August 2006 - Granite Grok

August 2006

Is there something in our water?

As Skip reported in this previous post, it has been revealed that our state’s taxpayer-subsidized university system has its very own version of Ward Churchill (9/11 victims = "little Eichmans")- UNH psychology professor William Woodward. The tenured professor  believes a secret group within the highest levels of the US government organized and perpetrated the September 11 …

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New Style of War (Part 4?)

I’ve done a number of Posts lately (here, here, here, and here; Doug and Ken also have "stuff") dealing with the changing nature of war and is the West keeping up.  I was surfing over at WindsOfChange site where the Armed Liberal has a few comments about a Posting over on Global Guerillas by John …

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“Big Dig” lawsuit filed. Could this spell trouble for Mitt?

The family of the woman killed in the "Big Dig" tunnel ceiling failure has filed the inevitable lawsuit that quite naturally follows an accident of this nature. . Today is the one year  anniversary of the post-hurricane Katrina flooding of New Orleans. People can still be heard blaming President Bush for the complete failure of the …

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I think he needs a math lesson

From CNN we get this story about Chevron getting tossed out of Chad: N’DJAMENA, Chad (Reuters) — Chad ordered U.S. energy giant Chevron and Malaysia’s Petronas on Saturday to leave the country within 24 hours for failing to honor tax obligations, in a move apparently motivated by a desire to earn more from its oil. …

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Speaking of Global Warming, this is disconcerting

From JunkScience (which quotes a lot of scientific studies) – maybe Global Warming, over the really long haul, isn’t quite what we think: That’s interesting… “Facing the prospect of rapid warming” – “DURHAM – Fossil trees in Antarctica show us that climate has changed greatly in the past. Suppose the current warming is just part …

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This is a sign of assimilation?

Update 1 I wish I had seen this earlier (H/T: RightWingNews). Again, does this signal a willingness to assimilate?       ==================================================  When I saw this first at Michelle Malkin’s site, my blood pressure meds failed again. This has gotten zero attention in the MSM. Over the weekend, militant illegal alien activists marched onto …

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