18 December 2008 - Granite Grok

December 18, 2008

“Hell With Icicles”

This week marks the sixtieth-fourth anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge. That battle, known to the Germans as the “Ardennes Offensive,” started in December 1944 and was the last major German offensive on the Western Front during World War II. The German army sought to cut the Allied line in two, …

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Unity

We would like to welcome Phyllis Woods to the ‘Grok.  She is a long time Republican activist who is currently New Hampshire’s National Committeewoman to the GOP’s Republican National Committee.  She has seen some of my writings here on the ‘Grok and elsewhere about where the GOP should be fixing itself.  I offered – she …

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Recountings from the County – Part 3

Part 1    Part 2 It did not turn out well….the Republican Commissioners (Buddy Daignault [he of the never to be forgotten phrase of County budget seasons: "Revenues are not matching expenditures, Revenues are not meeting expenditures"], Christopher Boothby, and Richard Long), after a great start "…what is the proper and legal role of county …

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