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Stonyfield CEO In Line For Another Pile of Taxpayer Cash?

September 26, 2018October 25, 2011 Steve MacDonald

>The question should not be if Stonyfield Dairy CEO and prolific Democrat donor Gary Hirshberg gets another pile of taxpayer cash, it should be “how much is he going to get?” But whatever do I mean?

The University of New Hampshire has just been approved to receive a Department of Agriculture grant totaling $2.86 million dollars to “enhance the year-round capacity of northeast organic dairy producers to produce high quality component-enriched organic milk.”

Hirshberg is almost always on the receiving end of taxpayer funded public largesse. In August of 2010 he was awarded $100,000.00 by Democrat Governor John Lynch and the State of New Hampshire as part of a job training program.

Not long after Stonyfield was fingered by Senator Tom Coburn over the matter of a $700,000.00 Federal grant to the University of New Hampshire to study the environmental impact of organic dairy farms on the environment. Who do you think just happens to have an organic Dairy Farm? An organic dairy farm run by the Hirshberg’s but majority owned by Dannon /Group Danone, one of the largest food companies on the face of planet earth.

How big is Danone?

Left Wing “Fair Tax” In Trouble?

September 26, 2018October 21, 2011 Steve MacDonald

It is no secret that the Granite State Fair Tax Coalitions (GSFTC) is a hive of left wing Democrat tax and spend socialists trying to hide behind a so-called bi-partisan front group. It is run by leftists (here and here), colludes with leftists, and seeks to advance Democrat party tax policy under the false notion that our current system of taxation in New Hampshire is some how not fair.

But the evidence continues to confound their false narratives.

Despite the GSFTCs misrepresentation of facts and the spinning of data to mislead, whatever our tax system is in New Hampshire, it continues to provide a better quality of opportunity than any other state in the Nation. The US census reports that New Hampshire has the lowest poverty rate in the country.

Well how the hell did that happen? I thought things were so unfair here? How could our "unfair" tax system still allow for the best economic environment for people to thrive in? And in this lousy economy to boot? We have the lowest poverty, one of the highest standards of living, and one of the safest to live in as well. Could it be because our current system also provides one of the lowest overall tax burdens in the country as well? Can we argue that low overall tax burden–the result of our so-called "unfair" system of taxation, is somehow more effective at keeping people above the poverty line than any other state in the country?

Hell yeah.

Barry Needs Some Walking Around Money…

September 26, 2018October 20, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Let’s say your brother in law, Barry, comes to you for a loan. He needs a little extra money for this big idea he’s got brewing. All he needs is $4500.00 dollars.

ONH (Obamaville New Hampshire) Moves – and other related news

September 26, 2018October 19, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Obamaville Protestes donates to Democrap party

The residents of Obamaville New Hampshire are relocating from Victory Park to Veteran’s Park, according to this morning’s Union Leader. And the police–and presumably Mayor Gatsas–continue to tolerate their middling presence. (No, of course they would never let the TEA party do this.) This presence, for whatever it is worth, continues to try and send a message, and in New York at least,that message is "please end all Wall Street Funding to Democrats."

I confess that this is a message I could support.

Thanks to an email petition from Steve Israel and the DCCC, in which the Democrat party announces it’s support for the Obamaville Wall Street(#OWS) protesters, the banking executives who work on Wall Street are staging a protest of their own against the Democrat Party.

(From BigGovernment.com)

The execs asked the lawmakers: “What are you doing? Do you even understand some of the things that they’ve called for?” said another lobbyist with financial services clients who is a former Democratic Senate aide.

C’mon you bankers. They just want to kill you and torture you and eat you. You’re going to let support for that keep you from donating money to Democrats and Obama?

Apparently they are.

The Shrill Kathy Spins the Early Primary Notion

September 26, 2018October 19, 2011 Rick Olson

“I think it’s your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.” —Billie Joe Armstrong

In yet another Cacophonous rant from the “Shrill Kathy” The Union Leader gave her space and ink yesterday to tell readers “why” a December primary will benefit Democrats and hurt Republicans. But, the title is about the only thing she got right and the remaining 782-word pablum was her usual diatribe against the opposition: Those with an “R” next to their names.

The “Shrill Kathy” suggests that “mere insistence” by Florida and Nevada are the mechanisms driving a December primary and makes no mention of the New Hampshire statute (N.H. RSA 659:3) which states in part, “The presidential primary election shall be held on the second Tuesday in March or on a date selected by the secretary of state which is seven days or more immediately preceding the date on which any other state shall hold a similar election, whichever is earlier … ” So Kathy…it is not “more likely” as you put it, but mandated by statute that the Granite State goes first.

