3 January 2014 - Granite Grok

January 3, 2014

Pin The Badge On The Donkey….
Or How Granite Grok Made The Enemies List

Dear reader, you may have noticed that Groksters have begun to show up in handsome cobalt blue shirts emblazoned with the Grok logo, partly because we like the color, and partly because we believe the Democrats should not have a monopoly on what was originally the color of conservatism (viz Margaret Thatcher). Imagine my surprise, …

Pin The Badge On The Donkey….
Or How Granite Grok Made The Enemies List
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Quick thought: Patriotism is given to….whom?

Two different countries, two different people; both calling something either Patriotic or anti-Patriotic: Already there are high-profile cases of rich people who’ve left — movie star Gerard Depardieu and France’s richest man, Bernard Arnault of Louis Vuitton, to name but two. And France’s highly prized soccer champions are now vowing to go on strike.  Hollande …

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Store Clerk Kills Robber; Robber’s Widow Sues Store Clerk

“People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.”  —Agnes Repplier This is the story of a career criminal. He is…or was, rather, 29-year-old Ramon Sedillo of Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 2003, Sedillo and two of his pals snatched an 89-year-old woman’s purse outside a grocery store. Knocked to …

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Income Inequality cause? Obama ought to look in the mirror and his Progressive bible for the reason

“The irony is that Obama has said he is going to dedicate himself and the rest of his time in office to fighting inequality,” Krauthammer said. “He actually created the greatest inequality.” The president’s policies of having low interests rates and having the fed pump money into the economy have caused the rich to get …

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