Where Does Jeb Bradley Stand on The Minimum Wage?

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The New Hampshire Democrat Party is wondering where Republican State Senator (and likely candidate for higher office) Jeb Bradley stands on the minimum wage?  I confess, so do I.

Does State Senator Bradley embrace the left’s obsessive desire to depress employment among teens and minorities by using legislative force to define the value of labor or is he more inclined to let the person whose labor it is come to an agreement with an employer over the real value of their time and skill-set with regard to the position in which they are to be retained?

The New Hampshire Democrat position is that modern day Granite State employees and employers are simply too stupid or corrupt to be permitted to define these terms without government interference.  Is that Senator Bradley’s position as well?

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The lies at the heart of Leftism….

The avatar of the political Left
The avatar of the political Left

The political Left—founded as it is upon statism—is based upon so many falsehoods….

It promises peace, but brings conflict and war. It promises safety and security, but brings unease, fear, and danger. It promises plenty, but brings poverty, scarcity, and want. It promises brotherhood, but brings strife and division.  It promises equality, but brings discrimination and class difference. It promises justice, but brings grievance and unfairness. It promises health and long life, but brings affliction and untimely death. It promises freedom, but brings oppression.

And it promises love, but brings hatred.

THAT is why…

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Memorial Day – a different perspective from me

In years past for me, it has been about those who gave all, as Grokster Steve points out here.  That simple drawing shows the gratitude for all the sacrifices that millions have given to our country, to us, and to me personally.  I have, as I have explained here many times, never served, so I … Read more

The sacrifice of a Warrior

“No one desires Peace more than the Warriors and their families for they know the true cost of war”

Later This Week When It Warms Up…

Spring In Upstate new York taken 5-26-13 - 3 feet of snow
Spring In Upstate new York taken 5-26-13 – 3 feet of snow

By the end of this week New England will be back to being warm again.  When that happens, I’d like all the climate denier-deniers to remember that yesterday parts of the North East got three feet of snow.  That Alaska is having a winter several weeks longer than average.  That nationally, temperatures are down.  That globally temperature have been flat for 16 years and may be declining.  That I don’t feel all that comfortable putting any plants outside after June 1st for fear we might still be at risk for a very cold night or two.

What I’m trying to say is, it’s just weather.

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The Stalinist Idea Behind HB135 – The Effort to Repeal Stand Your Ground

I pulled this opening line from a very interesting article by Steven Hayward at Powerline because it reminds us where the lefts hatred for the right of self defense actually comes from, even if they themselves do not know it.

If memory serves, Irving Kristol once remarked that the term “peace,” as it was used by the left, “is a Stalinist concept,” since the intent of the so-called “peace movement” was the unilateral disarmament of the West and the triumph of Communism.

On the big stage Mr. Obama is doing a fine job of advancing that very-communist goal of undermining the US military from within but it occurred to me that the same ideological inheritance that encourages the Obama administration’s effort to put the US military into therapy is equally rich with a “peace movement” mentality which the average street-level apparatchik deploys (at the direction of their professional left-wing betters) against the second amendment.

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GrokTALK! May 25th 2013

This week on Grok Talk!… Kate Baker,  the Executive Director at The Network for Educational Opportunity, to talk about New Hampshire’s Education scholarship Program, parent and student rights, and value of education choice. Laura Condon, New Hampshire State Director of Advocacy for the National Vaccine Information Center stops by to talk about vaccines, vaccination, New … Read more

May 25th. Start of the Memorial Day weekend. 7pm. Do you know where your temperature is?

Updated and bumped: My temperature ran away.  11:30pm  Let the dogs out.  Yeah.  32 degrees…it supposed to be summah! *************************************** Yeah.  Just returning from the grocery store.  Now, I really dreaded going out to get some butter for TMEW’s home made “just finished baking” bread but the smell and thought of that yummy bread overpowered … Read more

I need to see the papers to see what I’ve done!

This from Obama’s comment that he did not know of the IRS scandal, happening on his watch, until he heard it in the Press.  “Leadership from behind” is so unbecoming from the most “inside the beltway” guy in the word – does he really think this is a dodge that would actually be acceptable to … Read more

So, how would you suggest that she Run Away, Deputy Dawg “HB135” Shurtleff?

