23 September 2009 - Granite Grok

September 23, 2009

Look who wants more from your wallet now – your friendly State Union!

I should have posted this last night but had some other important things that I had to be addressed.  So better late than never.  Like many states, our esteemed elected officials (Democrat Governor, Democrat dominated House of Representatives, Democrat led Senate, and Democrat controlled Executive Committee – gee see a pattern here?) have boosted overall …

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“We need to have a lot more respect for these people who are paying these bills”

We here at the ‘Grok are oft saying that "all politics are local – it just happens everywhere else too!". This YouTube of Scott Ott (love his books) shows a regular person finally stepping up because of the rhetorical question of "If not me, who?" and takes on the dirty legal secret of his campaign …

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Sleeping Through the Revolution

Guest Post By Robert Romano In 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the commencement address at Oberlin College when he famously said, “There is nothing more tragic than to sleep through a revolution.” He was referring to the story of Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, where the protagonist slept for twenty years. Said …

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Education system FAIL again?

  Over and over again, I see that our kids are not doing well in tests that pits them against the scores of students from other countries. That is a problem and no argument from me – the basics are not being taught or taught correctly.  Frankly, I’m no longer (and haven’t been for a …

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