This seems about right – but he’s WAY too polite

‘Grok friend Chan over at Weekend Pundit has a quick succinct summary of Barack Hussein Obama’s 4 years: Despite the water-carrying the MSM is doing for Obama, the narrative has been shifting from Romney’s perceived ‘deficiencies’ to Obama’s failures, both foreign and domestic. His Middle East foreign policy has been shown to be a disaster … Read more

Despite Laws, Londonderry Council Postures Against LFGC

“”My door is always open-bring me your problems.” This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.” —Robert F. Six

Demagoguery. Town officials told the Derry News that Town officials, police officials, Fish and Game Club members, and the public will be invited to a demonstration at the shooting range, to determine the effects that gunfire has on residents and golfers.

That has to be about the dumbest thing I have ever read. The obvious target are two ranges in question: The Londonderry Police Range, constructed in 2008; and the Londonderry Fish & Game Club Ranges, in existence for over 40 years.

All of this hullabaloo over range noise and never once has the ongoing conversation taken into account the miles of power line corridors frequently used for all sorts of activities such as OHRV use, Hiking, Hunting and yes, target shooting. Moreover, the 900-acre parcel also known as the Musquash Conservation Land, is frequented by those desiring to shoot.

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What Actual Vote Suppression Looks Like in New Hampshire

Someone working for or for the benefit of the Obama campaign is calling senior citizens in New Hampshire (and elsewhere I suspect) and asking them whom they intend to vote for? (Name Redacted)…. told us that his 82 year-old father received a phone call Wednesday from a caller asking him for whom he was going to vote in … Read more

Media Revolt? Don’t Hold Your Breath.

The Univison interview of Barack Uh..Um..Er..Oh..Bama will go down in history as perhaps the first time Barack Obama has had to face tough questions, as president, from the media.  This is in part because the media loves him, and in part due to the administrations ability to use that love-affair to control the message, by controlling the questions.   So did the Obama cabal just assume Univision was safe territory?  It wasn’t.

The interviewers asked hard questions and had no patience for all the side-stepping and posturing, summed up in the quest to understand how, having complete control of congress and the White House for two years, they completely ignored immigration policy.  Democrats  did on all counts, ignore it.  Obama tried to blame Republicans.

Obama also tried to blame Bush for Fast and Furious but previous similar programs were canceled by Bush becasue they didn’t work.  ABC news is first out of the gate to call Obama out on it.

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Romney Releases 2011 Tax Return and 20 year Tax Return Summary

From the Weekly Standard.

The Romney campaign is releasing Mitt and Ann Romney’s 2011 tax return today. The campaign previews a few of the highlights here:

  • In 2011, the Romneys paid $1,935,708 in taxes on $13,696,951 in mostly investment income.
  • The Romneys’ effective tax rate for 2011 was 14.1%.
  • The Romneys donated $4,020,772 to charity in 2011, amounting to nearly 30% of their income.
  • The Romneys claimed a deduction for $2.25 million of those charitable contributions.
  • The Romneys’ generous charitable donations in 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year. The Romneys thus limited their deduction of charitable contributions to conform to the Governor’s statement in August, based upon the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13% in income taxes in each of the last 10 years.

Additionally, the Romney campaign is releasing a summary of 20 years of taxes, between 1990-2009, detailing their tax expenditures during those years:

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Jobs Vs. Food Stamps Obama Economy Throw-Down

One Graph to rule them all?  I think this says something about what six trillion in new Democrat-debt buys you.  Fewer jobs, shrinking work force participation, and more people in need of assistance.   That’s why we call Obama the Food Stamp President.  He can’t fix it from the inside unless by fix you mean make … Read more

Not My Flag…

Obama Flag

This week, Barack Obama’s campaign put out a new version of the American flag: Obama’s version.

The blue field, with stars, is replaced by the Obama campaign logo and it has the wrong number of red and white stripes (has 9 but should have 13).

First, it appears that this misuse of the American flag icon and motif violates US Code Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 3, which states:

“Any person who, within the District of Columbia, in any manner, for exhibition or display, shall place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America; or shall expose or cause to be exposed to public view any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign upon which shall have been printed, painted, or otherwise placed, or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed, or annexed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, or drawing, or any advertisement of any nature;”

But let’s focus on the important issue here…

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Environmentalists who love crony capitalism

Because they can’t stand seeing their fellow citizens ignoring their bleats of “You shouldn’t do that” in some cases (like, you know, use electricity to live a modern lifestyle, or be allowed to drive a car that can, like, you know, can actually hold all of your family members and the grocery bags needed to feed them for a week – in 1 trip).  So, they’ve convinced elected politicians (or increasingly, the unelected bureaucrats that doing the pols’ job).  They certainly are in favor in taking away choice in little ways as in what kind of light bulbs you may purchase.

And when it comes to industries they like, like all things green, they are bound and determined not to let “green go dark” simply because the Free Market hates their ideas.  From that ever amusing, ever complaining, bastion of Watermelon Environmentalism (otherwise known as TreeHugger), the denizens are complaining about the Federal Venture Capital spigot being turned off (gee, and I thought ALL forms of conservation was good – including conserving our tax dollars!).

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Why Aren’t they Free?

Why aren’t they Free?  Because taxpayers are not paying for them, that’s why.  Mr. Redistribution isn’t about to give up money for his campaign just so you can wear his gear.  Although mandatory purchases are not out of the question after the election (should he win).  You can wear it while you look longingly at  … Read more

If Sea Ice Grew and No One Was There to ‘Report’ It, Did It Really Happen?

antarctic sea ice reaches 33 year high in 2012 and climbingForbes has a story about the Antarctic.  It’s that other frozen wasteland, the one you never hear much about.   You don’t hear anything about it because for the past 33 years the amount of sea-ice in the antarctic has apparently been growing, and as of this week–due to record cold temperatures in the region–has reached its highest reading ever.