Granite Wind Update. Podesta, Another Major Dem Donor, And More…

June 5, 2026October 19, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Brookfield Renewable, Granite Wind, Freshet Wind, Wanger Forrest Management and Wagner Wind Energy, all tied to Obama energy hand outs, wealthy left wing donors and investors, and who knows what else we may find.

What a Twit

September 26, 2018October 17, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Twitter’s Link service automatically shortens links when you put them into Twitter, and even identifies the untrustworthy ones for the recipients. An example of this comes courtesy of Harrell ‘Jersey Shore’ Kirstein, who sent me a direct message with a link that produced such an alert.

Twitter’s link service at http://t.co is used to better protect users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity.

A link converted by Twitter’s link service is checked against a list of potentially dangerous sites. When there’s a match, users can be warned before they continue:

Why would the spokes-model for the New Hampshire Democrat Party be sending me a Direct Message on Twitter, linked to a dangerous web site, at 2:45 AM on a Sunday morning?

Response to Attacks on Republicans for PAYGO

September 26, 2018October 13, 2011 Don

To the Editor:

Apparently I can read better than Mr. Veverka can hear. In his October 6th letter in the Laconia Daily Sun, Mr. Veverka adamantly assured us the term “TEA Party” did not exist in the Hightower article referenced by my letter. “TEA Party” can found near the beginning of paragraph 8.

The focus of my letter was on the TEA Party, what it is and isn‘t, its criticisms of both parties and wasteful government operations, and its focus on principles, not political party. My letter was inspired by the Hightower column, the most recent (at the time) attempt to malign the TEA Party and its principles.

Hightower’s article and Veverka’s letter are just partisan attack pieces. It is a common liberal technique to attack anyone who tries to stop or even slow the growth of government. Anyone who won’t cave to whatever liberals demand will be smeared. It doesn’t matter whether the program works, is worth the cost, is counter-productive, or is affordable.

What Would Carol SEIU-Porter Do? (WWCSPD?) -Panama Edition

September 26, 2018October 13, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Congress passed three trade deals yesterday which reminded of the words of a previous Democrat Congresswoman from CD-1 in New Hampshire. (note: original press link dead)

This disconnect between the Panama FTA and the current needs to restore our economy will make any vote on this FTA difficult to justify.

She goes on to suggest it would not be good for the US or create jobs. Everything else the left voted on in 2009 would supposedly "create jobs" and didn’t, but something that actually would? Can’t support that.

HR 3079 and it passed the House 300-126, meaning some Democrats had to vote for it. Most likely those in more contested districts. Panama

But back in the day when the Democrats controlled all of the Federal government, and Republicans we were told were destined for the dustbin of history, Carol–who get’s most of her funding from Unions and Union funded Democrat Leadership PAC’s,–believed what she was told by Nancy Pelosi, in direct opposition to the obvious. Letting us trade freely in Panama would hurt the US job market. And the entire Democrat party line on Free Trade, top to bottom, was the union line. It will cost American jobs. Don’t send jobs overseas.

But as I pointed out here, the Panama agreement simply made it easier for us to sell goods in Panama by lifting tariffs and opening their market to us. A longstanding disadvantage that Democritus believe turns less on whether it is true and more–in the case of Obama– on if the campaign optics are good.

Is The NH Dem Petition Against Baldasaro A Fraud?

September 26, 2018October 12, 2011 Steve MacDonald

If you missed it, a State party Democrat (David Robinson), speaking for a left wing Veterans group (VoteVets.org) is part and parcel to an effort by the New Hampshire Democrat Party to petition House Speaker O’Brien to remove Republican Al Baldasaro as Chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. None of the reporting to date, other than here at GraniteGrok, has identified the group or Robinson as Democrat-backed or connected. But there’s news about the petition they plan to give to O’Brie n.

If you go to Change.org, you can see the petition set up by the New Hampshire Democrat Party, but the list of signatories is not accessible just by visiting the petition page. One thing we do know however is that of the ten names we can see, seven of them are from out of state.

NH Dems Target ‘Free State Project.’

September 26, 2018October 11, 2011 Steve MacDonald

OWS protester craps on police car.

