June 2006 - Granite Grok

June 2006

Canary in the coal mine?

Many pundits through the years have called the nation of Israel the “canary in the coal mine” of western civilization. Today’s sworn enemies of Israel know that standing above the Jewish in the so-called “free world” is the United States- otherwise known in the Islamic world as “the Great Satan.” After a fall of Israel, …

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Sammy Still Rocks!

The great folks at the Meadowbrook Farm concert venue here in Gilford, NH were kind enough to hand out tickets for the Wednesday Sammy Hagar concert to regular customers. Taking them up on their offer, I decided to go. Being the lover of music that I am, how could I not?  Sammy did not disappoint. Starting …

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Mr. Peabody’s WABAC machine

Recalling the cartoon shorts from “Rocky & Bullwinkle,” let’s join talking-dog Mr. Peabody and his pet boy Sherman on a trip to the not too-distant past using the WABAC (pronounced “way back”) machine: Holding up a Daily Sun from 2005, just after the November Laconia elections, the pet-boy Sherman exclaims, “Look, Mr. Peabody- this Thursday …

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Three Questions Posed and Answered

A Liberal once wrote a piece that was obviously against the war.  In it, the writer asked three questions: Where in our constitution does it say that the purpose of our military is to invade sovereign nations for the purpose of deposing their leaders and changing their political system? Truthfully, would you have supported this …

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Benefits, Taxes, and Demographics – Pick two and call me back

What goes around, comes around.  When President Bush first started to talk about reforming Social Security, his ideas included the personal savings component (like many Federal employees already have) and the indexing of COLAs from the wage price inflation rate to the consumer price index.  As expected, there was a lot of blowback.  The opposition …

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The Math Wars

There is a war raging all around us.  It is a global war.  It is a war that the United States cannot afford to lose.  No one has died in this war, and no one is likely to.  But there are casualties.  Their injuries are not physical; they are mental.  And the suffering is life-long.  …

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While you weren’t looking…

It has long been held that in the political world, news less than positive or not beneficial to the powers that be is best released over the weekend when a large segment of the population is otherwise occupied “pursuing happiness.” This is true whether talking about the national, state, or local levels of government and their …

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A REAL hybrid car

Dear Most Estemed Wife:   Can I have one of these, PLEASE?