CNHT Annual Picnic 2010 – Some pics

Ed Naille

(Ed Naile, Chair of Coalition of NH Taxpayers)

Well, as I had I posted here, and Steve has started on, the ‘Grok went to the CNHT picnic today (Tom showed up as well, TMEW helped out with the Flip Cam, and poor Tim was feeling left out as there was no WiFi or ‘Net connection).

Ed opened up the picnic with some pithy words (videos will be coming later on) and was followed by most of the higher profile candidates coming to Hillsborough’s American Legion hall.  However, truth be told, this is a PICNIC and not a campaign rally for any Party or Candidate – it IS the place, however, for Conservative activists to assemble each and every year – almost an "Old Home Day" for the Right in NH. 

     

Sure, this year many of the activists ARE active in helping out campaigns (or running for office themselves) – but that’s what activists do – be active (and it is great sport for me to watch who is helping or working for whom or what.  Sometimes, the head goes up and down and sometimes it is a raised eyebrow with a "WHAT?  Really?")

The main speaker was NH’s own PJ O’Rourke who caught the crowd’s attention (that’s saying something with this assemblage!)

  PJ O'Rourke    PJ O'Rourke

More pix after the jump!

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Massachusetts Goes After DOMA

  The Union leader is reporting this morning that a US judge in Boston has found DOMA, the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, to be unconstitutional on the grounds that it prevents the state from administering federal aid to gay married couples.  His ruling only affects Massachusetts but clearly has broader implications. I both agree … Read more

Correct observation

Over at Powerline: On Facebook, Fred Thompson writes: President Obama said that the US and Israel share an "unbreakable" bond. Obama should know. He’s been trying to break it for months.  ======== Indeed.  GraniteGrok stands with Israel.  

Why Did They Donate To Paul Hodes?

  Why would an engineering firm from Colorado employed to help clean up and rebuild after Hurricane Katrina be donating money to Paul Hodes 2010 campaign?  MWH America is, in their own words, a global leader in wet infrastructure, but MWH has recently been charged with poor invoicing practices and even overcharging the city of … Read more

The House Passed It, Now Look At What’s In It

I Brought Hash-Brownies for LaterI hope Rath Young Pignatelli, Shaheen and Gordon, and all the other leftward Lawyerly types are prepared for a shot of mandatory diversity.  Those democrat congressmen from New Hampshire they like to donate to—so the government can make more law for lawyers to lawyer over—just passed more than a financial regulations bill when they voted for the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill.  They passed mandatory race and gender diversity requirements for everyone who touches anything near the financial industry.

 

Buried deep inside the forest clearing pages lay provisions mandating that all financial institutions, investment banking firms, mortgage banking firms, asset management firms, brokers, dealers, financial services entities, underwriters, accountants, investment consultants and providers of legal services (for any and all of the above) who have or do business with the federal government or for firms doing business with the federal government on government business, must meet race and gender employment ratios.

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Obama…half-off

President Obama visited Missouri today, to raise funds for Senate candidate, and current Attorney General, Robin Carnahan. Yesterday, with one day left until the event, an announcement went out that the front-row seats, originally $250, were reduced to $99.  What a deal. What price will Paul Hodes’ stump-event tickets command?  I’m guessing less…if it even … Read more

Test – FaceBook LIKE button

Well, I’ve been doing a bit of working under the hood to change / update the ‘Grok; I told Jon DiPietro this in trying to tie into FaceBook: Looks like I have a bit of digesting to do – it’s like diving off the board into the deep end of the pool, getting in half … Read more

ONE! Singular Deception…

The ONE campaign is back in New Hampshire and looking for fresh souls to trap in its twisted web of deception.  While liberals are always ripe for a sob story, ONE is always looking for unsuspecting so-called conservatives and Republicans to call friends.  And the GOP is easy prey.  After years of being framed by the media as cold-hearted war mongers who spend long days smoking cigars and oppressing the world’s poor for the gain of their corporate paymasters, nothing looks better to them than being seen with a group like ONE campaign.

