November 2013 - Granite Grok

November 2013

This sounds about right. Problem is, some Repubs are the same way

“We are above that old, dusty, old-fashioned piece of parchment…..right?  So we’ll say that we love it – but ignore it when it becomes “inconvenient”. Yet, for only insisting that Government follow its own Fundamental Law, we’re the bad guys?

Guest Post by Mac Kittredge: “Apex Predators, Social Synergy & Culture”

Random Thought for the day:  Apex Predators, Social Synergy & Culture Statism doesn’t work, because it can’t. It leads inevitably to tyranny and, as Thomas Hobbs would have it, lives that are “nasty, brutish and short!”  But why is this so?  Are there fundamental and inescapable aspects of our essential nature that ordain these results? …

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Unelected Bureaucrats Gone Wild

Big government begets big bureaucracies with budgets the bureaucracies want to see made bigger.  To that end these tin-pot dictators of their pencil-pushing fiefdoms exercise power to whatever extent they can, to the misery of everyone else.  It is what Jefferson meant in the Declaration when he wrote “He has erected a multitude of New …

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NH State Senator Nancy Stiles (R) – there’s a contract for that (already, right)?

I read this article in Pravada-on-the-Merrimack about a “Senior Citizens Bill of Rights” being sponsored by NH State Senator Nancy Stiles (R) and two Democrats, Reps. David Borden and Tom Sherman, read it again, and still can’t reason it out to any kind of a logical form.  No, not necessarily the piece itself (although it …

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ObamaCare Was Never About Insuring People – It Was Always About Power and Control

A Cancer patient loses his plan because of ObamCare Rules. He reports this publicly and the news gets broad coverage.  He is going to pay the fine and do without and let nature take its course. An insurer sees his plight and  tries to help him.  They manage to arrange coverage he can afford so …

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Just in case you missed one of the real meanings behind yesterday: Freedom vs Free stuff

Which one is the real value? And just in case you are of the obtuse Ruling Class, Big Government is all about control to give out Free Stuff; Big Government can NEVER give out Freedom. Socialists love to give out “free stuff’ – stuff they must first forcibly take from others.  Ask yourself – where …

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