That means there is more sea-ice in the antarctic than at any time since we started recording it.

The real story, of course, is the fact that when Forbes searched Google News for any sign of the story it was nowhere to be found.

A historical record.  More Antarctic sea ice than ever seen in recorded history.  And the Chicken-Little Media isn’t reporting it…

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Did You Get Your Daily ‘Grok! ?

It’s easy to get email updates, once a day, with links to every GraniteGrok post from the previous 24hours.  Just put your email in the box and you are done.  The email shows up each day and you’ve got one-click access to all the latest news and commentary from New Hampshire’s leading Conservative Blog Site. … Read more

Pledge Allegiance To Obama!?

You heard right.  The latest trick to come out of the Obama campaign  hat.  Take a picture of yourself, hand over heart–something vapid written on your hand (policy memes in a vacuum) so everyone can see it, and post it to show your undying support for Dear Leader. I’m not sure what strikes me as … Read more

President Obama’s War on the Rich

I was very pleased to read in Paul Bonneville’s letter of September 5 in the Laconia Daily Sun (and Sept 6 in The Citizen of Laconia) that he is doing better now than four years ago, so few people are doing better.  He talks about the stock market “recovery”, of course that only helps if you have money and managed to invest in the right stocks.  Perhaps Bonneville is in the 1%?

President Obama’s war on the rich is apparently working as reports are that higher wage incomes are down 15-20 %.  Frankly, I don’t see how that helps me, it certainly doesn’t make it easier for me to pay my bills.  And, I haven’t figured out why I should be happy that any American is less well off. 

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If The Dover New Hampshire Court Suspends The ID law…

I’m not sure what the outcome will be of the suit to suspend the new Voter ID and domicile requirements in New Hampshire, but if the four out of state college students somehow succeed, I would like to suggest that we move to refund them the difference between in-state and out-of state tuition. If they … Read more

Where “Grassroots” Can Earn You $100.00/Hour

There’s an ad on Craigslist for professional political workers. (the entire ad is on the jump).

Grassroots solutions, which claims to be a national field organization that is all about helping coordinate grassroots political efforts, is hiring people to help Planned Parenthood of Northern New England do door to door canvassing in the Concord and Manchester Area to promote pro-abortion candidates (women’s health)…that would be Democrats.  You get $100/hour plus gas allowance.

I have a lot of questions.  Like how can it be grassroots if you pay $100.00 per hour?  Or, how is it that Planned Parenthood of Northern New England can afford to run this canvassing campaign but can’t run their business model without my tax dollars?

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Oh yeah, let’s not forget about “They don’t need it” argument – the foundation for Redistribution

That’s another tenet of Liberalism / Regressivism Progressivism to go along with “You don’t do the right things with it” meme.  They look at the well to-do, the rich, and the uber-rich and think “we can take it because they won’t miss it and they don’t need it”.  Really?  You can take it because YOU feel they don’t need it?  Really, how much closer to a bad rationalization do you have to make keep from letting your better side from realizing “er, isn’t that stealing“?  Just because someone has WAY more than you have means that it is perfectly legitimate for you to just take what they own for your own Progressive purposes?  Not only is this wrong, it is the absolute epitome of the definition of selfishness.  How hollow it must be to publicly be saying “look at what we give to people” all the while working hard (or being very dismissive) to not square the cognitive dissonance that the possible freedom they give to some in a material way is far outweighed by the tyranny laid upon those from who they take on the other side of the equation.

Sure, it is always posed as “We are merely asking that the rich give a little more“.  Absolute nonsense – as the top 10% of income earners pay 70% of all income taxes, how much more should they be paying?  There  is no “asking” (which implies one can say “no” as an acceptable answer) and there is no “giving” (which would be voluntary).  Such sophistry and solipsism: any “asking” is really a legal demand while the “giving” is merely paying a tax bill – or landing in the Old Pokey with nice steel bars around you.  There is no “voluntary” about it.  Oh, to be sure, there will be commenters that will jump all over this with that silly “We all belong to the Goverment as the one thing we do” or we all have to pay taxes.  Oh, to be sure, we do have to pay taxes – but Progressives want Government to overspread and take over Society such there there is only Government, and that takes more and more and more in taxes (in which, Progressives act just like, and are no better with respect to Private Property, Willy Sutton).

Truly, Progressivism is a morally bankrupt philosophy.

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Indeed – the next President will inherit a mess

A loyal reader sent this in: Obama has made a habit of blaming everything that has gone wrong during his Administration on his immediate predecessor. This will be fun to watch for a little bit, as we all circle and swirl around the drain if Obama get re-elected… (H/T: Dan)

Ask A New Hampshire Democrat…Can I just Show up and Vote as a Delegate at Your State Convention?

Today, in Dover, a judge will hear complaints from the League of Women voters and the ACLU about New Hampshire’s law regarding proof of domicile and voter ID.  Their premise is that out of state students should not have to act like they live here to vote here. That requiring them to at least pretend to live here is some kind of suppression or violation of their rights.

I wonder if that works for other things as well?  Does my mere presence on the floor of the New Hampshire House make me a legislator?  Do I get to vote on the House floor for say, Dover, or Portsmouth, just because I want to?

Better yet, how about if I just show up at the Democrat state party convention, you know, me and a few hundred people…will you let us vote as delegates?  Let us choose your chairman and officers, vote on your party platform?  We don’t want to join the Democrat party, we don’t even want to pretend to join, we just want to vote on everything that defines it and everyone who leads it.

Ask a New Hampshire Democrat….Would that be ok?

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