March 2008 - Granite Grok

March 2008

Universal Healthcare – Sure she’s for it – so she won’t have to pay for it!

Such irony – the woman that wants the country to ante up so that she wouldn’t have to pay for her healthcare is reneging on paying her bill: Clinton didn’t pay health insurance bills Among the debts reported this month by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign, the $292,000 in unpaid health insurance premiums for …

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So PAT is responsible, eh?

Powerline‘s John Hindraker had this to say about Pat: The Washington Times contrasts John McCain’s good relationships with conservative bloggers with the rocky reception he’s gotten on talk radio: Even as talk radio was brutalizing Sen. John McCain in the Republican presidential primaries, conservative bloggers reached a respectful truce with the Arizona senator over touchy …

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NH Congressional Races

Well, we were a battleground as the First in the Nation Primary – campaigning was non-stop.  Well, both the Dems and the GOP has declared New Hampshire to be a swing state, so here we go again!   We’ll be having NH candidates in the area for all of the races so just as we did …

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Conservatives – please read

You know, this is fun….like the first time you discovered a whole new area of life that you didn’t know about and it fascinated you.  And like we do with MTNP, wanting to see just a little bit more. That’s how I feel about some of the bloggers that I met this weekend!  Instead of …

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Two things I learned today…

It is being reported by Reuters that Catholics are no longer the world’s number one religion. VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday. Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican’s newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up …

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Gold Star Mothers’ Day in NH

Today is NH Gold Star Mothers’ Day. During the First World War, in May 1918, President Woodrow Wilson approved the suggestion of the Women’s Committee of National Defenses recommending that American women should wear a black band on the upper left arm adorned with a gold star. Each star representing a family member who had …

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A report from Samsphere

THIS has been more fun and better than I thought.  Bloggers, by nature, have opinions…and if you haven’t noticed, they want to express them.  To everyone.  Including other bloggers! After a day of long travel (first flight canceled the night before, missed the second because of slow traffic, waiting for the third, missed the bus …

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