OK, back to finish some unfinished business (ruminations on Kelly’s speech here; read it to see what I’m trying to accomplish here).  Yeah, we all go to MSNBC all the time just to watch “Morning Joe” with Joe Scarborough – we Conservatives only feel good after our morning tongue lashings from Progressives and others that think we are evil.  And I do hate to break it to you, Joe, but the topic of immigration here in NH during the 2010 election cycle WAS a big deal (thus the yell of “Immigration” when she asked the question, Joe – be careful of what you ask for).  And it STILL is a big deal today as it seems that the national level GOP, along with that bastion of free markets called the US Chamber of Commerce, have joined forces with the Democrats to shaft the lower and middle American classes (the Democrats for more voters, the Chamber for low wage workers, and heaven only knows what the GOP thinks what it’s present is under the Democrat Christmas tree).

“We can’t afford any more moral victories”.  Moral victories.  While he’s all bent out of shape over 2012, he fails to realize that 2010 was given to the GOP on a silver platter

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From Hot Air: Senators Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer have taken it upon themselves to single out Rep. Steve King on the floor of the Senate for having the courage to stand for We the People against open borders. As we noted yesterday, the party has refused to defend him, and top NRSC aides are involved in an ad campaign against him. Well, when nobody in the party defends you, a man’s got to do it himself. King took to the House floor to respond to them. You can watch the full clip here.

That’s because the National GOP is showing all the signs to selling out the blue collar (and high tech) American workers by joining with the Democrats in granting Amnesty (look, enough with the “pay a fine, pay back taxes” crap – if illegal aliens are not above stealing American SS #s, how the heck are you REALLY gonna do all that and more?  Do you really think we are all that stupid (yes, this goes to my jr. Senator, Kelly Ayotte, too)?  Our total unemployment rate, U3 and U6 is north of 12% – and you want to legalize and allow in MILLIONS more to compete for jobs at the un- and low skilled jobs?

The GOP has the opening to take away the mantle of

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OK, it may have been a corporately sponsored Flash Mob BUT

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Full audio by Steve here.

• Pre-Show – Groksters Steve and Skip dabble with the equipment and shoot the breeze (no, not literally….)
• Segment 1 -Grokster Mike rolls in to add his observations and we try to entertain Michelle Levell as she shows up early
• Segment 2 – We wind down the entertainment and get serious with Michelle Levell with her announcement that she is running the for the NH House from Rockingham District 07 (Windham) as she talks about her top issues.  Her website is here: http://michelle4nh.com/
• Segment 3 – Joe D’Aleo of WeatherBELL Analytics comes back on to yak about his rebuttal to the Obama Administrations 2014 National Climate Assessment.  Tip:
• Segment 4 – Talk show host and Conservative activist Jeff Chidester comes on and we talk about what’s on his mind

Pre-Show

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U.S. Navy Rear Admiral William H. McRaven is also the Commander of the US Navy’s SEAL special operator forces.  And a SEAL himself so he knows of what he speaks:

I have been a Navy SEAL for 36 years. But it all began when I left UT for Basic SEAL training in Coronado, California.  Basic SEAL training is six months of long torturous runs in the soft sand, midnight swims in the cold water off San Diego, obstacles courses, unending calisthenics, days without sleep and always being cold, wet and miserable.  It is six months of being constantly harassed by professionally trained warriors who seek to find the weak of mind and body and eliminate them from ever becoming a Navy SEAL.  But, the training also seeks to find those students who can lead in an environment of constant stress, chaos, failure and hardships.

To me basic SEAL training was a life time of challenges crammed into six months.

My personal writing outlook is to take a particular current or political event and bring it back down to a given (or set of given) principles.  After all, it does tend to make things simple (and validates what we say as well).  Lots of other people do the same so it was nice to see how someone else does it:

• If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
• If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.

Here are more of the points; go to BI and read the explanations for each.  Many thanks for your service, sir!

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CANNES — In a blockbuster new video, Project Veritas has exposed the truth about the dark funding behind Hollywood’s anti-fracking messaging machine.

New York Times Bestselling Author and Project Veritas founder and president James O’Keefe debuted the latest investigation at a “premiere” in Cannes, France on Wednesday.  In the investigation, an undercover journalist from Project Veritas posed as a member of a Middle Eastern oil dynasty and offered $9 million in funding to American filmmakers to fund an anti-fracking movie.  In video from a meeting with Ed Begley Jr., Mariel Hemingway and Josh Tickell, a Project Veritas investigator disguised as “Muhammed” offered $9 million for an anti-fracking film.   Muhammad” clearly states:

“If Washington DC continues fracking, America will be energy efficient, and then they won’t need my oil anymore.”

In the same conversation, Begley and Hemingway accept the funding and agree to hide the source of funds for the anti-fracking movie….In a phone call to Tickell, the ad executive states: “My client’s interest is to end American energy independence; your interest is to end fracking. And you guys understand that?”.  Tickell’s response:

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So  Mitch Kopacz, President of Gun Owners of NH, what’s the deal?  You REALLY think that “Pravda on the Merrimack” (aka, the outpost of the liberal MSM called the Concord Monitor) is as supportive of the Second Amendment as GraniteGrok is?  And THEY, the reporter and photographer, were then allowed to breeze past the hotel manager at the front door and saunter right in?  And we were given the bum’s rush?