No, she was not in public but thought she was securely in her home, was she Mr. “Let the Professionals take care of your security” Shurtleff.  Until, that is, there’s no one around.  Seconds and minutes (emphasis mine, reformatted):

JOSEPHINE COUNTY, Ore. (CBS Seattle) — An Oregon woman was told by a 911 dispatcher that authorities wouldn’t be able be able to help her as her ex-boyfriend broke into her place because of budget cuts… Her call was forwarded to Oregon State Police because of lay-offs at the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office only allows the department to be open Monday through Friday.  “Uh, I don’t have anybody to send out there,” the 911 dispatcher told the woman. “You know, obviously, if he comes inside the residence and assaults you, can you ask him to go away? Do you know if he’s intoxicated or anything?”

The woman told the dispatcher that Bellah previously attacked her and left her hospitalized a few weeks prior to the latest incident. The dispatcher stayed on the phone with the woman for more than 10 minutes before the sexual assault took place. “Once again it’s unfortunate you guys don’t have any law enforcement out there,” the dispatcher said, according to Oregon Public Radio.  The woman responded: “Yeah, it doesn’t matter, if he gets in the house I’m done.”

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Blogline of the Day – Laura Ingraham

“Pete Wehner is missing the whole point of why the Tea Party is so furious with the GOP Establishment. Yes, we think that they are a bunch of squishes, hacks and sell-outs. That is true. But we also think despite all their advanced degrees, they’re stupid. We think that their ideas on immigration are crazier … Read more

May 25th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – Kate Baker

In this segment of GrokTALK! we are joined by Kate Baker,  the Executive Director at The Network for Educational Opportunity, to talk about New Hampshire’s Education scholarship Program, parent and student rights, and value of education choice. Listen Here http://granitegrok.com/GrokTalk/By-Snippets/05-25-2013%20Segment%20One.mp3 Download this segment here You can get links to other segments or listen to the complete … Read more

May 25th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – Laura Condon

In this segment of GrokTALK! we are joined by Laura Condon, New Hampshire State Director of Advocacy for the National Vaccine Information Center stops by to talk about vaccines, vaccination, New Hampshire House Bill 664–relative to the NH Vaccine association, and why should contact your State Senator and tell them to vote no on this … Read more

May 25th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – Karen Testerman

In this segment of GrokTALK! we are joined by Karen Testerman, Former Candidate for Governor of New Hampshire and former Executive Director of Cornerstone Policy Research; on Jeanne Shaheen and the IRS, Jeanne Shaheen’s SB711, the potential for US Oil independence and its affect on our relations in the Middle East, The Muslim Brotherhood, and … Read more

May 25th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – John Hikel

In this segment of GrokTALK! we are joined by John Hikel, NH House Rep, on when government doesn’t work, holding legislators accountable, who the real extremists are, Constitutions, oaths, and obligations and the road back to them if such a road exists. Listen Here http://granitegrok.com/GrokTalk/By-Snippets/05-25-13%20Full%20Podcast.mp3 Download this segment here You can get links to other … Read more

The Free State Project in New Hampshire: Eager beavers fight it out with eager socialists…

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The quote above should read “Oh No! Freestaters!” Heh…

State Rep. Cynthia Chase made herself famous not that long ago when she wrote “In the opinion of this Democrat, Free Staters are the single biggest threat” to achieving socialism in New Hampshire. Well…she didn’t actually say “achieving socialism.” I just added that to make her thought process clearer (after all, she’s a recent import from Rhode Island). But as each day goes by, it appears her problems with diversity in New Hampshire seem to be increasing. This report comes from Fox News yesterday:

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Kathy Sullivan Channels Adam Smith?

Kathy Sullivan channels Adam Smith (?) in John DiStaso’s Granite Status…(In regard to the Casino Bill Vote)

“But what amazed me is the lack of willingness (by opponents of both parties) to recognize the amount of gambling we already have in New Hampshire, with all of the under-regulated charitable gaming, and it continues to grow and grow,” Sullivan said.

“It’s as if they don’t see it, but it’s there.”

The key phrases here are “under-regulated” and “continues to grow and grow.”

If Sullivan’s intellectual agility were not chained to the statist dogma of the Democrat party she might have been able to reach the obvious conclusion that if you under regulate “it,” “it” is almost guaranteed to grow and grow, and that includes employment, wages, wealth creation, opportunity, self-reliance,  charity, and even tax revenue; while costs and prices are not-so-mysteriously driven inexorably down by growing choice and competition.

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I’m not crazy…my mother had me tested.

But Representative Abrami thinks I am paranoid because I oppose SB 11; however, I may be just crazy enough to believe I own the water on my property. Sadly, it seems that the NH Department of Environmental Services says “No”.  If that doesn’t give you pause, then go to the former Governor John Lynch’s website and read the final report of the Water … Read more

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