Manchester City Democrats are concerned. People need to know which candidates in City races have links to the Free State Project, so they’ll "know where they stand on the issues." (From the Tuesday morning edition of the Union Leader)

It sounds like the folks at the Suckley (Sullivan/Buckley) School for Orwellian Linguistics are using peoples lack of knowledge about the liberty movement to frighten them out of voting for anyone they can label as a Free Stater.

Guilt by association. Prejudice. Create division. Fear mongering narrative. Typical.

Of course we could never in a million years suggest that the gentleman crapping on a police car at the Occupy Wall Street (Democrat Party Endorsed) protest, is in any way an example of the Democrat Party. (Looks like he’s trying to pass ObamaCare.) The trash, the arrests. Then of course there are other recent union protests, violent threats, wishing rape and violence on Republican Women, video games where you get to kill Republican ‘Zombies,’ calling Republicans Racists for liking a conservative candidate who happens to be black–while calling the black man a monkey in a window…Can you find any prominent New Hampshire Democrats who have spoken out against any of the ill heaped on their opponents? Probably not. That is because they support it.

Two Dick’s & Obama’s Vitamin Police

September 26, 2018October 10, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Long story short, if the regs went into place the vitamin shelf at the store would be emptied until supplement makers submitting test results to the FDA and the products were approved. And the added for battling the bureaucracy and testing regime? You’d be paying that when they products went back on the shelf, if they did.

NH Dems Endorse Obama Tax Increase

September 26, 2018October 8, 2011 Steve MacDonald

As reported in the Union Leader Ray Buckley and the State Democrat party would like people to call members of congress and encourage them to support Mr. Obama’s tax on investors and job creators so Democrats can fund public sector union jobs and keep the dues-donations rolling in. They also support the push to defer millions in social security revenues on to the shoulders of our children, though Buckley words it differently.

The plan would cut the payroll tax that 30,000 New Hampshire small businesses pay, provide tax relief for families, funding for police, firefighters and teachers, school building improvements and transportation projects in the state.

This entire effort is another organized scam to fund unions and Democrat campaigns, in the run up to November 2012, at taxpayer expense. The payroll tax cut is a useless gesture, not a cut but a deferment, so what we have is more of the same catastrophic economic policy that has kept us in a recession and on the brink of collapse for three years now.

Harrel Kirstein’s Paycheck.

September 26, 2018October 7, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Harrell is a campaign gypsy. Follows the money. But his home address is still in Jersey. Wonder if he really gives a damn about New Hampshire? Well, he is a Democrat. As long as they are paying him he’ll pretend.

Another Democrat Run Destination For ‘Independents.’

September 26, 2018October 5, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Can you smell it? It’s called Ruck.us. Ruck.us (http://www.ruck.us) is where the independents and other political inactivists will finally be able to gather online to talk about, organize, and get involved in whatever it is they believe in. Right there at Ruck.us. Of course I thought that was what the Coffee Party was for. Then there was No Labels. In NH we have the LFODA. And don’t forget F*ck Tea. There must be room for more of these groups.

But you know what? I bet this time it is different. I bet Ruck.us is not funded by Democrats. And it probably isn’t run by some crowd of entrenched progressives, and well connected left wingers like all those other so-called non-partisan, can’t we all just get along pretenders….except…that…it is.

Both of its founders have deep roots into the Democrat Party machine.

Do liberals and the rest of the political left in America hate and fear democracy?

September 26, 2018October 5, 2011

Are you kidding me? These are the people who "saw the future" in Stalinist Russia, and said that "it worked." These are the people who defended Mao Tse Tung as "an agrarian reformer" who may have engaged in a few, limited excesses. These are the people who argue that Pol Pot and the Cambodian killing fields are some kind of right-wing falsehood. These are people who still lionize the Cuban dictator and communist murderer (but I repeat myself), Fidel Castro!

YES, liberals and other "regressives" hate and fear democracy. HERE’S WHY:

Democrats Reject Obama’s Jobs Bill

September 26, 2018October 5, 2011 Don

Yesterday provided another clear example of President Obama and other Democrats blaming others for their own failings. For a month Democrats have blamed Republicans for not passing President Obama’s “jobs” bill. But, yesterday when Republicans pressed for a vote on the bill, Senate Democrats prevented the vote.

President Obama lies when he blames Republicans for failure to pass a jobs bill. Even Democrats know President Obama’s bill is unacceptable, full of wasteful spending and increased taxes, intended only to give a failing President a campaign tool for fooling ignorant voters.

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