East Sandwich Republican and certified public accountant, told the News Service. A former computer programmer, Hunt said, “I can guarantee there will be companies that don’t collect it that later find out that they should have.”

Nothing says “confidence like the phrase “I can guarantee there will be companies that don’t collect it that later find out that they should have.”

Maybe this will make those Massachusetts business owners feel better.

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