4 August 2006 - Granite Grok

August 4, 2006

You do not have the right to….

THIS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE.  JUST IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT.   The famed "Bill of No Rights" was written in 1993 by Lewis Napper, a self-described amateur philosopher and from Mississippi who ran for a U.S. Senate seat in 2000 as a Libertarian. =============== "We the sensible people of the United …

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It’s Friday once again!

[We here at GraniteGrok are not terribly Politically Correct (if you haven’t noticed!), so we are not afraid to tell jokes the old-fashioned way.  We offer the following in the spirit they are intended – chuckle a little.  Thanks Bob!  -Skip]    THESE ARE DELIGHTFUL  A little humor from a Jewish friend in the midst …

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Money Pit?

The ending paragraph of a WSJ editorial ("Tunnel to Nowhere," 3 Aug) on the Big Dig: When the Big Dig tunnels were finally completed, Gov. Romney suggested naming one of the arteries the "Liberty Tunnel" to pay tribute to the soldiers fighting for freedom in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Legislature protested and demanded that the …

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Warm? You want warm?

From National Geographic, I found this: An ancient period of global warming spurred the world’s first primates to spread from Asia to North America, new research shows. The article then went on to discuss mammal migration across North America: Gingerich’s team concludes that the tiny primates first appeared in China at the beginning of an …

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Good Question…

One of my employees posed an interesting question this morning… Living in a touristy area like we do here in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, we have lots of service jobs- restaurants, hotels, etc. Many of the local businesses need to augment their workforce during the summer season. For whatever reason, they can’t find …

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