All New GrokTALK! -Week Ending 4-28-2013 (Updated and Bumped)

Update- Added individual segments and links to download the podcast. This week on GrokTALK! we had David Hurst on the program, the former Chairman of NHYR (as of 4/20), former MRC Vice-Chair, and the current Vice-Chair of NHYR,  and a long time leader in the conservative Republican youth movement. NH House Rep Jane Cormier stopped by … Read more

April 27th GrokTALK! Guest Segment- NH Rep Jane Cormier and Conservative Activist Don Walker

This week on GrokTALk! New Hampshire House Republican Rep Jane Cormier stopped by with long time Conservative activist Don Walker–who worked on Pat Buchanan for President–to tell us about the new Beknap County Conservative Republican Committee. We discuss why they formed it, what the committee is looking to accomplish, where they see it (and the … Read more

April 27th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – NH House Rep Bill O’Brien

This week on GrokTALk! New Hampshire House Republican, and former Speaker of the NH House, Rep Bill O’Brien talks to Skip and Steve about budgets, deficits, dishonest accounting gymnastics, devolving power from Concord and returning it to the towns and the people, and how his exploration of a potential congressional run is going. To download … Read more

April 27th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – Republican Youth Activist David Hurst

This week on GrokTALK! the New Hampshire Young Republican’s (former chairman) and current vice-chairman, David Hurst, takes a few minutes to chat about conservatism, what is a young Republican, the challenges of promoting opportunity versus the lefts allure of handouts, learning self responsibility, and where NHYR is now and where it is headed. To download … Read more

GrokTALK! is Now Available on iTunes

Through our syndicated partners at AC Nation Radio you can now access the GrokTALK! podcast directly from iTunes. Note that AC Nation Radio rebroadcasts our Saturday taping of GrokTALK! the following Tuesday from 7-9 pm EST.  The RSS will not be updated until at least a day or two after that, so if you look on iTunes … Read more

On the Next GrokTALK!

It’s Saturday morning and this means that not long from now we’ll be recording this weeks podcast- aired Sunday on GraniteGrok.com and Tuesday 7pm EST on AC Nation Radio. This week on GrokTALK! we have the former Chairman of NHYR (as of 4/20), former MRC Vice-Chair, and the current Vice-Chair of NHYR,  and a long … Read more

I Think She’d Say Something like this, Harrell!

Yesterday morning hapless Harrell ‘Jersey Shore’ Kirstein (The New Hampshire Democrat Propaganda Minister) tweeted this.

harrell kirstein tweet poll

PPP is left leaning and always suspect, with a tendency to over-sample for favorable Democrat outcomes, but maybe HK was just looking for a silver lining seeing as the UNH Poll, albeit with a smaller sample, came out with some contradictory results he chose NOT to share.

New Hampshire’s junior senator, Republican Kelly Ayotte, has also seen her favorability rating largely unchanged since February. Currently, 50% of New Hampshire adults have a favorable opinion of Ayotte, 25% have an unfavorable opinion of her, 9% are neutral and 16% don’t know enough about her to say. Ayotte’s net favorability rating is +25%, up from +23% in February. Her net favorability remains high among Republicans at +74% and low among Democrats where it is at -21%. Her net favorability rating among Independents has also stayed steady at +38%.

Emphasis mine… because in the UNH poll she owns Republicans, and most importantly …with independents she is +38.  No point in sharing that, eh Harrell.  But while we’re ‘sharing, that UNH poll had some other important news that might be of even greater concern to Democrats like Kirstein, given that Ayotte is not facing re-election next year and New Hampshire’s two Democrat congress-critters are.

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Gambling Addiction

From the Granite State Coalition Against Expanded Gambling…

The “no proof” meme was laid to completely rest yesterday at hearings before the community impacts subcommittee of the House special joint SB152 committee. Here is the Nashua Telegraph’s story on these hearings.

Dr. Rachel Volberg, the world’s most widely published gambling addiction expert, presented the most current data from her 2012 meta-analysis of all 202 gambling addiction studies worldwide conducted since 1975. These findings disappoint both pro- and anti-casino advocates, but the findings are abundantly clear:

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Farmington New Hampshire Democrats…About That Hate Group Thing…

The Farmington New Hampshire Democrat Committee web page includes a post titled “Southern Poverty Law Center Report Finds ‘Patriot’ Groups Surge As Anti-Obama Fervor Grows.”  There is an image with a link to a HuffPo post written by Janelle Ross which quotes the the Southern Poverty Law Center, and concludes that…

The number of anti-government “patriot” groups, including paramilitary hate organizations, reached an all-time high in 2012, fanned by President Barack Obama’s reelection and talk of gun control following the Newtown, Conn., elementary school massacre, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center. (SPLC)

They are all hate groups now.  Nice.

What I found most interesting about all of this is that if you search the Farmington New Hampshire Democrat website for any reference to pro-LGBT activist Floyd Lee Corkins, who–based solely on the SPLC’s designation of  the Family Research Council (FRC) as a ‘hate group’–went there with the intention of “killing as many people as possible.”

What?  That’s not hate-enough for you?

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Who Can You Trust?

Stella Tremblay, a New Hampshire House Republican (Auburn), is on the media chopping block for being a little bit Alex Jones, and bit too much Glenn Beck.  Seems she posted some remarks on Beck’s site that comport with conspiracy theories regarding the Boston Marathon Bombings, and the Federal Government’s Complicity.