Now remember, we’ve already seen ONE stricture of “No Cameras / No Recording / No Media” broken by Scott Brown’s own campaign staff.  Now, a couple of videos showing that:

• CONSERVATIVE media got restricted from entering the Holiday Inn (Concord, NH) and was told to leave the property.
• LIBERAL media was allowed to walk right into the hotel – right past the “hotel manager” that kicked us off the property.

Again, this was at the behest of both Scott Brown and Gun Owners of NH (“GONH”).  So, first up for video is myself and Rick Olson (a GONH member, by the way) being told that we were persona non grata – and a bit of a back story to it as well… 

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That would be Bob Ward, the SanborntonTown Planner screaming those words at NH State Rep Jane Cormier when the Planning Board held an “information session” on May 1st on six amendments that wound themselves making more of the town open for workforce housing.  It was obvious that actually educating folks as to what was really below the surface Granite State Future / Sustainable Communities Initiative was really getting under his (and the other “urbanizers of NH” skin; the jig is up as the word is getting out.  As I said in the post, it was clear that there was an Agenda (that was just for you, Bob) that the board wanted these to pass and seemed to be rather annoyed that the townfolk assembled were not all that enthused.  And, as the post relates, all of the amendments that changes boundaries, changed terminologies, and changed the nuances went down for flaming defeats.

Perhaps this next meeting (without Bob Ward, the town lawyer and a few others)  had a bit to do with it:  Jane Cormier and Susan Olsen went back to talk about some of the items that the Board conveniently left out of their “information session” (as Mom always told me, there’s lying by commission and lying by omission).  Yes, some of these segments go for a while (the meeting went two hours plus) but are VERY much worth your time – especially in the reactions, the questions, and discussions of the residents that showed up. I am betting that no small amount of Trust evaporated that night.

Introduction to the paperwork, players, and their roles in why and how the Feds want to change your zoning laws & the Regional Planning Commissions’ legislative goals

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Consistency breeds Trust which yields Votes.  The operative word is “Consistency” – is what you SAY congruent with what you DO?  Can we, as voters (notice I DIDN’T say “Members of the NH GOP State Committee” – at least, thus far) see that Consistency and can we depend upon it?  Are we so sure of it that, once elected, we no longer need to pay close attention because you will not violate our Trust (or is it the flip side: we kvetch because we can’t?)?  So during the recently held NH GOP Annual Meeting, I listened.  In fact, I listened hard – I wanted to hear Consistency.  I wanted to hear the words that matched their actions this past year.  Oh sure, I know these types of meetings are “rah-rah!” for the upcoming cycle – but I still tried to listen for the Consistency-to-come.  And then when I started to process the video, I listened again.  And then, transcribed certain speeches to ensure I WAS hearing things correctly.

And then I started to compare the spoken words to other words and to Actions.  First up was our junior US Senator, Kelly Ayotte.  So, what do you think I found?  Here is the video again:

Here is the transcript – with my commentary:

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GrokTALK! for the week of May 17, 2014:

• Short Pre-Show
• Segment 1 – our usual Grokster ADD blogger bunch discussions
• Segment 2 – Pete “DaTechGuy” Ingemi comes on to talk about the Black Mass that was supposed to have been held at the former Christian seminary, Harvard University
• Segment 3 – NH State Rep Jane Cormier comes on to talk about the Freedom of Speech crushing bills, SB120 (the “NH State Senate Republican Incumbent Protection and Racketeering Act”) and SB319 (the “No Free Speech at Abortion Clinics Act”)
• Segment 4 – Shona Holmes, the healthcare refugee from Canada, tells her story that the Canadian socialized healthcare system would have killed her – and the American healthcare system (pre-Obamacare) saved her.  She fears for our medical healthcare future.

Pre-Show

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During Dr. William Baer’s talk at this past Monday night’s Rochester 9/12, a long term education person brought up an observation that I have seen myself:

I video’d teachers and other “educational professional’s before – here at a meeting of the Moultonborough School Board – to the point where a parent called them out over it: “you’ve crossed a line”.  I’ve seen / heard the same thing around the blogosphere.  One such post was a recent one by Kyle Olson over at The Blaze (emphasis mine, reformatted):

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Yes, mea culpa – I spelled Sanbornton wrong in every single one of the following videos; I apologize!  On Thursday, May 1st, the Sanbornton Planning Board held a session in which the town’s residents could ask questions about the upcoming voting on zoning Amendments, especially as Workforce Housing (e.g., low cost, higher density, clustered developments).  It was clear, especially when the Town Planner had an outburst of “YOU HAVE YOUR FUTURES!  YOU HAVE YOUR AGENDA 21s!!!” in trying to deny NH State Rep Jane Cormier a few minutes to speak (Ah yes, the retaliation of our betters against “the rabble”, eh?) that the board was attempting to “stack the meeting’.  While a couple of folks seemed to be in favor of the WFH oriented Amendments, most were not.  All videos after the jump.

In fact, the voting on the amendments yesterday showed that the whole concept got a huge thumbs DOWN as evidenced by the article in today’s Laconia Daily Sun (emphasis mine, reformatted):

WORKFORCE HOUSING AMENDMENTS TAKE BEATING IN SANBORNTON

…All six zoning ordinance amendments failed as town residents said no to so-called workforce housing.

Pretty it wasn’t for those that were for these.  As I listened to the entire meeting from the 1st, I mentally kept checking off in my head – yup, this is the EPA / HUD / DOT’s Sustainable Communities Initiative.  Yes, as you can hear the Planner’s outburst and

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