Unless of course you’ve seen the Black Widow waiting at the center of the ONE web.

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Harry Reid’s Innocent Victims

They are making hay and BS sandwiches over at Boo-Hoo Hampshire, this time about the latest unemployment benefits stalemate.   Dean Barker–the Boo Hoo Guru–had begun by waxing on the CBS news coverage on the latest unemployment extension debate when he decided to lament (or perhaps invent) 30 years of GOP policy crushing the little guy, and how even now they are somehow still pulling the levers to crush them even more.  No I’m serious. 

But the best part is the “Boo-Hoo” hook.

The innocent victims, Mr. and Ms. Joe Taxpayer, won’t get what they need to stay solvent.  And nearly one of ten of them can’t find work.  And that’s not counting the vast underemployed.

The innocent victims!  Well what about that?

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From Russia with love?

From the English language version of the Russian newspaper, Pravda, of all places…pick your favorite! (I admit…I’m a fan of #48 and the SWAT teams who protect us all.)

You tell me…

That was then, this is now, right? But are they not really talking about the Free State of New Hampshire? The last best chance for people who believe in individual freedom, in a world dominated by Obama-type apparatchiks? A world where America itself has gone down the socialist rat hole planned for it by today’s Democrats? … Read more

To think about on July 4th…

The HBO Series, "John Adams", gave us a unique window into the hearts and minds of the Founding Fathers, as people, and as magnificent thinkers.  This scene captures the seriousness and difficulty of convincing 13 independent "countries", to break away from their Motherland, and for all involved to risk capture, torture and death…   Needless … Read more

Calvin Coolidge, July 4th, 1926

In 1926 President Calvin Coolidge gave a speech, an independence day address.  It has just come to may attention, and  I enjoyed it so much I felt obliged to share it.

We meet to celebrate the birthday of America. The coming of a new life always excites our interest. Although we know in the case of the individual that it has been an infinite repetition reaching back beyond our vision, that only makes it the more wonderful. But how our interest and wonder increase when we behold the miracle of the birth of a new nation. It is to pay our tribute of reverence and respect to those who participated in such a mighty event that we annually observe the fourth day of July. Whatever may have been the impression created by the news which went out from this city on that summer day in 1776, there can be no doubt as to the estimate which is now placed upon it. At the end of 150 years the four corners of the earth unite in coming to Philadelphia as to a holy shrine in grateful acknowledgment of a service so great, which a few inspired men here rendered to humanity, that it is still the preeminent support of free government throughout the world.

 

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The Return of Nullification…and not a moment too soon

On November 7, 2009 the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire (RLCNH) hosted Tom Woods, author of "Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse." The RLCNH Forum was a smash hit. I personally bought two copies of the book. Now Woods is … Read more

He’s got that sinking feeling, oh-o-oh, that see-inking feeling…

Here in NH, he’s not as boffo as once was, either: Rasmussen says voters are evenly divided at 50 percent each on whether they approve of the job Obama is doing or not, although 41 percent are in the "strongly" disapprove camp while 32 percent are in the "strongly" approve. Fifty-three percent favor repealing the … Read more

The 7th Annual Porcupine Freedom Festival…

…was just held in northern New Hampshire from June 24th through the 27th. I was there with my wife and grown kid. Every year I resolve to write about the PorcFest (so-nicknamed), and about what I saw and experienced there. And every year I fail. Maybe now’s the time. In snippets.

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Carol Is Still Batting .980

Carol “98%” Shea Porter surprised several people when she offered to co-sponsor HR 1207, the Audit the Fed Resolution.  The bill, sponsored by Republican Ron Paul would require an audit of the not so independent “independent” central bank. 

The hobgoblins who run the Fed were not interested in an audit for obvious reasons.  As the manipulators of monetary policy they were and are responsible for trying to manage the boom bust cycle or more appropriately (and more likely) causing it. But they were still part of the government, so for Carol to step up and make even a token gesture was unexpected. 

Or was it? 

 

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