Posted to Beck’s site–as reported by HuffPo…

 Just as you said would happen. Top Down, Bottom UP. The Boston Marathon was a Black Ops “terrorist” attack. One suspect killed, the other one will be too before they even have a chance to speak. Drones and now “terrorist” attacks by our own Government. Sad day, but a “wake up” to all of us. First there was a “suspect” then there wasnt. Infowars broke the story and they knew they had been “found out”.

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Did WMUR Spike A Story About A NH Democrat In ‘Hot Water?’

I was cruising my news-reader and came across this story from WMUR, News 9 Manchester NH.

2 NH Reps in Controversy

Not long after that, (within the same hour) only slightly later chronologically in the news feed, we see this content posted by WMUR…

State Rep criticized for bombing comments

When you try to link to the first story, about both a Republican and a Democrat in hot water…that story no longer exists.  It was spiked.  All we have left are Stella and the fingerprints from a story about some Democrat we can no longer find.

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April 20th GrokTALK! Snippets – Segment One: CNHT, Bombs, Drones, Liberty, Immigration…

Skip and Steve talk about…bombers, the honoring your oath ralley–and how the media keeps getting it wrong, getting kicked out of NH-GOP meetings, GrokDrones, Immigration, setting people up to fail, and a lot more… Note: Individual guest segements will be posted throughout the day today.  You can hear the entire podcast here. Please support this … Read more

April 20th GrokTALK! Snippets – Segment Four: Guest – NH Business Owner Josh Youssef

In Segment four we talk with Josh Youssef, local small business owner and former candidate for the New Hampshire State Senate,  about HB 370 (repealing education choice),  State Senator Andrew Hosmer, education in general, what the Teachers Unions are actually after, and more.  (With Dr. Julianne Cooper who sticks around to add to the conversation.) … Read more

HB 135 Deputy Dawg Shurtleff ‘Stand Your Ground Repeal’ – NH State Senate Hearing is Tomorrow

c/o Scott Smith / Facebook

New Hampshire: Shurtleff Criminal Protection Bill Scheduled for Senate Committee Hearing in Concord on Tuesday

On Tuesday, April 23, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hear House Bill 135. Introduced by state Representative Stephen Shurtleff (D- Merrimack 11), HB 135 will render law-abiding citizens defenseless victims by removing consequences for criminal activity. The New Hampshire House of Representatives already undermined your inherent right to self-defense by passing the Shurtleff Criminal Protection Bill by a 189-184 vote on March 27.

HB 135 would repeal important self-defense provisions enacted in 2011, making the following changes to New Hampshire’s current self-defense laws:

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All New GrokTALK! April 20th, 2013

This week on GrokTALK! – Dr. Julianne Cooper visits to talk about a Liberal education, Common Core, Teenage brains, surviving 25 years in the White Tower, Learning 9 to 5, and how those ‘new’ progressive ideas you keep hearing about are not as new as you think. – We talk with Josh Youssef about HB … Read more

A Message to the Ayotte “I told You So” Crowd

Many of us objected to Senator Ayotte’s vote to break a filibuster on gun control.  Now that the measure is dead in the Senate, and Senator Ayotte voted to kill it, and Obama is mad as hell, the folks who thought we were overreacting, are all “well SEE!?” To these folks I submit the following:  … Read more

State Senate Votes 13-11 to Table HB 370 – The Education Scholarship Credit Lives!!!

HB 370, the government-school monopoly, anti-education-choice-bill from the union-owned Democrat House, that would have repealed the education scholarship tax credit that passed last year, has been tabled by the New Hampshire State Senate.    Tabling a bill is not legislative death but it is not unlike locking a prisoner up in a dungeon and forgetting they are there.  Someone might wander down to take a peek, but more likely  than not no one will ever visit it again.

Snidely whiplash - NEA loses as HB370 is tabled in NH Senate

There are several reasons for doing it, but more than likely this was to give cover for folks who would rather leave things as they are.  As a way to end the repeal effort without actually having to vote pass or fail..   Or maybe we got lucky.  I don’t much care what or why, just that it’s done, at least until Fred Lynn the ACLU, and the out of state wing-nuts who are planning to file suit at the bench of left-wing Judge John “I redefined domicile in time for the November Elections” Lewis….who will be asked to block the program on the grounds that it violates the separation of church and state.

Today we are victorious.  Tomorrow is another day.

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New Hampshire Democrat Women! How Do You Think Live Birth Abortions Should Be Performed?

NH Democrat women and live birth abortion

No point in beating around the bush.  Kermit Gosnell has put live birth abortion front and center and so should we.  It is a thoroughly documented fact that this is something that a number of prominent Democrat women in New Hampshire support.  Democrat leaders in the state and the Democrat party support it.  So we should explore this support to learn more about it.

It is reported that Gosnell, who performed many live birth abortions, would take the crying newborns and snip their spines to kill them.   But that is not necessarily the way every abortion doctor kills newborn babies, so we should pose the question to those in the New Hampshire Democrat party who not only support the practice but enrich their political careers because of it.

To the Democrat women in New Hampshire that support this practice…do you believe that Gosnell’s method–severing the infants spine at the neck– is the best way to kill a baby or do you prefer another?

If you prefer some other method of killing them, what is it?  We know you support it.  So speak up.

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