24 June 2013 - Granite Grok

June 24, 2013

Palate Cleanser: slow motion AK-47 firing – underwater!

I love watching stuff in slow motion – without technology, we’d never get the chance to see some pretty surprising things and this clip is no different.  However, the host premises a hypothesis about firing rates… …and ends up with a counterintuitive result! (H/T: Gizmodo)

A Note on Emails

I get a lot of email  I think all the Grokstes Do.  I try to read and respond to them all if I can but I am certain that I miss a lot.  If you have emailed me and I never responded, I missed it, for which I am very sorry.  Please resend it, and …

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Immigration Reform Benefits Politicians, It Harms Most Americans

Lets be frank, our politicians are trying to force Comprehensive Immigration Reform down our throats because it benefits the politicians themselves even though it hurts most Americans. With 20 million unemployed or underemployed Americans, we don’t need the low skilled, poorly educated immigrant workers who flood this labor pool driving down wages and taking jobs Americans desperately …

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Hey! GraniteState Progress! Don’t Forget to Honor This “Victim” of Gun Violence

If you’re going to perpetrate a serial fraud to intimidate legislators to impose failed laws New Hampshire does not need, you’d best be thorough.  So having read the names of these folks you are going to have to add this guy as well. Patrons had been lining up all week — at least of them one …

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NH AG Richard Head Coordinated with Holder’s DOJ in Pursuit of James O’Keefe

J. Christian Adams has a revealing piece over at PJ media–hat tip to reader for sending me the link–in which he informs us that PJ Media has sued US Attorney General Eric Holder for failing to comply with a Freedom of Information Request.  What does that have to do with New Hampshire? After James O’Keefe’s …

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But Mr. Obama, the answer to “Will my Government retaliate against me for complaining” is still “Yes we can!”

“No”is the answer here.  But we have seen that the Federal Government will retaliate against its Citizens when bureaucrats believe that “citizens have lost sight of their proper place” (IRS targeting TEA Party, Constitutionalists, Pro-Life groups; Dept of Labor and the IRS going after high net worth donors to Romney, and the EPA targeting energy …

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