May 2009 - Granite Grok

May 2009

Death of only TRUE First Amendment rally in America? Is “Live Free or Die” DOA?

Got an email from Jean Coutu, organizer of the Live Free or Die Rally: The Town’s demands for a site plan review subject to all boards and abutters’ approvals drove in the death nail on the LFOD Rally. Today the ACLU refused to intervene due to firearms being at the rally. We have contacted hundreds …

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Under construction!

  Yup, I’m tinkering again!  As I said here, I’ve been doing some technical reviews / reskilling for moving GraniteGrok to a newer version of software that drives it.  There were a couple of things that I had to do, and in true engineer form, decided that a couple were not enough!  What you can …

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Meet The New Press – Podcast for 05/30/09

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Newspapers, I really don’t think that mere pricing is your main problem.

Previously, I had blogged this about the "in the tank" Main Stream Press (MSM): Side note:  watchdogs?  Nay, consider them poodles.  After all, Obama joked at the recent White House Corresspondents dinner when speaking about the media: "Most of you covered me.  All of you voted for me". I expected to hear silence from the …

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So, you think Obama can run the auto, finance, educational loan, AND healthcare industries?

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified." -President Barack Obama, 1/20/09 One of these days, I should take on the last part …

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